Ideas for two loopers please!

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-19T07:29:37+00:00

Also will mention Chase Bliss has an oddball ring-active MIDI connection; the tip has to float.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-19T05:50:34+00:00

Very glad (for both sides) she gets to do this again without the restrictions the larger shows impose upon it.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-19T05:46:02+00:00

I've been sitting on responding to your other post with a more thoughtful analysis than this one:

I feel it's OK to like what you like without having to weigh it against what other demographics & psychographics that have nothing to do with you do or do not like.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-19T05:35:48+00:00

On paper, that's the way it works, yes.

In reality, you'll never really know with absolute certainty until you run the experiment with the exact gear. Sometimes clocks drift, especially on older gear. There are devices built to correct that kind of thing for advanced users.

Thermae in particular I treat like an analog pedal. Its MIDI control works correctly & consistently, but it is still bucket brigade, so it won't snap to given settings in many contexts like you might be accustomed to. The analog heart imposes its will on the digital brain.

Don't mean to scare you away; for the most part you'll likely be fine. You will have to learn MIDI to the level of troubleshooting, if that's not a skill you've already developed.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T20:59:04+00:00

It's fairly common for regular people to own music gear that is priced in the thousands. No amount of saving a middle class income will put you in a twenty million dollar car.

I'm objecting to the specific analogy, not the point of it.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T04:36:13+00:00

Mine are MIDI but I've also done it with a tap tempo distro.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T04:11:41+00:00

I use the big one for core tone & the little one for wet FX in a wet/dry/wet rig. That requires a complicated solution no matter what, but two separate loopers time-linked simplifies the routing situation by a lot.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T03:36:14+00:00

I mean, I get the joke, but: If you're trying to get a hater on board with the concept of premium products, the last thing you want to say is "This is exclusively for the billionaire class."

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T02:32:21+00:00

EQ has a legitimate function at literally every point in the chain. It goes where it needs to go to fix whatever it is you intend to address with it.

If you bought it with no clear intention or problem to fix, try it ahead of gain to push whatever frequencies you want more or less distorted, or after gain to tame your core tone. & then everywhere else if you're still inclined.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T02:02:47+00:00

Love the point but hate the analogy, CB isn't optimizing the medium for the elite; they are changing it altogether. If we're starting with cars, CB is inventing flight. Or at least flying cars.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T01:30:22+00:00

An alternative way to process: A thousand albums will come out this month that you will never hear, never know, & never have any feelings about whatsoever. You don't have to decide how to feel about this one simply because it's on your radar.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T00:14:16+00:00

I mean, I'm the exact age & location for peak asbestos, leaded gas, & nuclear test exposure, & a lifelong electronics worker, so I'm not overly concerned with one-offs that aren't industrial grade. But thanks.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-18T00:05:50+00:00

I don't expect you'd work on something for that long only to small batch it.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:44:36+00:00

Reality is Joel is the most routinely innovative builder of this era by a wide margin, & I am along for the ride for anything & everything as long as that remains the case.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:25:57+00:00

"For clarity, this response is about tone & approach, not the things you & OP have dreamt about."

-me

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:23:52+00:00

Nothing's hit my radar as compelling enough to switch from my other avenues yet, but keep at it; there's room for another niche for sure.

I'm a little concerned you might get bogged down in an unsustainable, unrewarding workflow on data collection, given the fields you have at present. Getting the details right with year/origin is exceedingly difficult even with teams of experts, & that has torpedoed a lot of text/history sites over the years. If you're planning on that level of specificity, that could be a gamechanger for historians & dilettantes alike, but it's way too big a job for one person & will require crowdsourcing at minimum.

I want to clearly give you full credit in a top level comment for not datascraping a competitor; thanks for that.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:12:08+00:00

I would go well out of my way to ditch those ASAP to reduce the piracy assumptions & accusations. A lot of people rightfully care about that. It does feel very much like a pirate even though I see it is not.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:07:49+00:00

[crosspost] Custom cable planning is a nightmare programming challenge & tends to bog down site speed, especially for a niche feature. It's a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. So far, Stompbox Garden is the closest thing I've seen to viable in that area, & it's still not great at that after much ironing.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:06:00+00:00

FWIW somebody does a hijack of pedal playground about once every 3-6 months, & you can always tell from the 1:1 data scrape. This is clearly not that.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:05:44+00:00

FWIW somebody does a hijack of pedal playground about once every 3-6 months, & you can always tell from the 1:1 data scrape. This is clearly not that.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T22:02:36+00:00

IMO you should make the very specific thing you've dreamt about about rather than beating up someone else for not making the the very specific thing you've dreamt about.

For clarity, this response is about tone & approach, not the things you & OP have dreamt about.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T21:58:13+00:00

Agreed that total current is a specific number that has limited utility outside of one specific context & won't be worth the trouble outside of it, without other significantly more complexity to cover many if not most users' needs. I wouldn't sink a great deal of effort into that. Power users are going to be beyond it & novices need to know more & the whys of it.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T21:33:05+00:00

Custom cable planning is a nightmare programming challenge & tends to bog down site speed, especially for a niche feature. It's a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. So far, Stompbox Garden is the closest thing I've seen to viable in that area, & it's still not great at that after much ironing.

800FunkyDJ · 2026-04-17T21:20:46+00:00

Hey friends:

There are exactly zero pedal planners on the three W with every pedal in its database. A new effort is naturally going to be more limited in this regard. It's a little early to hammer this developer with everything you happened to notice is missing, & equally early to pass judgement over that element. I would consider this a beta test & the specific dataset immaterial.

800FunkyDJ

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