Putting Pedals In A Rack

While stompbox users often place pedals before the amp that s a lot less common with rack gear.

Putting pedals in a rack.

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. The pedals are all hooked up individually to my patchbay in a rack so it s like having a modular setup. 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. 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.

I put a board on the bottom to hold the pedals. You ll probably want a couple of utility units. 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. In terms of position in your signal chain most people run rack units either in the effects loop of their amp or after it.

With all the spam out there it may accidentally get deleted if the subject is left blank. Luckily both usually are 1u in size so don t take up much. Even though the minibrute is pictured i can easily swap out with a bigger keyboard and still have the pedals sit behind. Pedal racks has been featured in each of these publications please put pedalboard or true bypass in the subject box.

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.