![]() The break between 4 & 5 seems like a good place to do this if you setup your drives on the 1st 4 loops. One being the ability to put a volume pedal after your drive pedals and before modulation effects. These can be useful for a couple of reasons. Along with the 10 loops theres two break out points before the output, between loops 4 & 5 and loops 6 & 7. Yup, thats cool right? That’s just one part of the availability of features you can do with one click but I don’t want to get ahead of myself. Non controlable loopers will just do that but the added benefit of the Mastermind PBC is that you can program presets of engaged loops, this means that you can turn off 4 loops and engage 3 others with one single tap. This can be very useful for pleas that suck tone like for example the POG series from Electro Harmonix. A pedal switcher is a device that uses a signal circuit to physically connect and disconnect your pedals from the signal chain. If you’ve never used a switcher before, I’ll explain it in a few simple words. What this means is that you can have up to 10 pedals running into the PBC system. So I mentioned that the Mastermind PBC is a 10 loop switcher. Something I’ve come to love about it as myself I’m a big tone tweaker. With this software you can go very deep in the editing detail of functions, behaviors, and look of the PBC. If Hot Pink is you’re preferred color for Engaged loops you can set that up (if that’s you’re thing, to each his own…) or any color you want via the MasterMind Editor software that works on PC or MAC. RGB LED’s help make it possible to see with a color code system the RJM team provided or you can customize it to you’re liking. While your on pages such as the looper page you can see whats on or off visually from the switches themselves. Things like engaged loops, buffers, and output are available for you on any page except the system settings. RJM music also made sure you had a nice big display for you to read important information on demand. So in my case I commit to the order I have and stack with that order. Its rare were switching the drive pedals natural order will ever produce a result that won’t require some tweaking from the drive, tone or volume setting. The PBC uses a relay system and while you can’t reorder the pedals like a matrix, you do get the best sounding system possible which for me is more important. The only thing you can do with the PBC that you might ask is change the pedal order. They also made the controller full customizable in almost every way possible you can imagine. I’ll explain in more detail all of those things but the features don’t stop there. With a 10 loop switcher, 3 build in buffers, fully customizable midi control, a build in line mixer, and even a built in tuner, this bad boy brings features only available previously to rock stars who had custom rigs made. So I mentioned it’s an all in one solution? Well it is. ![]() Lets dive in to the amazing features you can have with this all in one unit. ![]() RJM released the Mastermind PBC in late 2014 and it’s the most powerful pedal board controller on the market for the price and footprint. One of the huge buzz killers most guitar players have is tap dancing with your pedals, syncing your delays, turning one pedal on and the other off and the mistakes we can make in the process is for sure where a lot of margin of error (and attention) can be placed and to this I thank God for the gear I’ve chosen to take care of all of that. So we usually leave out things like buffers, routers, splitters, midi controllers and even pedal switchers out as things that might do that for us.įor me personally, a big part of playing is being able to do exactly that perform and enjoy ding it. I find that while I am attached to all the other things I mentioned before, we do take for granted sometimes the things that can make our sound, performance and even our life easy. We usually consider the important pieces of gear to be the pedals we use, the amp, or even the guitar to be what makes our performances “tip top” and just plain awesome.
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