Hi All.
I want to show you my just completed pedalboard to use mainly with kemper (but also with my tube amps if needed/wanted).
It is not one of my neatest works but it is certantly the fastest built I have ever made, it has all been assembled (cables and dedicated boxes too) in one day.
The idea is to use the musicom Lab MKV setted as the kemper remote, 5 sounds per bank and switch 6 is programmed for tap tempo.
I can access to CC with a touch of the dedicated buttons so I can turn off/on the stompboxes (etc...) just like on the remote (it is only less fast to program...), so I can use it as I would do with the remote board that I use for smaller gigs or reharsals
the signal goes in this way:
IN --> Ernie Ball volume (with buffer) --> Xotic Wah --> musicomLab:
loop 1 - Effectrode PC2A
loop 2 - Origin Effect Cali 76
loop 3 - Effectrode Fire Bottle
loop 4 - FEA Labs Photon Fuzz (a hell of a pedal, I love it)
loop 5 - Leqtique MAR (tubescreamer like pedal)
loop 6 - Kingsley Jester
loop 7 - Skreddy Lunar Module
loop 8 - TC Electronic stereo chorus flanger (mono in - stereo Out)
loop 9 - Eventide H9 Max (stereo In&Out)
volume loop (always on) - TC Electronic VPD1 (controlled by the musicom lab internal releè)
(the order of the loop is not fixed, the musicom lab is able to change the position of every loop including volume loop)
The musicom lab is the core of the 4 cable method because after hitting the VPD1 the volume loop goes into the input of the kemper (amp), the Kemper Fx send goes back in the vol loop return, the musicom lab buffered stereo out (with the left isolated from the right by an internal transformer ) goes to kemper stereo fx return (return + alternate input).
The big advantage here is that being able to reorganize the loop order i can decide to put all the pedals in the kemper loop of move some pedals in fornt and other in the Fx loop according to my needs...
The two expression pedals are fractal audio EP2 mini... they are just perfect. Currently they are attached to H9 and musicom lab and I use them with the kemper thanks to midi...
I am thinking to do a dedicated cabling to attach them directly to the kemper since I am noticing some latency due to midi... For now they are just fine organized like that... should I need to use the whammy of the kemper the latency could become a problem... but for those Fx I have the H9 that has all my "legacy" fx from "before kemper" inside...
The tuner is always on and attached to the dedicated tuner out of the musicom lab.
The selah effect Quartz MkII is used as a display for the sound used (given that the display is big enough i want to indicate also the stomps programmed in the sound as a quick memo). I will use the capability of the quartz to manage up to 3 external two buttons controllers to send midi CC and PC if i see that it is too difficult to use the switches of the musicom to turn fx on and off in the kemper during live performance.
All the loop labels and the grips are fluorescent so that I can see them in the dark.
All it is powered by the new Ciocks DC/7 (light and powerful) attached to a Strymon Ojai
What do you think?