What am I looking for here?

Nightburst

Nightburst

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I'm looking for a way to be able to switch my amp channels and additional stompboxes simultaniously by pushing just one button with my foot.

I'm not looking for anything fancy, just a way to have an overdrive push my amps distortion channel and going to the clean channel without the overdrive with just pushing one button.

Anyone knows how to do this? Midi Footcontroller? Something else?
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

if you have a channel footswitch....maybe you could rig up a little metal bar and tape it to the top of the switch, and switch on the overdrive pedal. the pedals would always have to be close to eachother, but you could then just press on the bar with your foot on the spot in between the footswitch and the pedal, and they would simultaneously be activated.
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

Nightburst said:
I'm looking for a way to be able to switch my amp channels and additional stompboxes simultaniously by pushing just one button with my foot.

I'm not looking for anything fancy,
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Fancy? lol!

you could be an airplane pilot and not need all the knobs on a mesa Mark IV Dual REctifier (3channel) or a Mesa Roadking, but they do have the function you are looking for:

"Assignable FX Loop"
http://mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Mark_Series/Mark_IV/mark_iv.html

Besides tone and flexibility of the Mark IV, they come with big footswitches that power up fatass effects loops:

Effects Loop operates manually or can be auto-assigned to any one -or two, modes. Rich, all-tube reverb can also be remotely controlled.

No, I never gas on high technology things of this status, never:

FXLoop-LG.jpg


Otherwise good luck with the fancy stuff, other suggestions here are good too :)
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

Isn't there just an inexpensive switching unit that can loop pedals at the same time out there?
You guys act like I am asking the impossible? Still haven't got any direct answers to my question, I am kind of a noob on this subject so please go easy on me... It doesn't seem too hard what I'm asking for?

I must add that the amp in question has a midi type plug that goes from the floorboard into the amp. The floorboard however is NOT midi but is midi compatible. Would a midi floorboard do the trick? I would still have to use some sort of looping device for the pedal I asume? I have no idea what exactly I am talking about here, so it might not make any sense.
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

An A/B/C channel footswitch. Just a simple switching mechanism really is all it is.
 
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you could dissasemble your channel switcher and pedal and cram them into one box with the switches so close to each other that you can easilly trigger both with one stomp. Even fancier you could find a single switch with enough pins to act as the stomp switch for both the OD and the amp channel selecter at once and then integrate the two together. Both ways take some soldering and dissassembling so dont try it with a nice pedal or if you really care about your channel switch.
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

schecterplayer said:
you could dissasemble your channel switcher and pedal and cram them into one box with the switches so close to each other that you can easilly trigger both with one stomp. Even fancier you could find a single switch with enough pins to act as the stomp switch for both the OD and the amp channel selecter at once and then integrate the two together. Both ways take some soldering and dissassembling so dont try it with a nice pedal or if you really care about your channel switch.
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That is actually a great idea! And yes I also thought of that but:
I'm concerned about the costst of making such a pedal, those 3PDT (or how do you call them?) switches a re expensive and I would need about 10 of them at least! I am also planning to replace my TS-9 for a Fulldrive II in the future... Thanks for all the suggestions so far all! I apreciate it!

Isn't there something out there like the Brunetti Vector but less expensive? WHat about Behringer? DOn't they have some sort of similar pedal?
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

Nightburst, you're talking about your Bogner Ecstasy, right?
If so, the answer is simple. Bogner makes a midi matrix cable, which will allow you to use a midi footswitch, running into the FX unit, synced up with the Bogner channels. Then, you simply map all the Bogner channels with different FX, and you can store 100 combinations.
You just need to buy the footswitch, the Bogner midi cable, and a rack FX unit, and another long midi cable.
 
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I know exactly what you're trying to do - went through it myself.

You're going to have to either run a midi rack unit, or hit two switches at once. I found the former much easier and cost effective - wire a jack in place of the pedals footswitch, run a cable out to the footswitch housed in a smaller box, placed near the channel footswitch.

Or, just stick the pedal next to it.
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

Nightburst said:
Isn't there something out there like the Brunetti Vector but less expensive?
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I've never seen anything else with the switching options the Vector has to offer. There are several multiloop-pedals out there, but they don't enable channel switching and aren't quite as versatile. What IS the price of the Vector, by the way? Have you contacted Erik van der Haar?
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

Gearjoneser said:
Nightburst, you're talking about your Bogner Ecstasy, right?
If so, the answer is simple. Bogner makes a midi matrix cable, which will allow you to use a midi footswitch, running into the FX unit, synced up with the Bogner channels. Then, you simply map all the Bogner channels with different FX, and you can store 100 combinations.
You just need to buy the footswitch, the Bogner midi cable, and a rack FX unit, and another long midi cable.
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Thanks a lot Gearjoneser! And yes I'm talking about my Bogner Ecstasy.
Well the solution seems simple yet costly! :smack:
I might as well get a cheap fx unit and footswitch just to get rid of the tapdancing :6:

Time to save up some more... The G-major seems like a cool unit!
Dammit this means even more stuff to drag along!:yell:
 
Re: What am I looking for here?

Jeroen said:
I've never seen anything else with the switching options the Vector has to offer. There are several multiloop-pedals out there, but they don't enable channel switching and aren't quite as versatile. What IS the price of the Vector, by the way? Have you contacted Erik van der Haar?
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I saw on some swiss site that it had the same price as a Brunetti 4x12. Something like 1'500 CHF or something. Expensive!!!
 
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