Rehousing a Line6 ToneCore dock + module
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:16 am
Sooooo.... over in the show us your pedalboard thread, Faldoe just revealed a thing that I had never thought of doing before: rehousing an old Line6 pedal (the Echo Park):
viewtopic.php?f=149&t=393&p=931783#p931613
Now, this is of interest to me because I have an old Red Panda Bitmap module, and the Line6 stereo docking pedal. It's a great noisemaking beast, but there have always been problems that have kept it to a desktop, recording-only sort of use, specifically:
A) No master volume
B) No master tone control
C) The horrible Line6 docking pedal design (super heavy, wonky footswitch that's hard to click down)
In a perfect world, I would love to rehouse the whole shebang into a more "traditional" (to ILF, anyhow) form factor. One of the bigger challenges, I think, would be that the horrible Line6 footswitch also triggers different modes on the module - three of them, I think. So maybe this hypothetical rehouse would need three footswitches? Or four? One to engage, the others to switch modes?
Anyhow, this is mostly thinking out loud at the moment, but have any of you DIYers tried this? Do you know any builders who might tackle such a bizarre project? Is it all that bizarre to begin with?
viewtopic.php?f=149&t=393&p=931783#p931613
Now, this is of interest to me because I have an old Red Panda Bitmap module, and the Line6 stereo docking pedal. It's a great noisemaking beast, but there have always been problems that have kept it to a desktop, recording-only sort of use, specifically:
A) No master volume
B) No master tone control
C) The horrible Line6 docking pedal design (super heavy, wonky footswitch that's hard to click down)
In a perfect world, I would love to rehouse the whole shebang into a more "traditional" (to ILF, anyhow) form factor. One of the bigger challenges, I think, would be that the horrible Line6 footswitch also triggers different modes on the module - three of them, I think. So maybe this hypothetical rehouse would need three footswitches? Or four? One to engage, the others to switch modes?
Anyhow, this is mostly thinking out loud at the moment, but have any of you DIYers tried this? Do you know any builders who might tackle such a bizarre project? Is it all that bizarre to begin with?
