The Lehle 1 at 3 SGoS Amp Switcher came today, and I wired it up to the I/O on my pedalboard with a few extra cables I had on hand - I'm one cable shy for the connections to all three amp outputs on the pedalboard, so had to order another one, but I can just attach the cable for a third amp directly to the pedal, so there's no loss of function.
Going through the board's I/O jacks make setting up a little faster because the vertical-facing jacks are easy to see, I don't have to kneel down and look for the right horizontal facing jacks on pedals and switchers in a dimly lit room, etc.
I considered taking all the pedals off the board, rearranging everything, and making it look slick, but for now I just wanted to concentrate on function. So the pedals are mounted far enough apart that I can get to all the switches on all the pedals with my big feet.
These red cables on the board are the Van den Hul "Bay C5" pedalboard cables, assembled by Lava Cable. The upside is that the pedalboard sounds really great, generates zero noise, and the connections are very solid. The downside is that they're very stiff cables and have big plugs. So it's a little harder to get them all tucked under the board's surface neatly.
I like the look of the little plugs that most of the guys here use, but these big plugs seem to be immune to failure. So that's good.
The Lehle switcher works great; you can program it, believe it or not, and set it up to do different things, depending on your needs. I just have it set up so I can switch each amp on and off one at a time, the default setting.
The switching is for the most part very quiet, though I'm getting a slight pop with one amp when switching its connection off, so I've emailed Lehle to find out the solution for that.
It's great to have all three of my amps connected, and just switch into the one I want to use, instead of re-cabling, etc.
Here's a shot of the setup:
It doesn't look as good as it did before, but it's very functional.
Going through the board's I/O jacks make setting up a little faster because the vertical-facing jacks are easy to see, I don't have to kneel down and look for the right horizontal facing jacks on pedals and switchers in a dimly lit room, etc.
I considered taking all the pedals off the board, rearranging everything, and making it look slick, but for now I just wanted to concentrate on function. So the pedals are mounted far enough apart that I can get to all the switches on all the pedals with my big feet.
These red cables on the board are the Van den Hul "Bay C5" pedalboard cables, assembled by Lava Cable. The upside is that the pedalboard sounds really great, generates zero noise, and the connections are very solid. The downside is that they're very stiff cables and have big plugs. So it's a little harder to get them all tucked under the board's surface neatly.
I like the look of the little plugs that most of the guys here use, but these big plugs seem to be immune to failure. So that's good.
The Lehle switcher works great; you can program it, believe it or not, and set it up to do different things, depending on your needs. I just have it set up so I can switch each amp on and off one at a time, the default setting.
The switching is for the most part very quiet, though I'm getting a slight pop with one amp when switching its connection off, so I've emailed Lehle to find out the solution for that.
It's great to have all three of my amps connected, and just switch into the one I want to use, instead of re-cabling, etc.
Here's a shot of the setup:
It doesn't look as good as it did before, but it's very functional.
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