Anyone else bouncing between wildly different styles lately? I played pedal steel on a pop ballad Tuesday in Room B at Sound Emporium, then cut Afrobeat bass last night for a Brooklyn singer passing through, and it feels like artists are pulling more session players into cross-pollinated sets — fun, but my pedalboard routing is getting a workout.
I’ve been building genre snapshots on an HX Effects — steel path on footswitch 1, Afrobeat chain with HPF/comp on 2 — so when “the pedalboard routing is getting a workout” it’s one-button flips instead of tap-dancing. Only caveat: keep a simple DI+tuner bypass if MIDI hiccups; you juggling a loop switcher or going manual?
I map a Morningstar MC6 to flip the whole board via MIDI — steel = plate+slap, Afrobeat = HPF+comp — with each scene trimmed to unity so FOH isn’t chasing faders; it’s a lane change with a blinker. If MIDI feels heavy, @jtorres, a small loop switcher (ML5/ES-5) plus an always-on HPF around 45 Hz keeps it tidy; do you have anything that can send basic PC/CC?