Cheap pedalboard suggestions

The Gorilla boards on amazon are brilliant 👌
Easy to connect two together if needed and have power supply straps underneath .
Hight angle fully adjustable feet 👍
Built like tanks and now only £27.
 
I have a Palmer pb40 to that comes with bag, Velcro, can be set flat or tilted and is customizable at some degree.

Cheap (at least in EU) and effective product.

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Another +1 for the Soyan pedalboard. I’ve built out two and paired them with a Lekato power supply which just tucks up underneath the front center.
 
I have a Palmer pb40 to that comes with bag, Velcro, can be set flat or tilted and is customizable at some degree.

Cheap (at least in EU) and effective product.

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These are pretty cool. My huge rig is a PB40 with boost/drive stuff, and a PB60 with all the rest, powered by Cioks DC7 and the 8 Expander.

The Palmer Boards hold up nicely. Even the carrying bags are legit, sturdier than old PT bags imho.
 
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Reversed the power supply so taps are all underneath vs routed out the back. Space left up top for VP4.

Power supply bracket on bottom is a great design. Added velcro to secure it to board and all is good. Bag seems good enough (other than carrying strap) and for ~$70 shipped; I'm pretty pleased.

Doooood how do you dig the CF7? I’ve hovered over that joker for a couple months after falling in love with it on the Borland plug.
 
Doooood how do you dig the CF7? I’ve hovered over that joker for a couple months after falling in love with it on the Borland plug.
The flanger is ok. The chorus in normal mode (up front) is great and chorus in wack'd mode is BONKERS. Great pedal! These ToneLok switches were flaky when I stomped on them like a leadfooted moron 25 years ago but using them like a normal person is fine.
 
The flanger is ok. The chorus in normal mode (up front) is great and chorus in wack'd mode is BONKERS. Great pedal! These ToneLok switches were flaky when I stomped on them like a leadfooted moron 25 years ago but using them like a normal person is fine.

All I need to hear.

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Those depressible switches seem cool.
 
I built a two tier from an Amazon kit like this. I ended up tearing it apart. I don't get any enjoyment from that kind of "handicraft" and GREATLY prefer finding the closest to perfect Amazon turd to use, 9/10.

Mine was MUCH simpler than that. I bought a piece of 1x10” wood from the hardware store (the kind used for shelving) and had them cut me a piece that was something like 16”. I took that chunk of wood, stuck Velcro on it, and put pedals on it.

The full extent of my “handicraft” was sticking Velcro to a piece of wood.

Worked great though, it got my pedals from A to B. I used that for years and years…

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Also as you can see this was long before the days of Amazon turds being available :grin
 
Mine was MUCH simpler than that. I bought a piece of 1x10” wood from the hardware store (the kind used for shelving) and had them cut me a piece that was something like 16”. I took that chunk of wood, stuck Velcro on it, and put pedals on it.

The full extent of my “handicraft” was sticking Velcro to a piece of wood.

Worked great though, it got my pedals from A to B. I used that for years and years…

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Also as you can see this was long before the days of Amazon turds being available :grin
Other biggest "now times" issue with this is really just where am I putting the power supply. I would have done this back in the day 24x7 running 36 pedals on a OneSpot :nails :ROFLMAO:
 
Consider a Harley Benton Spaceship Power with built in PSU. Yes, somewhat more expensive than the Amazon stuff, but the built in PSU is great to have IMO. They come in various sizes.

I've choosed the Palmer over the HB only because HB can't be found in italian stores and I only buy with an italian invoice (because I can deduct the expense).

The embedded power supply is also better designed (ergnomically) than the palmer ones.
 
IMHO, DIY is the way to go for cheap. TPS recently did a 250, then a 500 pound pedalboard episode. Mick started with a cutting board, and by the end he had hinges for a top shelf, looked really pro. Dan used a piece of rack gear as a functional board, lol.

The IKEA Gorm is some shelving system, I've used them to make a few boards. I usually pull all the little wood nails, cut it to fit some type of bag or case I have, paint it, and use legit wood screws to put it back together. Fun weekend project!

This one fits in an old suitcase.
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Grab n go.
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DIY is great and fun but not everyone has the space, time, tools and also the experience needed to do the work.
 
IMHO, DIY is the way to go for cheap.

Yeah, I was about to say so as well - and it's even more true in case you want a special layout, such as suitable for a loopswitcher when you want the I/O cables to run below the board.
Here's a picture of my old big board:

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Yes, it's inside a case and also stayed in there all the time, but I could as well just have taken it out as everything was mounted on the board.
Made from 9mm and 12mm case wood, which is absolutely perfect. Lighter than each and every metal construction, too.
To get something premade that would nicely hide all the connections to the loop switcher (and the Stomp) would already cost you quite some bucks.

And this here is the recent small board, possibly the best V-P-FF ("value per form factor") board I could ever imagine for my personal needs:

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From another angle, also showing the size better:

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Could possibly paint the edges black, but I actually don't care.
No way this would work with any premade board, had to lower the Ampero Control because otherwise I'd permanently hit its switches when operating the GT-1000 (and well, I might even do a V2 with the EXP pedal lowered a bit as well, but so far things are fine), which took me a mere 5 minutes on top of that half of an hour it took me to slap everything together from some leftover case wood stripes.
Below there's a HB PSU (with IEC input, no wall warts ever again...), the Pirate MIDI Tonex Controller and a DI box.
 
DIY is great and fun but not everyone has the space, time, tools and also the experience needed to do the work.

Seriously, you can have stripes of case wood pre-sawn in whatever home depots for 5 bucks. Then all you need is a drill (could even be a hand drill), a bunch of screws and some velcro.
Beforehand, you'd do a layout on pedalplayground.

However, in case you don't need anything special (such as hidden loopswitcher I/Os, recessed items and what not), I'd defenitely go for a powered HB Spaceship.
 
Seriously, you can have stripes of case wood pre-sawn in whatever home depots for 5 bucks. Then all you need is a drill (could even be a hand drill), a bunch of screws and some velcro.
Beforehand, you'd do a layout on pedalplayground.

However, in case you don't need anything special (such as hidden loopswitcher I/Os, recessed items and what not), I'd defenitely go for a powered HB Spaceship.

I did it for me in the past several times, always simple wood boards with feets and handles because that's all I needed.

But DIY is not for everyone
 
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