How to Set up a Pedal Board (Easy Step-by-Step Guide)

In this video, I'll show you how to set up a guitar pedal board from start to finish - sharing my top tips that I've learned over the years!

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Pedal board: Pedaltrain Classic 1

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:24 Step 1: Choosing a pedalboard
01:37 Step 2: Choosing a power supply
02:38 Step 3: Get some patch cables
03:32 Step 4: How to correctly order your guitar pedals
05:56 Step 5: Attach your pedals to the pedal board
07:13 Step 6: Connect your pedals together
07:57 Step 7: Test your pedalboard
08:40 Step 8: Storing and transporting your pedalboard
09:07 Final thoughts

[ConorRocksYT]

Let me know what's on your pedalboard! 🎸⬇

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:24 Step 1: Choosing a pedalboard
01:37 Step 2: Choosing a power supply
02:38 Step 3: Get some patch cables
03:32 Step 4: How to correctly order your guitar pedals
05:56 Step 5: Attach your pedals to the pedal board
07:13 Step 6: Connect your pedals together
07:57 Step 7: Test your pedalboard
08:40 Step 8: Storing and transporting your pedalboard
09:07 Final thoughts

[Bubba_Creates]

this video is like a blessing lmaoo i could'nt understand pedals or the orientation till your vid came up! not only that i feel confident to start looking for new pedals and expand a bit more.

[jongooch]

Aside from the content/info, the filming, sound, pace, visual... this video tutorial is among the most excellently done I've ever seen. Congratulations, and thank you.

[SlyRyFry]

You can save a ton of space by finding a way to fix your power supply under the board too. As far as correct pedal order goes it's whatever gets the noise for the part, plenty of people have used super funky setups that many would consider "incorrect". Wah after gain, etc. The only real rule I'd follow is tuner at the front, and maybe learn how an fx loop works if your amp has one cause a lot of modulation/time effects are much better going through it than the front of your amp, even something like a looper

[claytonbyers]

As a first time board builder, this might be the most helpful YouTube video OAT

[spidgeb]

One point I would consider is using the order described, but instead of stacking gain top to bottom, consider your ability to easily access the pedal buttons you often turn on and off while playing on-stage. If you are changing gain levels, boosting, or otherwise using pedals to sculpt your sound during a song, keep those pedals on or close to the bottom row where you can hit them quickly. It is not always easy to gingerly step over a pedal to reach a back-row pedal when you're ready for a lead boost or more gain while gigging live. Ya gotta hit those buttons at exactly the right time. I am NOT suggesting that you change the order of the pedals as described. Do not do that. The pedal order that Conor laid out in this video is how I do it and it works beautifully. Almost every expert I've found agrees. But what I don't do is organize gain pedals from top to bottom, because I frequently use low gain for rhythm and higher gain or boost for lead. So on my board, those pedals sit right next to each other, right-to-left, low-gain to high-gain, on the bottom row (closest to me), so I can get to them without balancing on one leg and aiming with my toe over another pedal. As always, practice makes perfect, and proper positioning of your frequently-used pedals makes it easier to achieve. Great video! Very impressed with your communication skills. You didn't waste a single word. Keep 'em coming!

[chrispyfehn]

i use a old skateboard as my pedal holder

[DanGoober]

This is really helpful thank you. Just bought my first paddleboard. This made it easy to set up.

[satchgear]

Building my first pedal board with the help of this video. Thank you 👍

[AlexsSeasonalKitchen]

excellent video - this has given me the confidence to build my very first pedal board! thank you

[SuperBigbill]

Great video Conor, I am just in the process of re-assembling my pedal board as I have just acquired more pedals. I will follow your lead here, test it all out and see how it sounds. I be back in touch to let you know how it went

Bill.

[BruceMartin-kb]

This is a great turtorial and now I finally have my pedalboard set up

[sonothunder]

Great video! Got my first board today! I had a Behringer CL9 Comprssor/Limiter and bought the board and a used Behringer TO800 Vintage Tube Overdrive. It's my father's day present! Going to tryout the CL9 tomorrow morning in church, also maybe the TO800. Thanks for walking me through putting my first board together 😊🎉

[ScottPC]

This in hindsight seems so basic but I didn't realise there was quite alot of thought on what order they should be patched together in. Cheers

[jordanabila]

Thank you for this, really simple and to the point

[brady_nicholsmusic]

This is the video ive been looking for with out all the proverbial b.s. Thank you

[zacharysmith]

By far the best how to video that I have come across. Well done and thank you.

[WhoDaFoksThatGuy]

Thank you so much, I was able to find a pedalboard with a power supply for around 130 which has good reviews.

[warrentrueman]

I madeine from an old peice of plywood and some rubber feet. Lot cheaper than buying one, and you can tailor the board size and shape to how you want 😊

[markzuelch]

It might seem like a bit o' cheatin' to some, but I'm a died-in-the-wool bluesman an' love the old sod an' every bit of it.
Keep playin' what ever it is that moves your fingers and your soul.