MarcoR
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I’ve been a midi guy for years. I always had a rack for my trusty intellifex and some kind of midi switcher for my amp and analog non-midi equipment. It made sense and being I’m a lead singer/guitar, I really don’t need to be tap dancing while singing the high note and switching to my lead tone.
That being said, in the last few years I’ve started accumulating floor pedals for effects I couldn’t get out of my rack (mostly BYOC that I build and modify). My rig started being a pain to setup with my rack and ever growing floorboard especially for gigs with multiple bands and turn over is less than 15 min.
I decided to ditch the rack and midi gear and put everything on the floor! As long as I had the rack, I always missed tweaking effects in real time during a performance so it would mean trading one set of pros & cons for another.
I replaced the intellifex with a Boss DD-20 and RV-5 (Now Boss pedals aren’t the sexiest pedals but bare with me). The key was ordering a custom pedalsnake. The snake contains 3 line cables and 2 midi cables and rolls up neatly in my pedal case.
This allows me to route from my guitar through the tuner>wha>whammy>phaser>temollo to the amp, then out the parallel loop send back to the floorboard through the DD-20 > RV-5 back to the loop return.
Now the tip is how you connect the delay and reverb pedal! The DD-20 must be setup to output the dry signal to output A and the wet to output B (and +4 input level). Next, connect the output A (delay) to input A of the reverb and output B (delay) to input B of the reverb.
Finally, only connect output B of the reverb to the return of the MOD50. This will pass only a wet signal through the parallel loop.
When the pedals are off, no wet signal is passed through the loop and sounds no different than having the master effect at 0 or nothing in the loop at all.
Now with this setup I can literally get setup in less time than it takes to pull my guitars out of their cases. It’s just a matter of unwinding the snake and making 4 connections to the amp.
Now, the drawback is, I would love to have my delay kick in when I hit the lead channel on my amp. Prior to getting the MOD50 I actually rewired the pedal for my TSL 122 to include a jack for connecting the ext. switch jack of my delay. Hitting the solo channel triggered the delay to turn on and clicking back to either of the other channels turned it back off.
The good news is the MOD50 sounds so good; I really don’t need the delay on all every solo and maybe it's helping to break a bad habit.
Hope that may spark some ideas!
That being said, in the last few years I’ve started accumulating floor pedals for effects I couldn’t get out of my rack (mostly BYOC that I build and modify). My rig started being a pain to setup with my rack and ever growing floorboard especially for gigs with multiple bands and turn over is less than 15 min.
I decided to ditch the rack and midi gear and put everything on the floor! As long as I had the rack, I always missed tweaking effects in real time during a performance so it would mean trading one set of pros & cons for another.
I replaced the intellifex with a Boss DD-20 and RV-5 (Now Boss pedals aren’t the sexiest pedals but bare with me). The key was ordering a custom pedalsnake. The snake contains 3 line cables and 2 midi cables and rolls up neatly in my pedal case.
This allows me to route from my guitar through the tuner>wha>whammy>phaser>temollo to the amp, then out the parallel loop send back to the floorboard through the DD-20 > RV-5 back to the loop return.
Now the tip is how you connect the delay and reverb pedal! The DD-20 must be setup to output the dry signal to output A and the wet to output B (and +4 input level). Next, connect the output A (delay) to input A of the reverb and output B (delay) to input B of the reverb.
Finally, only connect output B of the reverb to the return of the MOD50. This will pass only a wet signal through the parallel loop.
When the pedals are off, no wet signal is passed through the loop and sounds no different than having the master effect at 0 or nothing in the loop at all.
Now with this setup I can literally get setup in less time than it takes to pull my guitars out of their cases. It’s just a matter of unwinding the snake and making 4 connections to the amp.
Now, the drawback is, I would love to have my delay kick in when I hit the lead channel on my amp. Prior to getting the MOD50 I actually rewired the pedal for my TSL 122 to include a jack for connecting the ext. switch jack of my delay. Hitting the solo channel triggered the delay to turn on and clicking back to either of the other channels turned it back off.
The good news is the MOD50 sounds so good; I really don’t need the delay on all every solo and maybe it's helping to break a bad habit.
Hope that may spark some ideas!
I don't use effects often other than some clean and leads so I won't spend 2k. 