SamIAm

Looks like a job for 3D printing! 🦸 In fact, this chap has uploaded a design for something similar. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4406135 I'm in the process of trying to get my 3D printer up and running again and would be able at that point to help out. @rwillett might be able to help also. What are its dimensions in mm? This will help determine if it is of a suitable size for the printer I've got. Sam x

As it happens, I work at Worthing Hospital, live near Brighton but will be a patient in Haywards Heath (All are in the same trust, but ...)! Sam x

I hope not! I'm due to go into hospital on Thursday for an op that requires me to stay overnight, I hope the food is edible! I've heard nurses make bad patients! 🤷‍♀️ Sam x

I've just updated the first post of this thread with a rather cool video of the Dwarf, where "All of the backing instruments and the guitar tones were generated from the MOD Dwarf -at the same time."! Sam x

I've just had a play and can confirm that a Sonicake Volwah pedal, connected using a TRS cable from the Volwah expression port to the Zoom control port, does work as an expression controller for my B3 (even tho its circuit is different to the one I posted above)... I would expect it to also work on a B3n. https://www.sonicake.com/products/vexpress £36 from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B077PVVC38/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Sam x

This site has a partial circuit diagram https://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/index.html?xpr-fp-02M.html Sam x

Sadly that is my perception. A paradigm shift to leverage the OSS community could help resolve this… there seem a fair number of skilled and interested folks on the MOD forum … just need some QA oversight in place to make sure it doesn’t get messy! Sam x

I agree @MrDinsdale, even if the onboard display could not express the richness of a fully wired Web built pedalboard, it could at the very least support less complex networks, or even just being able to select a plugin and change it (There are i/o issues here that might mean some restriction/simplification like mono vs stereo). The ability also to scroll all the plugins on a pedalboard and tweak any of its parameters (without having to in advance assign it to an onboard knob/switch) would be great ... and should be fairly straightforward to implement in a metadriven fashion using the LV2 config files. Fundamental (I feel) to any of this is the need for the current HMI logic to be exposed as a documented API to allow access to some of the current stuff as well as more basic graphics primitives, the capability of the actual onboard display is nicely illustrated in the new tuner code that Brummer implemented ... just need to expose that to code living outside the propriety MODos stuff. Royal Mail promises to be delivering my Pi5 tomorrow, so I might even have another go at a Pi/HiFiberry system. The PiStomp has what it calles deep plugin editing and it is basically an add on to the MOD OSS stuff. Sam x

Totally agree with this! Dox on plugins could do with much improvement! There seems to be a code stream that will allow drag and drop replacement of plugins which will ease picking from the potential candidates with reduced effort, fingers crossed it drops soon! For me the biggest missings are No support for any form of pedalboard editing on the device, as you say even a simplified capability would be a huge win. WiFi hotspot support. Audio interface support. Despite all of this, I am getting great results from my Dwarf and am fiddling more with modelling as I recently acquired and amp with direct line in to the power amp section. Sam x

Nope ... When I try to rap it comes out crap! Sam x

Oh yes ... and I do not like Green Eggs and Ham! Sam x

The artist (giggle) formerly known as S'manth, I've been a member for a while now. S'manth was a diminutive of my name (Samantha) that was picked for me in my old ukulele band (there was already another member called Sam) and it sorta stuck. When I left the band due to 'artistic differences' (Yeah, OK ... a falling out ... I was not told what I did but was encouraged to depart!) I stopped using S'manth. And thanks to the power of the BC gods, my new username here is SamIAm. Not to worry tho, I will still be posting the same insane nonsense I always have! 🤣 Sam x

Best of 2023 was my MOD Dwarf (here on BC), a really amazing (tho not perfect) multi-fx box of wonder! Worst ... hmmm ... probably a 9v power supply, it is fine but I don't now use any 9v units on my board so ... S'manth x

It varies. As with any digital system, there is a finite time that it takes to convert the analog input to digital on the way in and then vice versa. I believe on the Dwarf this comes in around 8ms without any f/x in the chain. Add in some heavy processing f/x and it'll go up, tho for some f/x it matters more (Octave) and for others less (reverb). The layout of the f/x patch can make a difference (The Dwarf has multi-chain capability). I do not notice the lag, however I am not the most demanding player and my patchs tend to be fairly simple, the Dwarf really wins for me in that I can play our backing tracks from it and even midi based drummer in a box. You might ask about latency in the MOD thread to get the views of other users. S'manth x

Fraid so, but then I suspect many folks spend loadsa (far too much) time playing with pedals and f/x. S'manth x

The MOD UI is amazing, however ... unlike most other units you cannot changed pedalboard layouts on the Dwarf itself, you have to use a web browser ... this is a feature that many users are asking for. For changing sounds during different sections of a song, I would say a SnapShot capability is ideal. If you have enough footswitches (either on the unit or via a midi addon footswitch unit) you could assign a footswitch to each SnapShot. For example, if you end up with 5 different scenes (Pop, Rock, Funk, Etc), you could select the appropriate patch between songs (Selecting from a list at this point is doable). Tweak a patch for the intro, save as snapshot 1, tweak it differently for the verse, save as snapshot 2, chorus as snapshot 3. Then one your footswitches always use the same one to call up snapshot 1, this will load the snapshot for the current patch and you can label it as the Intro button, etc, etc. S'manth x

HX Edit is the computer based software for configuring Helix devices, this is an old video but gives a good idea of how it works. I believe you can download it for free and use it with the Pod you have access to. Seems there is Pod Go Edit for those units. The Boss GT-1000 Core has their Tone Editor And for Zoom devices they have GuitarLab, there is also really good free third party app called ToneLib Zoom For the Dwarf, you can download a desktop Dwarf app that emulates a Dwarf on Windows/Mac/Linux (It is currently in beta) but gives you a chance to really have a play. https://forum.mod.audio/t/introducing-the-mod-app-for-desktops-beta-release/10495/134 S'manth x

Absolutely brilliant! S'manth x

From my fiddlings with various multi-fx systems, I offer the following broad (and probably inaccurate for some units) generalisations to consider (Of course you may be aware of all of this already!). I would say that most (all?) units support patches (some call them presets or pedalboards). A patch on a multi-fx unit defines a combination of things: Which effects are in the chain. The ordering of these effects in the chain. The settings of each effect (on/off, gain, mix, etc). Once you have selected a patch, most units will let you tweak the settings on each effect using an on device knob (or via a touchscreen), once you've dialed in a sound you like can save it away in the patch. You can think of a patch as a physical pedalboard, with the pedals you want on it, in the order you want them in and the settings you want for each. Switching a patch is like grabbing a different pedal board from a shelf and replacing the one you are using (But is much quicker and less bulky lol). Units provide the ability to change from one patch to another using a footswitch (Patch Mode), the units with few (3 or less) footswitches usually only let you go through step through them sequentially. If you have a lot of patches (eg one for each song) this can be a pain. You mention Octave, Chorus, Compression, Drive, Synth ... do you want to be able to toggle on/off individual effects in a patch? Perhaps wanting to only activate the octave for the chorus of the song? You can often sometimes assign a footswitch to do this (Stompbox mode), but unless you have a lot of footswitches ... (consider a physical pedalboard that usually has at least one footswitch for each pedal). For units with a lot of footswitches, this can usually be done, for others external footswitches might be required. Some units support snapshots. Snapshots are sort of like variations of a patch. With a patch loaded, you can tweak settings for each effect (including on/off) and save it as a Snapshot. Think of a snapshot as a photograph of a physical pedalboard, showing the knob positions and active/bypass state of each pedal; changing a snapshot is like very (very!) quickly reaching down and tweaking all the things you want to tweak. For units with SnapShots, a similar approach is needed to select them as for patches, stepping through them sequentially or assigning a footswitch to each. For me, I dislike the physical size, cost and relative inflexability of a physical pedalboard ... but it comes with easy/simple access to all of the tweakable things. I like the ability of the multi-fx to let me select from loads and loads of different variations to find the ones I like and then store/recall them ... but to even approach the 'stompability' of a physical board I've found I need to add multiple external footswitches. And individual tweakings are burried away under menus. My current pedalboard uses a MOD Dwarf (Think HX Stomp/GT-100 Core on speed) but I am about to replace the 4 switch MVAVE with an MC-6 to try to allow some more stompability (And to display footswitch info that the MVAVE does not have). I've spent a lot of time and effort in coming up with a sound I like (and my layout is not complex ... compressor/octave/ambience/fuzz), but I am still a toddler. How few 'Scenes' (Patches) can you get away with? From an effort perspective, think of how much time/effort it would take you (If money was not a problem) to set-up and tweak a physical pedalboard for each 'Scene'. Not an answer to your question I fear but I hope it helps a bit. I'd say consider having a really concerted effort to configure the pod go (using a PC can make it easier) to see if you can get what you want. S'manth x

Appropriate sized drill bit & some 3D filiment worked well when I side markered a neck ... S'manth x

What a lovely looking bass! S'manth x

Maxi Priest - Close To You? Close to Me - The Cure

I really enjoyed watching this, I found it both informative and entertaining! S'manth x

There is at least one lunatic member on here who built their own headless tuner system! As it was a prototype, it does not look tidy ... but might seed some thoughts? S'manth x

But what about non mains hum interference ... from dimmer switches, fluorescent lights, some cell phones, computers, etc? In this video about shielding, they even talk about picking up local taxi radios! S'manth x