PinkMohawk

That's a slick little design you've got! I just had a look over the manual you posted, I like the look of it a lot. So personally, I have two use-cases for DI's, when I'm performing, and when I'm running the desk. There's no overlap for me, I'm not in a band where I have to run out to mix the show while I'm playing it. When I'm performing, right now my DI boxes go at the end of the chain, kicking the parallel to any amps I might be running, with the XLR's going straight to FOH after all of my effects which are relatively simple, mainly heavy drive, amp sim, sometimes pitch effects. That'll change when I finally make the switch to an Anagram, where I'll be splitting the outputs internal to the pedal, using the XLR outs to go to FOH with amp sims, and the 1/4" outs to go to amps, before any amp sim on the pedal. When I'm on the desk mixing a show, DI's are right before the amps as well, and I leave it to the performer to put whatever they want in front of them. For me, the name of the game is reliability. I need to know that when I bring that fader up, I'm getting sound, and it sounds like the player. If I need to tweak things, I usually have some form of EQ on the desk, whether it's a basic analogue channel strip or a full graphic EQ on a digital desk. That said, giving the player a little control over their DI tone with that shaping knob is a great idea, letting them adjust what they're getting out of the monitors a little without trashing what I'm getting at the desk. If I could add my two cents to your current design? As a player who'd mount this to my board, I'd love to see all the inputs and outputs on one side of the pedal. That's just a personal preference, I like having my 'final stage' on the pedalboard to be like that. As an engineer who'd throw this in my pelican for a gig, I'd love to see the controls be turned into something low profile. Trim pots accessible through the enclosure, etc. This is an organisational thing. Engineers often carry DI's in their pelican cases (I've got three of the most basic, passive DI's I could find in mine as my emergency DI's.) and it's already tight for space in there. Having the enclosure as low-profile as possible, with as few things sticking out as possible would make it that much more tempting to have these as my go-to DI's instead. Hope this all helps!

Very nice, look forward to ending up having to cart around a rack unit when the rest of the band realise that they should be on IEM's as well.

No kidding, I was running sound over at The Crown, my uni volunteers us students, as well as some of our equipment, to help out. We supplied The Crown and The Star (outside), and we had students all over the place.

100% agreement. Just ran sound for a stage at this years Oxjam in Beeston. The only problem I ran into all day? Active DI's not giving me any signal. Phantom power on, should have been getting me plenty of output but I wasn't getting diddly except noise, and these were decent DI boxes too. What saved the set? The pair of cheap, nasty Behringer DI400P's. You know the ones, the basic black metal boxes that everyone turns their nose up at. Worked perfectly as soon as we swapped them in. Chucked the other DI's back in the gear box and ran with the Behringer's for the rest of the day with 0 issues. Packing out my new Peli soon, ordered 3 of the Behringer's as my emergency DI's. At the end of the day, I want as little to worry about as possible. Plug and play is the name of the game, I don't want to have to muck about wondering why I'm not getting signal, I just want it to work, and passive DI's just work.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNq5MGoyzbe Not sure if anyone is paying much attention to this, but I noticed that these have gone up for pre-order on Long & McQuade, a Canadian retailer I believe, with an 'in stock' date of 30th November. Whether that'll carry over to the UK, I'm not sure. Managed to find an Instagram video of a guy who's got hold of one, no clue what his setup is apart from it being an MM style bass, but it's definitely an aggressively muted sound he's getting from it.

Great tone, great playing, I do find it hilarious that he's playing a Sire bass, but he's still using a Fender branded strap.

Mainly, it's that we disagree that sound engineers should be dictating what's on stage and in use. When I was touring, I rolled with 2 8x10's and that was that, I was happy to work with engineers but they didn't get to dictate terms to me. As an engineer now, I don't tell bands what they can and can't use on stage, I'm there to figure it out and make it work. Will I ask them to turn down? Sometimes, if I have to, but in a small venue, I'm just as likely to let them turn it up and just not have them in the PA.

Yeah, feels very high-handed. I don't like to put my own character onto a bands sound unless that's something that they want me to do. I find it's better to just amplify what the band gives me and fix obvious issues.

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?

Can any users confirm the actual power requirements? Listed is 2A, but then the HX Stomp lists 2/3A, can't remember which. Considering a board rearrange to move from a Stomp XL to an Anagram, but I'd like to know how much more of the board will need to be rearranged to accommodate it.

The little black buttons that surround the switch. I really don't like it as an interface, but I also have size 13 feet and only wear Doc Martens, so, I may be a little biased there.

For just the basics I'd do a cheap Zoom multi, I have the B1 Four X on a little board with a Joyo Sansamp clone, that covers me for quick and dirty covers and rock stuff. My main board has a Stomp XL, which in future I'm planning to swap to an Anagram when I've got the money. As for how you manage big, complex boards live, it's usually a MIDI controller. More and more pedals have some form of MIDI control nowadays, which allows a user to program a foot controller to switch pedals on and off, change presets, etc. all with one footswitch. Prior to my current board, I was running a Source Audio Aftershock and a Line 6 M5 as well, along with some other non-MIDI pedals (Pitchfork and a couple of others). I used a loop switcher that was MIDI enabled to control it all, switching sounds with a single press of a switch when I needed to. Great live, but the caveat is that you need to spend quite a bit of time setting up your sounds beforehand.

The low end stuff, sure, it's all basically equivalent at that kind of price range.

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knows how I'd go about modding a DD-3 to take an expression pedal to control the delay time? Looking at the schematic, I think I've got a loose idea how to do it, but if anyone has any actual experience, that'd be preferable to me taking a blind stab at it and screwing the pedal up.

Every time I've messed with the mod shop configurator, I just find out how ridiculously limited it is. I get that it's just them bolting together whatever spare parts they've got kicking around the warehouse and probably charging you extra for the privilege, but the least they could do would be to add a few special options, no?