Roadster Footswitches

[JW123]

I got a Roadster combo and love it, but does anyone know if there is a smaller foot switch board available. I have a large pedal pad board but I may have to lose a distortion box to fit this beast on there. I just need the channel switches, solo, and rev, I dont need the tuner mute or the effs loop. Has anyone used some other board with success for this amp.

Just curious if anything else is available.

 

[blakkspider]

You can try a solo head's footswitch, there is no other footswitch that can do what you want, you can also ask the guys of voodoo amps if they can build one for ya, but it won't be cheaper.

I think your best chance is to get a custom fx board... that would be cheaper and you can order one that suit your needs. :wink:

 

[Laskyman]

I had my pedal board custom built to accomodate the Roadster Footswitch (NYC Pedalboards). Personally, I use each switch at some time or another, so a different footswitch is not reasonable.
I recommend building the board around the pedal, or using the individual "outs" on the back of the amp with individual switches for the functions you wish to control....


Laskyman

 

[JW123]

Heres a picture of my pedal pad with the Triples footswitch.

To put the Roadster footswitch on the board Im going to have to lose the TS or the Black Jack distortion pedal. The Roadsters footswitch reaches past where the TS is mounted. Of course with the Roadsters 4 channels I may not need as many distortion choices anyway.

 

[twostring]

I would just squeeze things together a bit more. I know you want to keep the cables lined up with the slots in the pedalboard, but when it comes to fitting everything on your board, I'd sacrifice some of that neatness to get everything on the board.

If you're willing to open it up yourself, you'll find that the Roadster footswitch is actually divided into two pieces. The channel controls are on one board and the other controls are on a second board...they are connected with several wires between the two boards. You can find or fab a new enclosure for the two boards and you can stack the boards one on top of the other. This will give you a footswitch with two rows of 4 switches instead of a long board with one row of 8 switches. See the pic of the wiring below...

Desolder these connections and just extend them and you'll be able to re-arrange the footswitch to fit in a package that doesn't take up as much room side to side. Depending on the enclosure, you should be able to shrink the size to somewhere around 8 inches from front to back. Side to side would be exactly half.

 

[TheBlackman]

I had the same problem but i decided to leave the footswitch off the pedal board all together. i keep the roadster footswitch off to the side and the pedal board in front, or you could raise up your pedalboard and put the roadster footswitch in front, but you may end up changing channels by accident that way. I find off to the side keeps things managable and if i'm going from distorted to clean, i back the guitar volume if i have several pedal changes to do.

 

[twostring]

I had the same problem but i decided to leave the footswitch off the pedal board all together. i keep the roadster footswitch off to the side and the pedal board in front, or you could raise up your pedalboard and put the roadster footswitch in front, but you may end up changing channels by accident that way. I find off to the side keeps things managable and if i'm going from distorted to clean, i back the guitar volume if i have several pedal changes to do.

I do the same thing, but I keep my footswitch in front of the board.

I don't really think it gets in the way, and I've never hit a channel change by mistake before.

BTW...older pic of the board. I've got a few more pieces since then and I'm building a few more to fill the gaps.

 

[JW123]

Ive learned thru the years to keep my stuff nice and neat. I will probable just pull one distortion unit when I use the roadster. I had a few minutes at lunch and plugged into my Triple. And I dont know, but I think I like the way it sounds better than the roadster, and it also seems to take my pedals better, so I may keep the roadster around and just plug straight in when Im doing a smaller venue. Only time will tell.

I hate to go butchering up footswitch pedals.

Thanks for all the input.