After my recent decision to go back to a regular board I've been on my usual MS Powerpoint strategy to work out layouts and what size board I'll need, but I'm wondering how other people plan boards.
I've used pedalboardplanner.com before, but that's not been updated in a while so there are a lot of pedals not on there. I've just come across www.pedalplayground.com which looks very good and has a lot more pedals.
What does everyone else do? Meticulously plan with paper cutouts? Throw everything onto the board and hope for the best? 3D CAD models?
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I think these sites tend to make me get obsessive and buy more stuff, though, so the best option for me is just laying it all out and measuring it.
Other way is lay out the pedals (or cut outs if you don't yet have the pedals) and then masking tape around the parameter to get board dims.
Ive never used an internet board planner, don't know why, just never trusted them.
If I'm in a rush, I just stick them all on a board and hope for the best.
Of course, I had to do all this before computers and the internet when all this were fields and you could go for a night out, a fish supper and a hansom cab home and still have change from a sovereign.
Eventually, I get tired of the merry-go-round and buy a modeller, then we all go round again.
I feel it may not be the optimal solution.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
http://www.pedalplayground.com/
Personally I think its actually better to use
I've had a bit of fun with it today. Dead easy to use and worked fine on my phone.
I'd never even thought of mapping out a pedal board but this really has made my next build easier. Certainly beats ripping pedals off the board time and time again trying to get it right!