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PYPB XL: Midlife Crisis

the Photon worked really well in practise so will be staying. I like being able to add the octave up when it is needed. The unimpressive black box with white letters is a Ginger which I am super happy with its tone.

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I'd love to.

Ok, when I got my Source Audio pedals I thought I'd never use the midi jack. I was so wrong. Midi is very easy and with midi control built in you save a lot of $$ not having to buy a midi looper. So the original idea was to keep it simple and use a Tech 21 midi mouse that uses only 1 midi channel to control the SA pedals. They would both change presets together and if I wasn't stacking fx I would just have a clean preset paired up with a fx one. Quickly I realized this was too much hassle and I wanted direct access to pedal combo and juming back to a bypass/clean so I aquired a Behringer FCB1010. Normally I avoid that brand but I gotta tell you, this controller is amazing. It can control 5 midi devices and has 2 expression pedals plug 2 latching midi controlled relays to control stuff like the Freeze. At first it was a mystery to program, but once I "got it" it's actually very simple to program.

Back to the Freeze. My FCB1010 is a stock unit, but you can get new new chip to let you do 'stomp box' mode and turn individual fx on/off, but I'm actaully happy with patch mode where you change all the pedal, or just as many as you want per stomp. Originally I had a midi button for the relay remote controlling the Freeze. This is an easy mod where you put a 1/4" jack on the freeze and jumper the wires coming off the footswitch then just plug into 'switch 1' on FCB1010. This worked ok, but if I pressed on that midi switch it would take the focus off the patch I was using, so that meant that the expression pedal was disabled or something else and I didn't like that so I ended up taking the footswitch out of the freeze and mounting it on the FCB1010. This frees up a midi button and lets me use the Freeze at any time without disrupting any patch I have active.

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The Freeze has been different placed in my chain. My favorite position for it was between the Classic Pro and the BEF Pro to hold a dirty signal and then still play a clean over that or vica-versa. But when our sound engineer set me up with 2 feeds to the board I wanted to Freeze to feed them both so I moved it up river to just out of the G50 and before the clean DI to the subs.

So the Sansamp, tuner and compressor are always on, and the 3 SA pedals and the M5 are all controlled with midi. So I can have 4 pedals instantly jump to presets all at once or just one, or two, etc. Then one simple button bypasses all fx.

The G50 wireless has a mute on the body back so the tuner is on all the time incase I get bumped and have to make a mid-song tuning correction, and when I need to tune between songs or whatever I mute from the body back.

All and all it's a pretty simple setup. The MWBD Pro is new and just adds another layer, but if I was short on space, it'd be the first to go.

edit: FYI, I noticed after taking that inside picture the patch cable coming out of the freeze into the DI #1 was not installed or the patch cable to the tuner. I was messing with something and needed the cables, they are back now ready to ROCK

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Heet Sound Plus-EBOW Electronic Bow
(rarely used) Tortex 0.73mm picks

Pedal-board (CACOPHONY):

Boss OC-2 with synth mod
Way Huge Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz MK-II
"Planeta Fuzz" Wooly Mammoth clone
Behringer BSY-600 Bass Synthesizer
Fuzzrocious Terrordactyl
WMD Geiger Counter with bass mod
"Blueberry Muff-In Sovtek Russian Big Muff (Guttermouth mod:larger caps, bias, gate, true bypass, feedback switch)
Mooer Pitch Box
EHX H.O.G. Harmonic Octave Generator
WMD Super Fatman
Ibanez SF-10 Swell Flanger
Boss PH-2 Super Phaser with LFO disable and Pulse mods
Tech 21 Red Ripper
"Wah-Wah Whale" Dunlop 105Q Bass Wah
MSLP custom noise supressor
"Rabbit Hole" MSLP custom lo-fi delay/cave reverb with tap-tempo, extended delay, LED for repeats, subdivisions, feedback take-off switch mods
Roland RE-20 Space Echo
"Cutter" MSLP Tremolazer with waveform mod
Boss LMB-3 Bass Limiter
TC Electronic Polytune Mini

Controllers:
Boss FV-500H (expression)
re-housed HOG foot controller by DannDubblewe
2-channel TRS switcher (HOG or BSY-600)

NIGHT-SHOT!

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Latest board, and feel pretty good about it right now unless I decide to pick up an envelope filter to replace the mini wah (though so far Im really enjoying it). AMT WH-1B, Darkglass B3K, MXR BFD, IE Nimbus, TCE Flashback, TCE Polytune Mini. Time to pick up a pedaltrain mini.

Edit: oy. Just threw my DL4 back on my board since I havent sold it yet and Im enjoying being able to use that as a looper and my flashback as the delay...the dl4 was supposed to fund the flashback =/

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how's the amt bro? tia
 
Many modifications from the last board I posted... Robotalk, Markbass MB Octaver and Mooer chorus and Alter Ego Delay are gone, and Flashback X4, MXR Analog Chorus and Aguilar Octamizer are in
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is the flashback x4 the bees knees? i love my flashback, and i think im gonna have to upgrade, i'd love to be able to have the single loop function in conjunction with delay.