Part 1: Musicomlab EFX MKII Pedal and MIDI Switching System Demo

Part 1 of my demo of the Musicomlab EFX MKII effect pedal switching system and MIDI controller. This is a very user-friendly pedal switching system that allows you to plug pedals into any of its 8 loops and save presets of any combination of these loops in addition to patches on MIDI controllable devices like the Eventide factor pedals or rackmount effects like the Boss VF-1. The bass used for the demo is an active Elrick six-string singlecut bass.

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[SuperNoobTroll]

you don't really put your rack on the floor to look like pedals, do you?

[bryanrtyler]

@SuperNoobTroll What do you mean? The pedalboard I used in this video was a rack/pedalboard hybrid that SKB put out many years ago- the SKB PS-100.

[weathervisuals]

Excellent video Bryan. I've never used MIDI before. So how many MIDI devices will this version of the MKII (I'm assuming it's version 1) control at one time? Is it two?

I get confused over PC's and CC".

[SuperNoobTroll]

@bryanrtyler HAHA that's crazy I had no idea. Must have been from the 80's.

[bryanrtyler]

@OhSoInsane Nope- I used it for more straight-ahead effects switching in front of my amp. Never involved my effects loop or used the amp switching functions, so I can't really comment on that.

[OhSoInsane]

@bryanrtyler Have you ever tried this kind of setup? [From my last comment a couple of days ago]

[OhSoInsane]

@bryanrtyler Fantastic! That makes me very happy. I am planning to get this unit to do this: Guitar -> In A -> 4 Analog Loops -> Out A -> Input on Amp -> Fx Send on Amp -> In B -> 5th Loop TC Nova System -> Out B -> Amp Return. I hope the device wouldn't color the tone too much with this "4CM-like-looping" setup :P

[bryanrtyler]

@OhSoInsane Nope, not necessary.  I'm not actually combining two presets to make a third one. It's the same process to make a preset with any combination of loops- you can't make a preset by combining presets.

[OhSoInsane]

@bryanrtyler Yeah thats what I was asking. Basically, I read somewhere that you could only use effects from loops 1-4 for a preset or loops 5-8. What you did in the video was have one preset using a loop from 1-4 and another one using a loop from 5-8 and then you combined both presets into a third one. So I just wanted to know if creating the first 2 presets were necessary to get that third preset that has any loops between 1-8 turned on

[bryanrtyler]

@OhSoInsane I'm not sure I understand your question- if you're asking if you can combine all 8 loops into a single preset, then yes you can.