It wasn’t for me. It was a suggestion for @Fabianus about being able to easily switch your loop pedal from the front of you chain to the end.
After reading up on the Mission Control, it doesn’t seem to do the A then B or B then A switching I was talking about. It is an interesting unit though.
exactly. 2 dittos would be a fraction of the cost and smaller too.
edit: I see, you want to switch between the two loopers. I think most dual loopers have sync functions, maybe the ditto x4?
The Boss GT-1000CORE has a looper, and you can add it anywhere in the chain where you want.
It only can record up to 38s, though, and only mono.
What it can: Keep the recording from one patch to the other, So you can record something on one patch, switch to another patch, and it will play whatever you have recorded in the first patch. So depending on where you have the looper inside of the patch, effects from the other loop could be additive. You can add more layers to the recording while recording in different patches with different effects.
Those that can sink up use midi for sinking up to a midi clock. The only looper I’ve found that doesn’t need a midi clock is the Digitech looper. You can chain as many of those together as you want. I don’t know what they use but my guess would be some kind of auto configured, built in, midi clock, but it could be some proprietary solution.
MIDI time source is definitely what you want because then you can easily sync to your DAW too, and use it as a timesource for everything.
It’s why MIDI can also be cool on delays. Want the delay to sync up with the song tempo? No problemo.
I went with the Hot Wax because a) it combines the two pedals I would have wanted to try out anyways in one box (the Crayon and the Hot Tubes) and b) it features a blend knob. I love it.
What I wrote to a friend though was: “I wish it had separate EQ for the two stages but you can’t have it all… you get the blend for the trade off.”
Another thing is: I’m switching between bass and guitar and of course they need completely different settings.
So what if I could have it all?
Now I would not just have separate EQ for each stage, but could also switch between two independent settings – one on top for guitar, for which I do not need blend, and one on the bottom for bass that features blend at the end.
It’s a lot of knobs, so here is a light version with dual pots and blend on both settings to make it more consistent and versatile (eg two different basses instead of guitar/bass)
Ordered one to try it out, thanks for sharing
oooh yeah that really looks fun, let us know
First of all thanks for all the input on that – I’m just really fixated on having that simple switchy box 
Found a kit at Musikding and it is a great starter project. The “BB” Box seems a bit oversized but that is the one they offer pre-drilled for the kit. A friend has a leftover soldering station that I can pickup in about ten days, so currently ordering tools and materials so I can get started when I have it.
Until then, designers gonna design, so here’s a first draft of how it could look (laserprinting on Avery 3482 matte self-adhesives I have lying around, the grey background is the raw aluminum of the box, love that look)
That’s really cool! I didn’t even think to look into kit boxes. I’m looking forward to seeing how this goes.
Not sure if anyone has posted the Earthquaker Afterneath Reverb pedal, but I picked it up this weekend and it’s really solid on bass. Demo video from The Bass Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PDcWV41Ibc
Got this second hand vapor trail (analog delay) for my reggae pedal setup…its coolest feature is the insert cable slot on the side so you can run the wet delay signal through extra fx by using a split insert cable
In the picture the compressor is in the loop so it will only compress the delays without touching the dry signal
Ahh cool, it does inserts just like a mixer
yes exactly
and that reminded me I forgot to mention the cable is a cool little one EBS make for pedals…it was exactly what I wanted by took a while to find for me
so if anyone interested in this kind of pedal its this one:
I looked a bit into what exactly I might want as a preamp pedal, be it buying or making.
I got the Micromark 801 and I really like what its “VPF” does:
The VPF (Variable Preshape Filter) boosts lows (around 35 Hz) and highs (around 10 kHz), and cuts mids at 380 Hz.
Found this about it:
Then there is this NE_04 bass preamp kit, which is a clone of the Nathan East NE-1 preamp. In it’s “deep” setting it does –20dB adjustable between 200 Hz and 10 kHz. So I guess if I dial that to about 380Hz and add treble at 10khz and bass at 35Hz I should get somewhat close to what the VPF does?
The Lemon Bass kit is a clone of an Orange Preamp which comes with a 3-band EQ. I still need to figure out what frequencies it exactly does out of the box and then maybe adjust the low and treble frequencies… found some formulas on how to compute the values for the parts.
In the schematics of the Little Mark III I found the section of the VPF. I don’t fully understand that yet, but I guess if I dig more into it, I might, and modify the NE_04 to also do 35Hz/10kHz attenuation. Maybe. I am mostly unsure yet if that part with the IC is part of the VPF and what exactly it does… but will see I guess.
Adding cab simulation makes sense, too, as well as a headphone amp and voila, there would be the first draft of my preamp if I follow that route:
I don’t want to wait though until I have built all of that (not to mention seeing if it actually works and sounds as I want), so I looked into what makes sense to buy until then without selling a kidney and will try the Palmer Pocket Amp Bass.
Also curious to see what its “saturation” does… as in: is it just a one knob compressor or does it actually do “tape saturation” coloring besides compression as I read somewhere. Tape saturation is something I always liked hearing. Found a simple tape saturation circuit in a thread so maybe make that an additional knob?
(PS: I hope this is all still appropriate for this thread… lmk if not)
That is such a great idea. So many delays and reverbs out there are modulating the effect signal somehow — this way you could give it its own chain of mini pedals or a multieffect. Nice
I ended up watching this last night, very interesting how Wendy (Prince and the Revolution) recreates her Purple Rain sound with new pedals and ends up in the same place. Delays and modulations etc abound. Not straightforward at all. A very cool watch.
Re Harley Benton Double Jammer
For what it is and for the price, that little box is amazing. I found at least three or four variations in every drum style that I liked and most importantly, they sound really good and are fun to play to (which I cannot say at all for my RC-5, whose drums I find just nervewrecking and unusable).
The big caveat is the tempo pot. It is impossible to dial in a specific tempo so you can’t even manually sync anything else to it… or just know the actual tempo you’re playing to. Two up/down knobs and a three digit number display would have done it — like they do in every 5-bucks metronome 
But as a standalone unit for practice and working out ideas I can really recommend trying it out
PS @JoshFossgreen if you do a third episode about gadgets that make you a better bassist, maybe give the Harley Benton Double Jammer a shot
can’t you just tap tempo?
