Had a fantastic gig yesterday at Yaxley Festival - here's a pic from the side of the stage half an hour before we went on:
There were rather more people than we expected
Apparently there were a good 5,000 people there when we went on, just under half of which were watching us. Wow.
The sound on stage was fantastic, which meant I could clearly hear everything...including the massive gap between patches from my Eleven Rack. Normally I don't notice it on a smaller/less clear stage. This was painful, though, and it was even noticed by a few audience members - it actually cut off the attack of the first note of a few of my solos.
I don't think I can live with it, so it's back to amp + pedals for me
Ironically, this means selling the Marshall 20/20 power amp - the only Marshall product I've ever actually been happy with and it's gonna have to go through no fault of its own, while the Eleven stays because it's the main part of our recording setup for the album.
Bah.
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Can you switch on and off individual effects within a patch on it - ie use it more like a pedalboard with preset arrangements of effects?
The reason I ask is because I have an old Boss SE-70, which was my main source of sounds for many years - and which (like all these type of things seems to) has a huge drop-out delay when switching patches. But it has no noticeable delay when turning on and off individual effects within a patch using the assignable control pedals. So that's what I did - I used it essentially as a programmable pedalboard. I used a 2-button footswitch and an expression pedal with it - the left button was always the 'loud button' (distortion usually, sometimes level boost) and the right button was the 'wobble button' (modulation, or sometimes delay etc) and the expression pedal did various things - wah, tremolo speed etc... all depending on the song. Each song could have a totally different set of effects, and each had its own dedicated patch named for the song, so it was foolproof - but very versatile, just like having a different set of pedals for each song.
OK, it did have a limitation in that the number of changes from each button was limited - each could be set to at most four parameters (including effect on/off), but really that meant a maximum of two since there had to be one each for the other button and the expression pedal - so I couldn't go from (say) clean compressed delay/chorus to non-compressed distorted tremolo with one button... but actually I found it made me think about simpler changes and the result ended up more natural-sounding than huge wholesale patch changes.
I did eventually stop using it and go back to individual analogue pedals - one day the footswitch broke just before a gig, and I didn't have time to fix it so I borrowed three simple Boss pedals from a friend, and I so much prefered the tone and the ability to tweak controls on the fly (the SE-70 is a typical parameter-button system) that I never used the SE-70 again, and the whole pedalboard thing started!
But if you can use the Eleven Rack in a way that doesn't involve changing patches on the fly, it could still work...
Sorry for the rambling .
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If so, and IF the eleven rack has midi learn, you can try it at home with a simple switch-on, switch-off thing.
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1, sorry I missed the Yaxley festival (some dumbass forgot about it......)
2, if you're going back to pedals, and want to try a switcher system, give me a shout, you can borrow mine for a try.
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I read that, thought: surely they have loops for your pre-amp, given that they have pitchshift (normally an up-front effect) and reverbs (normally a loop effect). Checked the website, see "Made By Guitarists For Guitarists" in big writing, but no loop. How very bizarre! What a missed opportunity?
I currently use a Rocktron Utopia G300 for this live, and although I'm thinking of going to individual pedals, its the one thing that I love about my current rig. Its something worth spending a little time on if you can.
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