Peter Banks, guitarist for Yes and Flash, claimed to have had the first pedalboard ever made, built by Michael Tate. They were literally individual effects pedals fastened to board. Simple pedalboards already existed at the time. It got to the point where I had to have it all built into one unit…- David Gilmour in 1978 Lots of the pedals had the quality lost to them, and screeches and all that sort of stuff. Batteries running out out and breaking down. I was actually working through all that stuff until I had a huge line of them sitting on stage with wires everywhere. I changed that (to a Fuzz Face) and I gradually added a volume pedal as well, because fuzz boxes are terribly hard to control without a volume pedal…and a wah-wah. I had a fuzz box before but it was Syd's (Barrett), and I couldn't get along with it.
Below is David describing the problems with that setup. This degraded the original guitar tone as well as added hiss and other noise. This was in the days before true bypass switching, so the guitar signal passed directly through all the pedal circuits before getting to the amplifier, loading up and weakening the signal.
#DAVID GILMOUR SIGNAL PATH SERIES#
By 1972 he had a string of them in series on the floor. Most guitarists had one or two, but David Gilmour's collection was growing every year. David Gilmour's Integrated Effects Pedalboard DesignĭAVID GILMOUR'S EARLY PEDALBOARDS - In the early 1970s when effects pedals were becoming more prominent it was not uncommon to see them on the stage floor of live gigs.
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