What's Your Pedalboard Building Process?

[malfunction54]

That sounds like amazing stuff @brummer ! I can’t wait to play around with them

[LievenDV]

@unbracketed

OK, I get it, Rock is dead. But some of us still like to play it

I do rock as well and guitars with a light drive/“edge of breakup” sound to it… That’s just next phase for me

[LievenDV]

@brummer

Modular Amp Tool Kit

You’re teasing again!

[jon]

@malfunction54

4 replies in and I’m already seeing that there is not going to be a general guide for this That’s good in the sense that the tools enable all manner of use cases, but I was hoping to provide some good guidance on basic setups. Maybe we’ll need to craft some “persona” oriented material?

I would say that is a bit of a matter of perspective. Maybe you can show 3 or 4 different methods. In the end, it’s a suggestion and as someone said once “the rules exist to be broken” in this case, it’s not even a rule

By the way, thank you for the initiative, it really seems cool and along the lines of what we need some pushes from the community

@Austin73

But not sure the point of the Wiki. The selling point of Dwarf etc is the freely assignable, chose able and use able fx and generators. So not sure choosing one way to work is fully showcasing the capabilities.

On this one, I understand you @Austin73 and even agree. However, something that we have been understanding is how hard is to communicate something that “does everything”. So I feel that the approach of “look how you do this with this thing! Oh and by the way, you can also do these million other things” is a good one, it gives some framing that is necessary in earlier stages in order to not get overwhelmed (IMO).

@Austin73

How about creating a list of concepts such as

This sounds like a good approach. It can always be increased and doesn’t really become obsolete. And again, the idea seems to be catching the curiosity of one thing and then offering as well the others (I’m saying this both on a sales approach, but also to new users. I believe this could help them tacking the learning curve).

@Austin73

OK we have a list.

I can take Midi and touchosc.

What do you need next?

Love the approach!

@khz

Maybe an optional link to the corresponding Example board at the end of each description would also be very inviting and helpful at the same time?

Yes. I agree with this one. Altough the Pedalboard feed needs some love and attention, sharing the pedalboards will be always helpful.

[steve]

I tend to do it at three levels - there is the experimental part, which is maybe just taking a plugin, putting it on a single board and trying it out (currently doing that with DIE and sf2 files) - and I tend to name these EXP:BOARDNAME

Then there is the exploratory part - I have an idea of a sound in my head (e.g 80s flangy fuzz reverb - cocteau twins, souxsie, the cure etc) - then I go listening to sound on my “gallery” boards (a looper connected to loads of switches to route the sound) see:

Pedalboards - MOD Devices

That might get me closer to how I want the sound - or make me rethink completely.

Finally I put it all together into a board called LIVE:BOARDNAME - which for me represents “stable” boards - which I would be ok to play in public. I still haven’t done so yet, but it should happen soon!