Would You Use This Feature on a Pedal?

[BeZo]

Electric Eye Audio makes a pedal called the Mud Killer. It's a glorified Tube Screamer, so whatever there. The cool feature about it is that it has a relay switch for channel switching on it. You can set it up as a boost where when you turn it on, it flips a switch on a relay and changes the channel on your amp. On would activate your crunch or lead channel, and off will switch to your clean. Is having a footswitch out jack on a boost pedal a cool feature?

 

[japetus]

No

 

[tallcoolone]

Yes

 

[griff10672]

I would just use my ES-8 ........... to switch everything and anything I want with one button push .

but if you have a simpler set up ... I could see how that would be useful

 

[70 Mach 1]

Sounds complicated for me

 

[S̷͖͑m̵͎͂á̵̺s̸͚̈́h̴̬̑]

If you have a two channel amp, it makes sense. I remember the first pedal i saw with it, i thought it was a cool feature.

For me, i am a single channel guy and always thought of a clean channel as an afterthought and unnecessary because I love the clean from a volume roll.

Then I started gating, and the volume roll didn't work so I put an end of line volume right before the input of my amp and set the min to a clean, so i could "switch channels" by using it as an expression on/off

 

[scottosan]

Great solution for a non-problem

 

[cardinal]

It's cool for something like a Rectifier. Can push one button to switch from unboosted clean to boosted red modern.

 

[tallcoolone]

Great solution for a non-problem

That’s not true, with the right rig this would be very helpful when playing live.

 

[scottosan]

That’s not true, with the right rig this would be very helpful when playing live.

1. In the day of midi and modelling this is an amateur approach
2. The assumption is that this pedal would be the single point of switching. What if you don't want the effect? Is there a separate button now? If so, use the original footswitch.
3. This is far from an infinitive approach. It's been thought of and not caught on for a reason.
4. I know a guy that used a steroe plug on his guitar. When he took it out of the bridge position it switched his amp. That I think is more creative. If you have a 2 channel amp, control it on your guitar.

 

[cardinal]

1. In the day of midi and modelling this is an amateur approach
2. The assumption is that this pedal would be the single point of switching. What if you don't want the effect? Is there a separate button now? If so, use the original footswitch.
3. This is far from an infinitive approach. It's been thought of and not caught on for a reason.
4. I know a guy that used a steroe plug on his guitar. When he took it out of the bridge position it switched his amp. That I think is more creative. If you have a 2 channel amp, control it on your guitar.

Hater. It's a useful feature for a simple rig to switch from clean to boosted overdrive and back.

 

[scottosan]

Hater. It's a useful feature for a simple rig to switch from clean to boosted overdrive and back.

It's not hatefull, I'm just pointing out from an engineering standpoint that it's far less practical than marketed. What if you want to change the channel without the boost? It seems like this "feature" gives you less switching options, not more.

 

[cardinal]

It's not hatefull, I'm just pointing out from an engineering standpoint that it's far less practical that it's marketed. What if you want to change the channel without the boost? It seems like this "feature" gives you less switching options, not more.

You use the normal footswitch. Amps like the Recto have two footswitch jacks.

It's a specialized thing pretty much for Rectifiers, but Rectos are common amps and nearly everyone using one boosts the OD channel and not the clean channel. This solves the problem of switching quickly.

 

[scottosan]

You use the normal footswitch. Amps like the Recto have two footswitch jacks.

It's a specialized thing pretty much for Rectifiers, but Rectos are common amps and nearly everyone using one boosts the OD channel and not the clean channel. This solves the problem of switching quickly.

The pedal will work for a single button switch. Most amps have a single footswitch. Not all amps use latching switches as well. This is a very niche use market. Even if an amp has 2 foot switch a jacks. Once will override the other

 

[tallcoolone]

1. In the day of midi and modelling this is an amateur approach
2. The assumption is that this pedal would be the single point of switching. What if you don't want the effect? Is there a separate button now? If so, use the original footswitch.
3. This is far from an infinitive approach. It's been thought of and not caught on for a reason.
4. I know a guy that used a steroe plug on his guitar. When he took it out of the bridge position it switched his amp. That I think is more creative. If you have a 2 channel amp, control it on your guitar.

Yes you could use MIDI which I do or you could use a box (TAE) to do the same thing. But sometimes you don’t want to deal with that rig, but you do want to bring that 2ch amp.

I get what you are saying but don’t tell me this has no place when I’m telling you I have had a place lol

 

[BeZo]

I learned about the pedal from a pedalboard I rewired. The guy used the pedal to boost and switch channels all in one go. He liked other boost pedals better, but he liked to use that one to switch his amp channels and stuck with that. It was a simple solution for for him whether he used his Rectifier or his Marshall DSL. It's definitely one way to do it, especially for high gain metal stuff.

 

[cobrahead1030]

If it had a mode where you could use the channel switching only, without the effect, that would be very useful.

 

[BeZo]

If it had a mode where you could use the channel switching only, without the effect, that would be very useful.

It wouldn't make sense to even have the feature without a phase switch. For most amps (Mesa, Marshall, Orange, etc...), the closed circuit (LED on) is the gain channel. On a Bogner Uberschall, it's the opposite, where the open circuit (LED off) is the lead channel. In theory, you can just flip the switch and have the relay do the opposite, but not with a footswitch.

 

[csguy0]

Electric Eye Audio makes a pedal called the Mud Killer. It's a glorified Tube Screamer, so whatever there. The cool feature about it is that it has a relay switch for channel switching on it. You can set it up as a boost where when you turn it on, it flips a switch on a relay and changes the channel on your amp. On would activate your crunch or lead channel, and off will switch to your clean. Is having a footswitch out jack on a boost pedal a cool feature?

It would be cool if it switched to a master volume setting as well...