Carl Martin Octa-Switch The Strip

I am in a touring band and both me and our other guitar player bought this switcher. However, we both had problems with it.

I've had multiple switchers and this Carl Martin gets the job done quite fine. Saving a preset is incredibly easy and the instant access mode is helpful and usable. However, the quality control of this pedal needs to be severely improved. When I was playing a recent (+1000 people cap.) sold out show, the pedal quit on me mid-show, resulting in no sound coming from my pedalboard and having to plug the guitar directly into the amp. A situation you do NOT want to have when playing in front of many people. At first the switcher lights were still on and it was not clear the problem resided in the switcher. The next day, however, it turned out that one of the chips in the pedal was set loose and that it was not properly attached. At this point the pedal did not turn on anymore until I pushed back the same chip. This however resulted in the pedal automatically saving other loops (that I had not selected in one of my saved presets?!

Our other guitar player also had problems; sometimes when hitting a preset button too hard it will not switch to that preset.

In the heat of the battle you want a pedal like this to be sturdy, especially for a 500+ euro pedal. My pedalboard is now 'designed' around the dimensions of this switcher, but if I would start over/make a different pedalboard I definitely would have chosen a different and more reliable switcher.

Je l'ai eu, je l'ai vendu, je le regrette...
Si vous n'êtes pas des adeptes de longues heures de programmation, que vous êtes adepte du plug and play mais qu'à force de faire des crises de GAS vous avez un sacré pedalboard rempli, c'est clairement l'outil qui vous manque !

Là c'est du lourd, LE switcher analo par excellence. Relativement simple d'utilisation, possibilité de faire du 4 câbles pour pouvoir contrôler les canaux et les reverbes d'une tête d'ampli. Il y a même un buffer intégré (sachant que toutes les sorties sont isolées de base). Le fonctionnement est ultra intuitif. Avec les "tirettes" vous choisissez ce que vous activer ou non sur l'ampli que vous voulez... ah oui parce que l'on peut en plus faire du A/B/Y avec cette bête. Je l'utilisais avec une JCM2000 Dsl 100 sur un PPC412 Orange en output 1 puis un OR 80 des 70's en output 2 ... j'en tremble encore rien que d'y penser ...
Et en plus l'octaswitch est rouge ... ça change des switchers noirs ou blancs qui sont du coups, beaucoup plus salissant .
Il y a du MIDI dessus, mais je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de l'essayer ...
Les canaux 6,7,8 sont à prioriser pour mettre les effets de spatialisation.
Je recommande fortement !