From don@till.com Tue Mar 19 11:05:26 1996 19 Mar 96 14:05:21 +0500 19 Mar 96 13:51:49 +0500 id JAA14857; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:42:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:42:05 -0800 Subject: More Chromology From: Don Tillman Organization: Don's house, Palo Alto, California Since I'm on a roll here... Another cool Chroma hack of mine is a pedalboard. The Chroma comes with a cumbersome dual footpedal unit for sustain and sustenuto, a patch-switching stomp switch, a controller pedal (typically for modulation control), and optionally a second controller pedal (typically for volume). The problem is that these pedals get tangled and wander all over the place in the heat of playing and you can never find them when you need them. Also the leaf switches in the dual footpedal seem to have a limited life expectancy. What I've done is to build a 12 x 16 inch, 1/4-inch thick plexiglass sheet on which is mounted, left to right, the original controller pedal, the original patch-switching stomp switch, and two Korg DS-1 sustain pedals. All this stuff can mount securely with screws coming up from underneath the plexiglass, and little rubber feet are added to hold the thing securely in place and keep the screws from scratching the floor. The plexiglass is clear, so the setup looks pretty cool. The Korg DS-1 (Korg, always eager to use gratuitously incompatible terminology, calls it a "Damper Pedal") seems to be the sustain pedal with the best feel, noticibly better than the original Chroma pedal. And one more: The best stand I've found for the Chroma is the Quicklock WS-550. Solid, robust, folds down compact and quick. -- Don