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3. Connecting your Pedals to the DPC-5
So you’ve got this… thing. It’s a box with a whole bunch of jacks, switches and lights. How do you make sense of it? How do you get
it integrated into your rig so that you can stop tap-dancing and start
playing?
The first step is to connect your pedals to the DPC-5. We’ll take it one step at a time.
Here’s the DPC-5 back panel - we covered it in the last section. Let’s check out the left side, which has fourteen (14) 1/4” phone jacks.
We’ve color-coded them to help make identifying them a bit easier.
The ten (10) jacks in the middle are the bypass control loops. They’re numbered L1-L5 from left to right looking at the back panel, but
when the DPC is in playing position the signal flows from RIGHT to LEFT, as is common with guitar effects setups. Connect a patch
cable from Loop 1 send (that’s the black one on top) to your first pedal’s input. Then connect another patch cable from Loop 1 return
(the red one right under it) to that pedal’s output. Repeat this for all of the pedals you’d like to place in the DPC-5 Gen3 loops.
(Yes, we
know the pedals in the drawing are upside down! If we draw them the other way, the wires will cross and the diagram is hard to read!)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The DPC-5 Gen3 can control a maximum of five non-MIDI pedals in its bypass loops and a maximum of four MIDI
pedals, plus an additional Disaster Area device. Need more loops? Grab a DPC-8EZ and instantly control thirteen non-MIDI devices!
Disaster Area Designs
DPC-5 Gen3
