Switch to pedal board or stay with a full rack system...

[DawnPatrol1990]

Hey guys and girls.

I've just changed the head i'm using from an Ampeg B2RE to a Hartke HA3500 which has come as the full head unit type (so it has the wooden box around it).

This has led me to think about whether i should change to a pedal board and ditch my rack unit or stay with everything rack mounted.

My current chain is Bass (BC Rich/Jackson/Tobias basses) in to a Line 6 G90 wireless -> Korg DTR1000 tuner -> Alesis Midiverb II (for chorus) -> Sansamp RBI -> Hartke HA3500 (obviously it was an Ampeg B2RE until recently). All of this is powered by a Samson PB10Pro Powerbrite Rack Conditioner.

After looking around, I've seen that i could easily just swap my gear for the items as follows -

Samson Powerbrite - Dunlop DC Brick
Line 6 G90 - Line 6 G50
Korg DTR1000 - Korg Pitchblack Pedal (I already own one too)
Alesis Midiverb II - MXR Bass Chorus
Sansamp RBI - Sansamp Deluxe DI/Darkglass B7K

then send it all out to the HA3500 in the head unit which powers my 4 cabinets (2 x 4x10 and 2 x 1x15 Ampeg SVT cabs) and i should mention that i have a small foot set out front which is a 3 way selector to activate/de-activate my Sansamp & Alesis as well as a Tuner Mute. If I started using a pedal board, i'd probably add my Wah pedal to the board too.

It's not like i have mobility issues with the rack case as it's all in a Gator roller case that has handles and wheels like a luggage case. I'm just having a case of gear boredom at the moment and don't know what to do...

Any advice/ opinions on this would be greatly appreciated

Cheers
SJD!

Edited April 25, 2016 by DawnPatrol1990

[sifi2112]

One advantage if you went pedalboard would be for using someone else's rig or provided back line should the occasion arise, then you just take your basses & smallish pedalboard.

Also the sans amp deluxe model has a an effects loop which you can assign for your chorus, so just one stomp to change

[EBS_freak]

When I saw the title, I thought you'd be having a switching system in there - but you haven't. Ditch the rack!

[LiamPodmore]

I thought the same as EBS_freak above. With it not being too complicated it would be very easy to switch to a board. Having said that, i'm pretty sure you can remove the HA series from their enclosures and rackmount them anyway.