NRPD. New Rack Preamp Day. RAWK !!!!

Quote from GCNC8068

You just need one of these

https://www.racksolutions.com/server-racks-c…enclosures.html

I'd be way too tempted to fill one of those up. At least having to remake the rack from scratch acts as a brake on my gear aquisition.

Quote from V8guitar

I could not agree more!

Looks like such a fun project and great to see some of the old stuff revived

And. Having it integrate with the (relatively) newer stuff makes it a dream to use. Using the multiple FX loops (and patchbays) available I can make the FX serial or parallel without needing a line mixer (although I'd like to add one for authenticity). Being able to use IRs instead of power amps, speaker cabs and mics is 'the bomb'.

The SPX-900 is very cool. The chorusing and micropitch are [chef's kiss] excellent. I may be aable to avoid buying an Eventide pedal.

Position 2 or 4 on a strat > Clean amp > dbx compressor > SDX-90 (symphonic patch) > Boss Dimension C in SDD320 mode > SDE330 [circular delays) > SRV 330 (any large room reverb) (optional SRV 3030 for extra lush reverb) = instant late 80s LA clean sound. Stacking choruses and reverbs are cool.

NB Matts Nermark's 'LA 80s clean rack' profile is a great reference to emulate.

Also - I've started cabling the footswitch/exp sockets on the back of the devices - and some foot switches/amp switching to the patchbay. It may seem a bit 'caveman' is these days of wireless midi - but its really flexible.

The dream- 'I'd like a Bob Bradshaw rack please'

The reality - Yippee a second hand MXR/CAE 403 power supply for my pedal drawers !!@!!111
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To date I've been using Caline style semi-isolated (common ground) power supplies for each drawer of pedals and their associate wall warts. But I picked this up yesterday and will be moving to some completely isolated power and 'less wall warts'. I've also added a 2nd AC power distributor for the bottom half of the rack as the original one was getting way over crowded.

The bonus will be that I can separately turn on the top half / bottom half / pedals independently without having the whole rack powered

This is as close to some Bradshaw in my rack as I'm likely to get until a CAE preamp appears in my local guitar shop.

The pile of wall warts and pedalboard power things this has replaced is surprising.

Keeping isolation between the noisy pedals and the drive pedals was clearly alot of work.