Don’t get me wrong please, but I felt like those projects are not up to the quality I had in mind. Not necessarily talking about the sound of course, but the “packaging” that they are coming in. None of these have a touchscreen, which I wanted to have, since there is so many different ways you can to set the effects.
I liked the PiPedal project, but having a USB interface was something I wanted to avoid.
In mind I had a simple idea: touchscreen, 4 footswitches, master volume encoder, that’s it. Oh and in one enclosure -> no external USB device and that sort of thing.
And main focus was that I wanted a nice and user friendly UI, which I believe none of these projects above have (I might sound harsh here a bit, but this criticism is coming from 20+ years of experience in software development - I do this every day with awesome designers). And since A2 is so easy to integrate, why not try to do a project like this?!? Also open sourcing it was very important to me, with easy to get parts, so you don’t have to buy a PCB from some guy on the internet. I’ll just upload the files and you can get a JLCPCB order and job done.
Oh btw I committed some very important performance updates to the DSP code and tone3000 integration in the desktop app.
I am currently working on dual amp stereo chain setup, very close to finishing it!
I had the first gig with it this weekend and the mono version worked very nicely even in a junky 3D printed enclosure.
