How does it work?
The PedalSnake is a high quality snake cable containing 4 or 7 channels. Each channel terminates in a standard 5 pin DIN plug. Each snake offers 1 MIDI5 channel together with MIDI3 channels. Each channel will handle MIDI, guitar signals or low voltage AC or DC power.
The PedalSnake's patented wiring scheme allows unbalanced signals, MIDI, and power to be run side by side in one cable, without noise or crosstalk.
You determine what runs down each channel by the choice of "pigtail" adaptor you connect to the amp and pedal board ends of each channel.
Pigtails are available to allow single or dual (think send/return loop) guitar signals or single or dual low voltage power feeds (perhaps 9v DC and 12v DC down the same channel).
How does it help me?
Let's take an easy example. Say we have a pedal board with wah, distortion, chorus and delay pedals. Most of our pedals need 9v DC but one needs 18v AC.
We normally plug our guitar into the wah pedal which is patched to the distortion pedal and then a cable goes to the Amp input. Another cable from the amps's effects "send" runs out to the chorus pedal which is patched to the delay and another cable runs back into the effects "return".
Power comes from an extension cable bringing high voltage power to our feet - right next to our pint glass - and we have a 9v DC PSU and 18v AC PSU plugged in there.
That’s a total of 4 cables running across the stage plus high voltage power where I don't want it and 15 minutes of setup time as long as I don't forget<br> to bring a cable!
With PedalSnake life gets simpler. Firstly, we have all our high voltage power at the backline so we don't need mains cable in the performance area. We connect our 9v DC PSU to one 'snake channel that has a power pigtail set at each end. We connect our 18v AC PSU to another channel with a similar power pigtail set.
Then we connect our Amp In to the distortion pedal using a single guitar signal pigtail set. And finally we connect our send/return to a dual guitar pigtail set to connect the chorus and delay pedals.
Our setup time is minimal (most guitarists will keep the 'snake connected to the pedal board all the time) and we only have one cable across the stage. And if your setup changes in the future - you can change your pigtails to adapt!
Simple huh?
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New for August 2007
A new range of base cables and pigtails is now available!
Standard base cables are available in 18 foot and 24 foot lengths and a choice of 4 or 7 channels. 1 channel in each cable supports MIDI5.
New pigtails offer support for hi-power pedals and base cables and pigtails are all sold seperately for true "mix and match" choice.
Pigtail prices have gone down too so now complex rigs are even better value for money.
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