User's pedalboards are shown below - most recent submissions first.

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Dan Smith

Johnny: Here's a pic of Dan's bass guitar pedalboard. Dan will get some great sounds with that selection of pedals!

Dan: Just saying a thanks for the effect fixings - simple, effective and look tidy! The power supply and daisy chain works great and with 2x chain easily powers my board with room for lots more. I've mentioned "JSF" on various music forums as A* top stuff and highly recommended your power supply for its performance and great value. 

Richard Evans

Johnny: Richard's board is unique in the gallery so far, in that he has 2 layers of plywood in order to seat the pedals in the lower layer. Most of the wiring is discreetly hidden underneath. I love the guitar sockets at the top and the general 'retro' feel of the board (reminds me of my desk at junior school)! 

Richard: I built my wooden pedal board using two sheets of plywood, the upper sheet routed out to the shape of the pedals, then glued to the lower sheet so that the pedals just sit in the cut-outs. Board is edged in hardwood oak for toughness. Used johnnyshredfreak power supply (housed underneath the board), rubber feet and daisy chain. One of the daisy chains plugs powers a 12v green lamp to tell me if the board is live. Used strat and Les Paul socket plates for (optional) input and outputs to amp, guitar and effects loop. Also routed a little recess to sit my plectrum in.

Mark Bodles

Mark has built his board from an Ikea shelf kit - ingenious! The slots enable the wiring and power supply to be hidden underneath, and there's enough depth on the board for a Wah pedal.

 Mark: My band Deadlights recently met and recorded with Peter Pratt (pedal board also on this page) at his studio. I was impressed with the concept of the pedal fixings he had going on and got the link to your site from him. I decided to put 2 ideas together and used a design idea from tdpri.com for building a pedal board from some ikea shelf parts and using your bits and pieces to support and strengthen the board and mount the pedals/route the cabling. The velcro idea just wasn't my bag as I couldn't be doing with the mess it leaves on the back of the pedals, so Pete showing me your site was excellent. Everyone who's seen it so far has been mightily impressed, especially considering the whole thing cost just £30 to build. I'm chuffed! Cheers again for supplying the perfect parts for my project, Here's the link about the ikea board idea.

Mark Williamson

Mark has just completed his 4th board incarnation - please click on the image for his mini-gallery:

Ross Edwards

Ross Edwards' pedalboard is part of a fairly complex rig designed for live playing onstage with minimum clutter and maximum flexibility - note the wireless receiver, the use of our multicable loom, and the dual switched outputs to the amp.
Ross: I use the 4-core loom cable to provide the input from my AKG WMS-40 wireless receivers, the 9VDC supply and both outputs to my modded Carlsbro 50-Top. Originally termed "Hi" and "Low" inputs, Trev Ridney (www.tipton-amps.co.uk) updated it to give two distinct "voices" to each - now termed "Hi-W" and "Plexi". Guess what they refer to :-) 
The signal chain goes:
1. Guitar - AKG wireless - AB200 - LU10 tuner
2. Guitar - AKG wireless - AB200 - CryBaby - DC-9 compressor - Keeley DS-1 - NR100 Noise gate - AB200 - Amp
In the effects loop of the NR100 noise gate are an Ibanez CSL Stereo Chorus and a Digitech X-series Digital Delay.
All patch leads, power supply and cables, fixings and 4-way loom provided by JohnnyShredfreak! Thanks again for great quality products - made my life a helluva lot easier!

www.myspace.com/deadlights08

James Kennedy

James has a nicely-constructed board, where the psu and power sockets are concealed underneath, but still accessible. Also note the lighting ropes which look cool in the dark (4th pic). The Mesa cab is also cool, of course!

 James: I designed the board myself a couple months ago with the aim of housing my pedals on a neat board, whilst being prepared for use under a heavy foot! I finally got round to building it this summer with (quite a lot) of help from a friend, which took about 10 hours start to finish, but it was worth it! The board itself is made from 20mm MDF, all joins are routed in for extra strength and the main shelf also has a couple pieces of pine baton for support.
I use a JohnnyShredfreak power supply with daisy chain to deliver power to my Morley Wah/Volume, iSP Decimator and Nobels MS-4 Midi Switcher. This is mounted on the underside, along with a plug board. All the excess power cabling is pinned down on the underside of the board using JohnnyShredfreak cable clips and cable ties. The iSP Decimator is screwed to the board using one of the JohnnyShredfreak Boss pedal mounting kits (which fitted fine with a little persuasion), the midi switcher had it's own screw holes, and unfortunately none of the other pedals have screws on the underneath, so they had to be velcro'ed.
The Decimator and Midi Switcher are on a second, raised shelf for ease of access. The enclosure underneath the shelf houses any excess cabling from the top of the board, and has well concealed holes in both exposed sides for cables to be routed through it, as well as a hole through the base for cables to be passed to the underside of the board.
All cabling on the top of the board is pinned using JohnnyShredfreak cable clips to keep them tidy and ensure cables don't get pulled out if they get caught (there are four 20ft cables that have to go back to the amp head!). The blue rope lighting also uses JohnnyShredfreak cable clips to hold it in place as they were actually better and easier to attach to the board than the ones supplied with the rope light.
I also installed a JohnnyShredfreak battery holder to keep a 9v battery to hand just incase the one in my Fernandes Sustainer dies. As a finishing touch I went round with a black marker to dot the silver nail heads used in the cable clips for a stealthier look!
For home practice and transportation I use JohnnyShredfreak velcro cable ties to keep things tidy and avoid a mass tangle of cables!

Kirk Lanckmans

If effects pedals are ever sold at expensive jewellery shops, then Kirk's pedalboard design will fit right in! This board showcases (literally!) the pedals off to their full splendour, cleverly subdueing the wiring and power supply, and other secondary parts. Imagine it like this - the pedals are Barrack and Michelle Obama and family, the wiring etc are the aides and special service agents, the perspex is the bulletproof screen, the board is the convention hall, the leds are the camera flashlights (yes I have finally lost my marbles!).

Kirk: Hi! Firstly a big thank you for the top quality service and products. As you can see I have finally finished my pedal board project and thought I would email you a pic or two! I took my inspiration from the rather expensive Trailer Trash pedal boards from the states - after seeing them I decided that I was confident of building something similar for less than the $500 price tag! It's a 'cheese-wedge' shape (although I'm not sure if you can make out from the pics) which helps with use of the pedals at the rear. I built the shell from MDF and the top is 12mm Perspex. As screwing into Perspex doesn't really work, I simply drilled through and used your
mounting kits with M3 nuts and bolts instead - I also drilled holes for the cables I purchased from you and the power leads. I mounted the Rat and the Jim Dunlop with the standard mounting kits - just adding a couple of washers to the screws into each pedal to help raise it the small amount needed.
 As you can see, your power unit is mounted under the Perspex and not only serves all the pedals, but the funky LED light array I have mounted below the Perspex - (shame you can't see how cool they look, but I took the photos during the day!). I'm hoping to add some neon lighting to the box at some point when funds allow (pedals first, then box modding! :)). There's still plenty of room for a few more pedals should the wife allow me to feed my addiction further.....
 Glad I found your site, the fixing plates for the digi-tech pedals and the other mounting kits have been invaluable - not to mention the brilliant power supply!
 Keep up the good work!
 Kirk

Michael Beamish

Michael has built a very wide board - I can't see how it is constructed, but there is probably a lot going on underneath, as the top is so tidy.

Michael: Hi Johnny, As I'm exceptionally pleased with the outcome of my pedal board, I thought I would send you some photos for you to see. I'm still missing one pedal but its out of stock at the suppliers other than that all powered up plugged in and ready to rock! Think i've done a good enough job worthy of your gallery? Cheers for the help your products are great!

Damien Rowlands

Damien's photos show a mega-sized board with 16 (mostly Boss) pedals/units on 3 stepped rows (like cinema seating), which helps the foot reach the further rows without snagging the nearer pedals. Note the 1st step is shorter to accommodate the wah/volume pedal.

Steve Cordingley

Here is Steve's bass guitar pedalboard - note how Steve fixed down his Big Muff:-
Hi Johnny, here are a couple of shots of my pedalboard for my Thunderbird Bass. I used your power unit to drive it and your fixing kit to attach the pedals to the case as the Velcro supplied with the case kept coming away from the pedals. Much more professional looking and secure when they are screwed down!. The Big Muff is screwed through its base internally into the false bottom in the flight case. I have also attached your rubber cabinet feet to the underside of the case for a non skid base. Thanks again for excellent service. Steve.

Josh Oliver

Another mother of all pedalbords - for bass guitar this time - which has a lot of technical stuff going on within it. Here's Josh's description:-
Hay, to the wonderful people of Johnnyshredfreak.com I thought I'd share with you how I organised my bass guitar pedal board utilizing the screw fittings, cable holding clips and patch leads I brought from your site. I aimed to have a clean signal chain and planned to keep the power cords as far away from the signal cable as much as possible, crossing only at 90 degress, though that wasn't always possible. The other major thing on the board it the hardwire bypass, which is a must for this size of rig, in my opinion.The hardwire bypass unit is the gun metal grey box with the painted word in blue 'loop'. It's a napalm looper / hardwire bypass. It was the biggest pre-made pedal board I could find and so was limited to the number of pedals that I could add. The boss RC20 takes up alot of space but is well worth it, and I have a tiny amount of room left for a bass synth pedal if I can find one that I fall in love with..

David Green

David's pedalboard has some nice design features, like the platform to raise the second bank of pedals, allowing cables to run underneath. Also the nifty lights on stalks!
David: Attached is a photo of my recently completed DIY pedalboard. I used your power supply, daisy chain and pedalboard fixings to put together a durable two level board (the back tier of pedals are on a raised platform for ease of access). I'm using the Korg Pitchblack tuner which I think is amazing, feeding into predominantly Boss pedals although I have a couple of Zakk Wylde pedals (the Zakk Wylde signature wah and an hand autographed MXR overdrive pedal). The board makes it a lot simpler to move my gear around and a lot of it wouldn't have been possible without your parts, which were well priced and quickly delivered. Thanks.

Peter Pratt

This pedalboard, features a VFB-2 buffered bypass loop box and some trusty MXR pedals. Peter also runs a recording studio in Northern Ireland - http://www.blueroomrecording.co.uk.
Peter: Just wanted to drop a quick word of thanks for the recent order I placed on your site. Prompt delivery and nice prices. I've attached a picture of my pedalboard. Everything on the board is running in an fx loop which is switched and blended by the Barge Concepts VFB-2, except for the tuner which is first on the board and the MXR Dynacomp which is after the loop and last in the chain. I wish someone would have a word with the designers at MXR, they make great pedals but the position of their power sockets is a major pain!.

Chito Refuerzo

Chito has used our short washers pedalboard kit on his Dod board. He also has made the innovation of using plastic wall anchor plugs to retain the screws on the hidden side of the metal pedalboard surface.
Chito: Attached is a picture of an old reliable DOD FX-100 Pedal Board which I bought in 1987. The original holes on the board perfectly matched the [short washers for the] regular-sized Boss pedals & and a DOD Yngwie J. Malmsteen signature (YJM380) preamp overdrive.Who knows, your Dunlop part [long washers] may solve the Compressor mounting (front currently held in place by plastic fasteners [nylon cable ties?] ) without drilling new holes. The screws included in the kit are also perfectly held in place using plastic anchors which are normally used in drywall mounting.

Colin Holland - extra pedals

Colin has sent details of 2 EH pedals he owns, one modern and one vintage (also see larger photo of pedalboard lower down on this page):-
Colin: I have added an Electro Harmonix LPB1 [a clean booster] in front of the Boss SD1 it kicks a bit more gain into your solo sound.Its also great for sending a hot valve amp over the edge,if you don't want to use an overdrive. This is the new model of the very first pedal EH made ,man has it got some power! Also thought you would like to see the old EH little big Muff I bought in 1978! I now run it from the power supply with one of your leads [jack to battery snap, excellent lead] As always all pedals secured to the main board with your excellent strap brackets ,what a godsend!!!

Ivan Jones

A nice collection of mainly Boss pedals on Ivan's pedalboard - all contained in a smart and sturdy-looking case. The removeable case lid is the pedalboard.
Ivan: Hey JohnnyShredFreak, I'm a past customer and would like to show you a sample of your products that I've used on my home made pedal board. I bought some braces and daisy chains off you, and they are brilliant, Love Them!

Phil Capone

Phil has used both our washer and bracket kits to fix a tasty set of boutique pedals.
Phil: Just thought you'd like to see my finished pedalboard that uses your fittings exclusively - it's brilliant. With a bit of tweaking your brackets worked on all of these pedals (and the fuel tank). It's a cheapo board that I ripped the velcro out of and then glued a piece of 12mm ply to the base and sprayed black. I was getting so fed up with velcro - it's rubbish (especially with heavy pedals/power supplies). You're kits are brilliant - I'll be spreading the word!!

Stevie Mullan

Stevie has the biggest collection of one make of pedals I've seen on a board! There is a Shredfreak power supply in the top right corner powering all 16 pedals via a 16 way daisy chain I made up for him. There are also some Shredfreak black patch leads connecting most of the pedals. 
Stevie: Hi John, as promised, here's the pictures of my pedal board - I've still got two Boss FV50 Expression pedals to add, for the auto wah and phase shifter.

Phil Senior

Looking forward to seeing Phil's main board once the pedals are fitted with our fixings.
Phil: I have attached a pic of a small pedalboard that was a testing ground for some brackets/gromits/packers that i had the idea for myself that also included some rubbish plastic bits (i wanted to do away with velcro). The other pic is my main board that i will hopefully get around to redoing using your mounting kit. If anyone is wondering ... the tin by the psu holds a Capo (My third hand for restringing a guitar with Bigsby), an Ebow & spare picks. My next purchase will be a BBE Soul Vibe & am also on the lookout for a Wah/Volume pedal 2in1 if i can find a good one ... 

Glenn Garcia

Glenn is an MXR devotee, as can be seen below. Also note the EQ pedal (extreme left), which is handy for fine tuning your sound at a gig, depending on the room acoustics. (Dave Gilmour has 3 on his touring rig! See this fan page ).

Colin Holland

Colin has an assortment of tasty but practical pedals on his gigging board. 

Colin's notes: Just a quick pic of my gigging board. all pedals secured to the board with your excellent strap brackets,they are an absolute godsend ,much better/stronger than velcro ,with absolutely no damage to the pedals. I also have one of your daisy chain power leads on there connected to a Boss power supply.
The delay pedal is an old analogue pedal by a company called Belcat,still available I think. The muff is one of a new range Electro Harmonix are doing called the Nano range,smaller that the classic style pedal they normally make[have a look on EH`s web site]. This pedal is a reissue of the very first fuzz they made ,which was small inline box that connected straight into the guitar. It's not as angry as its big brother,it just adds a bit of dirt,great for driving a valve amp [like the Tube screamer]... keep finding those hard to find bits for us guitar players !

Maurice Coyne

Maurice has more pedals than your average music store! I'm hoping he will be swapping velcro for our kit washers shortly. Also Maurice has a Demon pedal, like Ed immediately below.

Maurice's notes: I have two pedal boards at present - use depends on the size of the venue stage more than anything else - and all the pedals get swapped around regularly (hence I still use velcro!).

Ed Yellin

Ed's board is stuffed with exotic A/B switches, pedals and a breakout box.

Ed's notes: Hi Johnny, I have finally completed my pedalboard and I'm sending you a couple of pictures. I have to tell you that the kit worked wonderfully for me and the price was impossible to beat also. I will never go back to using VELCRO again in my life. Thanks a million and keep up the good work.

Don Pridemore

Here are some closeups of Don's board showing the usage of our mounting washers on a wah pedal and A/B footswitch. Also note the use of heatshrink tubing(?) to tidy the excess cable and keep plug conections tight.

Don's notes:- Here are a few photos..... Hopefully this illustrates my usage. I am also in the process of building a second pedal board with a persian rug for a top surface. Your washers will serve me well!!

           

Philip Johnston

This is Philip's work-in-progress. I like the externally mounted spare PP3! 
Currently a bit like Joe Satriani's board(s), maybe? It's going to become something entirely more massive though! 

Philip's notes:- Johnny, those things are top - so easy - last night I got the lower tier carpeted, and all the boss pedals, dunlop wah & power supplies fixed with the mounting kit - they also work on single / double switch marshall pedals - So chuffed with how it's going!
The PP3 is literally as a back up in case of power failure for my acoustic (don't play it through his rig but nice to have it handy)- ...the holding clip for it is off the bottom of the Small Stone pedal as now it's got the washers on - I don't need the rubber feet & the battery cover clip sits a bit lower than the bottom face so I just gaffered over the opening and used the clip there instead. There's an upper tier in progress at the moment with another 3 / 4 pedals with a hinge system including the Small Stone...This will cover the power supplies first and foremost but will also create a storage area for things like the PP3, Leatherman, mini torch, strings and stuff like that...
I'm also going to involve a mic stand holder onto the board in the space above the whammy... 

Russ Grimes

Russ has made an unusual curved design with a sloping deck. The wood is protected with a clear lacquer coating.

Russ's notes:- There are 3 wedge supports one on each end and one in the middle. Took some time and effort but the supports are plumb and level and it does not rock at all. The Voodoo Labs Pedal Power II + fits nicely underneath too. I've got the pedals mounted using the little chain links I got from you.

And here is Russ's work-in-progress axe - a customised Telecaster body.

         

And the finished instrument!:-
Russ: Here is my recently completed Texas Flag Tele for your gallery. John Fitzgerald of Peretta Guitars in Mesquite, TX did the paint job for me. It's got a '62 Rosewood neck, GFS Vintage pups and tuners and a Stew-Mac wiring harness/hardware. Easily the best sounding/playing Tele in my guitarsenal of Tele's! Enjoy and hope you're doing well!

Greg Fedoruk - 'V H'

Greg's notes:- Attached are two photos of my pedalboard. One is the board as it is and I've included a second showing the possible expansion to illustrate how/why I built it like I did.

The dimensions of the board allows it to easily be put into a soft guitar or keyboard case for transport. As well, it can easily be incorporated into a roadcase for additional protection should I end up on the road again! 8)

The switchbox is a custom made (I built it) switchbox for my amp. It switches between channels, turns reverb on/off, and the effects loop on/off. I built it in a triangular config so I can turn on/off any combination of 1, 2, or all 3 with a single step as a foot can cover all 3 switches. 8)

The white strip is a power bar in case I need additional outlets. I was going to use an actual onboard power supply but it would have been way overkill. Instead, I've opted for a 9v/2.1A DC adaptor that plugs into the white power bar, and I made a daisy chain cable so the adaptor feeds everything, the wah and all pedals and still has enough power to feed about 5-6 more pedals depending on their draw.

Once again, thanks for a very cool idea/product and lightning fast shipping. Allowed me to get all this stuff organized into one place so stuff isn't loose and getting banged around. Awesome!!

Rob Williamson

Rob's notes:- Hey John. Thanks again for the quick shipment. The mounting kit worked great on the custom pedal board I just built. Attached are some pics in case anyone ever wants to see more examples. I love it!

Adam Rey

Adam's notes:- Johnny, Thanks for the good words! I build a batch of my pedalboards off and on and have had good success selling them to my band mates, local musicians, and on eBay. I am telling my circle of musicians about your product! Take care and thanks again!

John Cardno

John's notes:- Received the Power supply and daisy chain OK and thanks very much for your great service.
I have re arranged my pedal board now and with the help of these parts it has tidied things up a bit. I have attached a photo.
The PS 240 power supply was always a pain floating around and vulnerable to damage as you already know so your system is great. I just hope it is reliable now and I will always have a smile on my face when I use it.

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