https://cloudaffects.com/tags/hardware/Recent content in Hardware on cloud_affectsHugoenCC BY-NC-SA 4.0Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:00 +0100https://cloudaffects.com/posts/the-hive/Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:00 +0100https://cloudaffects.com/posts/the-hive/<p>I play guitar from time to time. I decided to buy a couple of effects pedals, so I went online to figure out which ones — opened a tab for an overdrive, then a delay, then a chorus, started reading comparisons, watching demos, scrolling forum threads about which RAT revision sounds best. A few hours in, I was convinced I needed a pedalboard, a power supply, and a switcher.</p> <h2 id="pedalboard">Pedalboard</h2> <p>A pedalboard is a mess. Every pedal duplicates the same parts — enclosure, jacks, footswitch, power input — and then you tie the whole thing together with a tangle of patch cables and a switcher that costs as much as another three pedals. You end up paying for metal and connectors more than for the actual circuits that make the sound.</p>