Treat Your Pedalboard Like a Modular Synth
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
- I hope this actually makes sense to people. Obviously there are those who enjoy rebuilding their board every so often. Or if your board needs to completely change for gigging purposes, this system probably isn't gonna work for you. I think I've reached my limit after a dozens of resets so I had to rethink things.
Board seen in this video: Pedaltrain Classic Jr
Eurorack case seen in this video: Arturia Rackbrute 3u
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Long before I heard about the concept of modular synths or eurorack, I would hang onto every noise maker or effect I could possibly get my hands on. When I got my first Line6 Pod, I would crank the delay time and feedback ALL the way up, so I could get a sound looping and then add in new sounds as the earlier sounds faded out. Then I’d start fiddling about with my different effects and create these amazing and unique performances that I couldn’t possibly repeat. Like one of those rappers who only wants to freestyle, I just loved the ephemeral nature of each performance. It was at least theee decades before I saw someone playing with a modular synths or eurorack and realized that all the little boxes were exactly the same as my various yard sale toy robots, homemade effect pedals, and all the random prototypes I found in my grandfathers basement from back when he worked at Dallas-Arbiter and Mellotron back in the 60’s and 70’s. It was my favorite way to create music and I always thought there should be a proper name for it. But it seemed so unpredictable and it constantly ran the risk of blowing out your speakers if you didn’t have a way to kill the sound at a moments notice.
oh wow, do you still have any of that stuff?
patch bay brooooooo
@@TheIndustrialRetrospective yeah that’s the next move for sure. Or one of those EQD Swiss thingies.
Or use a modular synth for your pedal board. There's a company that makes a level conversion module that you can plug a guitar and an amp to and route the signal through your synth. I thought about doing a small block of modular synths on my pedal board.
Oh yeah. There’s lots of fun to be had with that. I have a love/hate relationship with it.
Yes but finding a shallow case that fits in your pedalboard case can be challenging.
Way more silly, but I always limit myself by color lol like 'I only want black or white pedals' and it's been hugely helpful to reduce GAS
I love this. I’m always impressed by a great board all of one color or of a certain color combo. I used to always get sucked into pink pedals. I’ve made a few dumb purchases just because they were pink. What color is your board?
@@BounceChord I don't have a pedalboard anymore but I was able to make an almost complete 'black and gold' pedalboard. The only exception was the Empress Compressor MK2, I had the blue one.
@@emirchacra3594 that rules. If I ever become randomly wealthy, I’m definitely building a full purple one and a full pink one. I’d love to do a lime green one to honor my favorite phaser but I don’t think there’s enough out there.
Interesting. ❤
@@justinhuffman2430 oh good!! Thanks for watching.
My 'hack' is to get a loop switcher that lets you rearrange the pedals.
With the boss es5 i just have a little desktop synth on the board for an autofilter. The es5 sends midi patches to change the synth e.g. for up or downswept patches.
You can even put an expression pedal in and convert it to midi cc so i still have a treadle for wah-ing or whatever l. Great channel
@@PorchBass thanks for watching! Yeah, if I was still gigging I would definitely want to get something like this together. Being able to have easy routing would be a game changer.
What is the green thing in terms of modulation at the bottom? Also, what makes you want it before your drives? Great video and though process here. If there is one thing I would change about this concept it is putting Velcro horizontally across the entire board so that I can shift my HP to maximize it for new changes. If anything, this is an experiment for what you can do with limited options.
I think you’re talking about the Phase 45 clone I built and did a weird paint job on. I like to keep phasers a little more subtle by placing them before dirt. Sometimes the sweep will bring out funky stuff you don’t wanna hear if they’re after dirt too.
The real solution is buying a solid premium multi FX. It solves all problems. Creative routing? Check. Quick settings recall? Check. Using one FX multiple times in a chain without buying two pedals? Check. More portable? Check. More convenient? Check.
People did not like it though when I posted a video saying that 😅
I'm one 100% at fault as well. Although my board is modest and for routing I use a patchulator. Works great. But it still lacks the convenience of a Quad Cortex.
@@SyntheticFuture if I was gigging regularly, I may honestly go this route at this point. I’ve had so many shows where a cable fails me mid song or something. I pulled the bypass switcher off the board a while back but that’s only because my board rarely leaves the stu.
I do love the idea of creative routing though. A programmable switcher would do that for me. That would actually make it more like a modular synth too. Perhaps one day.
@@BounceChordI do love my Chroma Console!
Shame they don't design the pedals and pedalboard form like the Modular synths. No reason they can't and it uses space much more efficiently.
@@davidm7237 that would be great. I think we’re in too deep with the current format though.
A lot of pedals are now desktop instruments. My Eventide H9 has stomp box buttons but I wouldn't ever use it on the floor. My OTO Bam, Bim and Boum have soft rubber buttons not designed for feet.
@@girlinagale yeah that’s true. I’m sure I’ll be adding something like that to the collection soon.
The only problem with pedalboards is that we never finished. We are always adding or changing sounds all the time. lol 😄
I didn't realized you have so many pedals. You got some good ones there.
@@KevinPlaysGuitar it’s out of control. I probably need to offload some of these. I love them too much though.
I like your concept. I would need to account space for "special" pedals, such as the Freqout, the EHX Pico Attack Decay, and the TCE Infinite Sample Sustainer. I might want to add a EHX String9, or a Boss PS-6 at some point. I suppose I could limit myself to only two special pedals. That might work within the confines of your modular synth idea.
@@jonathancarmichael1578 do you mean something like a wild card pedal?
@@BounceChord That's an appropriate term for it, yes. I think I would need to allot room for at least two wildcard pedals. . . . At least! Lol 🙂
@@jonathancarmichael1578 I’ve got this position on each board. Both have kinda vintage style envelope filters right now but once in a while I’ll pop a weird synth pedal or something in there if I’m feeling saucy.
modular synths don't have to be arranged according to sequence because it's default to just have wires all over it
@@godofgaps-w2n that’s true. I’ve kind of arranged mine in signal flow order maybe because I’m so used to pedals but it could be better arranged for sure.
Seriously thought that you were going to patch your pedals together and create some spacey drone loop feedback sonic goodness 🤪
I wish! That’s a future vid maybe. 🎉
As a modular synth user, somehow the power situation is even more frustrating in the pedal world. Every time I want to rearrange my board, I have to spend an hour on my spreadsheet figuring out what lines go where based on power needs, and because I'm too dumb to label them properly, it usually involves re-running the power cables completely. Any suggestions? Currently using the MXR ISO-Brick on my board, but I'm open to swapping it out.
@@BeniRoseMusic oh yeah, that’s an annoying one that I should’ve addressed in the video. I use Strymon power supplies which give you isolated power and up to 500mA from each port. And another rule I have is to not buy anything that won’t work with that power supply. Just something I always check before buying digital pedals. Only thing that didn’t work for me with these supplies was one pedal from Walrus but otherwise they’re fool proof.
@@BounceChord I'll see if it's worth swapping in the Zuma so I can stop worrying about amp ratings of pedals, 500 on every line would definitely clear me up! Thanks!