The New Smorg Pedalboards Update Thread...

dindude

My recent thread was a bit stream-of-consciousness so I thought I'd start a new thread for a new chapter as there are some new things going on.

First and foremost the new website is almost there, just the Standard Range to drop in when that "launches" hopefully by the end of next week. www.smorgpedalboards.com

All info on the website but here are a few highlights:

Smorg Custom
This is the new official logo for the custom creations that I make to individual requirements. From here on in, any custom builds will have this logo applied to the back of the board.

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1511_zpsalaz5kwn.jpg

Reverb Shop
Also up and running is the Smorg Reverb shop - here I will put up boards from time to time that are ready made and ready to ship - Standard and Custom stuff. There's a few small boards up there at the moment to kick things off, click here and this will take you to the shop.

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1512_zps3fbfzgul.png

Standard Range
Then finally there will be a small revised range of standard boards dropping in next week, and my first hard-cased larger board which I'm pretty excited about. Watch this space.

Cheers

dindude

I'll post some details up in a little bit but for now a few photo's of the new Pro550 that will be up on the website and available to order next week at some point.

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1363_zpsbbevjpyh.jpg

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/image_zpsutsi7zob.jpg

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1365_zpsulpzbe8r.jpg

Winny_Pooh

Any change of mind re bags? I think this is a deal breaker for most players as the Mono stuff is bonkers priced. 

dindude

Here's the full low-down.

It's the first Smorg to be available with a hardcase, I've searched high and low for a hard case supplier to work with and this is the first one I've been happy with, well more than happy actually, I'm over the moon with it. The core of the case is silver anodised aluminium and it is lightweight, strong, and looks the absolute business. Not the cheapest option by far, but then I could never compete with the lower end stuff that you can now get, and if that suits your needs then fair play.

The new Pro board is a small evolution of the old Tier. Firstly size wise at 550mm long it's slap bang between the old Tier500 and Tier600 - I wanted to put a bit more distance between the size of the Standard boards so expect something around the 400mm if I were to go smaller and the 700mm Mark if I go bigger.

The depth remains the same at 330mm total.

Height wise, it's around 100mm at the back, again a small decrease from the old Tier but enough for pretty much any power supply. 

A few small adaptions - the plates are a higher grade of Alu from old, which gives more strength. The gap inbetween the plates has grown by 5mm (now each gap is 20mm) which, although a small difference, is now large enough to pass all types of jack plug, including pancakes. It's no smaller and no bigger than it needs to be to pass cables basically.

As ever it will come with genuine Velcro brand 50mm wide hook and loop and more cable ties and bases than you will need. It will also come with some M3 dual lock for the fixing the power supply underneath.

Price will be £239 plus postage. This pricepoint puts it slap bang between a Pedaltrain hardcase equivalent (around 30% more) and what I think are the best of the boutique UK flightcase style / hardwood style options, for which I have great respect / admiration (around 30% less).

The board will still available on its own with no case.

Cheers

dindude

Winny_Pooh said:

Any change of mind re bags? I think this is a deal breaker for most players as the Mono stuff is bonkers priced. 

The Grab will still be available with the softcase but there is a reason that the Mono is so expensive (aside from getting caught in the dollar rate and now being part of Westside) and that is because it's bloody good, and to do a softcase well isn't cheap at all. I've a phobia against broken zips, bags straining under the weight of pedalboards etc. and unfortunately that's what you get if you cheap out on it.

So in short, I haven't given up on the idea of a softcase option but it's got to be right.

dindude

And lastly, for an idea of scale, here it is with my little lot on there. It's basically good for 10-12 "regular" size pedals depending upon how compact your jack plugs are. My lot work quite well on here so I think I'll keep this first one for myself!

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1526_zpskfxsoaa6.jpg

Kebabkid

Great work Dan and that looks like quality.

Good luck with these

dindude

The Pro550 is now up on the website with all the details. http://smorgpedalboards.com/

The website has come on some, in fact it's fully complete aside from needing to add the details and pages for the Grab boards, which will be next week when the new batch of bags arrive.

paganskins

@dindude how wide and deep can you go with your custom boards? 

Moe_Zambeek

dindude said:

I'll post some details up in a little bit but for now a few photo's of the new Pro550 that will be up on the website and available to order next week at some point.

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1363_zpsbbevjpyh.jpg

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/image_zpsutsi7zob.jpg

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/IMG_1365_zpsulpzbe8r.jpg

That's a great looking case.

dindude

paganskins said:

@dindude how wide and deep can you go with your custom boards? 

Pretty much anything, although the design may be adapted if its very long to have a small solid central section to increase rigidity.

paganskins

dindude said:

paganskins said:

@dindude how wide and deep can you go with your custom boards? 

Pretty much anything, although the design may be adapted if its very long to have a small solid central section to increase rigidity.

Excellent, I'm a few months away from being ready to confirm sizes etc but I'll be in touch. Thanks

dindude

paganskins said:

dindude said:

paganskins said:

@dindude how wide and deep can you go with your custom boards? 

Pretty much anything, although the design may be adapted if its very long to have a small solid central section to increase rigidity.

Excellent, I'm a few months away from being ready to confirm sizes etc but I'll be in touch. Thanks

Cool, whenever you're ready.

spark240

I still dont want to stick velcro on the bottom of pedals...

dindude

spark240 said:

I still dont want to stick velcro on the bottom of pedals...

That's cool, there are other solutions out there that mean you don't have to. 

colourofsound

Yo - do you sell the cases seperately? Just eyeing up case options for a Temple Audio Duo 17 (17"x12.5"); I take it you make them to order too?