Mar 1, 2010 11:04 AM
Show off your M13/M9 pedalboard
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I'd like to see what some people are doing on the floor as I am setting up a new pedalboard using my M13 a Mission controller and some pedals in the loop. I find most pedalboards too deep. Right now my ideal board is 28" x 13" and it seems that no one makes that. So show off what you got going on.
here's mine
As there is no true bypass when using 4CM, I am using a Little Lehle to bypass the front end. The M13 is used in scene mode and switches also my amp (Steavens Poundcake Mk3) which has a switchable loop that is also midi controlled.
Ergo I can take the M13 in and out of my signal chain by just hitting a program on it, and have additional flexibility of taking in and out pedals before the amp with the Lehle.
heres mine.....
i use the gig rig to control all of my Ods and distortions and use the M13 in the loop of my Fender Deulxe - the gigrig also has a midi so I use that to pre set Fxs to each preset on the gig rig but I can also just add in Fxs from the m13 when I like to!
Sounds Great!
That's pretty cool man! I've gone a similar route with using external ODs and distortion with my M13, but I don't have anything like the Gig Rig. So do you control the M13 with the Gig Rig?
hey,
Yea it does via midi - it calls up a scenes 1-8 with the 8 footswtiches - it also has banks but i dont use them..... yet lol
here's mine... custom made by pedalbards.com
Hmmm...why is there no true bypass using 4CM?
"As there is no true bypass when using 4CM, I am using a Little Lehle to bypass the front end. The M13 is used in scene mode and switches also my amp (Steavens Poundcake Mk3) which has a switchable loop that is also midi controlled."
Are those the "DIY Expression pedals" in the bottom left there? How did you make them?
Yes, the two boxes on the lower left are my DIY expression pedals. They are pretty easy to build. I have both a momentary and a latching (on/off) switch in each box, one mono jack and a 10k ohm reister wired between each switch and the single jack. All the parts are from Radio Shack. I plan on rebuilding them with decent enclosures and switches at some point, Here is a gut shot.....
That's pretty cool. Do you mind if I ask roughly how much that costs? I've never done anything like that before, but I do own a soldering iron so perhaps I'll give it a shot.
Thanks for the pic and the specs. I bet I could make one of those.
They were quite inexpensive to build. The switches were a couple bucks a piece, the jacks were a couple bucks for the two, the resistors were $1 for five and the enclosures were less than $3 each. And just about any wire will do for the connections. They took me about ten minutes or so to build. If you already have an iron you should give it a shot. I really like mine. I can even use them for the pitch glide effect. They work great for kicking up delay feedback levels for controllable self-oscillation stuff.
Sorry to keep bugging you, but you said you have a latch mode on and off switch on them too? I didn't know that was even possible to do! Is it just like setting expression pedal heel and toe positions but just in the setup screen with the momentary and latch modes or is there some sort of special wireing or setup or something involved?
It is not bother at all. My expression pedals have two different switches which are wired to the same jack. One of them is a momentary switch, which is only engaged when it is pressed down, like a tap tempo switch. The second is an on/off switch. The wiring in the box is the same for both. The only difference is the swtich itself. I bought one of each switch for each box to increase the functionality.
And in practice, yes it is like the heal/toe. You can set the levels for whatever you like for the on and off positions. In other words, it doesn't have to be all the way on/all the way off. For example, I use the momentary switches primarily to increase the feedback level of both the Analog w/Mod and LoRes delays. This gives me the ability to push the delay into self oscillation. The off position is set to my normal feedback level and the on position is set to about 95%. I use the latching switches to change speed settings on tremolo/phaser/vibrato effects. Off is set to a slower speed and on is set to a higher speed. For one of my tremelo settings the off position is set to about 40% and the on position is set to about 80%. I also use the momentary switch for pitch gliding. I set the off position to 0.0 and the on position to 24. This gives me the two octave rise. Does that help?
I don't know a single thing when it comes to electronics like that. So when I saw momentary and latching I thought you meant that the switch can be used to go from momentary to latch scene mode on your pedal board. I presume that those are just technical terms for the type or hardware then? I thought it meant that you don't have to go into settings and switch to latch scene mode and that you can do it from a switch.
So one is like an on/off like on any other typical pedal, and one is kind of like something you have to hold down to have it on and when you release it turns back off then?
Thanks for all the help. I think I'll head down to the store today and pick up some sqitches and give this a try.
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