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Thanks for the input. If I had 500$ or so could I make a digital bass pedal / tube amp ,?

• TylerE 6y ago
  Make, probably not.. But at that price point just get a used Helix LT which will be light years ahead of anything you can bodge together. This is one of those areas where both the hardware AND the software really matter. You can't touch the available hardware because of economies of scale - they're buying DSP chips, enclosures, power supplies, by the thousand at least. And they have multi-person full time teams working on the software.
  • bjelkeman-again 6y ago
    But, it could be good for learning. Doug Castro, founder of NeuralDSP started with less (I think) when he built his first pedal.
• 867-5309 6y ago
  of course you could, using second hand stuff. I haven't tried pi 4 yet but anything with a modern ish i5 and mic input should suffice (Gigabyte Brix, Lenovo Thinkcentre Mini), can be picked up cheaply and run both Windows and linux well. look for some USB foot pedals as they are cheap, low latency switches which act like a keyboard so you can assign pretty much anything to them within the OS. they come in singles or triples. as for an amp, studio monitors can suffice (I use a pair of Behringer MS20s which cost <$100) since playing live they will be miced up and/or routed directly to the venue's PA anyway. it might be janky, less durable and less reliable but it's great fun and certainly not impossible