Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: gwEm on May 01, 2009, 03:04:37 PM
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(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/FC50_1.JPG)
This little beauty is a rebadged Boss FC50, which came out in the early 90s. I suppose as it was a good design they just left it. This particular one is ex-demo, and cost me £35 - bargain. Its a bit scratched up, but working fine. One of the rubber feet was missing, so I moved the ones that were left around so it balances on the floor.
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/FC50_2.JPG)
Then I modified it for phantom midi, so it doesn't need to use a wall wart. the mod was simple - just moving the wires from the battery connector to the midi port. i can't use it on batteries now, but the mod is safe if i connect the midi and wall wart at the same time, which might happen i suppose.
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/FC50_3.JPG)
still working
(http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem/temp/FC50_4.JPG)
looks good with my theiles!
next step is to add foot switches for the bank up/down.
it already works well with the sansamp, need to work out how to configure the g-sharp to work with it.
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I was wondering why you hadn't been mentioning that Cyclone. Sounded great with Slowhands.
Are you 100% rackmounted now and no 2204?
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yes, EMGs in the cyclone now... not as nice as BKP, but still quite good I think, doesn't sound like a real strat pickup though.
i still have the 2204, i'm unlikely to sell it. the rack gives me another project to work on and mess around with. they sound different and i like them both. i still have some more work to do on the rack before i'm done with it.
i never use any of this stuff live unfortunately - i always go with a sansamp pedal then.
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Nice :) I was looking at that controller, as the FCB1010 that i've got is just too big- i don't need so many buttons, nor expression pedals. £35 is a bargain too! Good job with the mod, phantom over midi is cool :)
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ahh!!!!good to see another THIELE FAN!!!I use two ..one EV and one c-90....love them!!!rock on,my brother!
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ahh!!!!good to see another THIELE FAN!!!I use two ..one EV and one c-90....love them!!!rock on,my brother!
yes - they rule :) i have two EV ones. would like to try a celestion sidewinder in one.
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Nice :) I was looking at that controller, as the FCB1010 that i've got is just too big- i don't need so many buttons, nor expression pedals. £35 is a bargain too! Good job with the mod, phantom over midi is cool :)
the board is a nice compact size, without being too small, and it has the legendary boss sturdiness.
but i can only recommend the pedal with reservations - the plugin expression pedals only work on fixed midi controllers. and if you do a bank or A/B change the patch changes instantly, rather than waiting for you to select a patch again (if you see what i mean). perhaps though this can be used in an advantageous way.
tomorrow i'm going to mod the board again for bank up/down on footswitches.
these mods are so simple you wonder why roland/boss didn't do them.
this post sounds negative, but overall i'm still happy with the board. its worth the 2ndhand price (usually 60/70 pounds on the bay) and the mods make a nice usability improvement.
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Nice bargain!
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last night i modified the midi foot controller to include internal footswitches for band up and down.
as you see, i cunningly positioned the switches on the 'o' of Roland and the '0' of GFC-50
problem is i just scr@ped the circuit board which is slightly underneath '0' of GFC-50. it was no sweat to repair it, but annoying anyway.
its much easier to use with these switches - no need to reach down to change it anymore. roland/boss should do this as stock :)
with the mods its quite a nice convienient midi foot pedal.
i also got a mains lead (ooo!!! exciting) for the rack too:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=228747
i think its quite good - i just need to plug one thing in now, and its surge protected. not quite a power conditioner, but its fine ;)
looking at the digitech gsp1101, and i need to get some decent audio cables to patch it all together.