by Gone Fission » Wed Jul 04, 2018 10:18 am
My version of simplifying is still a "more is more" sort of thing. I am honing in on completing the connective bits of a rack rig with absurd stereo effects power to take care of most of my reverb, delay, pitch, modulation needs and beyond, along with switching, splitting, routing, and mixing that should do just absurd things. Won't be a small rack, but the deeper I get into using it, the more GAS it should kill. Some of my rack effects won't be part of this rig because they are a bit too specialized or specific, or they don't play nice with MIDI, so this will not be some 80s refrigerator rig with one sound per effect unit.
That should leave my 8-ish spot board free for dirt and a few special tricks (Freq Out, Freeze, and DigiDelay glitches come to mind). I'm still going to have to pick what I want and need to set up out of an assortment of pedals I won't part with, but the pedalboard will be a more enforced exercise in deliberately curating the sounds I need for the current musical intention. Compared to the rack, this will be pretty much one-pedal-one-sound apart from stacking.
(If I hit the lottery, the rack would be close to where it's headed, but I might do a MIDI-curated pedalboard, too, with preset-capable pedals, ordering/routing control, and stored "scenes" to suit. But I don't know, the low-tech way might scratch itches that the rack wouldn't--changing things out for novelty, rotating in pedals based on mood, intentionally throwing in a wild card to throw myself off balance.)
D.o.S. wrote:Broadly speaking, if we at ILF are dropping 300 bucks on a pedal it probably sounds like an SNES holocaust.
friendship wrote:death to false bleep-blop
UglyCasanova wrote:brb gonna slap my dick on my stomp boxes