How can I do this?

[NoirBass]

Having thought about it the way I have my signal chain running at the moment all I need to do is mute the incoming signal once the Freeze has taken its snapshot. On a momentary switch I can just release and the signal will be un-muted. My other idea was to add a short delay to the muting, but it looks way too complicated to make.

I'll have a bash at a few things and see how I get on

[cheddatom]

I'm thinking you hold down the switch on the ABY, while you play the "snap shot", let go, and then there's nothing going down that chain anymore, effectively muting it

I did a similar thing once. I had a delay pedal which was always on, and blended into the end of my chain. The input of the delay was running off an AB box which I modified to switch from A to B with a momentary switch. When I pressed it, it would send whatever I played into the delay, then I let go and the delay would carry on while I played through channel A

it was easier to do that as I didn't have to turn the delay on and off

[lefrash]

Why not a floor midi controller triggering a laptop or somethin? Seems alot of faff.

[NoirBass]

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1423133953' post='2681111']
Why not a floor midi controller triggering a laptop or somethin? Seems alot of faff.
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Please expand.

[Bottle]

@ the OP. Have you thought of using the Akai Headrush Looper/Delay pedal in Tape Echo mode? It has four discrete outputs - one for each 'virtual' Tape Head, so you could route output 1 to the rest of your signal chain for further processing and the Mix output would then just have Tape Heads 2,3 and 4 but not 1, so could be fed into something else. The pedal has a tap tempo function as well.

Here's the user manual: [attachment=182965:Akai_E2-HeadRush_OM_153058.pdf]

HTH,
Ian

Edited February 5, 2015 by Bottle

[NoirBass]

[quote name='Bottle' timestamp='1423142016' post='2681292']
@ the OP. Have you thought of using the Akai Headrush Looper/Delay pedal in Tape Echo mode? It has four discrete outputs - one for each 'virtual' Tape Head, so you could route output 1 to the rest of your signal chain for further processing and the Mix output would then just have Tape Heads 2,3 and 4 but not 1, so could be fed into something else. The pedal has a tap tempo function as well.

Here's the user manual: [attachment=182965:Akai_E2-HeadRush_OM_153058.pdf]

HTH,
Ian
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Sounds interesting, do you mean instead of the Freeze or alongside?

[Bottle]

[quote name='NoirBass' timestamp='1423147076' post='2681406']
Sounds interesting, do you mean instead of the Freeze or alongside?
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Well I was thinking it might be possible to route the first 'Tape Head' output direct to the Freeze (if I understood your signal chain correctly)

Everything else comes out of the Mix output (minus the first Tape Head)

OK, so here's how I could see this working.....bear with me, I lost myself doing this in my head too

Step 1: Bass > HeadRush > Dry Output > Clean Channel

Step 2: HR Mix Output > FX > LS2 'A' mix

Step 3: HR Tape 1 > Zoom G1on > EHX Freeze > LS2 'B' Mix

Step 4: LS2 output to second channel

EDIT: you may need to play around with the order and placment of effects in the Mix channel and the Freeze channel but I reckon this might get close to what you wanted to achieve

Ian

PS here's a YT clip of the HR2 in tape echo mode [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIe2I-ZwQDI"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIe2I-ZwQDI[/url]

Edited February 5, 2015 by Bottle