How to Troubleshoot a Pedal Board

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Adam Anderson on behalf of Expert Village and I am going to talk to you about trouble shooting your pedal board. So once you have your pedal board all set up and you are using it for gains and using it for performances, there is going to be a time when you plug in all of your cables, you power on your guitar amp, you've played your guitar and no sound is going to come out. So what you are going to do is trouble shoot your pedal board. So the first plan of attack when you are trouble shooting your pedal board is to look at the cables because the cables are in between your individual pedals and they are very prone to damage because of the way they are twisted to fit on your pedal board. As you can see here, this cable in between these two cables are twisted and if this cable stays this way for a long period of time, it is prone to damage. So the first thing you want to do like I said is to check your individual cables when you are trouble shooting your pedal board. So the next step in trouble shooting your pedal board, you will want to check your gain based effects, your equalizer distortion pedal, tremolo and maybe even your noise suppressor because those determine the level of signal that comes out of your guitar amplifier. So with distortion pedals, you want to see that your level on your actual pedal is cranked enough. So I would start maybe in the middle just to sort of get a base line feel for the volume coming out of that pedal. The next thing I would want to do is check my noise suppressor to see if it is not engaged there is different ways noise suppressors are set up. They can either mute the signal or just turn on just the noise gate so I would want to see if you are on mute or gain. "