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My interfaces are M-Audio Delta 1010LTs which have "S/PDIF digital I/O" which I thought I could use for this application?

Has anyone ever used this? I want to set up 1 PC for FX processing, and the other as a master/mix console. Exactly what sort of cable do I buy? All the SPDIF cables around are so vastly different in price! I'm hoping to link two PCs with a Delta 1010LT in each. So... What do I do? Any advice?

This would have been quite useful for me while I was gigging. I thought about making something to do it, it wouldn't be that difficult just a chip and a switch per sample. Bank switching would be more complicated. I never got round to it though.

Only dangerous for those of us who spend too much time bending over our boards!! You could make the flamethrower on a detachable 10m jack lead.

[quote name='Toasted' post='389354' date='Jan 23 2009, 10:13 AM']That's the only reason that I can think to use it for. I mean, I don't understand what's so hard about reaching down to your guitar volume knob.[/quote] In the band i'm recording at the moment there's a guitarist who has a volume cut pedal and has had it for years. He bought it to "make the guitar quieter for some bits". He uses a boss multi-fx for his distortion sounds. In the 2 or 3 years he'd owned it, he had never realised the difference between putting it before or after his distortion, and this isn't a thick guy, it's just a guitarist. This is what we're dealing with! No wonder EH figure they can sell anything. To be fair though, I don't like playing with my knobs while i'm playing. Mainly because the kind of stuff i'm playing required constant attention from my right hand. Obviously the other reason is that it's at a set level instead of having to set it right with your hand each time.

Perhaps it would fit in a bag of some sort? I know people who have bags for Boss multi-effects which are around the same size. I wouldn't take it to gigs without a lid or a bag!! It looks really good though, nice one!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='388768' date='Jan 22 2009, 05:21 PM']Ah of course. I was trying to think what could go in a rack and be that shallow.[/quote] Only the front is facing that way. The gubbins section is rotated 90 degrees and fixed to the underside of the aluminium riser in the flight case which all the pedals are stuck to the top of.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='388694' date='Jan 22 2009, 04:22 PM']What's the long blue thing?[/quote] A Korg rack tuner.

I've been playing with a band a bit recently. My board has calmed down a LOT since I used to gig with 25ish pedals, but basically only because I cba to set it all up again.

Yeh, I suppose, a switchable gain reduction for a guitarist who wants a setting rather than the sweep of a volume pedal.

Do they do a compressor that's linked to a flame thrower, so the harder you play, the more it compresses, this higher the flame goes?

Heh, what's the point of that pedal?!?!?

[quote name='The_D' post='386898' date='Jan 20 2009, 10:50 PM']Nothing. It just removes/suppresses noise in a signal path. Doesnt have any affect on your tone at all. AFAIK it is designed exactly for the purpose in this case.[/quote] Basically, if the noise is there and noticable while you're playing, then a get won't help. I use a Boss NS-2 as my board is horribly noisy. Some of your tone freaks would throw up if you heard my board with the gate off. You can hear the noise while i'm playing if you listen carefully enough, but it's not enough to ruin my tone and at band practice or gigs it's was always unnoticable. Are you playing with a band? Obviously when you get into the studio it's not really a problem so it's only really for live work you need to sort this out, and I doubt it'd be much of a problem for any "rock" band. If you're playing acoustic pop though.... I think there are some noise-surpressory pedals that work in a different way to a gate.

Put the delay right at the end!

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='385735' date='Jan 20 2009, 09:55 AM']ahhh Do you have any pics of it in the "show us your pedalboard" thread?[/quote] Yeh I have a few pics in there, they're all of that board with the rack tuner on it, just differences in the pedals on there.

I didn't know the EHX signal pad was passive. That's a bit crap. Anyway, following on from what you're saying, his active bass will have a buffer built into the pre-amp, surely? So he can use the volume knob on his active bass to sort out his problem?

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='385079' date='Jan 19 2009, 03:44 PM']Tom – what tuner have you got that has a rotatable front?[/quote] Heh, it didn't come with a rotatable front. You have to "modify" it a little.

Yeh it would. The difference in tone could be down to impedence though couldn't it? Rather than volume.

Good point, although there may be an indication as to where to set the output of the comp in it's manual, if you know what I mean? I think you're more likely to get what you want in rack form. I have a rack tuner on my board, the front is facing up, and the body of the unit is rotated 90 degrees underneath the board. That'd look pretty cool with a nice compressor with VU meter!

[quote name='Earbrass' post='384976' date='Jan 19 2009, 02:23 PM']Sadly... Bass >> PD7 >> Bad Monkey >> Amp: radio Thanks anyway[/quote] LOL! Sorry. Deffinitely try another bass or guitar. I have an amp which picks up the radio at my practice room, and at home my 5.1 surround speaker set is always blurting out some eastern european weirdness. Neither have ever caused me a problem though, as what I want to hear is louder than the radio.

I know what you mean, but comparing signals would give you the same information, even if it doesn't look as cool. Sorry, I don't know any pedals with a VU meter. I'll feck off!!