J.P.'s Gear Blerbs - T-Rex, the Quint Machine, and the crappy footswitch
I'm starting J.P.'s Gear Blerbs because I haven't been able to sit down and write a full-blown blog post in quite some time. These are not reviews or editorial columns, but just random thoughts about gear and whatever I'm working on at the moment. I recently acquired a T-Rex Quint Machine polyphonic octave pedal, and while it's incredibly fun and sounds great (demoed briefly here ), there is one thing I do not particularly like about it: the footswitch . It uses one of these terrible small-footprint DPDT clicky momentary off-on footswitches. I hate dislike them very much. Not only are they clicky (which should be outlawed for momentary footswitches), but their travel is very short, the click happens at the very end of said travel, and it requires way too much force to toggle. They are not particularly responsive either, which makes them unfun to use. Also, why a DPDT switch in the first place? There's only 2 wires going to the lugs! These footswitches are a...