I've been running my rig with three Mission Engineering expression pedals for a long time - years. Extremely powerful, crazy intuitive (to me) way to control a LOT of things in real time, on the fly and allows for all sorts of OCD madness in terms of details, dealing with different rooms, creating various sonic timbres and so on.
But... I have been wanting to run one more pedal to break up one specific thing - my delay wet/dry mix - from my existing setup. So the question was... can I fit 4 on the board? Do I want to carry it?
The biggest heaviest aspect of my rig is the pedalboard - it's manageable, but it's unwieldy. My board is all mounted with velcro to a Pedaltrain Pro; I use the padded soft cover (I do not do fly dates and my gear either goes with me in the car or in the van/trailer with the rest of the band's gear/PA stuff. I just carry it with my cart... or lug it. No biggie.
But man, I've wanted to try this... so here we go.
I'll do a video once I get into this and explore different ways to divide up the added versatility that makes sense.
Should be fun!
Old board:
So what do I have the expression pedals do now?
I'll go left to right.
Left expression pedal (black one):
- Toe down switch turns the wah on/off - then it's a Wah pedal. Toe down switch and it's off.
- When Drive block is engaged - it controls the amount of gain/drive in the Drive block
- When the PEQ block is engaged - it controls the amount of output level from +1db to +6db. (Note: I have the PEQ configured as a dynamic custom preamp boost).
- When the Rotary Block is engaged, it controls the upper horn rotor speed
Middle expression pedal (green one): (switch not currently being employed for any purpose):
- Controls wet/dry mix for: Tremolo; Rotary: Delay; Phaser; Chorus; Flanger; and Pitch. In essence, this pedal is my 'effects' mixer. I can mix in whatever amount of wet effect I want at any time and dynamically change it on the fly. (*Note: the range of wet/dry is different for each effect block based on my preferences and taste. That's saved per preset.)
Right expression pedal (white one):
- Reverb wet/dry mix - dynamically control on the fly independant of other effects
- When the Delay block is engaged, controls the Delay feedback from short to long
- When toe switch is engaged, it is a Volume pedal.
New layout:
I might do it this way or separate the pedals a bit by putting two on the left and two on the right of the MFC-101... but we'll see.
I want the delay wet/dry broken out and have some other ideas. I'll post up the results and do a demo video soon.
This is the fun stuff.