If it's going to help you use your pedal board in more efficient, unique, reliable ways it will be put on this channel - eventually. If you want a flexible pedalboard and tips and tricks to get rid of common issues faced by pedal users everywhere, check out the Goodwood Audio RU-vid channel!
"The correct cable plugs into the QC"?? CRUX set to 12V Ok, I'll bite-I'm looking at a dozen connectors in my Temple board kit-red, yellow, green and black. Some of the connectors have a thin "white" strip running length of cable in addition to having Red, Black, Green & Yellow connectors. Which one is the "correct" cable to go from the CRUX to the QC? Which cable is used from the 24V DC input on the CRUX to the DC7? Apologies for being a PITA, but I need to get this right and understand. Thank you again.
Just in case someone's curious In morningstar's midi controller, both pressing action and releasing actions are recognized separately from a single action. For instance, if you long press, then pressing, long pressing, and long releasing all of them will be recognized, and you can program the device to do separate things each step. (If you're not programming the preset to do something at long press tho, it seems it's recognizing long press release as a normal release) If you program it to toggle when you press it, and then to toggle when you release, then it will mimic what long press will do. Or, you can make it engage when you press it, then to disengage when you release. Or maybe the other way around, depending on the pedal you're using. Or while programming both press and release to toggle, you can add another toggle with a double tap, so whenever there's a pedal requiring opposite open/close behaviour, you can adapt without even opening up the editor. So, you don't need to assign two different switches to do muting and summing separately. You just need one switch to do that, just like a normal analog switch.
Personally, I would just choose which side I want the effect on. For a mono reverb, I would usually put that on my left if putting it before the stereo effect wasn't desirable.
Look at 2 amps with Gig rig 3 switcher, allows all 3 modes as presets. A whole new world. Stereo clean with big lush reverbs and delay, then wet dry for lead at the press of a button.
I know it’s like two years later, but I just discovered this channel after having gotten most of the UAFX amp pedals and loved the blind test. I actually guessed the dream and the ruby correctly…just because I own them. 😂 … but it was still cool to be able to guess correctly. The lead creator of these UAFX pedals put a ton of work and heart into it. I’ve watched several videos where he talks about the level of detail and the legwork they did for each individual amp, and it’s very impressive. A labor of love, I think. Will check out more of your videos. Really enjoyed this one!
less of an issue in this instance but it might still be possible to get a ground loop here. I'd actually be curious to test this out and see how it goes. Let me know if you try it!
I‘m using a CIOKS SOL for a small QC pedalboard without the CRUX: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sJcle_hy9zQ.htmlsi=FMLmpmGBb_FPWFyJ. If you don‘t need more than one additional 9V slot, that‘s a cheap and reliable solution
depending on how you connect it all, but ya you do something like this. My main area of confusion here is if you're use FX loops or not (which is why I'd assume you're doing the ABY into wet effects)? Either way - lots can be done here with a bit of basic switching!
you could do a passive splitter if it was buffered previous to the passive split. You'd notice a slight tone difference but assuming the buffer was decent, it would be minimal.
Funny, I used TWO IKEA GRIMAR tablet holders. Joined them with a metal brace underneath;stuck some adhesive contact paper with a wood-like texture and in black. Stuck some velcro and voila! instant slanted pedalboard like you see on those cool RU-vid channels!
That's really cool. Is it just me or have other guitarists learned to read from right to left? I find it so confusing to use a looper where my pedal order goes left to right on it, while the actual pedals go right to left. Yes, I know you talked about this in one of the Chairmen podcasts. But I just can't. Haha. I need my switcher to go right to left.
@@GoodwoodAudio Oh shoot! No wonder! Haha. I just went to the GigRig site to take a look! Different strokes for different folks. Glad this customer found a good solution!
What a killer board.I need a simple patchbay to go under a pedaltrain. In/Out a loop for placing occasional effects (volume pedal etc) between drives & delays and verbs and power thru for powering something at the side of the board. Suggestions?
totally up to you. I'd experiment with it very early in your chain, after your last dry effect and you could also try it after your last wet effect as well. All will have different results depending on what you're after. In teh middle of the chain tends to be a good spot if you're using it with an amp sim.
its been so long I honestly dont' remember what I used. Most likely a compressor and a light OD - I tend to grab a TS9 but it's really more about the 'theory' of how to run an FX Loop anyway... You put your gain (dry pedals) before the amp input in most scenarios which is why I referenced the dry fx / last dry effect.
You mention at the beginning control "Midi-enabled devices" but then later mentioned other non-midi pedals - will this work with my old Boss classic non-midi pedals?
so the switchboard has midi out (for midi pedals) and also a function switch (basically a physical switch you can program to close / open per preset etc)... so with the function switch you can control external non midi pedals that tend to work with external switch control (amp channel switching, AB pedals that can be controlled by remote etc)
I just did this using my LR baggs pickup with the first effect being the cab simulator to modulated reverb, and my TC Helicon boost as last. This was after a million combinations. It soun!ds really good like this.
So I really love the thought of this, but will this interfere with the way the input buffers wind up operating if I go to the passive in and then through a bunch of effects before the buffer?
Typically you'd only go through effects that don't want to see a buffer anyway... So the trade-off is another foot or 2 of cable (negligible) or running into a buffer sensitive pedal first (not good). Great question though - but to be clear, it's really not a big deal at all in the context of the problem you're trying to solve.
Im not sure stereo would fix this... Depends on what you mean by bad sound quality. I'd check with Boss first / read the manual to see if there are any settings you can adjust to help with this!
I'm not sure if it's been asked, but can you bypass the unit completely by, say, pressing the active preset switch a second time? I have a hotone patch kommander that only selects any given preset of four, but in case you want to bypass all efects you need to have a set preset without any active loop, which is one less preset to rely on.
that's actually a very good question. Im not too sure - it's been a while since I made this video and there may have been some software updates since I put this out. I think you may have to do the preset approach like you suggested
i've got both of these pedals on my pedalboard, and i'm a bassist, lol. The Benson boost is the first thing on my pedalboard. Sometimes it just stays on all the time at unity gain to thicken and juice up my tone going into all the pedals. Sometimes I use it as a preset cut when engaged for parts of the song that need to be a little quieter. Sometimes it stays on all the time in a slightly boosted setting just to overdrive od pedals later in the chain and/or the preamp tubes in my amp. The vertex is at the end of the chain mainly being used as a 100 ohm buffer for the long cable run back to the amp. I do use it occasionally with it on and boosting the signal back to the amp just for more boost when the Benson's boost is being absorbed in the overdrive and other pedals. I also do have a volume pedal going into the Vertex volume effect in which makes for a great volume pedal which doesn't affect your core tone. Your guitar doesn't actually run through the volume pedal this way. Both boosts are great in what they both do
Masterful cable work. Interesting to see a build like this without squareplugs - I suppose as long as the soldering is good it doesn't matter too much - but it looks as though they are longer than they could be.
Thanks. Square plugs are great, but not always the best option depending on a few factors. How cable channels are run, spacing on the switchers and pedals etc. Thanks for checking it out.
I love this. After collecting pedals and amps for years, I have finally decided to minimise my setup and just focus on playing and recording. I've gone ampless (using amp-sims within my Mac/DAW) but also a hybrid-analog approach keeping my favourite of each type of pedal effect in an outboard rack unit and switching them as inserts to the DAW wirelessly via MIDI. Currently part-way through the build but already loving it.
