PerS Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Hi Know that this is on the limit of what the forum is about, but from the perspective that it is my POD HD Pro, which is in the center and I'll take the chance. Knowing that the expertise is available here... The thing is that I'm going to shrink my pedal board by moving my external pedals into my 19 "rack. To do that I planning to use a loop switch, RJM Mini Gizmo, with 5 loops. Controlling both my POD and indirect the Mini Gizmo via my Behringer FCB1010 modified with UnO chip and runes in pedal switch mode (pedal 1-5 in 19 banks and pedal 6-10 becomes "global"). The first image viewer how the different parts are joined together physically. Shortly, I plan to have a small external pedal board with a tuner, a boost pedal and an isolation transformer (to prevent ground loops that have been a previous problem). And the FCB1010... The rack contains more than what's in the drawing - a mixer, an amplifier, my sound card, a patch panel, a Furman power distributor and of course my POD HD Pro, supply a link to how it looks today (excl the FCB1010) if any help - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26726734/L6-ForumMIDI-topic%2C20130807/IMG_4528.JPG. And now I add my OD and distortion pedals mounted on a pull-out shelf (including power supply). The second picture shows how I was going to solve the midi communication. I thought about putting up my FCB1010 (previously used to control my POD XT) to control the POD HD Pro and use the POD's ability to send different midi commands too other devices. FS1 will control the Gizmo (and not link it to any other controls in the POD). FS2-4 control will be assigned to control the POD. Do not know if this was clear ... Hope so. Some comment to my drawings; – My pedals, why not use the one inside the POD...? I think mine are better, gives a beefier sound and as I have build them myself I also have mod'ed them to match my sound. I also use some of the L6 OD and dist pedals, but not together with mine. I do use delay, reverb and sometimes other effects from the POD and those are great. - The external Boost pedal is perfect for soloing. Gives a focused boost working great with other pedals and to push amps into OD or dist. - The Honey Bee and the Folk Drive in series, why...? Well they are great together, the Folk Drive pushes the HB into a real focused snappy sound, good with some amps. So to my questions - Can my POD HD Pro be controlled and control other devices via MIDI in this way? - Will the loop in the POD handle my pedals in this way (there may be other pedals both before and after the loop in the POD depending on patch)? - I thinking of adding in a an ISP Decimator in the end of the loop. Any comment/experience in that? - Other comments based on your experience would bee so much appreciated. Both in terms of connecting devices in this way and to install devices like this (I had a grounding problem in the past but have rebuilt the entire rack, separate wiring, put in Furman, isolated my patch panel in a custom made isolated box, made the isolating transformer box on the pedal board etc., so today I am hum and noise free... :D). Would greatly appreciated your honest comments on this, in all perspectives. Even if it means you cut me close to the ground... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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