So I have a giant pedalboard with a Boss ES-8 on it. It’s just a studio board and really all its for is to keep from having a giant string of pedals with buffers in the middle to keep the tone good. The Boss is nice because I can run a bunch of mono pedals in the first number of loops then two stereo loops towards the end. The output is on the ES8 so I don’t get any issue with output or volume drops using the switcher.
Question is, will the ML10X effectively do the same thing? I see it has buffered bypass and separate analog loops. Is this effectively the same thing?
Any pro/cons you might be able to offer? I have had a big board before without a switcher and when you have 10 or 12+ pedals all in a row, you tend to get all kinds of issues of noise or output issues.
I have a MC6 Pro to pair with it already.
Thoughts and thank you!
Yep, the ML10X let’s you arrange the 10 loops into 10 mono loops, 5 stereo pairs, or some combination, e.g. 4 mono pedals going into 3 stereo pedals.
A lot of people also have a stereo pedals that do MIDI, like the common Strymon Mobius → Timeline → Blue Sky chain, which can just go after the ML10X.
Solid cables are really important for the ML10X. Every jack is a TRS, where the Tip and Ring split to different loops. For example, if you want to connect two mono pedals to loop A, then you split the Loop A send to a Tip and Ring, with each going to the input of a pedal. The Loop A Return is also split into tip and ring, going to the outputs of their respective pedals. If cabling isn’t solid, you invite some noise and feedback issues.
I love my ML10Xs though. I actually run two in parallel to control 10 stereo pedals, where ML10X One is the left and ML10X Two is the right.