Hello guys and gals
After a decade or so of farting around with pedals. And even thinking about going down the dark route of a multi fx (i kid, I'm just too dim to use them!). I have finally established my pedal needs
Wah
Medium to High gain pedal
Middley compressed overdrive (D word pedal)
Boost
Four step phaser/or
Chorus
Autowah
Delay
Volume pedal
So I'm thinking about going down the bypass looper route..... But I'm not sure if I'm just spending money for the sake of it. At the moment all of the above aren't fixed onto a board. And that agitates me. I don't gig at the moment, and I'm not even in a band.
Personally speaking I've never been audibly offended by a pedal that isn't true bypass. I used to honk a huge pedal board around. And that only went down once at a gig. But I did do a lot of tap dancing with that stupid set up.
So the bypass looper is a potential safety net if I start to play live again. I also offers the option to switch off multiple pedals at once. The Twah has a slightly dicky switch, as does the Danelectro. So I'd rather rely on a sturdy footswitch than those in a live situation.
I was just after everyones thoughts on them really? Anybody made the leap, and if so was it worth it? Logically it makes sense to me.
I would love to change my username, but I fully understand the T&C's (it was an old band nickname). So please feel free to call me Dave.
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I have a Moen GEC-9, which is on my main (home) board.
It's very usefull if you want to go from a (EG) clean, delayed and chorused tone to a heavily driven, phased tone in one step. Also it does the amp channel switching for me. I had (the board is currebtly stripped) the dealys in the amps loop, but drive/chorus/phase/flang into the front of the amp.
Personally I had my wah and boosts outside of the switcher.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I hate tap dancing so always try and inrorporate some kind of switching to reduce it.
What are you looking to get out of it?
Programmability? (ie the device acts as a switching matrix of sorts taking care of multiple switch states with a single button press)
selection of bypass type (true, buffered, etc)? (and does this have to individually selectable?)
do you need the effects order to be swappable?
as for safety (I always pref to have a total bypass and mute with a complex system...or at least a secondary cable at the ready...and I mean at the ready, not in a case or under the mixing console, not even with a velcro loop keeper on it, for a quick change)
@stefjudd nice set-up fella, way neater than mine.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)