Is the Goodwood Audio Lift Exactly What My Pedalboard Needed

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here today to talk about the good wood audio Lyft pedalboard riser is an adjustable huddle board riser, and I am. I actually still have it in the box. This was sent to me to review a bit ago, unfortunately. The reason I bought it was, it was kind of in the shop.

[00:00:22] I just got it back. So, uh, let’s go ahead and unbox it and discuss it. So here it is in the box and here is me opening the box. Ooh. So it’s packed pretty well. Um, let’s go ahead and take out this stuff. Trying to get it in my coffee, pretty easy. I actually opened it upside down my bad. It comes with plenty of mounting parts,

[00:00:52] mounting plates,

[00:00:56] and this is the riser itself. It’s a, it seems to be, I think it’s aluminum and it’s pretty lightweight, says. Lift on the top there Goodwood audio on the back. So that’s the backs. That’s what we’ll be facing. The audience lift is what you will read until you put things on top of it. Uh, it also says Goodwood lift on the front there, and then you have the plates here.

[00:01:30] So, um, you have these hoops, this part. Goes down, you Mount that into your pedalboard and you can adjust how much height you want via these plates. So you can have a little bit of hype.

[00:01:56] Uh, quite a lot. So if you can kind of visualize that you get quite a bit of lift from this. Um, so you can Mount basically you can Mount things underneath this left, like, uh, let’s say,

[00:02:16] ignore that sound. The. Fender engine room 12, hopefully. Oh my gosh. Look at that fifth. That’s right underneath that. So the reason I got this as my goal here is to Mount my, uh, engine room 12 by fender underneath and kind of get either some pedals or perhaps my milkman that. On top. So honestly the milkman, the ant might be running parallel to it.

[00:02:52] It’s a little bit taller. So I might have, uh, some pedals running kind of in front of it, get the vibe there. So it might be kind of looking like pedals behind it, blah, blah, blah. But, um, essentially, so I run the milkman, the amp with my band Sunday crush. Direct when I can, but I also have an external cab, uh, that I run when I can’t super duper easily go direct, which is pretty rare.

[00:03:25] Frankly, most places are pretty well equipped to do that, but I often use it for personal monitoring though. I also now have an IAM system that works in 85 cat venues. Um, pretty much anywhere it’s not DIY. The engine room has, um, You know, uh, in and out AC NAC out. So I could, uh, just pretty simply run power out through this, into my milkman and the amp easily, easily enough.

[00:03:58] Uh, typically we just have spring river running all the time for the milk man, the amp, and then whenever pedals, I was just. Put it on top of, of the Goodwood lift here. So check out the rest of the video will show me installing this on my pedal board. I have an older, a flat pedal board that I got when I started getting into pedals that I still use, uh, which means I can’t really Mount things underneath it, but it’s what I could afford at the time.

[00:04:27] And I still really love it is made by Dolan designs, a gentleman named Dan Dolan. Who I really like, but yeah, this seems pretty, self-explanatory have plenty of screws and washers, et cetera in there. Yeah. This looks pretty easy. I’m on the page right now. Let me look. Yes. Requires no tools. You don’t need any tools to adjust the parameter on left.

[00:04:58] It uses nuts for Washington bolts. You just use the wing that’s to adjust it. Once you get everything in, there is a manual on the website, which I will be looking at it. Didn’t come with the, um, It didn’t come in the packaging, but I feel like that’s fine. I’m pretty well-trained. I think a lot of people are well-trained to just go to the website.

[00:05:22] So, um, yeah, easy. It has the exact sizes of everything it looks. Yep. And six bolts nuts. Yeah. So a watch for us, the video to watch me install this, thanks to Goodwood for sending this to me, American.

[00:05:45] All right. Um, so just a quick note, before I start with the video from the install I chose to do a non hinged Mount, you can either do a fixed or a hinge Mount of the, um, of the left. Um, I am. No, I’m, I’m not like I can understand why he would do a hinged Mount of, since I’m just planning on mounting a power supply under there.

[00:06:11] I don’t really intend on it being anything I really need to get into a very much, hopefully I’m hoping I don’t regret that, but still I even now, like after I’ve installed it, I don’t anticipate it being a super difficult to like take the screws out and. Take the thing off and like look at it. Uh, it would just be a matter of removing the pedal to the right of the left.

[00:06:36] I’ll talk about that later. I’m getting too far into it. The other thing is I did not use the drill template on the website. I wish I had, I didn’t, um, because I kind of used, uh, you know, cause I was stupid use drill templates. I’m just.

[00:07:01] I should’ve done it. It was, it would have been made my life a lot easier. I didn’t do it. Um, I thought for some, for some reason, I did not think about it, but there are instructions and a drill template on the website. It will make your life easier. Um, I decided to make my life difficult. So the difficulties I had in the install were entirely of my own.

[00:07:24] They were. So keep that in mind as you watch the install, ultimately, I’m, I’m very happy with it. I think it’s gonna make my life a lot easier. I, uh, had been trying to Mount a power supply underneath a flat board, which is really, really goofy. So yeah. Now I don’t have to do that. Um, I haven’t Velcroed everything up yet, but, um, I will talk about that in a second.

[00:07:51] Here is the install. It is. Journey. Go on, please go on this journey with me.

[00:08:02] All right. Hello? Hello. I have my pedalboard ready. I have my oops. Maybe I have my milkman, the app that goes there. Traditionally I have my new.

[00:08:26] Power supply and left

[00:08:35] and need to decide where I’m gonna, where I’m going to put all this. So that’s, uh, that’s really the question here. The power supply I’d kind of had up there in the corner. During my Sunday crush show and that worked, but I don’t know if it’s going to work with the milkman on top and with the lift. So let’s take a Gander here.

[00:09:05] Yeah, I was going to get in the way. So I think I might put the lifts, obviously underneath the peasants, go on top of this. So underneath the puddles, I might put that there or there elevate some pedals here or. I would, so obviously I want the, I like the Enzo first in a signal chain. I feel like it’s more responsive here.

[00:09:40] I want the Halberd early and the dusk early,

[00:09:47] I usually leave the Halbert on and this, I control via this, so I don’t really need to access these. So it makes more sense for them to be on the back board. The amp. Likewise, I don’t. I don’t often hit those other, this other switches. So, you know, there you go. So I think it would make more sense to put the lift here, get the power in anything that’s I feel like that makes sense.

[00:10:21] Or, you know, Let’s let’s go over some things. Yeah. The Anthony to be in the back for sure. Absolutely how hundred percent amp in the back the options would. I don’t really want to put the amp on the top just because looking at it like this,

[00:10:45] know how well you can see that, but yeah. This is perfect for putting pedals on top of, but I don’t really want something that’s like bigger than it on top of it. So I think I’m going to feel good about this decision. So I’m going to take some of these pedals off the board. I don’t think the Albi is necessarily going to live on this board forever.

[00:11:13] So scooch this there. Yes, I’m feeling good. I feel good about this decision. I feel good about it. Yeah, I think there’s good. There. It feels pretty good.

[00:11:46] Spatula.

[00:12:08] I’m just gonna go like that.

[00:12:16] Alright, I’m gonna grab this and just confirm that that is how it’s going to work on the inside. That yep.

[00:12:32] That’s going to go on the INSEAD. Nice

[00:12:38] pedals are just going to go right on the top. So the amp gun to go back there. Nice. I think it’s going to work. I think it’s going to be fantastic.

[00:13:01] Again,

[00:13:06] I’ll still have a lot of the access to this, um, slot there, so that’s going to be great. And I am going to next, basically what I need to is measure. Measure where the holes are. I have my screws and everything here, old.

[00:13:40] Lot of extra washers,

[00:13:51] my little whoops.

[00:14:00] I want to find out what

[00:14:05] bed I should get.

[00:14:09] All right. So point you to an inch.

[00:14:38] Now the scary part is drilling a hole.

[00:14:45] All right. Some sort of drill holes for this one.

[00:15:02] All right. So it looks like it’s going to fit. Oops. So there we go. I’ve gotten that all figured out, situated out. This is that’s pretty well in there. So this is exactly where I want these other screws here. So it is going to be pretty hard. To line that up. So I seem to be really careful.

[00:15:43] Maybe I tape it down.

[00:15:54] work smarter, not harder.

[00:16:22] All right. Let’s just send up a prayer that, that

[00:16:30] works or works. All right.

[00:16:39] Great. We do the fun stuff. Time to wire it up.

[00:16:47] Everything makes sense there. These guys over again.

[00:16:57] So I think I’ll be able to access everything back here. That’s the power where the power goes in and that’s the power that I’m eventually going to plug into the back of here. The absolute worst case scenario is I have to take this off again and flop flip it around, but yeah, this is going to go here.

[00:17:22] I’m going to run power, hopefully up through here, into there. That’s my goal. Um, it might be really stupid that I’m doing it that way, but I don’t really want the power of running to the front because I think that feels silly. Um, and then I’m going to run the power out through there, through there. And this obviously has to be in the back.

[00:17:42] That’s my goal. We’ll see, I might change this in a few days or whenever I have my next gig. So. Oh, my goodness. See, I think are pretty small, but this is still a little, like,

[00:18:02] there we go.

[00:18:07] There you go.

[00:18:14] Beautiful. Okay. Alright. So here’s kind of like just the example of how tight it is. So I’m trying to just. Unplugged that make life easier for me. I just don’t think that I have made the clearance to let this happen. I’m just confused. More confused as to why. Oh, there we go. So now I can say I’m doing it’s 9:00 AM.

[00:18:49] I have plenty of clearance. If I keep the wings up like that. Yes. All right, cool. So now this is getting pretty secure. It’s a little hinge right now, and I’m just going to Scott to put one more in, because I only have one more at this point is I lost one. Uh, I’m gonna put it over here, scoot it forward.

[00:19:31] But yeah, it looks really nice. I’m going to have the pedals just up here. Get that out of there. I’m going to cuddles up there like that.

[00:19:46] My amp back there. My always on back, bro. My need to access and turn on and off frequently front row. Happy days are here again. I think it looks really great and functional personally. Yeah. Nice. All I will have to do is filter everything. It looks so nice. Good with audio. Thanks so much. All right. Well that was, um, that wasn’t so bad.

[00:20:24] I always kind of get frustrated with myself when I have to drill holes and things like it stresses me out. Um, you can’t. You just Velcro that down. Um, dual lock is recommended. Um, but I didn’t obviously didn’t do that. Obviously didn’t do that. Um, the thing, my thing is I do still want to go to the hardware, hardware store.

[00:20:52] I want to get shorter screws, um, because I think. I think they are a little on the long side. Um, that’s the only real thing that I had. Um, my power supply obviously still fits just fine with it. Actually. It’s like really secure to the point where like, I probably wouldn’t really need to like Velcro down the power supplies to maybe I don’t, maybe it’s for the best.

[00:21:23] Honestly, it’s very commended that the lift goes on the background. Obviously I put it on the front row, um, because I didn’t really like how. I didn’t really want, I need to have the amp on the back row, the milkman, the amp on the back road, because all of the routing goes out there, um, for when I do DIY gigs.

[00:21:43] So like that needed to go on the back row. I didn’t want the amp on the lift directly because the amp is deeper than the left. Um, but it’s perfect for those pedals on that front row. So I’m really, really happy with that. I, those are the only pedals I consistently turn on and off during gigs, like the Enzo I control from the, um, the, the four button preset switcher, the Halbert is always on because it’s perfect.

[00:22:16] Um, and then everything else in the front row, that’s the, those are the only things that I switch and that’s why I made it that way. Um, but yeah, I really. Like it took it’s, uh, it’s like a little bit of time and all of the extra time it took was completely my fault. Completely my fault. I should’ve done the damn drill template.

[00:22:37] Um, yeah. What can I say? I really just, I really just wanted to do it myself. So now you know why you should drive. Why you should use a drill template first? Um, I even have a printer. I actually do own a printer now. I didn’t, when I got the lift I did, when I installed it, this is completely my fault. Uh, well, yeah.

[00:23:07] What else do I have to say about it? It looks so nice. It looks so nice. It’s really lightweight. So it’s not really going to add any heft to the board, uh, which is fantastic. I got everything wired up really nicely. I just need to get some more, a sticky Belk, a soft Velcro to put down. Um, I just need to.

[00:23:31] What finished wiring up the power part of it. Um, I’m not really in a particular rush to do that because I don’t have any Sunday crush gigs on the calendar right now, but, you know, it’s, um, I’m excited to start gigging with it. Uh, it’s gonna be a much better power, power solution than I had, which was again, literally just having, like, I can’t tell you how wacky it was, like having the power supply either next to the board.

[00:24:00] Or like, kind of underneath it, but like wobbling because the power supplies sticker that like I had used some foam and longer screws to try to like make my flat board kind of like taller didn’t work then. Well, it kind of worked, it didn’t work well. So, um, this is my solution. I’m very happy about. It was worth the effort.

[00:24:30] So, yeah. Thanks to Goodwill audio for sending that. Sorry, I took so long to make the demo. Um, please join their email list. So when there’s more stuff like that, uh, you’ll be the first to know that’s my big recommendation recommendation. Um, yeah. Thanks for, uh, please like comment, subscribe below. Uh, check us out on patrion.com/get offsets.

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