Monday, January 10, 2011

Pedal Jeanie™ Launch at NAMM 2011

The Pedal Jeanie™ was born by talking to musicians about products that could enhance their playing experience if it were battery-powered. We asked many guitar players and bass players if there was a battery-powered accessory that might prove useful to them. Tal Morris a good friend and an amazing guitar player asked if we could build a battery-powered pedalboard to avoid the AC problems frequently encountered at gigs. After researching the current pedalboards in the market we saw a few things that could be improved on. Few of them had the ability to keep the top of the pedalboard clean, and none of them had "built-in" battery-power. We decided to design a pedalboard that would include everything a musician needed to install and power their pedals right out of the box.

The Pedal Jeanie™ has a patent pending design and features 8 independent 9v connections, 1 independent 12v connection, and 1 independent 18v connection. All these DC connections are built-in underneath the pedalboard. The matrix design on the top of the Pedal Jeanie™ makes it easy to tie down or use pedal tape to hold up to 10 pedals. All the DC power connections can be run through the holes on top of the chassis to the built-in DC connections underneath. Each DC connection accepts a standard 5.5mm x 2.1mm barrel cable (10 cables included in the box). Every connection is independently circuit protected and has a fault indicator LED to make it easy to find a shorted pedal or hook-up problem.Once all the pedals are installed there is a master stomp style power switch that turns on the pedalboard providing power to all the pedals instantaneously.

The Pedal Jeanie™ has a master battery-level LED on top of the chassis. The LED will glow green, then orange, and will finally glow red to alert the user to charge the pedalboard. The Pedal Jeanie™ will run for up to 50 hours (approx) with 10 pedals, so users should easily get a week of playing before needing to charge the pedalboard. The image on the left is a Pedal Jeanie™ loaded with 8 pedals (sent in by Tal Morris).

In closing we would like to thank Bill and Pat Bartolini for giving us the opportunity to show our products on their booth at NAMM 2011 in Ahaheim. The Bartolini booth is in Hall B, booth #5872. The Pedal Jeanie™ and G1 will be on display.