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[Soloist]

Wow so 4 different preamp going into 4 different fx units. Any reason why 4 preamps? And 4 fx units?

Well the Piranha might be sold soon so it would then be 3 pres. MP2 has the best cleans, I use the MP1 for 80's covers like Firehouse, Thunder and Skid Row. The Marshall is for more of a Judas Priest type tone, some early Def Leppard stuff.
Once the piranha and intellifex go I plan on getting a patchmate or GCX guitar audio switcher so I can run any fx with any pre. Limitation of the ground control pro is that it can only control up to 8 units.
I like the pitch shifting and reverb on the Lexicon, love the 8 voice chorus on the intellifex. Quadraverb is used for delay only. G major 2 sounds best with the Marshall, not too bad with the ADA's.
The main reason is because I am  a gear junkie!

[Soloist]

When I get a G-Force I can eliminate a couple fx units.

[MarshallJMP]

I think the new patchmate's are mono (correct me if I'm wrong) so you'll need to find the old model.

BTW I think we are all gear junkie's here.

[Soloist]

The older Rocktron stuff is better anyways. Made right here in Michigan. Now there new stuff is made in China and the quality took a few steps back.

[MarshallJMP]

Well I also have a G-force and in the beginning I used it for everything but with the addition of several ADA racks I now only use for reverbs.
For delays I use the ADA Digitizer 4,it has an amazing delay, almost as good as the TC2290.
For chorus I use the TFX-4 (all analog) and ADA STD-1 (all analog)
For flanging the ADA TFX-4 and the ADA 2FX
For pitch the ADA pitchraq

[MarshallJMP]

The older Rocktron stuff is better anyways. Made right here in Michigan. Now there new stuff is made in China and the quality took a few steps back.

I think that goes for a lot of gear, quality has declined a lot.

[Soloist]

MJMP, do you "daisy chain" your processors or is your signal path routed a different way?
Also do you use the fx loop or just place them after the pre?

[MarshallJMP]

Well I also have the old rocktron patchmate and each effect goes to a loop in the patchmate.
So my signal chain is like this;
Guitar to Dunlop rack wah to Decimator CH1 in,out is split into 2 mono signals,one goes to the MP-1 in,the other to the MP-2 in.
MP-1 out goes to Decimator Ch2 in ,out (dual mono)goes to the return of loop 1 of the patchmate
MP-2 stereo out to return of loop2.So I don't use the sends of the patchmate because you get too much noise and groundloops this way.
The rest of the effects (except the G force) are in the different loops using the send and return.
Then out of the patchmate goes to the G force stereo in because I also use the G force as a master volume controller  and for muting.Stereo out to my 2 marshall heads into 4 4x12 cabs.

[Harley Hexxe]

That's a nice compact rig. I've seen those pedal boards around, but they wouldn't really work for my MIDI controllers, except for my MXC, Quad Pedal and CCP.

   Cool stuff

        Harley

[Soloist]

Since I had the week off, from work and band I re-worked my rig, A couple reasons, 1 I felt the rack wasn't running as cool as I wanted it to. 2 I wanted to eliminate a few pieces that I didn't need. 3 Of course, wanted to improve my tone! This what I ended up with, its sounds a bit richer and fuller, more dynamic and throws off a lot less heat. I did keep the 50/50 in there for a back up.

[rnolan]

Looking good Soloist 

[Harley Hexxe]

Looking good Soloist 

+1

[Dante]

DANG. That's a lot of stuff. Looks very tidy though.

You & Harley must drive semi trucks

[PrimalScream91]

Out with the old, in with the new! 

[Harley Hexxe]

Cool, which one is that?