A Pedaltrain Nano someone bought me. The straps are temporary because I’m not sure I want to velcro down the alter ego. The connection between the Alter Ego and Trinity is stereo and 2 straight adapters which showed me things are not so even… they form a shallow, wide “v” or boat hull shape which may be fine when velcro is beneath them, or I just use wires. But it let me strap them down “for now” as I experiment.
The two halves are not connected atm though obviously they easily can be. It’s versatile with the space between them; Between the two TC pedals there is an extra power connector and so I can easily patch in a cable between them that’s outside the board. Strapped in them middle there is this $65 9V DC power bank I got from zZounds called a Rockboard LT XL. It has two center-negative 9V/1A circuits as well as a 5V/1A USB port. As you can see this mounting also gives me access to the power button and battery meter without flipping it over I originally got it with hungrier pedals in mind like those Mooer reverb and delays that sucked down 300mA of current or my Zoom that claims a whopping 500mA o.O So many pedalboard power supplies are all “lol max 300mA” or “hah 100mA per connector good luck!” and there’s even a few pedals I was looking at that were annoyingly even 110, 120, etc.
It ended up being very neatly organized, I think. And pedalboards are modular anyway; tear off the bass preamp and tuner and I could fit two pedals easily and possibly a third, and have plenty of power to go around plus portability (it even came with a bag). I don’t know why I like the idea of batteries so much; I guess it just lets me have options and I have a weird obsession with but-I-might-want-to-itis
But-I-might-want-to-itis is very expensive sometimes
It’s like we can se why people loved the ion because the micron/miniak can sound incredible with a bit of effort, it’s just having to do everything through a single encoder.
Just realised We can program parameter and preset locks on the model cycles, even though we’re past ally using it as a sound module and triggering it from the beat step and we’re like “fuck that’s cool”
Also at what point did you all admit that you had a synth problem? Asking for a friend who is also us
Keep in mind that mostly the issue was that the Monostation was not suitable to my style of long drawn out basses. The Bass Station 2 might have worked better for me.
For me it was when I bought an effect unit to go with my Rev2 (which was my first synth). On paper it was everything I ever would need, but I wanted more.
Fast forward a few years and I bought furniture and put it in this weekend to create more storage room for a synth expansion I want to do once I either get a new job or yell loud enough at my boss to get a raise where I work now (I don’t want to get too into that but suffice to say it’s a whole thing that has ruined my Christmas and eaten up all my spare time the last few months between negotiating with my current employer and interviewing with new ones, all while working through the busiest part of my year - aw shit there I go getting into it…).
Once I know I don’t have to spend some time unemployed, I have some extra savings burning a hole in my pocket this year, and not a lot of things I want to spend it on. I wrote and deleted a whole paragraph here about why I’m not spending that money on other things, but long story short that’s going to be synth money.
Generally just decide how much we’re happy paying for something and finding one at a buy it now price. Every time we used a bid sniper we’d always get out bid, or have have our bid pushed up to the equivalent buy it now price
When optionitis was getting in the way of writing music.
This latest release I’m sitting on I set some hard limitations. I decided what “voice” each synth was to play, Sub37 handled bass, virus ear candy, Prophet8 pads and leads and Behringer model D held down arpeggios.
With those limitations in place the writing process went really quickly and it forced me to focus more on melody than getting lost in sound design.
I originally got it with hungrier pedals in mind like those Mooer reverb and delays that sucked down 300mA of current or my Zoom that claims a whopping 500mA o.O So many pedalboard power supplies are all “lol max 300mA” or “hah 100mA per connector good luck!” and there’s even a few pedals I was looking at that were annoyingly even 110, 120, etc.
