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Evil1986Genius said:
Current incarnation of my Rig: Guitar input on my patch panel that goes to the rear Input one of the FX3. I/O 3 of FX3 has Mono loops 1 tru 4 of the GCX in it for trying new drive pedals and my old time favs along with a I?O to the patch panel for a Pedal board. Output of GCX loop 4 splits to IN 3 & ADA MP1 input....ADA MP1 output into IN 2 of FX3. I/O 4 has stereo loops 5 tru 8 of the GCX in it reserved for future expansion when i want to try other FX pedals and Rack FX units along with a TRS I/O for Stereo pedal board insertion via patch panel. Out 2 of FX3 into ADA Microtube 200 powering 2 Vertical Marshall 2x12 in stereo. Out 1 with a Dyna Cab goes to the XLR outs of my patch panel and my Headphones for silent practice. of course Midi IN/Out via patch panel to the DMC ground link wich is for I/A of GCX loops with out using any of my FX3/FC6 Control switches. 3rd XLR on patch panel for the Faslink/FC6. USB on patch panel for updating/programing/backing up FX3/FC6, Powercon out connecter on patchpanel allows my rack to power a pedal board or something else. 3u drawer for stashing strings, cables and tools.
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Saw this one on Fluffs rate or roast yesterday 👌🏻
 
TSJMajesty said:
20 YEARS now since JP went with EBMM! I mean, I know that, but damn it (seems like it) was just yesterday when I saw them on SFAM!

Does that guitar have a PCB, and if so, how have the electronics fared? (Btw, that's my JP15 in my avatar, and below.)

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I was there too!! I went to the Scenes From a Memory Tour in Chicago back in like 2001 or 2002 after a hockey game I think at the Riv, I played Ibanez at the time and I remember when John came out and I was, "what the heck is that??" LOL Yeah, bizarre how time flies...that is beauty JP15! The gold hardware is really sharp.

I don't think my JP6 had PCB (see attached), it is a simple setup, no piezo. I didn't know what a piezo was at the time. My only issue with it is the frets desperately need to be replaced, I basically cut my finger on some of them now when I play but I am nervous to have someone do that work. I am in the Orlando area and don't know of any luthiers.
Sorry everyone else for the EBMM gushing! LOL
 

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The married guy who chooses to wait for his Mrs. to visit her family out of state before commandeering the living room stays married. The 36' throw is nice but vinyl plank floors and drywall for days isn't the best environment for dialing tone. I bring my four floor to ceiling corner traps out to dampen it. It's a fair bit of work to get out of my 11x11 studio to test at gig volume, but all the sunlight is very sweet. Taken in January before I got a 2008 Les Paul to keep the PRS company. A very versatile rig. Thank you Cliff and all who help in the development of what is far and away THE CHOICE for bringing what's in my head out into the open air.
 

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shep said:
The married guy who chooses to wait for his Mrs. to visit her family out of state before commandeering the living room stays married. The 36' throw is nice but vinyl plank floors and drywall for days isn't the best environment for dialing tone. I bring my four floor to ceiling corner traps out to dampen it. It's a fair bit of work to get out of my 11x11 studio to test at gig volume, but all the sunlight is very sweet. Taken in January before I got a 2008 Les Paul to keep the PRS company. A very versatile rig. Thank you Cliff and all who help in the development of what is far and away THE CHOICE for bringing what's in my head out into the open air.
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I hear ya'! I have a window coming up next month where my girl will be gone for a week!! Let freedom ring, loudly!!! Nice set up ;~))
 
shep said:
The married guy who chooses to wait for his Mrs. to visit her family out of state before commandeering the living room stays married. The 36' throw is nice but vinyl plank floors and drywall for days isn't the best environment for dialing tone. I bring my four floor to ceiling corner traps out to dampen it. It's a fair bit of work to get out of my 11x11 studio to test at gig volume, but all the sunlight is very sweet. Taken in January before I got a 2008 Les Paul to keep the PRS company. A very versatile rig. Thank you Cliff and all who help in the development of what is far and away THE CHOICE for bringing what's in my head out into the open air.
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If I were you I’d move that stool a bit further away from those Laneys before striking a chord at gig volume..

…. Or you might pull a ‘Marty McFly in Back To The Future’!

;-)
 
Joce said:
If I were you I’d move that stool a bit further away from those Laneys before striking a chord at gig volume..

…. Or you might pull a ‘Marty McFly in Back To The Future’!

;-)
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That's for sitting down in between to program. I stand back up and move 10' away..
 
drew1382 said:
What do you have on the knobs? Looks cool, are they covers?
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Yes, these are covers. @Ismaele makes these
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GlennO said:
Nice Thunders, but what is that behind the nut?
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It's a vibration damper.
http://www.teslapickups.co.kr/shop/item.php?it_id=1461830251&ckattempt=1

I put it on because I thought that the strings between the machine heads and the nuts were causing some kind of noise. But that wasn't the case, something else in the room was vibrating. Or I just imagined it :laughing:
 
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Here it is! Muh big boy rig!! The AxeFx and panel are in a 4u 13" deep rack, which fits perfectly. The bottom rack is a 6u 19" deep rack. The 2 "pedal boards" are 10" deep rack shelves. The switchers take up 3 spaces and the expressions take up 2.

There's still room for a 1u rack drawer, which will go in-between the two pedal shelves. And since the bottom rack is 19" deep (a mistake that I was able to make up for doing it like this since it was all supposed to be in 1 rack originally) I have a fair bit of room to put a rack tuner, power conditioner, power amp (maybe) IEMs or a wireless unit.

Now that's it's done, I'm actually considering doing away with the Ampero switch and putting the MC6 there instead. Or Ampero might replace the pedal tuner once I get a rack tuner. Right now, the height of the switchers is like 2mm from touching the bottom of the next space up because of how high the MC8 is and that makes a bit nervous. We'll see though. I can put the 3 expression pedals a bit closer together and fit the MC6. Right now, there's so much wasted space below the TRS feed-throughs.



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DC11GTR said:
Here it is! Muh big boy rig!! The AxeFx and panel are in a 4u 13" deep rack, which fits perfectly. The bottom rack is a 6u 19" deep rack. The 2 "pedal boards" are 10" deep rack shelves. The switchers take up 3 spaces and the expressions take up 2.

There's still room for a 1u rack drawer, which will go in-between the two pedal shelves. And since the bottom rack is 19" deep (a mistake that I was able to make up for doing it like this since it was all supposed to be in 1 rack originally) I have a fair bit of room to put a rack tuner, power conditioner, power amp (maybe) IEMs or a wireless unit.

Now that's it's done, I'm actually considering doing away with the Ampero switch and putting the MC6 there instead. Or Ampero might replace the pedal tuner once I get a rack tuner. Right now, the height of the switchers is like 2mm from touching the bottom of the next space up because of how high the MC8 is and that makes a bit nervous. We'll see though. I can put the 3 expression pedals a bit closer together and fit the MC6. Right now, there's so much wasted space below the TRS feed-throughs.



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Nice! Clever setup with the pedalboards in the rack for transport....
 
In the early 2k’s, Scott Henderson had his pedals in a rack and turned them on/off via a CAE RS-10 on the floor. I’ve been obsessed with that idea since then lol

The Voes, the MC8 and 2 of the expression pedals were part of my FM3 setup. But I knew that I’d be Axe’ing it up at some point, so I built it with rack shelves.
 
DC11GTR said:
In the early 2k’s, Scott Henderson had his pedals in a rack and turned them on/off via a CAE RS-10 on the floor. I’ve been obsessed with that idea since then lol
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For a while in the late '90s, I had some MIDI controllable loop switchers set up with a couple drive boxes in the rack, along with some other gear, and controlled it with a MIDI controller out front. Didn't have the budget to make it much more than a remote on/off for them, but it was a pretty interesting setup.

Eventually, I ended up with a Hafler HellRazor preamp feeding an old Knight-Kit 15W, EL84-powered monobloc hi-fi that I picked up at a hamfest for $15 and tweaked for guitar, running into a dummy load built from speaker crossover parts, and finally, through a Quadraverb 2 and into a stereo power amp and cabs. I still have the dummy load and the old Knight-Kit. Found a second one at another hamfest for $1 that needed a lot of work - missing output transformer, etc., and turned that into a small guitar amp as well, with octal sockets for 6V6GTs.

DC11GTR said:
The Voes, the MC8 and 2 of the expression pedals were part of my FM3 setup. But I knew that I’d be Axe’ing it up at some point, so I built it with rack shelves.
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I bet an FC6 would fit on a rack shelf nicely, too, given it fits on a Temple 17" board with room enough for an expression pedal. If I still had my FX3 (I switched over to FM9) and I was moving my stuff around a lot, I'd probably do something like you did with the two FC6 boards I had at that time....
 
I love those old rigs! Carrying them was hell, but the more the merrier lol

I thought about the FC6, and the FC12, early on but they’re too capable. Mine are programmed very simple. The MC6 is my main 6 presets (or any 6), the MC8 is for scenes and the Voes is for effect combinations. One button, one change. Long press and double press confuse me since I’ve never done it before and spent decades with normal pedals. All of my presets are amp based. Main reason I upgraded to the FX3. The only thing I wish with this was that the Voes were a bit thinner. It’s a hair above 2spaces with the buttons. If it could slim down to 2, then I’d toss the MC6 and figure out how to do presets and scenes on the MC8.
 
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