Audio Signal.
Guitar >>>>Seymour Duncan SFX-1 Pickup Booster ( for pickup enhancement) >>>>Decibel Eleven Loop Expander with an Behringer AM100 Acoustic Modeler, Boss GE-7 band Eq, MXR 10 band Eq, EHX Ravish pedal >>>>Digitech RP-12( main controller) >>>> Digitech RP-1 (2nd controller to control a Eventide 3000) >>>>Seymour Duncan SFX-1 Pickup Booster for a 9dB boost to drive my line>>>> Mosky Pure Buffer.

MIDI Signal.
Main Controller Digitech RP-12 >>>>Decibel Eleven Loop Expander >>>>Digitech RP-1 w/ an Ensoniq 2x8 MIDI Merger as a 2nd controller to controll a Carvin Quad X & Eventide Harmonizer >>>>Behringer 1124P Feedback Destroyer Pro for 12 Parametric Eq >>>>Digitech 2112 SGS .

Wow are those Digitechs still working good? This is 90s digital wonderland board.

Just wanted to say that Big Muff into a wah wah pedal sounds terrific. You guys might want to try that out with your pedal boards.

Got those Digitech relects fine tuned, had a high tech buddy put in new chips that are more updated than Digitech's old S Disk chip, had TRS inputs installed.
Originally the RP-1 had 75 user programs, now expanded to 300 user programs, the RP-12 had only 128 user programs, now has 350 user programs and the Digitech 2112 SGS has only 100 user programs, now 575 user programs.
I don't know how he did it, he managed to include some programs from my Eventide 3000 and had a 10 minute + sampler algorithm put into my 2112 .
Sadly, he got laid of from his Silicon Valley job and he did the mods on those units and their backups .... too bad for me, he moved to Washington State, he's working for Micro Soft now ������

How do you use your GE7? Boost?

Both the floorboard and 1/2 the Eurorack gear are for my Jamstik MIDI guitar (MPE MIDI goes to OXI Coral and filters/delays). The audio playing features the Jamstik humbucker+MIDI together.

Here is what my floor pedal collection has turned into running from right to left:

PRS SE Hollowbody II >>>
>> DigiTech FreqOut >>>
>> Ibanez TS9/808 Silver Mod Screamer >>>
>> AnalogMan Bi-Comprossor >>>
>> Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini >>>
>> Morley Wah Lock Wah >>>
>> Boss NS-1X Noise Suppressor >>>
>> Boomerang Looper >>>
>> Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig 7

Went back to a rather digital-centric board. Finally found a combination to check many of the boxes I wanted (or even needed) to be checked.
Note: In the first place, this is a live workhorse board, not something fancy to look at in a studio/home environment.



Everything is basically organized as a 2-channel amp setup.

- Clean and clean-ish sounds are coming from an amp model in the GT-1000. I was worried about that part at first, but live they're working just great (pretty much all Boss amp models are compressing more than you'd usually expect them to, but for cleans that has sometimes been a trick to make things work in a band context, so there...). In fact, I also used them for recording already.

- Anything dirt is coming from the HX Stomp and the pedals sitting in front of it. Stomp and pedals are sitting in a loop of the GT-1000. That was another thing I was worried about, thought it could result in too much latency. But after all, with everything running, hence amp models and cab sim loaded, overall latency is around 3.5ms, which is absolutely fine, especially considering that pretty much any standard amp/cab would at least be one meter further away from me than my wedge or IEM monitoring options (3ms equal around 1 meter of distance).

- I'm always using one single patch per gig on the Stomp. That's extremely relevant for how I'm organizing things. There's still more than enough flexibility. I can even load 2 amps if I feel like, but all patches I used so far cover one amp and 3 dirt boxes (plus the analog drives in front). I preselect what is needed for any given song and don't ever have to switch on the Stomp inmidst a song (the only pedal I switch during songs outside of the GT-1000 is the Mooer Pure Boost, should I need a bit more gain on tap).

- All relevant soundshaping parameters are treated in a "global" fashion. Obvious for the Stomp (which doesn't see any program switching), not so obvious for some others, which would be:
The internal GT amp, main delay, main reverb, main lead pre-boost (GT-internal) compressor and final post-amp lead EQ (again coming from the GT-1000). These have always been the things I've been fooling around with during soundchecks and gigs, and it's been the main reason for me to run a hybrid rig, because most digital devices wouldn't allow me doing so properly (the only two amp modeling devices to feature global blocks are the Axe FX III and the GT-1000).
But that's not all there is to it...

- All global parameters are controlled via TouchOSC on a tablet. Connection is wireless, the tablet is connected to a CME WIDI Jack (sitting somewhere on the board below the Stomp) via Bluetooth.
All relevant parameters (drive, level, tonestacks of the GT and Stomp amps, drive and level of the Stomp drives, levels of pre-comp and post-EQ, feedback/decay/mix of delay/reverb) are just there, organized on some pages.
The initial setup of all this has been quite laborious, but now that I'm done, I only need to re-do and re-save some things for a new Stomp patch. But I've got around 4-5 patches done already, covering pretty much any musical ground I'm ever dealing with. And then some, because TouchOSC will actually allow me to do some pretty wild things. Currently checking some of these things out.

- The MS-50G is sitting in the other GT loop, allowing me to casually bring in in whatever "not just as usual" sounds (there's some good stuff in it).

To dos:
- Cleaning up the I/O section (upper right of the board).
- Possibly replacing the MS-50G with a Hologram Chroma Console (fantastic device).
- In case things are as great as I think they will be, I might build a dedicated board/case arrangement around that setup (but it's possibly fine as is).

Played some gigs with this setup already, absolutely gorgeous. So good bandmates and FOH folks noticed and told me (which doesn't happen that often).

interesting that you are using the Stomp for dirt and the Boss for amp/cab sim.

is that because you feel that they are each better than the other in that respect, or for flexibility?

Maybe I worded it wrong, the Stomp is used for all driven tones, amp simulation included (I'm treating it as an almost clean-ish pedal platform), so all cab sim duties for dirt sounds are taken care of there as well.
The only amp I'm using from the GT is a clean one with an option to add a bit of "hair" (using an internal Boss drive).

As far as overdriven sounds go, the GT can't hold a candle against the Stomp, not even as a pedal platform.

By now I played two gigs with just the GT, though (due to transportation issues I couldn't bring the full board) and it's actually been quite ok. As much as I don't like the GT amps on their own, they seem to sit pretty well in a live context and even provide decent playing fun.

understood.... but The Boss is a pretty bulky unit to have on your board. Is it that much better than the HX for cleans?

I've never been 100% happy with the HX Stomp for cleans either, but I don't think I'd buy another modeller (and a big one at that) just to fill that gap, unless it was really good.

No, IMO the Stomp's amps are better all throughout - clean as well, I think the new Super Reverb is just great (and I also already liked the Princeton a lot).
Attached is a little "first contact" jam I recorded straight when FW revision 3.8 was released.

The GT's role on the board is to serve as a master control and also adding FX (plus boosts and what not).

Nice playing, man.

Thanks!

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