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My tryst with hacking a Zoom MS-70CDR

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You feel like kicking yourself when y ou know you have a great piece of equipment, with the most amazing sounds but the usability is downright hard...KICK KICK KICK I picked up the Zoom-MS70CDR and instantly fell in love with it.. the sheer size of it,  for that much amount of power is actually insane... it is so small that it snugly fits in to any small sized pedal board. But the only draw back of this device is the usability.. it is not very good to say the least.. I wrote to Zoom and asked them if they plan to change anything about the usability, I gave them some suggestions too, but they came back with .. Dear Sir, Thank you for your suggestion. We do not want a price boost by the increase in functions and the chips for the converter. Anyway your opinion has been noted. We will forward your email to person in charge for future reference. Sincerely yours, ZOOM Corporation << I kinda felt.. okkkkkkkkkk... I understand.. Being the electronics freak, I wondered,...

My tryst with the Pedaltrain Jr.

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My pedalboard becoming too cumbersome to carry, coupled with the fact that I needed to press a load of buttons to change one parameter on my VOX tone lab and seeing my dear dear pedals that I so caringly accumulated over the years gather dust.. I decided I am going to do something… scale down my pedal board and lo and behold when a friend wanted to sell his pedal train jr.. I thought maybe, just maybe, I can fit all the pedals I want in this little board (If not all, at least as much as I need to get though a Sunday).. So, this is my tryst with the Pedaltrain Jr. For someone who makes pedalboards, going for a stock pedal board like the Pedaltrain Jr was a big no no… but off late I have been way too busy to do something like this and when this board came as a used one, I thought , why not… The board that I got was kind a tall (I felt the board was way too tall and looked like it was on stilts… J ) The previous owner had raised the board to almost 2-3” taller than the standard ones...