Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
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Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#2The idea and the execution is seriously innovative and impressive.
(After troubleshooting a local issue with a failing USB microphone I can verify that the live mode works great. This is the real deal.)
Don't miss the photos of the physical setup from the gallery features to the right of the pedal detail pages; excerpt:
https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...
https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...
https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...
It's Raspberry Pi-based. Can anyone identify that presumably audio add-on board with lots of connectors? Perhaps it's a one-off inhouse design.
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#3More details here: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/stompenberg-fx-speaker-simula...
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#4Hats off to those who came up with this and convinced their superiors that it's worth trying.
Most pedal demos don't give a very good idea how something will sound with your setup, because well, they're using their own, filtered through speakers and microphones at that.
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#5This is genius and makes me wonder why I didn't think of it.
Edit: they already thought of that!
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#6The idea and the execution is seriously innovative and impressive. (After troubleshooting a local issue with a failing USB microphone I can verify that the live mode works great. This is the real deal.) Don't miss the photos of the physical setup from the gallery features to the right of the pedal detail pages; excerpt: https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta... https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/…
Looks custom. That's quite a board sitting on top. https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#7The idea and the execution is seriously innovative and impressive. (After troubleshooting a local issue with a failing USB microphone I can verify that the live mode works great. This is the real deal.) Don't miss the photos of the physical setup from the gallery features to the right of the pedal detail pages; excerpt: https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta... https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/…
Looks custom. That's quite a board sitting on top. https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...
Yikes.
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#8Hats off to those who came up with this and convinced their superiors that it's worth trying. Most pedal demos don't give a very good idea how something will sound with your setup, because well, they're using their own, filtered through speakers and microphones at that.
You can turn off the speaker simulation + route your own setup in the "live" mode. I gave it a quick try and seems to work quite well, although the latency is quite annoying. But it's a demo, not performance tool after all.
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#9I have so many questions as to how they're handling controlling knob changes! From the pictures it looks like they've yanked the pots out and hooked the boards up to their rig, which raises more questions.
This is something I've tried myself, and it's not trivial. Digipots won't work in the signal path and are noisy and imprecise, so companies that do this (there are very few!) like Chase Bliss use vactrols. Using those precisely is still tricky, as pot values in many circuits are all over the place and have different tapers, whereas most vactrols have a voltage/resistance curve that looks more logarithmic.
Would love more information on this, as it's a topic that's difficult to research.
Re: Stompenberg FX: Demo and play over 150 pedals live via the internet
#10There's also a video showcasing this project over at their synth channel at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lBYRQUTzYk