EBS_freak

To be fair, the 610 and 810 are still very popular stateside... and Sweden and Germany.

OK - but the difficulty is setting the maximum and minimum positions of the servo/motor - and the position of that in relation to the pot that it is attached to. It's not as easy as putting the servo on the pot and telling the microprocessor to go - here, learn this.. as the microprocessor has no concept of the positions possible on the pots on the fx pedal, particularly if those pots on the fx pedal are moved by hand. I do have a potential solution for you however...

Obviously - but it's understanding the MVP which is key... the Mk1 is the maker or breaker.

Teensy is a good call. PS Have you any idea how you are going to be saving settings? For example, you may want to think of stuff in terms of banks and patches. Maybe each bank having 4 presets. If you then said had a support for 8 pedals with say, 3 variable controllers, thats something like 96 bytes of information per bank. Be wary that some microprocessors have relatively small EEPROM. For example, taking this example, that would give you only 5 banks. A lot of people will use a bank per song... so be mindful to get something that can handle this sort of memory requirement. This is also assuming fixed values... you may want some movement (which would be really cool and certainly something that I'd imagine would be really cool - imagine a tremolo effect for example, by turning a volume pot up and down) Before going too far, get some requirements nailed down from the guys that are going to use this. Additionally, been thinking about this, not sure that servo is the best option for this - you may want to look into stepper motors. Shout me if you want some more info.

What’s your microprocessor of choice?

I checked out my friends Boss at the beginning of the week. Seems robust enough, especially for the price. Can’t complain really - and if you like the “bug” approach to wireless (I’m personally not a fan - I would put it on a cable and have the transmitter unit in a pouch on a strap), it’s got to be one, if not, the one to go for.

I’m stumped. Any ideas?

12 pounds a year doesn’t sound right...

Don't suppose anybody could clean my car? I mean, I could do it myself.... but why should I?

No - and thats where the fun begins - securing the servo so it can bit to all pedals, that's where things start getting complex. The "third hand" is actually a very good method, having used one - but very clunky for controlling multiple channels. Interested to see how you progress... especially for something universal.

PS - the only reason I'm in the know on this - I've already been there. I can also give you the heads up that trimming the pots by the controller is key - thats the gotcha. Not all pots are equal in the amount they rotate.

Indeed - the servo element can be almost directly attached to the pot. I take it that you have seen this? -

A more analogue take on the stompenberg! https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/stompenberg-effects/

I'm guessing you are implementing something along these lines - with a servo/motor instead of the impression pedal?

I've got a specific use case. Don't want a load of power supplies, plug sockets and the like. I'm looking for as small as possible... whilst having a lot of 9v power on tap.

Got it -

Here's some pics - hopefully gives you an idea of size, quality etc.

Quick question... is anybody using an aftermarket power supply and using something that is rated than less that 3A? That seems quite a draw at 9v.

That is correct... yes.

I've never really trusted the pedal train soft cases anyway...

Yes, they are defo a nice option for covering a lot of space. I run a very wide stage set up so getting a nice spread of colour across the stage is always quite difficult. Like all lighting, haze is key (but it's getting more difficult to allow venues to allow you use it!). The danger of moving heads is that without haze, they just tend to look like spots on the wall... like the mysterons are around or something! (Sorry to all those too young to get the reference) Beams in haze are bang on.. Especially when they are co-ordinated. Speaking of co-ordination - its a shame that the inbuilt automatic shows on these moving washes has a flash... it's otherwise quite tasteful.

That notepad would get my vote 🙂

Yes - It's defo a wash - akin to a moving par can. I think I found some specs somewhere that suggested the output angle was 45 degree... so not something like a beam which would typically lie at something like 6 percent. The light is very defined though - probably brighter than the tripars I have (that are the closest thing to compare if to LED wise).

I've got an IEM sound and a FOH. Does that count? The IEM mix has lots of multiband comp going on and some added weight in the bass. Sending my IEM mix to FOH with subwoofers would sound absolutely rubbish... but sending my FOH to my IEMs would sound comparatively thin and lacking.

OK - had a play. Have to say for less than 40 quid each, you really can't go wrong. In real terms, there are a moving head with an equal output (arguably more) than an ADJ Tripar. They aren't the quickest of moving heads (hey, they don't cost a grand+), they are pretty well built - they are plastic, but it steel feels quite substantial, probably more so than your average equivalent plastic par (hey, they don't cost a grand+), the DMX control is compressive and provide tilt, pan and RGB control with extended flash, sound to light features if you choose the extended channel model (they don't do anything like iris, prism etc, but hey, they don't cost a grand+) A lot of people are going to be interested in the little remote that came with it (I didn't realise it did). Comes with things like auto mode, RGB and mix colour selection (if you don't like the fit inducing colour changing routines etc)... A nice little addition I guess. In reality, I'm probably going to buy another 7 and make up a lightweight portal moving head truss for smaller gigs and I'll build an DMX foot controller for them.