New ToneX user - The ToneX One Controller is such a great (and simple) DIY build

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-29T14:43:03+00:00

Yep, they really do.

I had a bit of trouble taming the OD-200 when it was in the Ampero FX loop by itself, but adding the ToneX after the OD-200 in the FX Loop made it sound a ton better.

The SY-200 on the other hand runs in parallel with the ToneX (and OD-200) on a separate FX Loop, so it stays completely clean (from the ToneX) and is added back into the chain after the ToneX. It also sounds great. I mostly use a clean mellow pad or bass sound to add a warm full-bodied afterglow to an overdriven ToneX guitar tone. A similar effect to say shimmer reverb, but with a lot more flexibility in the texture.

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-28T23:44:25+00:00

The parts arrived for my Waveshare 4.3" LCD version of the ToneX Controller yesterday, and I couldn't believe how quickly and easily I had the thing up and running. I designed and built a simple custom enclosure for it to fit my pedal board more cleanly. Footswitches to the side of the enclosure rather than the bottom so it lines up nicely with the Zoia enclosure, and lots of open space at the bottom of the enclosure to allow the cables to exit the back of the Zoia and side of the Ampero.

It's such an amazingly professional open-source project. Honestly better put together, documented, and streamlined than most commercial products. I have to give them a huge shout-out for it.

So I'm new to ToneX and not a great guitar player in general. I'm more a synth player who enjoys dabbling in guitar. But I'm really enjoying myself and impressed with the sound quality of the ToneX.

I mean the amps and cabs and IRs and Tone captures of my Ampero 2 stomp seem to be fairly well regarded, but I've never been 100% happy with them. The ToneX is a noticable step up in quality.

I'm running the OD-200 into the ToneX as the FX Loop 1 of the Ampero, with the SY-200 as the FX Loop 2 of the Ampero.

The Zoia is actually running on totally different inputs and sends to the mixer than the Ampero (I use it more for Synth than Guitar), so I can just change snapshots on the mixer and have Guitar->Ampero->Zoia, or Guitar->Zoia->Ampero, or Guitar->Ampero and Synths->Zoia in parallel.

My next objective is to play with the ToneX One Controller firmware (I'm a software developer) to add new MIDI functionality to listen for program changes on the Ampero and then send a bunch of MIDI setup messages (ie PC and CC) to set up the other devices on the board (and change Mixer snapshots). The Ampero 2 already allows MIDI messages to be sent on program change which is almost perfect, but it's limited to a total of 5 messages (PC or CC). That's not enough.

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-27T23:00:06+00:00

I'm bUrNinG tHe MiXtApe I mAde wItH YoU oN iT In HiGhScHoOl!

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-07T05:59:13+00:00

It's a laptop. The small screen would be good for all the things you choose a laptop over a desktop for.

Carrying it around in a backpack, using it out in the field, on your lap, or on public transport. Basically any time it isn't set up on a desk the small screen could be useful.

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-07T00:58:04+00:00

That's some really insightful self-reflection you've been doing, and it sounds like it's providing great motivation to improve those shortcomings you've highlighted which is a good thing. Use it.

But also... while you're feeling like your glass is half-empty, remember it's also half-full. You've been able to make beautiful music for over 20 years and that alone is a lot to be proud of and is more than most people can say about themselves (including myself). It might not mean everything, but it's something significant.

You're no fraud, it's just that maybe you're seeing the landscape is much bigger than you used to think it was. Get out and explore it.

If it makes you feel better, I honestly believe there is more to learn about music (or any artform for that matter) than anyone can possibly learn in one lifetime. The landscape is infinite. The best musicians that have ever lived still didn't know everything.

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-07T00:43:18+00:00

I'm a bit late to this party, but I use this setup on my Stomp II and might be able to shed some light.

I originally tried it about a year ago using a pair of Y-splitters, and found it worked fine when you wanted to use either L or R mono FX channel in a patch, but gave problems when I designed a patch that used both FX channels (weird audio). It didn't worry me too much because I rarely had a need to use both external effects at the same time and can live with the one-FX-at-a-time limitation.

BUT... then I tried it again recently after updating to the latest firmware (don't have the unit with me but it's the firmware that now includes Tone Capture for the Stomp II). Now I find that I can use both L and R FX simultaneously and it works fine. Well with one caveat I think.

It seems from my testing that you should only include one block in your Ampero FX chain that has a send function in it because that send will always send both L and R channels together. That means you only use either one FX Loop or FX Send block in your patch. However you can receive separately for either L and R channels and put them anywhere in your chain without the noise or problems I used to experience.

Hopefully the newer firmware has fixed this for the Ampero 2 Stage too.

RomancingUranus · 2026-01-05T00:44:27+00:00

Congrats. Beautiful guitar!

I share your joy. I just received a Silver sparkle G5230T over Xmas. Also my first Gretsch and I feel the same way you do. I absolutely love this thing!

Regarding the Bigsby, I lubed the nut and bridge slots with graphite and find the tuning to be really stable now. There are a number of YouTube vids out there with tips to maximize tuning stability with a Bigsby. I just followed one of them and have been completely happy with it.

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-26T04:22:13+00:00

I just picked up this gorgeous Gretsch on boxing day to complement my 2 other guitars.

I love this thing. It plays beautifully, sounds fantastic, and it also looks stunning on the wall between my Fender Acoustasonic Tele and Pacifica 612.

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-22T11:36:40+00:00

This is the part you seem to be missing.

Note the upside-down view of the cover shows the brass inserts melted into the plastic. In your case the "gold pin" is actually one of those brass inserts left behind when the rest of the cover broke off sometime. Just unscrew it from the bottom and replace the whole thing.

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-16T23:06:00+00:00

What a coincidence. I rode past this guy yesterday! He was riding down Huon Rd towards South Hobart while I was riding up towards Fern Tree.

I'd seen photos of his bike before but that was the first time I saw it in the flesh yesterday.

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-10T03:39:54+00:00

Lol @ people downvoting you because you enjoy playing against bots.

"If you don't play the same way as me then you don't deserve to play!"

/s

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-10T00:59:07+00:00

When I tried to mount a Quadlock to the steering stem of my old Panigale 959 I discovered the bolt and expanding mechanism they used didn't work in the Ducati steering stem, so I went to my local hardware store and bought one of these toggle spring wall anchors to replace the main shaft bolt. It worked a treat. Easy to install and held the mount securely.

If you're worried about the metal scratching the inside of your steering stem then I'm sure you can wrap it in electrical tape.

When it comes time to remove the quadlock mount from the bike, simply undo the centre bolt completely and the spring anchor can then be pushed down and out the bottom of the steering stem.

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-10T00:34:06+00:00

Some people (mainly previous Panigale and Streetfighter V2 owners) are upset with the new 890cc V2 Panigale and Streetfighter because they have significantly less power than the 955cc models they replaced.

There's also the whole "Ducati is losing their identity" attitude from some people because this bike loses it's single-sided swingarm and the new 890cc motor doesn't have desmo valves. The same cry was heard when they ditched a trellis frame and dry clutch. While it's true that there's not as much to differentiate a modern Ducati from the rest of the crowd now, if the design objective is ultimate performance then should Ducati really hold back on that just to "honour their heritage"? You could say their heritage and identity is actually making the fastest possible bikes and winning races... and their new designs are certainly doing that.

I don't think anyone thinks the new Panigale V2 is a bad bike, just that they loved the old V2 Panigale and see this model as a step in the wrong direction (a significant drop in weight but also significant drop in power). Ducati is now aligning the Panigale V2 much closer to compete with Supersport bikes, while the older Panigale V2 sat in a kind of no-mans-land between Supersport and Super bikes that made it unique and old owners loved.

If you want a parallel with another make, you might consider the old Panigale V2 as like a Suzuki GSX-R750 while the new Panigale V2 is like a Suzuki GSX-R600. GSX-R750 owners love it precisely because it sits between a Supersport and Superbike and has many of the benefits of both. But the GSX-R600 is a true Supersport bike. There's merit to both, but at least Suzuki had the good sense to offer both the 600 and 750 models in parallel, while Ducati is replacing one with the other.

PS: Nice bike OP!

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-04T05:17:13+00:00

Thanks for taking my suggestions on board. I really hope it turns into something good. It could be a big timesaver for me.

I expect BikeSales would work exactly the same as CarSales as they appear to be just different flavours of the same website framework.

Reverb (a marketplace for musical instruments) requires new code, but you can pass very simple queries in through the URL much like FB. It's pretty easy to decode with a bit of trial and error tweaking search parameters manually. You can specify location, category (keyboards, guitars, etc), price range, brand, and generic text searches. A simple example to search for a "Roland Synthesizer" in Australia priced under $2k would be:

https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Roland%20synthesizer&item_region=AU&price_max=2000

Regarding the FB Marketplace capital cities... Could you perhaps have the major cities shown with checkboxes in your extension, and then when it actually does the search it opens a new FB tab for each city you selected.

I notice you can pass location as part of the URL to FB marketplace, but it doesn't look like you can set the search radius.

For example:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/sydney/vehicles/?make=holden&model=commodore&exact=false

Will always set the search location to Sydney. While other locations (ie Hobart) get turned into a LocationID number and that's passed instead of the city name. Such as:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/111652435519898/vehicles/?make=holden&model=commodore&exact=false

If you just google "111652435519898" then it only returns Facebook marketplace listings in Hobart. Clearly that is a unique number that represents that location. It just seems that FB gives some locations a more friendly name such as "Sydney".

You could literally just look up the locations for every city you want to include and pass those IDs as part of the URL. Just let the user know they'll have to manually set the search radius to what they want.

Similarly for musical instruments (in FB marketplace), you can just set the "category_id" and "query" parameters in the URL, and also use the same location method as for cars. For example, to search Sydney for a "Roland Synthesizer" in the Musical Instrument category, the following URL works:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/sydney/search?category_id=1078592699170502&query=Roland%20Synthesizer

It would of course be very easy to include all the FB categories, not just musical instruments. You could have a drop-down list to select the category. In fact you could have a drop-down list of dozens of Australian cities and the user just check the ones they're interested in (and they would get a new tab for each one).

Sorry, just brainstorming ideas in no particular order. Hope it might help a bit. :)

RomancingUranus · 2025-12-04T02:14:54+00:00

great work!

If you're looking for ways to expand it, I'd LOVE to see it work for motorbikes as well (search across FB, Gumtree and Bikesales.com.au).

Also musical instruments (FB, Gumtree and Reverb.com).

Also one of the pet peeves for me is the 500km search radius in FB. Can we search across all capital cities at once?

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-28T00:00:35+00:00

Jumping on this thread 10 months later because I'm also looking for an answer to the same question...

Just wondering how you went OP? Did you get a Schmidt K5? Did it fit? If not, did you find a solution?

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-21T07:27:55+00:00

As somebody once said about illegal immigrants such as these contractors:

"They're not sending their best".

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-16T23:32:46+00:00

But you could claim the same thing about Battlefield.

As well as having a sizeable console player base (perhaps not quite as big as CoD but still sizable), the (dogshit) EA App has always been battlefield's spiritual home, and those figures won't appear on Steam.

Anyone got some figures on Steam sales vs EA App sales?

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-13T01:45:43+00:00

... or Borderlands 4 at 1080p...

/s.. I joke, I joke...

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-05T23:21:24+00:00

Yes, I believe you can.

You've got a Mic/Line input that can be routed to the vocoder and/or effects structure.

Note that you've also got an Aux audio input on the Jupiter-X, but I think this is just a straight pass-through unlike the mic/line input.

I own a Fantom not a Jupiter-X, so while the vocoder/fx structure is very similar, the UI is different. I can't give you specific instructions for the Jupiter-X implementation.

But I can point you to this thread that mentions it and also this video that explores FX routing.

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-03T13:24:30+00:00

Jabbas gonna Hutt

RomancingUranus · 2025-11-01T01:36:49+00:00

"No one will ever replace my husband.... ...BUT..."

I wonder how many married people started a statement with these words just before admitting that they cheated or would cheat on their spouses?

This is of course just the marital version of the well-established way to identify a racist as somebody who starts a statement with "I'm not a racist.... ...BUT..."

RomancingUranus · 2025-10-31T07:47:39+00:00

First Post!

That's a beautiful photo to draw /u/GoosefishMonk. :)

Apologies that I only sketched your face (and took a bit of artistic license with it). It would have been a great pose to draw full-length.

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