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Si Happy either way. I would welcome your thoughts and if you wish to do this via PM thats fine. I'm trying to make these pedalboards as easy to make and build as possible and your thoughts and how you wish to use them are as valid as anybody else's. If you have an unusual project and you'd prefer to keep it just top the two of us, that's OK. I really welcome all input both good and bad, if I don't know what people don't like, I can't make them any better. I have the DC-7 and think it's great. Its got enough outputs for me to use and I do like the USB output as well. Everybody has a different value point though and use case. Thanks Rob

It normally takes a few meetings with me to move to the hate stage. I feel honoured I've got there so quickly this time, a small measure of achievement in an otherwise dull day. Looking at that flight case, the maximum internal height is 12.5cm. For a pedalboard to fit in there, with a 5cm pedal height (just measured a cheap Behringer) the actual pedalboard would have to be a maximum of 6-7cm high at most. This would mean a very slight angle, and no riser at the back. The 34cm width is easy as is the 48cm length. Depending on how you use the flight case, it could be designed to fit straight in so just take the lid off, or attach to the internal board and take that out. Just seen the DC-8 and checked the power output. Its quite a few output sockets but some of them are 100mA. I see your problem now. You're doubling power sockets from Cioks to get to the right amperage. I have to do something similar to drive the Mod Dwarf at 12V though I use two sockets at 500mA to get there.It claims it needs 2A, I ain't got two amps spare so it gets 1A and no more I'd be a little careful about pushing the Cioks, though I have to say they are excellent kit. Second hand prices on the DC-8 are probably quite high so thats an option. I already have the mounting brackets for a DC-7 designed as I'm using them if that helps Thanks Rob

Si I will do my best not to tempt you. I promise... Length is the long dimension, so length is 406mm as there is 3mm of "end" to hide the ends of the extrusion. You can have any length up to around 1m. Width is the front to back and is variable (talking serious now). I can adjust the spacing between the bars easily. Currently the width is 345mm and the height is 112mm. That's with the back two rows raised by 25mm. Just about every dimension is driven from parameters. So what can be changed: 1. The space between the extrusions. Currently 45mm. 2. The angle of the tope of the pedalboard. 3. The back riser height. This is 25mm. 4. The front height (where the circle is above). And to be honest, just about everything else can be changed. I attach my DC-7 under the back two rows. I designed a U bracket to fit so it clamps in. Why do you need to buy a new PSU? If it's flatish, just put some u brackets on it and bolt it in. I also designed cable management clips that fit and unfit by hand, they simply clip into the extrusion. I put my Cioks cables through them to keep them neat and tidy. These can be any (sensible) length. I tend to use smaller ones and simply use more of them. Hopefully not tempted you in the slightest. Rob

Si, Thanks very much for the offer, appreciate it. I don't have a milling machine and whilst I would love to do more machining type work, especially around this sort of thing, I have to be sensible (not a word that many people, especially my other half would normally use about me), and recognise that I simply don't have time for learning another skill, one that might involve losing a finger, an eye or better/worse depending on your point of view. I'm better off sticking with the occasional burn from my pair of 3d printers. Now if you have a very large 3d printer, say 500mm x 500mm I'd be very interested in talking to you Be still interested in making a pedalboard though for you... All the best Rob

So you milled using a pillar drill and an XY table? If so, impressed. Which XY Table did you buy from Amazon please? Thanks Rob

Strange use of the word "bargain" I hadn't seen before... I did think it was from another gentleman in the Midlands before realising he was from Germany. Perchance they are related...?

X/Y tables start to get expensive very quickly. Looks like you did a great job though. Did you file out the slots by hand? Rob

So after quite a lot of fiddling, I've now 'finished' two pedalboards. I've reduced the number of screws, tidied up the design, raised the back two rows of the four row pedalboard, made sure the two row compact pedalboard (which is a different design) has enough space under for power supplies. I no longer need tap-on extrusion ends so it looks an awful lot nicer. The red one is 400mm wide and the white is 300mm. I'm quite pleased with the white version, didn't think it would be so good. There is no Velcro on the white one yet. Both can easily take me standing on them. I suspect they could take two of me as there's no flex at all. This has the last two rows 25mm higher. This avoids having to make a riser for the pedals. If anybody is interested in having one made to measure, please let me know. Thanks Rob

Looks very nice, how did you make it?

Pete Great that you are coming along. See who.else you can round up from the Kendal area. I'm up there at 1100 this morning at Kendal rugby club coaching the girls. Rob

That made me laugh, thanks.

Might be worth looking at this webpage https://luxarts.net/warning/ "All our designs are created using artificial intelligence, and THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO PHYSICAL PRODUCTS AVAILABLE." I hate to be the bearer of bad news, as I'm sure some of you are already looking down the back of sofa to see what spare change is down there for the guitar table, but you'd need to commission somebody to make it all. Now I'm sure one of the luthiers around here would love to take it on as a commission. However I'd like this Rob

Mama's and Papa's - Dream a little dream. First band I've played with in 40 years and we only have one person who plays guitar so far, me and I'm not very good. The vocalist fancies singing the above, so I'm having to learn an open B7 Chord which would be OK, if I hadn't broken or dislocated every finger and thumb on my left hand multiple times from playing too much rugby. Oh well, it'll eventually come right, either that or surgery Rob

I suggest you simply deposit your credit card at your nearest music shop... You'll get to know all the staff by name very soon, probably be in their Xmas card list for this year as well... Rob

We can but dream... Following this thread with interest as one of the projects planned for this year/ Rpb

Apologies, I missed this. Just to back up what @JohnH89 says. Andre is a gent. He is on Basschat and his equipment is excellent as is his service. I gigged with my headless a few days ago and never even thought about the bridge and string locks as they just worked. I have nothing but praise for them and Andre. @JohnH89 is also a great bloke as well and full of useful info. Rob

Looks like a poor mans Morningstar. Useful to know about, but no idea how good it is or how robust it is. The comments on the Amazon site seem to indicate that support and documentation is pretty non-existent though. If you have an inclination to work through stuff like this, it may be a good product. However I recall trying to get the MVAVE Chocolate pedals to work and that took a long time. I consider myself pretty technical and have developed stuff like compilers and worked on operating systems, but I struggled to get it all working. After that, I put a value per hour on what I was prepared to pay myself to get around poor or non existent documentation. So if I assume my time is worth £25 per hour, how long was I prepared to work to make it do what I wanted? So if I assume it would take 6 hours, then is the product worth the purchase price + £150? I look at the Morningstars and the constant excellent reviews they get, and think how long I spend fighting poor support and incomplete docs. Of course everybody is different and has a different value of their own time and what they want to pay. Now if that box was £30-£40 it might well be a good price. I found it on AliExpress for £76.19. No idea what customs would charge for this. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006542236297.html I did giggle at the advertising for it. Not sure that "Switches Work More than Expected" is quite the flex they think it is

Can you expand on this please? Be interested in which app and able. Thanks Rob

I played one for the first time a few months ago and liked it. Thankfully it was too good a bass for me and a little too expensive. However I love Motorhead and I'm sure getting one would immediately make me play like Lemmy. Please don't disabuse me of this notion 😊

So after a lot of thinking over Xmas, I decided I didn't like the pedalboard that I downloaded from elsewhere and wanted to design my own so that's its smaller in height, quicker to print, looks a lot better and has exactly the same surface areas as before. I might even sell them if I get any interest Here's the design, its about 20mm lower than before, prints around twice as quick as before, is just as strong as before. Each piece can take 100Kg of weight, so between them, that's over 600Kg so it'll support the corner of a small car, it uses less filament (50%) than before and has the same surface area as the old design. It still uses the same 20x40mm aluminium extrusion but now it looks a lot neater as the extrusion fits into the sides rather than sits on top of the sides. I also raised the back by 25mm so there is no need for risers under a pedal. This is now designed properly so I can easily adapt it to make it wider or taller or longer. The Cioks power supply will still go underneath it and be bolted to the bottom of the extrusions. I'm printing this up now and will post pictures when it's done. Rob

Are you Spinal Tap by any chance...?

Good question to which I have zero answers but have wondered about this myself. If this was expensive hifi cables, the answer would probably be something to do with the way that the electrons move better due to the premium highly directional electric cable.

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The numbers grow: @neepheid @ossyrocks @doomkeeper @Richard R @peterjam @Frank Blank @rwillett Rob

So we have confirmed as opposed to not 100% sure... @rwillett @neepheid @ossyrocks @doomkeeper