This control system is used by Tony both live and in the studio - it offers some of the best control over rack equipment that money can buy - check it out below.

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The Ground Control System provides total control over modern and vintage pedals, MIDI and non-MIDI processors and effects, amp selection, channel switching and more. All at the touch of a button. And all with improved tone and clarity. When an effect is on, you hear the true sound of the effect. When it's off, you get the tone of your guitar plugged directly into your amp. That's why more professional players choose the Ground Control System than any other switching system. More flexible. Easier to use. Sounds better. It's that simple.

  GROUND CONTROL

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The Ground Control is a fully programmable MIDI foot-controller. It will control eight effects at once, as well as the System Mix Plus Guitar Audio Mixer and up to four GCX Guitar Audio Switchers. All without complex MIDI mapping. And with all its power and flexibility, the Ground Control is still unbelievably easy to program and use.

You can create up to 100 presets (360 with optional memory). You can assign six buttons for instant access of GCX loops and processor effects, or even to start and stop a sequencer. And it's the only reasonably priced foot-controller that lets you name your presets on a big, bright alphanumeric display.

Get more from your MIDI effects. Volume pedals can be used as MIDI expression controllers for real time control over parameters like delay times, mix levels and Leslie speed. Its ease of use, versatility and reliability have made the Ground Control the first choice for thousands of working musicians since 1991 

GCX Guitar Audio Switcher

Combining the Ground Control with the GCX Guitar Audio Switcher forms a complete switching system. You can use each of the eight loops for in/out effect switching, A/B switching to select amps and preamps, or to control any type of foot-switch function such as amp channel switching. Add a mixer (like our System Mix Plus) to create a parallel effects system and use GCX loops to mute the inputs to your rack effects. This allows effects like delay and reverb to trail off naturally.

GCX loops use no active circuitry, only the finest gold contact relays sealed in pure nitrogen. This gives the best possible reliability and tone. And GCX loops will add true bypass to any pedal effect to greatly improve tone when the effect is not being used.

Also included are two front-to-back feedthroughs, one with a very transparent, inline buffer. This buffer allows splitting to multiple amps and preamps, as well as reducing noise and loss of high frequencies from cabling. The GCX provides phantom power to the Ground Control over a standard 5-pin MIDI cable.

SYSTEM MIX PLUS
   Guitar Audio Mixer

The System Mix Plus combines a dual stereo line mixer with the most needed functions for guitar racks. The dual stereo line mixer allows your effects to be combined in parallel instead of series. With series connection of effects, your preamp (or amp effect loop) output is passed through every effect. Each effect degrades your tone and adds noise. In a parallel system, your preamp output passes only through our super quiet and transparent mixer. Your preamp's tone is not altered and no noise is added.

Two studio grade VCA's are included which can be used for stereo volume, panning, or as two separate mono volume controls. They can be controlled by the Ground Control or via MIDI. This eliminates running extra audio cables from your rack to volume pedals. Balanced XLR outputs, a stereo version of our Cab-Tone cabinet simulator, and a headphone amp with separate monitor and direct level controls are provided for direct recording. Also included are 1/4" mono and MIDI feed through, plus ground lift and phase invert switches.

All look difficult ?

Well the system is not as complex as you might imagine - the truth is that with a Triaxis, this kit and two to three hours you will have a systems second to none...