You may already have a case for your guitar, but have you considered one for your effects pedals? Save all the hassle of cramming all your pedals and cables into a backpack and finding everything tangled together when you take everything out to practice or play a gig. We’re going to have a look at what pedal cases have to offer you.
If you have ever been to play a gig with your band and you have all your effects pedals and cables all stuffed into a bag or back pack you will have, at some point, went a bit mad at the fact that matter how much time you spend putting everything in the bag in a tidy manor, it very rarely comes out that way after the bag has been moved around for a while. Be that while you walk or while its been in your car or van.
An effects pedal case will go some way to solving your problems here. After you purchase your case, you can take it home and either bolt or Velcro all your pedals into place, exactly where you want them and they will stay there no matter what. Everything will be in your case, connected up with patch cables, all you need to do is plug one side into your guitar and the other side into your amplifier. There’s no messing around for half an hour undoing all the mess that’s been happening in your backpack in the short journey from your house to the venue or practice room. Plug in and your ready to go.
As well as saving you an age in untangling everything, effects cases are really handy to carry around and move from place to place. Simply zip up or attach the lid and you are ready to go, in only a matter of seconds. Depending on what model you buy it will have either a comfortable handle or a strap to go over your should, ideal for when your hands are tied up carrying the dozen other things that you have to take to a show. Or more than likely it will have both handles.
Effects pedal cases come in various sizes, big and small. If you only have a few pedals there’s going to one just for you. Of course they can only go so big before it becomes silly. If you have every pedal under the sun you are going to need more than one large case, probably several.
As with your guitar case, pedal cases come in both hard and soft varietys. Depending on what you are going to be using it for. Hard cases are ideal for you if you want your pedals to be protected from the unexpected. Or a soft case if you need something lighter to carry around with you.
It might be overlooked in favour of a normal backpack, but putting all your pedals in a case is something you should really look into. For saving time setting up and ease of moving your collection of pedals around, you really cant beat one.