About Pedaldeck
Who's behind your Pedaldeck pedal boards and travel bags?
Established 2014 Pedaldeck quickly established itself in the UK musical accessories market. We arrived in the hope to shake up some common misconceptions about big brands, cheap imports and British engineering. Great Britain has created some great products in the last 50 years of musical instrument development. Great guitar makers, awesome amplification and a whole load of effects and pedals that have graced the world’s biggest stages and smallest back bedrooms to produce great British musicians by the score
But there was one accessory, essential to the development of guitar amplification and the pedals that shape our sounds that was painfully overlooked by the normally innovative British designers -The Pedal Board! The manufacture of Guitar Pedal Boards was left to the home DIY enthusiasts or abandoned to overseas USA brands, using cheap Chinese manufacturing methods and materials to satisfy our basic demands for a board for our effects
Steve Willock founded his company ASA in 1988 and over 33 years has helped many businesses create new products, using innovative production design and clear product marketing strategies to help create brand and product success. He also happened to be a keen guitarist. Having worked closely with the music retail market and involved in the production of many video reviews of guitars and effects pedals, Steve saw room for improvement in pedal board design. But also, a real opportunity to combine design improvements, user benefits and smart manufacturing techniques to repatriate the pedal board and manufacture a volume product at a competitive price right here in Britain.
Pedaldeck is a prime example of how products can be improved, costs can be reduced without relying on cheap exploitative labour rates and be quality manufactured in the countries where they are sold without compromising value. Making our boards and travel bags in the UK also reduces significantly our carbon footprint, ensuring our boards are made with minimum environmental impact caused by unnecessary international freight shipping and its contributing emissions.
Steve Willock
Founder and Managing Director – Pedaldeck UK
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“In 2021 Pedaldeck in now a registered and recognised MADE IN BRITAIN badge holder and authorised manufacturer. You may see the logo appear a few times across the site and we make no excuses for it.” Steve Willock Pedaldeck UK
Pedaldeck boards are constructed from a single piece of high-grade aircraft quality aluminium using precision engineering to a unique registered design with the UK patent’s office. Benefits of this being No Welds = No Weakness! And consistencies of build precision mean no more wobbly boards!
Product design is done in Manchester with final manufacturing done in the Midlands, working with a specialist engineering company that usually build aircraft and automotive parts.
All leading and competitive alternative boards available in volume through UK retail may be US branded but they are all made in China and imported. We are “Made in Britain!” It proved a three year project to bring to market has included extensive user and retailer research in addition to in-depth competition analysis, leading to all of the design and feature benefits now apparent in the Pedaldeck but still missing from the other boards.
Blades not box section give the PedalDeck its strength. This means the board is slightly lighter than the competitive equivalents and the more open design plan on the underside of the board makes it easier and much neater when managing power and patch cables for the pedals above.
PedalDeck boards are available in 3 popular sizes. The Artist II, The Player & The Solo (see specifications for details).
The cable spaces between rails have been reduced in width compared to the earliest Artist I model to ensure that even smaller pedals can fit comfortably on the board. The top rung provides a ‘super slim’ space of just 22mm for the growing number of micro pedals that are gaining in popularity.
PedalDeck is pre-drilled with multiple slots to accommodate easy installation of a wide range of power supplies. A universal bracket is capable of supporting most brands available in the UK from low cost options like Joyo through to the most expensive VoodooLab products and almost everything in between. (PLEASE NOTE: Cloks PS are a little too large and TREX PS will fit but has a side power inlet so placement in the PedalDeck underside is restricted.)
The unique, design patented bracket adjusts to suit different power supply case sizes and the easy nut bolt installation means no additional drilling is required that can damage the newly purchased competitive board (retailers want this as much as users as they hate being asked to install a power supply on behalf of a customer as it damages the board and immediately invalidates warranty).
PedalDeck is pre-drilled with multiple slots to accommodate easy installation of a wide range of power supplies. A universal bracket is capable of supporting most brands available in the UK from low cost options like Joyo through to the most expensive VoodooLab products and almost everything in between. (PLEASE NOTE: Cloks PS are a little too large and TREX PS will fit but has a side power inlet so placement in the PedalDeck underside is restricted.)
The unique, design patented bracket adjusts to suit different power supply case sizes and the easy nut bolt installation means no additional drilling is required that can damage the newly purchased competitive board (retailers want this as much as users as they hate being asked to install a power supply on behalf of a customer as it damages the board and immediately invalidates warranty).
These pre-drilled holes in the supporting blade are slotted to allow for adjustments in the event that not all power supply power inlets are in exactly the same position. Additional cut-away in the blade supporting the power supply installation provide access to the SAG switches on the popular brands of advanced power supplies. High density rubber feet are bolted in 4 supporting positions on the board so they cannot pop out and be lost as with some competitive boards. They can also be easily replaced or removed if required.
User research tells us that not all pedal fans are gigging musicians, some users would prefer to buy the Pedaldeck independently of a case they are unlikely to use. Pedaldeck is available to purchase independently of the case options. The Pedaldeck Tough Gig Travel Bags can be bought separately.
We think users really appreciate this flexibility. Please don’t confuse the quality of our cases with the free included light gauge alternatives.
Our Tough Gig Bags have a number of advanced features making them more road worthy, more secure and pretty much indestructible. Upgrade to include our 100% recycled reinforcement panels and you’ll get close to flight case performance in a light-weight soft bag format. We offer bigger storage pockets for accessories and cables, higher density, more durable fabric and much thicker protective foam padding in construction than the alternatives available.
Want a bigger board? No problem simply add another compatible Pedaldeck.
Our boards are designed to be bolted together, meaning any combination of Artist and Player boards can be configured and fixed together for a stable platform during a gig, then simply unbolted for storage and transportation at the end of the night. The same goes for our smallest board the SOLO, which can connect to itself and double your pedal pleasure with ease.
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