Working my way to my last amp, I got a Fender Super Champ X2 head after a friend's demo. Nice and Fender clean with modeling. Sounds great with 2 10's, 1 or 2 12's or even a single 15.
But, and I see this one a lot these days on different makes - there's a "tap" button (interrupter switch) on the face, but nowhere to plug a simple foot switch to control the tempo. I mean, your hands are busy, and to adjust tempo you have to stop playing, if only for a couple of beats. No matter how fast you are, it would be simpler (and obvious) to use a floor switch. After watching Larry Carlton and Robben Ford interviews (Dumble guys) they keep it simple with a reverb pedal and a delay, but the delay has a tap button.
The SCX2 schematic doesn't give a lot of detail for the tap circuit, comparing it to the PCB and components after opening it up.. I was thinking a jack in line just before the onboard tap switch that would allow something like a keyboard's sustain pedal to set the tempo.
Getting in there, there's room for the jack on the faceplate under the tap switch, but that's as far as I got after staring at the PCB and the schematic for too long. The onboard switch has 6 posts and it's a bit difficult to see if I couldn't just cut the trace leading to the switch from R66 (after coming out of P29's 5th position) and wire the jack in there?
I don't need to switch modeling presets, but being able to change the tempo keeps the groove clean, and saves a couple hundred bucks for another delay pedal. Mssr.s Carlton and Ford can't be wrong.
Thanks,
Harry Evan
But, and I see this one a lot these days on different makes - there's a "tap" button (interrupter switch) on the face, but nowhere to plug a simple foot switch to control the tempo. I mean, your hands are busy, and to adjust tempo you have to stop playing, if only for a couple of beats. No matter how fast you are, it would be simpler (and obvious) to use a floor switch. After watching Larry Carlton and Robben Ford interviews (Dumble guys) they keep it simple with a reverb pedal and a delay, but the delay has a tap button.
The SCX2 schematic doesn't give a lot of detail for the tap circuit, comparing it to the PCB and components after opening it up.. I was thinking a jack in line just before the onboard tap switch that would allow something like a keyboard's sustain pedal to set the tempo.
Getting in there, there's room for the jack on the faceplate under the tap switch, but that's as far as I got after staring at the PCB and the schematic for too long. The onboard switch has 6 posts and it's a bit difficult to see if I couldn't just cut the trace leading to the switch from R66 (after coming out of P29's 5th position) and wire the jack in there?
I don't need to switch modeling presets, but being able to change the tempo keeps the groove clean, and saves a couple hundred bucks for another delay pedal. Mssr.s Carlton and Ford can't be wrong.
Thanks,
Harry Evan
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