Putting Pedals In A Rack

In terms of position in your signal chain most people run rack units either in the effects loop of their amp or after it.

Putting pedals in a rack.

The pedals are all hooked up individually to my patchbay in a rack so it s like having a modular setup. With all the spam out there it may accidentally get deleted if the subject is left blank. Even though the minibrute is pictured i can easily swap out with a bigger keyboard and still have the pedals sit behind. A rack fx unit will almost always go between your preamp and the power amp or in the fx loop of an amp head using regular unbalanced guitar patch cords.

So i was taking pedalboards and instead of them being on the floor taking them out and rack mounting pedals or putting them in different enclosures in fact the first racks that i ever worked with were stereo component racks that had a glass front. All the basics concerning how to setup a guitar rack system with effects processors preamps power amps and speaker cabs just like the pros do. When i started bradshaw tells us it was really just pedals still. Luckily both usually are 1u in size so don t take up much.

Pedal racks has been featured in each of these publications please put pedalboard or true bypass in the subject box. I put a board on the bottom to hold the pedals. It only gets complicated when you mix pedals and rack units or when you listen to guitarists who insist that there is a particular order that effects have to go. While stompbox users often place pedals before the amp that s a lot less common with rack gear.

So if you are gigging around town and need to constantly move your setup watch out for creating a huge rack setup that might be more trouble to move than it s worth.