gilmourish | 8 years ago

Custom Pedal Boards mini board and pedals review

Signal chain:
Guitar - Fender Stratocaster, with D Allen Voodoo 69 neck and middle pickups and Seymour Duncan SSL5 bridge pickup
Epiphone Les Paul Standard with TTS PAF humbuckers
Gibson Les Paul with P90 pickups
Amp - Laney Lionheart L20, Laney LT212 cabinet with Celestion V30 speakers
Mic - Shure SM57

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Keeping a well thought out and tidy pedal board is crucial for getting the best performance from your rig. It doesn’t really matter how many pedals you got. The more care you put into it, the less trouble and better tones you get. UK based Custom Pedal Boards should be known for most of you and in this review, we’ll have a look at their new Mini Board and pedal range.

There really aren’t any rules when it comes to assembling a pedal board. A piece of wood does a good job and there are many affordable alternatives out there, in all shapes and sizes.

What Custom Pedal Boards offer, are boards and flight cases that are fully customised for your needs. I’ve been using their systems for some years now (so yes, I’m probably a bit biased) and although my boards are fairly basic, with a tier and flat surfaces, you can pretty much design anything you want, based on what pedals you have and how you want them arranged.

I’ve spent a great deal of time on the road and I have experienced the horror of seeing airport ground personell literally throwing my flight cases and pedal boards onto and off the flight. This was something Chris and the guys at CPB wanted to address and their boards and cases are capable of withstanding almost anything.

The Mini Board

Their newest design, is a neat mini board complete with a removable tier and flight case (the case bottom surface is the board). Any touring musician knows that travelling is ridiculously expensive, so size and weight is crucial for not going bankrupt.

The CPB Mini Board can carry up to five mini pedals like the CPB mini pedals or others, like Mooer, TC Electronic and similarly sized. The board I received and are reviewing, came with a CPB LS4 CPB True Bypass Loop Switcher, a CPB PB-2 mono patch box, power supply (located under the tier) and all of CPB’s five new mini pedals.

The loop switcher ensures a clean signal from each of the pedals but it can also be replaced by an additional 5 mini pedals, making the case fully capable of covering most of your tones and gig needs.

The Mini Pedals

As for now, Custom Pedal Boards offer five mini pedals. All are gain pedals, voiced for different applications and tones. Perhaps a bit limiting, as you probably want a few other pedals like a tuner or delay but the choice fits CPBs philosophy and product line. You get the boards and cases and the tools to go with them – loopers, patches and gain pedals for boosting and drive.

All five pedals are, in true CPB style, very well built. You really feel you can trust these… compared to some of the other mini pedals on the market. The fact that they’re slightly heavier, with straight angles, makes them sit better on the board as well, so you don’t have to worry about not stomping too hard and having them fall over.

Read the full review here
http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=7309