How to Pick a Pedal Board Case

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Adam Anderson on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to talk to you about picking a pedal board case. In determining the pedal board that you will choose to put your pedals on, you have to take a variety of things into consideration. The first thing is the number of pedals that you have in your set up. The number of pedals determines the size of the case that you need to put your pedals on and the next thing is the types of gigs and the travel that is involved in the performances that you are engaging in. You would like to have a bigger case when you use a variety of effects in your set up. If you are in sort of a spacey psychedelic band and you use a lot of time base effects, modulation based effects, you have various different vintage effects, a lot of different pedals that you would need a large pedal board to accommodate all your different pedals. If you are a blues player who just uses a few distortion pedals, maybe a accu pedal or a compressor, you would just want a smaller case that would be a little bit more compatible with that type of music and a little bit easier to transport. So this pedal board that I have here, fits a variety of different effects based on their size. A lot of the different vintage effects are a little bit larger so the different electric harmonics or the larger boss pedals that may fit only 4 or 5 but if you use some of the smaller MXR pedals or boss pedals, you can fit maybe up to 10 pedals on this board. This pedal board has a metal aluminum exterior shell and it is raised about a 30 degree angle so that you can actually see the pedals when you are playing on the dark stage. It has a surface that is similar to carpet that you can use to apply Velcro to your pedals to stick to the board and it also has this area right here where you can put your power supply. It is very important to keep your pedals safe because as you all know as your getting different pedals, that they are quite the investment they can be from $100 up to $500 a piece. It is very important when you are traveling as a gigging musician to keep all your pedals securely fastened and away from harm. "