Magical Mystery Switch?

[El Barto]

Is there such a switch that when I hit it, it kicks in my pedals? For example, let's say I'm in the clean mode, and I wanna kick on the distortion and delay (2 different pedals) at once...is this possible? Better yet...is there a way to kick in my amp distortion, delay pedal, and pedal distortion all at once with one switch? I have a Marshall VS100 combo with the footswitch. Or do I just have to train my feet to move really fast?

[Daddy-O]

You could try an A/B box. It is a floor box with a foot switch that aloows you to select between two chanels. Run you from "A" to your amp and no effects for clean and run your dirty and delay from "B". As for your amp being selected also, you could do it if you are hand with switches, wire and a soldering iron. You could build a custom switch box that would toggle "A" and "B" chanel and control your amp. Or train your feet to move realy fast.

[James HE]

Get a DOD FX loop/Gate. It has an effect loop that you turn on and off- exactly what you want. It also has a gate that sucks and you will never use...
I have one. It was my emergency switch- I had some old effects. An ancient bigg muff (a pre-pie muff) and a crappy crybaby, along with reissued Electro-Harmonix and MXR pedals. these days it's just a volume pedal, a wah, and my MemoryMan.

-jhe

[Cooperman]

If you are running lots of pedals then the industry standard is a Rocktron All Access switching unit... if you are only running a few pedals then you can use a line selector... but switching on two pedals isn't so bad... just practice it and you'll be able to do it really quick... I can manage to switch on and off my delay pedal and my wah without too many problems.

[El Barto]

Sweet...thanks. How do you like that Memory Man? I'm pretty intrigued by it and I wanna give one a try sometime...ever play with the Microsynth?

[Viking]

BTW: There is such a product as the 'combinator' which has multiple loops which can be combined and remembered like a multi-effects unit. 9 loops in total. Again this was a product I started work on with Radio Shack components about 2.5 years ago. (SIGH)..... I think that whenever you have a good idea some corporate mindsucker somewhere gets hold of it while you sleep or something.....

[James HE]

Ahh yes, the memory man. actually, that the magical mystery switch! I love it, what can I say, it's not a versital delay in any way, but that's not the point. The point is rich, warm, beautiful goodness. You can do some really wacky things twisting the knobs while playing, think the end of "Karma Police" It can be very sublte, which is where I like it. The chorus/vibrato is'nt all that, but with the delay it's a really nice effect. I haven't played around a mico-synth, but a freind of mine had one, and he actually didn't like it. who know's though.

-jhe

[El Barto]

I guess it all depends on the style you're into (with the Microsynth). I'm big into noise experimentation with guitars. At one point I would never even consider getting a pedal to change my sound...I'd do what I want with the guitar and amp. But I'm looking into getting a delay (most likely the BOSS DD5) and better distortion (BOSS DS2)...oh well.

[reco]

There is a new toy out there by Carl Martin called the Combiner Musicains friend has them, but there like $450 boss has the line selector I think it has two loops on it.
The boss is kinda just a smaller version of the combiner.
Im gonna get both eventualy.
The micro synth is kewl Ive messed with it a bit.
But if ur into noise try a Z.Vex Fuzz Factory. Pure crazy mad man fuzz that is sometimes out of hand sound like a cross between a guitar a synth and a radio loosing its mind.
They have a site at, http://www.zvex.com
Boss bass synth is nuts, I love noise music.