GT rack effects are completely compatible with normal guitar pedals and third-party rack products. You are not required to have a GT-only solution. We know you may want to move into a rack solution incrementally, continue using some pedals, or you have other good reasons for a mixed approach. Here are some ways to utilize pedals or third-party rack products along with your GT rack modules.
You always have the option of using your pedal board effects as usual, running audio cables between your pedals to your GT rack effect modules.. Doing so may require some long cables in your chain. That cabling may have no audible impact on your tone, or if it does, adding a buffer pedal or module may easily solve the problem. With this approach, you'll continue stomping your pedals normally, while using GT footswitch units to control your GT modules. You may be able to put the GT footswitch(es) on your pedal board with your pedals.
Of course, you might also physically locate normal guitar pedals in a rack. Pedals can be mounted on rack shelves or drawers or other rack components. Typically you won't have easy access to the controls of those pedals, but they are secured in the rack and less susceptible to unwanted adjustments. If you can find a solution to your liking, this can allow you to easily keep using some of your pedals in a rack solution, since as you'll see below, you can control those pedals with our switching system. We introduced our 3U Pedal Rack to provide a better way to mount your pedals in a rack. It gives you a way to mount them while keeping the controls easily accessible.
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The picture above shows the 3U Pedal Rack mounted in a small desktop studio rack. It gives you a number of options for mounting pedals in your rack for easy cabling. Third party rack security covers can also be installed to limit access to the pedals. More into can be found at 3U Pedal Rack.
It's easy to add third-party products such as power conditioners that don't require audio connections in your chain. You can also cable in third-party rack effects into your GT modules, just like you would cable them in with pedal board effects, except you may be able to use shorter cables and keep everything contained in your rack. Rack-based effects tend to come with their own footswitches, so you would likely continue to use the third-party footswitches with third-party rack effects and use GT footswitches with GT effects.
Another option is to move your pedals into your rack or use third-party rack effects with GT rack effect remote switching. This is also very easy. You'll need a Bypass Looper module to do it. If you haven't used a looper before, think of it as a special type of pedal with Master and Loop inputs and Master and Loop outputs. Your incoming effects chain connects to the Master input and the start of the rest of your chain is connected to the Master output. Between the Loop input and Loop output, you connect a sub-chain of one or more pedals. Those pedals are switched on and remain on all the time. The switch on the looper just bypasses the pedals in the sub-chain, or connects them between the Master input and Master output as though they were cabled in that position in your chain. To switch your pedals with GT switching, you put them in the loop on the Bypass Looper and switch them in/out of your chain with the GT footswitch connected to the Bypass Looper module. This works the same for pedals or third-party rack effects, like a nice rack tuner. You leave the third party effect always on, relying on the GT switching to put it in or take it out of your chain.
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There may be other routing solutions that will work for your particular setup instead of using a looper. Perhaps you only need them in one part of your chain, where an ABY switch is used to control them, for instance. Or you may use our Mixer to split your signal to one or more loops.
Most third-party effects won't be compatible with our 18V Power module output. That doesn't mean you are stuck with batteries or power transformers, though. Our Warthog power module can be configured to produce a variety of different DC power configurations that can be used to power your pedals or other rack gear.
While there are great rack tuners available, some players prefer to have their tuners up-front and on the floor where they can easily see them. We accommodate that with our Buddy Board option for our 12-Button Footswitch. This adds an auxiliary DC power connection to the footswitch, and a small pedal board bolted to the footswitch for your tuner pedal. The Buddy Board can also be used to accommodate a wah pedal at the beginning of your signal chain. Check out Buddy Board, Tuners, Wahs for more details.Although rack equipment isn’t as widespread as it once was for casual musicians and smaller bands, popular amp modelling units such as the Axe-Fx and Kemper have kept the rack alive.
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On the used market, it's possible for the average player to pick up previously high-end gear for use live, or more likely, in a home studio, which makes the prospect of putting one together well worth investigating.
If you've not run a rack before, you might have some questions about how exactly it all works, so here, we’ve outlined how to take your first steps in building one.
In terms of position in your signal chain, most people run rack units either in the effects loop of their amp, or after it. While stompbox users often place pedals before the amp, that’s a lot less common with rack gear.
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The first of these is a power strip. Samson and Furman make the two most commonly seen units, which offer IEC outputs on the back so you can hook in all of your rack units to one portable power strip.
A rack power strip will also filter some noise from the supply and offer surge protection, but features differ between units. Crucially, it's worth noting that cheaper units are not isolated on a per-output basis, so it's still possible to inadvertently create a ground loop.
The second is a rack mixer. This will allow you to consolidate multiple inputs down into one balanced stereo output. Most mixers also have a headphone out, so they can be used for monitoring, or silent playing if you're not routing the outputs to a desk or DAW.
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At the budget end, both Behringer and Samson make units that can be had either new or used for the price of your average Boss pedal.
In addition to these, a passive splitter and phase-inverting box like the cheap-and-cheerful Millenium SP31 will allow you to split your guitar signal and keep a dry path running parallel into your rack mixer, as well as debug phase issues.
For the most basic setup in the home studio, using the rack mixer to mute your wet path will do for tracking guitars, but if you're going to take your rack out and play live, then you have two main options.
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First, and most simply, you can run your rack in the effects loop of an amplifier that has the ability to bypass its effect loop. This, however, will mean all of your effects coming out of your signal en masse, so more granular control isn't available.
Second, and more commonly for those that use several rack units, is to use a MIDI footboard to switch between patches and settings on the units, and indeed to switch them between in-path and bypassed.
Because of these constraints, in general most rack users who aren't in stadium bands will probably end up confining the equipment to the studio, where it can be employed for recording without the tasks of switching in and out.
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Alex Lynham is a gear obsessive who's been collecting and building modern and vintage equipment since he got his first Saturday job. Besides reviewing countless pedals for Total Guitar, he's written guides on how to build your first pedal, how to build a tube amp from a kit, and briefly went viral when he released a glitch delay pedal, the Atom Smasher.
“There had been threats to shoot us, the Klan were burning Beatle records outside and a lot of the crew-cut kids were joining in” – Why The Beatles retired from the stageA modular guitar FX pedal rack that can be controlled via MIDI? Powered by an Arduino? Useful if you make DIY guitar pedals? An excellent way to clear up that tangled mess of cables? Yes to all.
It’s not everyday you see the words “modular”, “guitar” and “pedal” in the same sentence. But today is the day. We’ve been pretty impressed by the Modular Guitar Pedal Rack with MIDI Switching created using an Arduino, DIY guitar pedals and a cool idea.
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The maker of this marvellous modular guitar pedal setup “grew tired” of finishing enclosures and the mass of patch cables when making
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