Friedman Pedal Boards | Tour Pro 1542 Platinum

Dave Friedman has been building pedal boards for over 30 years. From the fancy, ultra-complex, to the simplistic pedal boards, Dave has seen and designed them all for the who’s who of the industry. When it came time for Dave to design his own line of pedal boards, everything a touring or home guitar player actually needs was meticulously thought out and addressed.

Friedman pedal boards are made in America. Why? Because the quality and manufacturing consistency of the Tour Pro boards is what makes a Friedman a Friedman!

While most pedal boards have either a flat or a slanted surface, the Tour Pro boards are designed with two tiers, a bottom section that is flat and a top section that is angled (with all the holes needed for easy cable routeing). This two-tier design allows a guitar player to have access to all pedals on the board, without ballerina style, toe-extending dance moves. And, to address the need for Wah and/or Volume pedals, the Tour Pro 1542 includes two detachable risers, which can be mounted in various locations on the bottom tier (yes – they thought of left-footed guitar players too).

The Tour Pro 1542 Platinum package includes a Friedman Power Grid 10 (Isolated high current 9V Pedal Power Supply) & Friedman Buffer Bay 6 (Buffer and Patch Bay).

The Power Grid 10 was designed to address all of the deficiencies Dave encountered with power supplies from other brands over his 27-year history of designing and building pedal boards for the biggest touring guitarists and studio producers. The Power Grid 10 was designed to meet the demands of any player who wants a dead quite pedal board, that can be taken anywhere and is tour ready.  Some of the key features include:

• The Power Grid 10 provides 10 isolated outputs – 350mA per output at 9Vdc.
• Universal power from 100-240Vac meaning you can plug it in anywhere in the world.You will never have to flip switches or worry about a step up or step-down transformer.
• ZERO field hum, which plagues many other power supplies with traditional toroidal transformers.
• The Power Grid 10 will power virtually any pedal (350mA each per 9V output)
• All the cables needed to power your pedals.

The Friedman Buffer Bay is a simple solution that incorporates Dave’s wealth of experience and knowledge providing players an innovative tool:

• Ultra-transparent, natural and musical sounding buffer
• 5 identical 1/4″ TRS (tip, ring, sleeve) in and out connections
• Buffered TS (tip, sleeve) connection (can be turned ON/OFF via switch)
• 7 pin MIDI thru connection

The Buffer Bay accomplishes two basic things.

First – it is an ultra-transparent, natural and musical sounding buffer, which can be turned on or off using the provided switch. The buffer solves the fundamental problem of loading loss caused by interconnected cables and some pedals. This ‘loss’ syphons your guitar of fidelity, tone and volume level. This problem occurs even if all the pedals used are true bypass and the more pedals and longer the cable runs, the greater the losses. The Buffer Bay 6 circuitry, when engaged, sounds identical to your guitar straight into the amp! You can access the buffer using the buffers IN connector on one side of the Buffer Bay and Buffer Out on the other side.

Second – the Buffer Bay is a patch bay with the following benefits:

• Cleans up all of the connections on your pedal board.
• Allows for tighter pedal placement on the board (you no longer need to access the jacks on certain pedals).
• Lets you have all cables from your board in the same location allowing neater chord runs on stage.
• Your pedal chain is permanently connected making setup and takedown quick and painless.
• Saves the life of the jacks on your pedals by not plugging in cables every time you play.
• Easily configure your input or output in hard-to-reach places.

Using an extra patch cable you can easily go from using an amp with an effects loop to using one without.