Dr. Dipwad
Experienced
Once I get my Axe III, I expect to use One-Preset-Per-Song, with Scene Changes to change sounds within a song. (This is what I already do with my Axe II rig.)
I expect to buy an FC-12, or possibly an MMGT/10 or /16, to handle Scene Changes and a few other things which one might wish to toggle during a song. (Wah on/off, Tap-Tempo, etc.)
But sometimes I can't remember which stomps are on/off for a given scene.
And with the Axe III, channels might make even more differences, which it will be hard to keep track of. ("Now...which scene is it that's using Channel B of my Delay Block, which has straight-8ths, and which one is using Channel C, which has dotted-8ths? Hmmm....")
Consequently, I find myself not really needing more footswitches; really.
But, I could benefit from having more visible indicators on the floor. After I press the one footswitch for Scene 3, it'd be helpful to see what 5 or 6 things changed as a result.
So it seems to me the solution would be a device with a set of multi-color LEDs (and maybe one LCD screen? unsure), which could be daisy-chained from an FC-6 or FC-12, just like other FC-controllers can.
This device's job is to indicate what's going on, not to control anything.
It would be small and light. It could be on your pedalboard, or even mounted on a mic stand closer to eye-level.
USE CASE #1: Showing what's turned on/off in a given scene
USE CASE #2: Users who've connected external footswitches to their FC-6/12 unit could assign the LED indicators to display the status of whatever was controlled by those external footswitches.
USE CASE #3: Putting indicators at eye-level for guitarists who are singing on a mic and can't afford to back away from the mic to glance down at their feet.
USE CASE #4: ...? I dunno, there might be other benefits people can think of.
Anybody else think this might come in handy?
I expect to buy an FC-12, or possibly an MMGT/10 or /16, to handle Scene Changes and a few other things which one might wish to toggle during a song. (Wah on/off, Tap-Tempo, etc.)
But sometimes I can't remember which stomps are on/off for a given scene.
And with the Axe III, channels might make even more differences, which it will be hard to keep track of. ("Now...which scene is it that's using Channel B of my Delay Block, which has straight-8ths, and which one is using Channel C, which has dotted-8ths? Hmmm....")
Consequently, I find myself not really needing more footswitches; really.
But, I could benefit from having more visible indicators on the floor. After I press the one footswitch for Scene 3, it'd be helpful to see what 5 or 6 things changed as a result.
So it seems to me the solution would be a device with a set of multi-color LEDs (and maybe one LCD screen? unsure), which could be daisy-chained from an FC-6 or FC-12, just like other FC-controllers can.
This device's job is to indicate what's going on, not to control anything.
It would be small and light. It could be on your pedalboard, or even mounted on a mic stand closer to eye-level.
USE CASE #1: Showing what's turned on/off in a given scene
USE CASE #2: Users who've connected external footswitches to their FC-6/12 unit could assign the LED indicators to display the status of whatever was controlled by those external footswitches.
USE CASE #3: Putting indicators at eye-level for guitarists who are singing on a mic and can't afford to back away from the mic to glance down at their feet.
USE CASE #4: ...? I dunno, there might be other benefits people can think of.
Anybody else think this might come in handy?
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