Building rack mounted – "stomp pedals”?

[peAk]

Was thinking that this might be useful to me for recording and it might be nice to make "pedals" in a rack and have some of patch bay to cycle through them. I could also run an effect loop from my audio interface to allow adding effects to already recorded tracks.

Anyone here doing this?

Ideas?

Discuss

[culturejam]

I've seen some folks do it in the past. It's cool idea.

[jkokura]

I've thought of doing this occasionally. The idea I've had was to build 6-8 pedals into a 2 or 3 space rack mount enclosure with the I/O on the back end. The only way I'd do this is if I were running a Midi controlled rack setup though.

Jacob

[cooder]

I've built this a while back as an analog effectsunit which I do use all the time (running it in effectsloop of amp). Works great.
It's basically 6 stompboxes in series in an aluminum enclosure, stuck into a wooden (Rimu, a native New Zealand timber) case.
Effects in there are: madbean fatpants/ madbean double flush / deep blue delay / multiplex delay / rub-a-dub reverb / rc boost for eq and pushing it if need.
Mostly I have the deep blue delay and the reverb on all the time, tremolo is nice too and the multiplex when I get more into wilder delay sounds. The boosts I use only rarely, the rc boost is good to dial in some more/less bass/treble on amps that don't have a fancy tonestack.
Works good for me.

[muddyfox]

That's a nice piece of furniture you have there! 
Seems like a useful piece of gear and certainly a head turner...

Deep Blue is an analog delay?

[cooder]

That's a nice piece of furniture you have there! 
Seems like a useful piece of gear and certainly a head turner...

Deep Blue is an analog delay?

Cheers.
Nah deep blue delay is of course  not a 'real' analog delay but I called it that because it sounds somewhat close to the ol' BBD analog ones... and the Multiplex is of course not a real 'tape delay' (that wouldn't have fitted in an enclosure that size...) but it does the sound quite nicely (props to Josh ) and so it got the name... I could have called it 'poor man's tape delay'... 

[peAk]

that sir, is kick@ss and pretty much exactly what I am talking about

I wouldn't be using it for live but more for recording.

[selfdestroyer]

That is awesome Cooder. I love the box you made for it, its so clean.

Cody

[PhiloB]

That looks beautiful Cooder

[stecykmi]

i've wanted to do this before myself, but i discovered rack enclosures are quite expensive! the hammond ones i've seen _start_ at $60 and go up.

i'd love to get my hands on some salvageable ones...

[pickdropper]

They aren't any cheaper, but check out the Lansing enclosures.  They make some nice stuff.

[blearyeyes]

I love your box Cooder. Inspiration...

[flanagan0718]

I love your box Cooder. Inspiration...

haha this made me chuckle.
Great build! I had an old college ask me about this and I kind of shyed away from it.

[thesameage]

This is very cool. Gives me some ideas.

Does anyone know of any cases that have built in wood sides?

[thesameage]

There are some nice racks here... too bad they are all double spaced.