Jark's Rockmodules Lineup Guide

[rbc]

I thought I'd bring this over from the "Getting Started" forum for discussion:

http://www.rockman.fr/Articles/Rockman_Hookup.pdf

My rig goes a slightly different way. I use 3 foot-pedals to control the Sustainor channel, volume and the Chorus/Delay bypass. I'd like to be able to toggle the Sustainor volume, more than the Chorus/Delay mode select. I'm also going to try to go with Sustainor effects loop EQ's only for now. If it gets much more complicated, I'll probably use a MIDI Octopus to control things.

[GuitarBuilder]

Ah yes, and so it begins! Before you know it, your rig will be like mine - 7U stuffed to the hilt!

[Guitarvamp]

Just something little that bothers me in the article: he says "The separation in two channels is always achieved by a chorus." You could get a stereo feed by simply doubling the mono signal and feed both sides of a Stereo Echo, or just put a Chorus/Delay (in the Delay setting) on half of that signal as well.

Just nitpicky, I know.

[rbc]

I suppose always is kind of a strong word. He did limit the demonstrated configurations to mixing stereo with the Rockmodules. Things get a lot more interesting when you start mixing the outputs at the outboard mixer. I did that with my cascaded chorus/delay configuration:

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=198&start=4#p586

[Guitarvamp]

Having been a part of the 80s "big rack" revolution, I guess I have always seen a million ways to do things, and a million different products to help do those things. Simple things like a splitter or a small mixer can add to the equation.

Most times it's just those simple things that take the user from 'basic setup' to 'holy smokes this is complex'. Being that Jark wanted a simple and basic beginer guide, we'll leave it at that.