hey everybody how's it going so somebody at palmer thought it'd be a great idea for me to check out
the pedal bay 40. considering i've never actually built a pedalboard before and i'm not exactly the
world's biggest pedal enthusiast i'm kind of scratching my head about the wisdom of that
decision but hey you know what i'll give it a shot why not i've certainly got enough pedals kicking
around here that i've collected over the years and maybe a few things some people haven't seen before
and thought you know what this might be kind of fun to put together
see what we can do come up with my own custom pedal board so yeah we're going to try out the
pedal bay 40 and uh they were nice enough to give me this really cool power supply
and a whole bunch of accessories to go with it to kind of fit this all together so if
you're into the whole pedal scene and you maybe want to put together a small custom
board you might want to take a look at this thing let's put it together see what happens
okay so pedalmate 40 is pretty simple you know we've got these uh nice of fuzzy rails here looks
like a couple of clips to put in an alternative power supply and the two center bars are removable
and we're that's actually where we're going to put this so what we're going to have here is
we're going to throw on this this power supply and it fits right into the middle of it i was talking
with henning paulie earlier today about putting this together because he did a video on this a
little while back and uh it's a pretty pretty solid power supply from what he's telling me
it's designed to fit right on the end of this thing but you can also put it in position where
one of the other rails might be henning seems to think that's a better place to put it because that
way all of the power connections will be hidden behind they won't be sticking out at the end here
so that actually makes an awful lot of sense to me so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
remove this and i'm going to remove this put this in place and then put this back in place and then
i'm going to see about fitting the pedals together into something that makes sense i've got pedals
that are going to go before the amp like the [ __ ] walker here i've also got a morley mini wah the
uh the steve bad horsey that's gonna go in front and then we're gonna have a couple uh different
things like a delay and a course pedal to go in the effects loop as well alongside the cockpit it
should be a pretty cool setup so let's pull this thing apart get the power supply mounted put it
back together and uh we'll see what we get okay so yeah we're just gonna pull this out real quick
should just pop right out nothing to it that comes out we're gonna pull these
guys out as well it's also worth noting that the two center bars are adjustable
you can move them closer together or further apart to work with the sizes of your various
pedals that's a very nice touch man it's weird working with a stable table for a change
so just had a brief consult to uh hennig's assembly video he had a very good point
uh i was wondering how the hell do we get these things in okay they do include some
nuts these will slot in right here and right here and you all you got to do is match those holes up
like so get a match up exactly where you pull the belt from right here and right here and you
should be good to go it's a little tricky to see but not that big a deal just grab the small nuts
these should just slide right back into place no problem whatsoever
all right there we go sweet we're in business now we got the uh we got the power supply right
in here it's not going to get in the way of any of the pedals or whatnot and they did send me a nice
fuzzy velcro strip for this as well okay we've got all the velcro in place now now i want to
bring a point up here it's a good idea to lay out your pedals on the board before you start
strapping them down with velcro because you can run into problems you want to make sure all the
wiring works you want to make sure everything's fully functional before you make it a permanent
setup uh i got that advice from andy the guitar geek so i just wanted to say hey eddie thanks
so much that sounds like a very good idea to me anyway so i'm just going to try and
get some of this stuff wired up and figure out what's going where and we'll take it from there
all right i'm not sure where to go from this point i've got one two three four five six
i've got seven pedals up henny suggested i put up eight so what i got here i've got [ __ ] blocker
a super boost which is a clean boost a bionic witch king and then uh for the effects loop i've
got a corona chorus and a puntang boongarang delay i've also got the bad horsey and i even threw up
a torpedo cab m will this take well that needs 12 volts dc i don't know if this is capable of
providing 12 volts dc or not i might have to provide alternative power to that so uh this
might actually be a no um give me a minute here i'm going to try and find some more pedals hold on
just checking it out here uh yes i can use the torpedo cab m this is going to uh this works on
12 volt and yes this is a 12 volt power supply it'll even do 18 volts for those uh double power
things which is really cool i don't know if i have a booster that'll do 18 volts or
anything like that but it's nice to have on hand anyway so this is gonna be cool um like i said
i've just got this big gap here i'm thinking what the hell am i gonna put in this place
uh do i put a second wawa pedal in place so i can have a little bit of different flavors hmm
interesting i'm not sure uh i will i'll figure it out though i'll see what i can come up with
all right well i tried listening to andy's advice and i don't have anything hooked up
yet but i realize if i want to power everything i've got to flip this over so uh okay yeah so far
only one one pedal dangling uh that's not so bad then because i didn't want to mark up my my last
[ __ ] blocker of course great thing about this whole system is we've got 12 volts and nine volts
hooked up to everything so we should be in good shape here nine volt here and we've got a couple
that are switchable as well this is 12 volts so i'm going to run a long cable down here but this
this is not tough or difficult at all to get hooked up this is actually pretty cool
all right cool i'm gonna start trying to wire this up and uh
see what happens i think i might need to run down on my local long mcquades
and get some more cables so uh i'm gonna put this together see what happens
all right so we've got signal flow goes guitar goes into blocker comes the guitar out
into the morally morally is going into the super bow super boost is going into
the witch king and then that's going to have an output to go to the front of the amp
uh this is going to uh the effects loop of the blocker blocker is going to go to the effects
return i'm going to go block her out into corona in and then into puntang boomerang
and then uh back to the effects loop on the amp that should nail it right about there i'm gonna
get this thing powered up and hooked up in a minute and see what i get i'm still trying to
figure out if i'm going to put anything here in the middle one moment please i'll just take you
through it real quick here so what what i've got is signals going in here this is where the first
this is where the signal is going to go guitars going in here into the input on
the [ __ ] blocker this is my gate i haven't velcroed this one down because i don't want
to mark it mark this up because this is kind of like my last [ __ ] blocker and it's a bit of a
bit of a collector's item so i'm not going to do that so signal goes from the [ __ ] blocker
into the morally out of the morally into the super boost and then into the witch king by bionic so
this is you know clean signal here wawa super boost is just that a clean boost it's a great
little pedal not a lot of grit on there but it's pretty neat and then onto the witch king and uh
this is from my friend bionic audio he does a lot of my t-shirt designs as well he's also a pedal
designer from uh quebec and he does some really cool stuff this witch king is really well i'm
going to show you what that's out in a minute now the signal also gets split here from the blocker
out which would normally go to the amp's effects loop blocker to corona in to the puntang boomerang
which is a delay and then that gets set to the effects return and then back into the blocker in
so yeah clear as mud yeah that's what i thought and uh just to make things even more confusing uh
we're going out of the speaker output of the amp into the two notes uh torpedo cab m this goes to
a cabinet in the next room which is not mic and then i've got an xlr output going right to the
nave 1073 opx back there so now i've got a signal uh going onto my computer directly out of the amp
and also into the speaker the cab atm's really great it's not a full on load box it's basically a
direct box for an amplifier we're using the engel iron ball se i pulled out the solar tee for this
all i'm using the cab m for is just a direct output of the amp i don't even have a cabinet
loaded in although it will have that if you want for speaker emulation i'm using
the get good drums cali caps that i was demoing a couple weeks ago because i just wanted something
quick and easy that i knew was going to sound great with minimal [ __ ] around because believe
me all the [ __ ] ground's been done up here i'll take you through it real quickly um obviously i
can't really operate the wall pedal um and play at the same time like not much
yeah that's definitely doing the job there of course cockblocker
does its job great this is like really the world's most brilliant gate pedal ever
now in the effects loop like i said we've got the uh tc corona great name for a pedal
guys and the puntang boomerang for a little bit of echo let's uh let's kick that guy in there
yeah it's great for that you know if you want to
get that old-school judas priest saints in helsinki
definitely got that you know that one one repeat uh echo going on which is really cool
puting boomerang is an interesting pedal it's not what i call super hi-fi
doesn't give you all the top end of your delay but that's cool
definitely neat pedal and uh you know if i want to throw on the corona chorus i think
it sounds better on cleans let me switch over here let's go to the clean section
yeah cool that's a fun chorus because we're on the clean channel here just
going to show you guys the super boost real quick and again it's just
yeah we can throw a bit more gain on that
yeah that's kind of fun you know what and then uh we'll just run the
witch king just show you that real quick as well this is really cool
add a bit more boom on there
so
yeah that's all kinds of fun now if we throw the super boost on in
front of it this gets interesting just kind of tightens it right up
yeah that's all kinds of fun gotta say having a little pedal board having some options there
especially between say amp gain and pedal gain is really cool yeah we switched back over the amp
okay give me one second here i'm just going to show you how this would work in a floor situation
how i would operate it normally uh with the wawa as well all right so
now i've got the pedal board down on the floor i've got this amazing angle lamp
plugged in and not a long enough speaker cable for it naturally uh
but the morley is now in functional position i can actually use this in conjunction with
wow
all right i promise i'm not going to kirk him at the living [ __ ] of this that's enough wah
for one video you know i just kind of wanted to show you know how this would work with some of my
favorite pedals as my first pedalboard i gotta say it was a bit of a challenge but it was interesting
to put together it wasn't that difficult once you kind of figured out where you want to route
everything it's a little bit of trial and error uh for sure my only gripe with this
whole package i love the fact that it came with all these extra power cables and an option where
to put the power rail and all that kind of stuff and it comes with a travel bag which is exactly
where all those pedals are going to in just a moment the only gripe i have is that it didn't
come with some patch cables i would have really appreciated those that's my only gripe that's the
only thing i wish uh they'd update the whole package with other than that yeah i gotta say
it's pretty damn cool so if you're looking to get your hands on your first pedal boards check
out the palmer pedal bay 40. it's available over at autumnhall.com i'll have links to everything
in the description below don't forget that the powerbar pwb400 is available as a package with
the pedal bay 40. thanks so much for watching and i'll see you guys again here tomorrow
hey everybody how's it going so today we are checking out what the [ __ ] are we checking out
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