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Old 2nd January 2010   #5
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I still haven't found a solution for this.

I recently built a patchbay into my pedalboard and part of the reason for including the patchbay was so that I could patch the expression pedal to operate as whichever pedal I wanted.

However I have now encountered another fundamental problem. Unfortunately whenever a cable is connected to most exp inputs, the pedal operates in a different mode. For example with my Foxrox pedals, plugging a cable into the exp input disables the internal LFO.

This is annoying if you want to have a cable connected at all times, but only want to use an expression pedal with the pedal occasionally. Its like when devices have a really awkwardly positioned headphone jack that mutes the audio to main outputs.

Hopefully pedal designers will realise soon that they need a switch on the front to turn expression pedal functionality on and off.
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