Setting up pedal board tomorrow , raising mfc up on a shelf on pedal board 3 inches and the space below that area will hold the following : octaswitch to control 8 channels and you can stack efx in each channel not always used and cheat..
TS 9+, wesbury 20, nady td1, hartman fuzz, some custom made fuzz home built, essentially putting boost and dirt pedals I dont have inside axe and some I do have inside axe to match them up so I can save those in library.
The octa switch has 8 channels with 8 mini dip switches under each channel or button you flip which efx you want on together up and in one button push you get those efx on together. I want 2 delays per amp before the amp and an echoplex might be a 3rd delay this would combine with delays inside axe mxr flanger, leslie sim, supervibe, I have some rack gear that will be on channel 6,7,8 leslie sim or supervibe is rack gear thats not used alot so it would be there but id have on off buttons out front to turn it on if needed... some rack gear will be efx used for another unit with is profex II and the octa switch allows 2 amps I put lehle 3@1 aby boxes right past those and can drive 4 amps if I want.
So for home use if I want to use my tube amps and axe fx II and profex II I can run all my tube amps and those units for recording..
If I want 3 delays per amp I have them either before the amps or in efx loop or built in via axe fx II.
the mxr delays and flanger are on off switchable and dont have to be used or on at all but if I want
to preset some delay times I can and set and forget them also I can match those on the fly with built in delays inside axe fx II and save those after they are matched in library.
I still like the sound of some of the dinosaur pedals and I wanted the ability to run several together and ran into a limitation but got around that bye thinking the signal path out some...
If want tube screamer and fuzz on together with mxr flanger I have it and that took no cpu space as mentioned before..
I will clone each of those too pedals inside the axe and duplicate those to have duplicates of each inside as eventually I want 2 axe fx units one xl one axe 2 and I might run
that in the efx loop of profex 2 and hit my tube amps with that as its line level out with gain knob on back ! Very handy to have that for tube amps or stereo power amp as
you can drive things a bit hotter and the amps sound like they are about to come apart but its line level..
I wanted the ability to trainwreck pedals together before the axe and blend them with pedals already saved inside and having the rack gear on 678 of octa switch allows me short leads too rack with axe and profex
and other rack gear. I wanted a smaller footprint for pedal board so putting mfc 101 on riser putting strip and pedal power 2 under that along with several other boosts fuzz and octavia, that allows those to be set in stone
and octa switch has send returns for efx out back its narrow and about 3 inches longer then mfc so those leads would be short cable runs send return to each pedal 12345 slots and 678 of that will be send return to rack efx.
Those can be stacked and anything thats not used all the time leslie sim supervibe or flanger say can be off all the time and controlled by on off buttons out front.
Thats something that came to me that will allow those pedals before axe fx II or profex II
when they are both working and I can ab between those easily I can tweak the axe fx II
to emulate some saved eqs I have in profex II so then id have those cloned as well.
At that point I can tone match back into axe fx from usb after its in logic or reaper..
If I use profex II and feed two tube amps Id be able to have all the xl efx.
Im going to hit another road block and thats midi for both and I might wind up with two mfc controllers.
that would be alot of tap dancing but at home for recording purposes im sitting down and could use both feet and
I might do that live too but since its midi Im hoping I can eventually map them to be one button push per patch
scenes would be quite something my head will probably just go like that guys head in Scanners but im going for it.
I want to see if I can shut down the grid..