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I've been trying to work this one out as well. It seems like with the proper setup, it could be possible to easily switch between mono and stereo, giving you the best of both worlds. Here's my take on it, although I don't have two working EDPs nor a MIDI pedal to try it out: Use each side of a stereo send to feed the EDPs. Return the EDPs to separate channels. For mono use, I assume the signal will be panned to the center, so it will feed each EDP equally, allowing you to use either one (or both) for looping. For stereo operation, you pan the EDPs hard-left/hard-right at the mixer. Now the part I'm not clear about: the MIDI pedal. It seems that you should be able to program different sets of patches for the three scenarios that I imagine: a. Control EDP #1 only b. Control EDP #2 only c. Control EDP #1 & #2 the same time d. Separate controls for EDP #1 & EDP &2 separately, but in the same patch Of course, you can mix and match these control modes to take an (initially) mono signal and stereo-ize it, or vice-versa. Cross-feeding of the signals is also possible. Here's a idea for patch d: I don't know how deep MIDI footcontrol goes, but maybe you could make it so that button x starts overdub on EDP #1 until you press button y, which would then stop overdub on #1 and start it on #2. When you press the first x again, #1 starts overdubbing and #2 stops. You record your loops with #1 and #2 both panned to center, pressing buttons x and y alternately, so it sounds like a mono loop. But then you slowly pan your EDPs left and right, and ping-ponged loops emerge from mono. It could be a good trick, I guess. Here's my main concern: will you get an increase in your levels if you try to record to both EDPs simultaneously and return them both to center on separate channels; or a drop in level when you try to use a stereo send to only send to one EDP and then return that EDP to center? -Hans Mark Hamburg wrote: > > Having just gotten the second EDP, I'm still working things out. > > What I've done so far is get a cheap AB switch to put between the EFC-7 >and > the EDPs. (A note for anyone else doing this: Spend a little more money >than > I did and get a footswitch with LEDs to tell you which channel is >active.) > > I suspect that there will be functions that I wish I could get to a >little > more quickly than the AB switch allows -- e.g., dedicated mute switches >-- > but I'm going to have to see how that works out. I'm also positioning my > rack where I can reach it while playing. > > My plan had been to use separate feedback pedals for each unit, but right > now I'm fighting with the fact that the new unit seems to have trouble >with > my EV-5s even though the old unit works perfectly with them. > > Mark > > on 2/18/02 11:55 PM, Matthias Grob at matthias@grob.org wrote: > > > I just set up for this again. I had it years ago and was not quite > > ripe, musically. > > And just like you, I thought stereo was more important, and now > > changed my mind. > > > > Do you use just one Pedal board, switched? > > I just feel like having the FB controlled for both simultaneously, > > sometimes, or Mute, but not Overdub... the solution may be MIDI once > > again...