FM3 with mono and stereo pedals, and cross-routing for guitars, Ableton and synths

[Alex Kolund]

How do you make the FM3 more awesome? Here's one way:

• Put your favorite mono pedals in front
• Make an FX loop with your weird stereo pedals
• Add a Y switch to make it easy to patch-in external signals (Ableton, analog synths) through the FX loop for those stereo effects and FM3 processing

Nuts? Maybe. But super flexible and sounds great.

 

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Pics or it didn’t happen

 

[Alex Kolund]

 

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Nice!!!

Why does it have to be a Y cable? Why not just two monos to the two inputs/outputs?

Does it bother you the FM3 has no analog thru at all?

How do you like your hologram pedal?

 

[Alex Kolund]

1. Lehle (and Tensor) pedals don't have separate left and right inputs.
2. I haven't considered that. Doesn't bother me but how do you think that might help? (I do wish that it had a third in and out, like the FM9, so that I could run mono pedals anywhere rather than only before the main input.)
3. The Microcosm is new. I like it a lot but still feel a bit lost at times (can be a good thing, especially when routing Ableton or the Moog through it). I prefer it over the MOOD (which is also nice) so I sold it recently. I was expecting to sell the Particle as well thinking that it might be similar enough but really like what the two can do together.

 

[Alex Kolund]

Few updates:

• Introduced a preamp (Warm WA273)
• Removed the Freeze (since it's not stereo); using FM3's Reverb and Plex Delay with Hold instead which gets close enough. (TC Electronic really should have made their new Infinite stereo capable.)