SIMPLE/sturdy/affordable MIDI rocker pedal/stomp controllers for Amp Sim control?

I have NOT purchased one YET ... This is the best I've been able to find in my searches
http://www.guitarcenter.c...oller-1275776902479.gc

That is just a MIDI controller ...
 
Value-wise, it may have more buttons than you want, but good luck finding another pure MIDI controller for less!!
And if you do please post back here - I'm interested :)
 
 
 

BobF
BTW, I really enjoy my GT-001, the desktop model.  The GT series has some really great amp & effect sims.  The only reason I don't have an FCB1010 is because I hate stuff around my feet.  I got rid of an RP1000 to get the GT-desktop.  I can't bring myself to turn around and add a foot control board ... THAT would be borderline nutz - LOL!
 
I have the 2-button doodad from BOSS, but no expression pedal

What's the Boss 2 buttoner? I'd be curious about that.
 
And you hit right on the head with the floor clutter. I really don't like some monstrosity with a bajillion buttons at my feet.
 
1) I'm usually in my wheelchair and if I weren't it would be a rolling office chair so less crap on the floor the better
 
2) I generally play my pedals like my guitar... by feel with my eyes mostly closed so a buttload of pedals just adds extra chaos
 
3) I'm generally in small rooms now (my current room is TINY) and am actually used to only one or two pedals from my live days. Some big old thing I gotta yank out, set up and maneuver around is just a PITA. Simplicity is actually much more preferred.
 
I kind of really only have two settings anyway. Clean/bright and face meltingly distorted. The rocker can deal with any dynamics stuff. More than two sound options is just unnecessary to me. I get why some players want that but it ain't my thing.
 
I expect this thread will garner a few options. Otherwise I'll go chasing some geese and report back what I find.
 
Cheers.

Hi, mettelus.
 
Last time I really scouted around (a few years back) it looked like the boards with onboard effects that could communicate with a computer were starting to turn into more of an interface setup as opposed to MIDI controller action. Like you could use the boards as an interface to record the guitar input/guitar effects into a DAW but not control a sim. Then there were the RigKontrol units that had no onboard effects (and IIRC didn't have interface/soundcard functions but I know that has changed) but acted as "dumb" MIDI controllers.
 
I remember getting all excited at the Boss GT-100 because it had the USB connector but it turned out to be more interface with no MIDI control (same as some other units out at the time). I could have been totally misinterpreting the specs (I was still learning the whole DAW spiel back then).
 
I guess I was hoping this need had been filled beyond the massive pedalboards that do MIDI control but maybe not. Perhaps the type of "1-2 button/single rocker" setup for pure MIDI control I'm talking about hasn't passed market research standards to make it viable for production yet.
 
Us guit players with our "BIGGER! MOAR BUTTONZ!!!" crap seems to have overidden the old "couple of stomps and a crybaby through a good amp" setup of yore.
 
lulz... guess I'm just a simple beeps with simple needs...
 
I used to look at the crazy pedalboards dudes in other bands would bring to shows and shake my head. Guess I'm more string/fretcentric than effect/sound spazzy.
 
I usually just had my MT-2 and my TU-2 (tuner) and that was that... or alternatively a Blues Driver instead of the MT-2. I did have to use a Boss Chorus for some very specific cover work but that was for one band only and I was using the amp distortion from a 5150 (and its crappy channel switch pedal) and really disliked that setup.
 
Anyhoo... I'm a funny dood I guess. Just thought maybe someone had put out some more moderate controllers by now. I'll take a look around... or wait a few more years.
 
Cheers.

I definitely dig the idea of some of those simple "guitar only" interfaces (like the Line 6 Pod thingies and the boards that have direct connect) where you just plug in and go but since I have a full on interface (Scarlett 18i6) it would just be redundant and I'm not going portable.
 
For now I'll keep looking but the current plan I guess will be to record a "dummy" guit track, program in the automation (effects on/off and use dials/faders for wah/volume style effects). Then after I think I've got the effects changes how I want record again playing into/off of the effects. Kind of like having a soundguy/guitar tech controlling it all offstage.
 
It just ain't the same though but will work.
 
Of course playing the part then just tweedling with dials and buttons afterward is the faster route but it ruins the whole "playing INTO the effects" dynamics.
 
I'va also been trying to figure out a way to use my hardware effects (I have a rocker on my Korg AXFX and of course a bunch of stomp boxes) on a track then somehow turn that into automation I can map to plugins. Like frequency tracking/writing but I honestly don't think that could ever work in any useable way.
 
Fun to twist my brain on though. lulz...
 
Cheers, bud.

The M-Audio expression pedal is pretty decent. Looks flimsy but is actually lretty solid so long as not abused. No buttons but it might be useful as a wah controller.

No MIDI on, just a TRS jack that connects to the "expression" input most keyboard MIDI controllers have. I've a couple of them, the oldest came with an EHX HOG years ago and has stood up to quite a bit of use.

As for footswitches, Tech21 MIDI Moose (not Mouse) might be worth a look.

robert_e_bone
I have owned one of those Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedal boards for close to 10 years now, and I used it all the time for gigging, both for controlling guitar amp sims and for changing keyboard presets.
 
It has worked faithfully and flawlessly since day 1, and I LOVE it.
 
In addition to a REALLY good price, and good reliability, it has 2 continuous controller pedals AND multiple banks each with 10 presets, so you can go to town with sounds.  (you can assign each pedal to control different things, which can change with every preset, if you want, for example one for volume and the other for wah wah.  Then the next preset could have one for delay and the other for volume, etc).
 
A really really really important and valued piece of gig gear for me since around 2004.

Bob - Do you have the upgraded ROM?  Is it necessary?

Hold the phone... a hardware manufacturer released an upgrade requiring an end-user to solder? That just seems like a recipe for disaster to me.