Big dual foot switch for big dumb feet

[Gank Bass]

Is anyone making dual foot switches (for hx stomp) in normal sized pedal enclosures?  Currently using the ampero one switch but the empty space on my board is giving me existential dread? Had a look at the boss FS but I'm seeing a common fault with latching issues 

 

Thanks!

[PinkMohawk]

Have a look at Pedalnetics, they make the dual footswitch that mounts on the Stomp, but they also do a lot of other stuff, they might have something appropriate for you?

 

[Gank Bass]

Some very nice looking stuff on there! Not quite what I'm after though!

[prowla]

My board has this one from NinjaFox.

 

[Gank Bass]

That looks incredibly fancy! Nice board!

 

I'm looking for that orientation but just wider - which is probably not the most desirable 

[prowla]

59 minutes ago, Gank Bass said:

That looks incredibly fancy! Nice board!

 

I'm looking for that orientation but just wider - which is probably not the most desirable 

Cheers!
With mine the Stomp supplementary switch is as wide as the gap you want to leave to the next pedal.

Actually, for a Stomp, the two switches are just momentary press going to a TRS jack, so making one into a project enclosure (you can get good quality aluminium ones for a few quid) is a pretty simple job.

The one I bought lights up too, so it's got that "essential" extra featurette...

 

On my board the MicroBass 3 preamp is the hub and the switcher along the front just connects to its fx loop and switches the 4 supplementary pedals in/bypass at the touch of a button.

That means you can switch out a pedal (eg. the Stomp), silently change its setting, and then switch it back in when ready.

[Gank Bass]

Could you talk me through the Morningstar? I'm seeing them more and more these days but I'm totally uninitiated with midi

[prowla]

1 hour ago, Gank Bass said:

Could you talk me through the Morningstar? I'm seeing them more and more these days but I'm totally uninitiated with midi

I've got it to augment the C4 synth pedal, as its paltry controls aren't sufficient to realistally do much with; effectively it's adding 6 buttons to the C4 (MC6 = MIDI Controller with 6 buttons).

The C4 has a MIDI interface box but its connectors are non-standard so I connect them via an interface (a box with standard MIDI DIN connector on oneside and the C4's proprietary connector on the other) called a Neuro Hub which sits on the underside of the pedalboard (they now do a smaller interface called a MIDI Adapter).

MIDI is quite straightforward: you can think of it as a simple network addressing system where:

• Every attached device has an address (called a channel, a number 1-16).
• Each attached device (could be a synth, a pedal, a lighting controller) has a pre-defined set of messages it can accept, such as keyboard notes, control-knob settings, selector switches on/off.
• You can send a value along with the message (a number 0-127), which could be the note on a keyboard, the value of a volume slider, a switch on/off, which effect setting to select.
• Typically synths allow you to save a setting of your choosing to one of 127 memories (eg. 0=moog sound, 1=80s synth bass, 2=the sound they used on that hit in the 90s, etc.); these are called "patches".

A programmable MIDI Controller like the MC6 allows you to program each button to send one or more messages to a given MIDI channel (and set what's displayed on the LCD panel next to the button); typically these could be to choose a given sound you've configured on the synth (a "patch") or to step up/down through the patches.

In my case I've programmed two of the buttons to send the messages to step up/down through the C4's patches.

Note that the 16 channels and numbers 0-127 may seem limited; this is because MIDI is based on 1980s technology (ie. 8-bit computers).

However, you can send multiple messages to the same unit, eg. play a piano sound at middle-C with vibrato at 50% volume (ie. that is 4 messages), so it really is quite powerful.

Imagine you walked into a room with some kit and the producer said "play me a piano sound at middle-C with vibrato at 50% volume"; you'd press a few buttons, twiddle the Vol control, and hit a white key half way along the keyboard; curiously similar to what the MIDI controller would do.

The manufacturers of each unit typically publish a list or table of the messages you can use to control its features; all you need to do is look up the sequence of commands you need to send to make the target device (eg. the C4) do what you want..