D’Addario XPND Pedal Power Battery Kit Review: Get Juiced

Daydreaming about the perfect pedalboard is a favorite pastime for most guitarists. Cooking up grandiose plans about sculpting the perfect tone is easier than ever thanks to virtual pedalboard builder sites like Pedal Playground or Pedalboard Planner, and big-name pedalboard manufacturers like RockBoard and Temple Audio are in on it as well. Highfalutin fantasies about elaborate setups with stereo trickery and MIDI switchers usually crash to earth when the unsexy work of wiring everything together gets in the way, and a few stripped bolts, gunky piles of velcro, and mysterious noises in the signal chain are enough to drive any tone purist to trade it all in for a digital modeler and be done with it all forever. Photograph: Parker Hall Soldering your own audio cables is one way to eliminate clutter, but that’s only half the battle when it comes to wiring a pedalboard. Powering your pedals is the other half, and unless you’re an electrical engineer or a maniac who doesn’t mind acciden ... Read full article.