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Ah...bumsticks. I've just seen another thread by you regarding the 4cm with the AX on the Korg forum, I rather fancied dicking around with that - alas it would seem pointless.
What's the idea giving it a pre fx section and then placing the fx loop before it? Definately dropped a bollock there.
- Instantaneous (or imperceptible if you want to be accurate) patch changes
- Midi out sending PC's and CC's
- Modulation effects; phaser and flanger mostly
- Delay effects; a nice crisp digital delay and a reversed digital delay
- Time sync; syncable to BPM note values
- Tap tempo; with the delays not drifting all over the place in terms of pitch
- Reverb effects; bog standard hall and plate algorithms
- Manual mode; a way to quickly switch into manual mode
- At least 6 assignable effects slots
- A way to queue up a preset change; bank mode should sit there waiting paitently for my foot!
Sounds like a lot, but it's pretty basic stuff from a performance perspective. I often feel like multi-fx are made entirely for the bedroom warrior crowd, the people who wouldn't give a shit about most of this.
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My current (and messy!) incarnation:
Guitar > Wah > TU-2 > LS-2 > EQ > DML10 > CCL "Dual Chorus" > RV-7 > Amp
LS-2 loop A = HF-2
LS-2 loop B = FZ-2 > Hot Tubes > HM-2
Sounded great with my Cobain Jaguar at an open mic the other day!
But... I'm considering finding a second CCL (or it's 10-series brother the PC10 "Prime Dual Chorus") to replace the HF-2 for when I want actual chorus and not just a chorus-y flanger ...or maybe the Behringer Dimension C clone? That's a sort of half way house, right? B-)
This was instigated by the purchase of a new power supply (HB Powerplant Junior under the top row of pedals) and has allowed me to fit an extra drive pedal on there (VFE Dark Horse, the black one next to the Boss phaser). My boards have evolved over the years into a pretty complex wiring pattern and I was keen to keep the wiring as unobtrusive as possible - too many gigs knee-deep in cabling spaghetti have left me a little sensitive to this. I think I managed to keep the board wiring nicely unobtrusive, though...
The size of the board is predetermined by the case it fits in. It does all still fit, just about...
Finally, here's the board in my home studio, alongside it's companion 'Delay Board'. I use this set-up to do a lot of looping and ambient stuff using the DL4...
Starting at the bottom right, there's the main guitar input box with a Boss NS-2 noise supressor behind it; a Rothwell Love Squeeze compressor; a custom Dual Boost and FX Loop (this gives me two separate clean boost levels and also a footswitchable loop containing the various drive pedals so they can be switched in/out together with a single stomp); Volume Pedal; [back row from right] Boss PH-1R phaser; VFE Pedals Dark Horse distortion; Xotic Effects AC+ booster/overdrive; custom Rhythm/Solo box (this is just a passive attenuator for 'rhythm' with 'solo' being straight through. It also has a send/return insert so the level attenuation can be placed post the amp's preamp, with the amp's fx send feeding back into this box). Underneath the AC+ is an Award-Session JD10 pre-amp/overdrive which I've modified to remove the top-mounted footswitch - it is now switched in/out via a small true-bypass switcher mounted behind the Dark Horse. There is a small box under the Boss phaser on the right which houses a parallel out for my tuner and also an insert send/return placed in the loop containing the overdrives (before the Dark Horse).
It's a system I've slowly evolved over the years that allows me to blend various boosts/overdrives together to get different tonal textures, while at the same time having them footswitchable from a single stomp (the blue LED 'FX loop on' footswitch on the Dual Boost/Fx loop box at the front). Noise is kept in check by the NS-2 which has all the drives/boosts and also the phaser in it's own loop.
Due to the various loops-within-loops nature of the signal path, it's difficult to describe it. Indeed, it was so difficult to get my head around that I had to make a flowchart style diagram for myself so that I didn't make any mistakes wiring it up. As you can see, it's anything but straightforward....
Thankfully, it all works. As it was something I built up slowly over time, working the various combinations is pretty intuitive for me. It's a lot more difficult trying to describe it to someone else.