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Winston Psmith

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  1. One difficulty would be sending each CC on a discrete MIDI Channel? I can't imagine wanting to send 16 different CC's to one device via one EXP Pedal or Controller? In theory, with enough MIDI Patchbays or Splitter boxes*, you could use one EXP Pedal, or other Controller to send CC's to 16 different MIDI devices, but you run into the reverse issue, figuring out which CC you want each device to Receive, and how to send multiple CC's, without a Sequencer, or something like it.
  2. Not about this product in particular, but many Pedalboard-style MFX will also allow you to "assign" (Boss' term) the onboard EXP/Volume Pedals to send various MIDI CC commands from the MIDI Outs on the MFX. It's possible to design a group of User Presets that focus on the MIDI Control aspects of the MFX, essentially using it as a MIDI Footswitch Controller. I know that Behringer makes a MIDI Footswitch Controller with two onboard EXP Pedals, and a simple 1X4 MIDI Splitter box would allow you some of the same functionality as that Lake Butler Controller.
  3. If you want something a little less "light industrial" looking, you could add something like this to the wood risers - Screw-on rubber bumpers 3/4 inch They'll also give you just a little bit more space for the power brick and cables. I use these - Cable tie base - with cable ties, to keep all my audio and power brick cables neatly bundled under my Pedalboards. You probably don't need 100 - yet - but FWIW, the 3/4-inch size fits perfectly under the rails of a Pedaltrain board. 1-inch bases are too wide to be completely invisible from the top of the 'board, but they're barely visible, and they work.
  4. I'd be wary of folding legs on anything that I'm going to step on. I was thinking more of taking a 2x2 and cutting short lengths for risers.
  5. Can't help with the Italia site, but this looks like the sort of upgrade you had in mind - Dano; Red "Crackle' Sitar - Sweetwater
  6. Welcome aboard, and my respect on calling your space a "Music Room." (My own preferred term for my own Music space, because calling it a Studio would be hubris.)
  7. Welcome, @Sparquelito! I've long been an advocate for the MFX-direct-to-FOH approach. Along with the ease of use, and much lower back strain, there's the fact that for most of us here in the Forums, few, if any, of the venues we perform at have the kind of space to justify hauling a 50 or 100-Watt Amp. Sure, I have fond memories of Rock Idols standing in front of Stonehenge-inspired backlines, but honestly, no one needs those things anymore, unless you're playing a stadium or an outdoor festival, and even then . . .
  8. Sincere respect on building your own Pedalboard; those things are absurdly expensive, for what they are. Given that, my thought is to put some feet or risers underneath the 'board, to create enough space to mount the Power Supply underneath, clearing space for your pedals. Cheap and relatively easy solution. IKEA used to offer an inexpensive shelving unit called GORM. It looked a LOT like a Pedaltrain-style Pedalboard, but made of wood, and there are a lot of them posted online. Later on, IKEA switched to a design called HENJE, that, IMHO, looks even more like a Pedalboard. For some reason, the HENJE line is being discontinued as of July, so it looks as though most stores only have the entire assembly, rather than the individual parts? I got a 2-pack of the HENJE shelves for around $15, some time back.
  9. Is your board large enough to try the "staggered" mounting I used on my Novo 24? It definitely saved me some space on that lower tier. My other suggestion would rely on your Amp having some kind of Channel Switching? Not the same as having two different settings for your DS-1W, but it would allow you to have different Gain or Drive levels for different tones.
  10. Allow me . . . This is from a famous D.C. concert, way back when . . . One of maybe three songs that made me wish I was any good at Slide Guitar.
  11. It doesn't appear so, not altogether. The three on the bottom left are Boss' original "Traffic Light" series, the Spectrum (I think it was the SP-1?), the OD-1, and the Phaser, the oldest of Boss' compact pedals. Way up in the uppermost corners, right and left, there are two PSM-5 Power Supply/Master Switches, with their boxes, mid-80's vintage. They were meant to work in Boss' BCB-6 molded plastic Pedalboard/Carrying Case. I had one back then, to go with my BCB-6. It powered 5 Boss compact pedals, and doubled as a sort of Master Bypass, where you could stomp on it and bypass, or engage, the Pedalboard. There are a few others that look like they're out of place, if it were meant to be a chronological line-up, like the deep red XT-2 Xtortion on the left-hand edge, with a Fuzz above it and next to it, but all in all, it's hard to be sure with the scale of the photo, and the glare on some of the pedals?
  12. I have 2 Pedaltrain Pros (don't ask . . .) and they come in at 32 inches. Doing a quick layout check here, even with flat-head cables connecting the pedals, it would be an effort to get 20 compact Boss pedals on one Pedaltrain Pro. I can comfortably get 9 pedals side by side, with connecting cables. Late edit - This might be more helpful, a photo of a Pedaltrain Novo 24 where I staggered the bottom row of pedals to make more room. I managed to get 13 pedals on the board, arranged this way. FWIW, most of these pedals are right around the size of a Boss compact pedal, enough to make a good representation.
  13. Much agreed. I have a number of "boutique" pedals that I picked up for decent "used" prices, by watching and waiting.
  14. It also lacks some of the alternate model #'s, and even color schemes, of the "complete" collection. OTOH, it doesn't claim to be a complete collection of Boss products, which would include the twin pedals, like @Caevan O’Shite's RT-20, or the ME-80 that @KuruPrionz showed us. I have five different Boss MFX Pedalboards, and three Delay pedals that don't show up in that collection, either. As to value, or pricing, some of those Boss pedals are collecting absurd prices for original "vintage" models, like the Slow Gear; those are listing for somewhere between $600US and $800US on reverb. Not suggesting the whole lot is really worth $73,000, but, for some rabid collectors, being able to buy up the entire lot at once, instead of hunting down individual pedals, might be an incentive to just buy the whole thing, and maybe sell off any duplicates?
  15. Still waiting for someone, anyone, to give us a RI of the Roland Funny Cat, Distortion & Envelope Follower. That thing had a truly unique sound.
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