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You get a volume pedal loop with the ES-8 so essentially 9 loops. My noise gate is keyed off the tuner output and sits in the volume loop. The EQ pedal is always on last in chain. The DD-200 and Whammy are on Midi control
Loops 7 and 8 are stereo if you're looking for wet/dry. Mine is not set up for stereo but would be easy to do
Like @vasselmeyer says, the ES switchers are very flexible and allow you to set things up in a variety of ways depending on what's best for you- so you can set up things like being able to toggle an individual pedal on and off within a preset rather than having to build two different presets just so you can have four bars of phaser or something.
Unfortunately this means a bit of RTFM or trawling YouTube for experienced users...
(Can thoroughly recommend a YouTube channel called "theguacamolexplosion" for ES-5 tips, most of which will translate to the ES-8).
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Great that it can do trails spill over even for pedals that didn't have it and changing pedal order per patch is a great feature.
I definitely see the advantages, but I can also understand why people don't want them.
For starters, more stuff on your board means more stuff to go wrong. More stuff also means a bigger, heavier pedalboard.
The last band I was in wound up before I got my ES-5 (ironically, since it was a couple of that band's songs that made me want a switcher), so I haven't really had the chance to use my current pedalboard in anger, but I suspect that it's going to be far more useful for gigging with a fixed(ish) setlist than it is for more free-form rehearsal type stuff where you're jamming, working out parts and writing/arranging songs. My worry is that for that part of the process a switcher-based board potentially goes from being a useful tool to becoming a barrier to creativity.
There are definitely ways to build flexibility in to the way you work with the ES switchers that you don't get with *all* switchers- you can set up patches so you can toggle an effect on or off, or change amp channels etc, but as and when I'm next in a band I think I'll be holding the idea of a switcher-based pedalboard fairly loosely.
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https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/198542/pedalboard-switchers-some-questions
That's fair. I think my problem is compounded by the fact that I have a lot of multi-function MIDI pedals hooked up to my ES-5, and a sort of "satellite" remote switcher (I made it myself, but it's equivalent to the GigRig Remote Loopy 2 in function if not in build quality) running from one of the TRS outs, so the whole board really only achieves its full potential when everything is pre-set and programmed, and it becomes a bit of a faff to use in stompbox mode.
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