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9 JULY 2019 · 319 PEDALS, NO DUPLICATES
The board: The Clyde's second life produced a world record within fourteen months of its reopening. On 9 July 2019, at Sweetwater's Clyde Theatre in Fort Wayne, the guitarist Rob Scallon and Sweetwater assembled and played the largest guitar effects pedalboard ever recorded by Guinness World Records: 319 pedals — under rules that allowed no duplicate pedals and no switching systems, and only pedals from recognized manufacturers — laid across 34 pedalboards, joined by more than 500 feet of cable, running to some $90,000 of equipment and about 70 feet of length, with 1,248 knobs among them. The feat was officially recorded by Guinness on the day. There is a pleasing symmetry the record itself supplies: the world's largest pedalboard was built in a theatre that had been bought for the price of one good pedal.
Sources: Digital Music News, "Meet the Music Nerds Behind the World's Largest Guitar Pedalboard," 1 November 2019 (the Guinness recording of 9 July 2019 at Sweetwater's Clyde Theatre, Fort Wayne; 319 pedals on 34 pedalboards; 500-plus feet of cable); Live for Live Music, July 2019 report (the no-duplicates and manufacturers-only rules, the $90,000 total, 1,248 knobs, 70 feet, 34 power supplies).