About Marius A. Schmidtke Expertise U2`s sound and equipment! I metU2`s Edge and his guitar tech already personally in real life.
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Expert: Marius A. Schmidtke Date: 6/21/2004 Subject: Pedal Boards and a Boss Line Selector
Question Marius...Thanks for the quick response.
U said that the Tuner in my signal path was bad, since I'm not tuning all the time. however, the ernie ball volume pedal has an independant tuner out jack...would it be my best bet to have the tuner come out of that? that way its not really in the signal path, but just off to the side with only the input from the patch cord coming from the TUNER OUT on the volume pedal?
One other thing I wanted to mention, I checked out that link for the looping system u recomended, but do to money limitations, that is out of the question. Would the true bypass strip developed by Pedal Boards (www.pedalboards.com) do anything for my system? I understand how they work to a certain degree, but I'm not fully sure how it does work. Each effect goes into its own patch bay on the bypass strip, and u engage the effect by hitting the appropriate switch?
Thank you...I'm VERY interested in learning about this, as It will clean up my sound, and u know how picky guitarists can get with this stuff, especially with a little G.A.S.! ALWAYS wanting more gear!
Thanks
Answer hi dave!
the problem with the earnie ball is that it seems to split the signal here passive. i'm honest: i don't know how it works exactly, but IF it really splits the signal this is a signal loss as it's non active. beside that even active electronics will have a signal loss - but not if it is made well (i. e. from skrydstrup). so make sure to check HOW the volume pedal sends the signal to the tuner. you are right, like you have it now it is not permanently in the signal path. that's correct. but the signal loss is there cause you split the signal there in some way. or is the tuner only on, when the volume pedal is set to zero?
about the pedalboards stuff: yes, this would be a good starter! but as i've never heard those units i can't tell you about their sound. anyhow: from the description it looks fine.
the thing with loops is, that it is really not that easy to make it sounding great. i suggest to read the skrydstrup question and answers (faq?) anyway, as you can learn lots of useful things there. all the basic problems (buffers vs. non-buffers) are described there quite well.
