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The PATCH PAD - Stereo Routing Module for guitar effects pedals gives you the ability to leave your pedals permanently plugged in, thus making your set-ups fast and hassle free. The Patch Pad also has options for running external rack effects and two amp stereo set-ups. A separate pedal chain may be run through your amplifier's effects loop by using the second channel of the Patch Pad. Your amplifier's channel switching and reverb may also be routed by using the Patch Pad's auxiliary balanced signal loop.
The switching jacks in the Patch Pad make it possible to configure just about any mono or stereo combination imaginable. All of the connections in the Patch Pad are wired point to point. Even if you do not plan on using Stereo Routing or utilizing it's endless combination routing capabilities, you can still use it just to protect your valuable effects pedals from wearing out by not having to constantly plug and unplug the last pedal in your pedal chain and risk losing your effects settings from handling the pedal. On the road or in the studio you will find many handy uses for the Patch Pad. To see a few example configurations click here (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required).
Balanced Loop Feature: The balanced loop is nothing more than 2 stereo jack sockets hardwired together. Its intended use is for channel switching footswitches for your amp. As an example, say you have a Vibrato/Reverb footswitch for a Fender Vibroverb mounted on your board which uses a TRS (stereo) cable. This goes into one side of the balanced loop. You can then leave it connected just like any other pedal on the board. During setup you would then run a stereo cable from the other jack in the balanced loop to the back of the amp. The important part of the balanced loop is that it does not share a ground wire with the other jack sockets on the Patch Pad. Many amp footswitches have LED indicators which use the signal wire to power the LED and that makes for a noisy pedal board if you share a ground with the audio patch bay. Of course there are other potential uses which I'll leave to your imagination.
Note: The Patch Pad is available as a stand-alone unit, and can be used as a drop-in component of the Pedal Pad MPS, MPS-9 and MPS-XL Pedal Boards.
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This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 05 August, 2008.
