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Sure it can be useful to change a delay into a flanger if you only need one of them – but how is that going to work in a gig situation? Would you hook up your phone and reflash the pedal between songs? It’s a single-effect solution, so why not just get the actual physical pedal. Petrucci’s signature pedal from TC, the Dreamscape, is TonePrint enabled and can be updated using the app.Īlthough iStomp is the coolest solution on paper, like a light version of that fully programmable hardware VST host I wrote about before, it’s the least useful if I get it correctly.
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Instead of connecting the phone directly to the pedal hardware, you hold it to one your plugged-in guitar’s pickups and the pedal will recognize the incoming sound squirt as an encoded toneprint and update itself. They’ve chosen quite an interesting way of transmitting the new TonePrint to the pedal. They have now released an iPhone app (Android version coming) to make these settings. They’re not configurable into other effects like the iStomp, instead it’s a way of setting a lot of adjustable parameters on a delay pedal like the Flashback or a flanger like the Vortex.
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Last year, they released their TonePrint technology, which basically means configurable pedals. TC Electronics is well-known for their high quality effects and pedals, and perhaps best known for their Polytune pedal (which is now available in a mini version). It connects to the headset connector, just like an iRig guitar adapter. It has a hardware volume control and a bypass footswitch with which you can bypass the whole iPhone app. It basically takes the input signal, routes it through the iPhone app’s sound processing and feeds the processed signal back into the pedal chain. The iRig STOMP is a sort of switching box that allows you to inline your favorite iPhone amp sim (like IK Multimedia’s Amplitube, of course) into your regular pedal board signal chain.