Bought a ground control GCX... here's my crazy idea

[stratotone]

Going to run my Mesa Quad Preamp with my dual recto rackmount and hopefully be able to select any 6 channels with the power section of the Mesa. Crazy? : )

Now to figure out how to route this stuff with the ground control. Any ideas? I could probably do it with my fractal and GCX, and just run the two preamps in the loop, but I'm trying to avoid using the fractal in the rack.

Pete

 

[ibanez4life SZ!]

Really easy actually, and a really cool idea

Use one loop to switch the input signal...run into the front of the GCX...go from the guitar out to the 'in' of the first loop.

On the first loop: 'send' to quad input, and 'out' to racktifier input. When you switch in the loop, you will be in the quad...otherwise, the racktifier.

Now, for the second part. Run the rectifier effects loop into a GCX loop: send to GCX 'in', and GCX 'out' to the effects loop return. Run the out of the quad into the this GCX loop's return.

So:

-Switch in the two mentioned GCX loops and you will be running the Quad into the Racktifier power amp.
-Don't switch anything in, and you will be running the Racktifier as usual.

NOTE: You're going to need a series effects loop for this to work. If you have a Racktifier with the parallel loop, you're going to need to mod it.

Eric

 

[stratotone]

Sweet, thanks. My Ractifier is a first year series loop model.

pete

 

[wizardy]

That's a good idea.
You could also add some effects in the effect loop of the rectifier by adding another loop on the GCX
Rectifier Effect loop send -> GCX IN -> send -> DELAY -> return -> GCX OUT -> GCX IN -> Quad output into GCX return -> GCX OUT -> Rectifier effect loop return

 

[stratotone]

I may even put my axe-fx in there... not sure of the routing on the GCX, but basically:

guitar in to axe-fx
axe fx 'front of amp' effects (inside the axe-fx)
Fx loop out from axe to preamps (selected by GCX, whether I want the Quad or the Recto)
back to axe fx 'post' fx, then back to recto power section.

I would eventually use the preamp sims in the fractal, but for right now a 'wall of mesas' works for me

Pete