Making A Bradshaw Style Rack Diagram

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I Am Making A Diagram Of A Few Racks.
This One Is Basic Wet / Dry / Wet With
A Single Parallel Rack Mixer.
I Still Have Parallel / Series Switching
Floor Effects To Diagram Too.

I Use Two Flash Units For My
Rack Effects And Also Use
Palmer Cab Sim And Loadbox.
But Its Pretty Hard To Fit On
One Page I Think

Is This Thing Understandable?
This Is Just A Basic Start Here.

Me Using Two Switchable Mixers
And 3, Or 4 Rack Units Has A Lot
Of Cables To Run, Two In, Two Out
On Each Rack Effect.

This Diagram Could Be Wrong As Well
For A Single Rack Mixer?

I Am Pretty Sure I Have Seen High
End Rack Mixers With Two In, Two Out
On Each Rack Effect.

I Use Two Palmer Sim / Load Boxes.
PGA 05 And PDI 03.

Both Units Have Two Out(PGA) To Feed
Stereo Effects Racks And or Power Amp.
Two Complete Sims With EQ
The PGA 05 Is Stereo In And Out,
Two Line Outs Per Channel.

The PDI 03 Is Single Speaker In / Out
With 4 Line Outs With Loadbox. Sounds Amazing
And Really Sparks Up The Amp 100%.
But The PGA Has A Really Nice EQ Circuit.

This Is Why I Got Both Units.
Not Easy To Diagram Is My Point.
The Floor Pedals Will Be Both
Front Of Amp, And In The Effects
Loop Using The OTS1™ Patch-Box.
But This Is Kinda Extreme To Diagram
With My Floor Switcher(2) At This Point.

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This Layout Is For Two Flash 4 Units.
All The Effects Are Sent In Flash Unit 1
And Back In To Flash Unit 2 From
Flash Unit 1, L - R OUT

Flash Unit 2 Is The Main Signal That
Feeds The Power Amp, L & R Out.

The Dry Signal Is The Tube Amp With
A Palmer PDI-03, Or A Palmer PGA-05.
I Have Both Palmers I Use.
Dry Signal Is Right Out Of The Marshall.
Very Tricky Making This Stuff Sound Right.
That Is Why I Got The Two Palmers.
Both Palmers Are Speaker Through
And I Use Both Feeds In The Mix
From The Two Outputs.
The PGA-05 Is Better From
What I Wanted To Do Over All.
But Got The PDI-03 Cause I Could.


But I Wrote The Diagram For One Rack Mixer
To Send And Return The Effects.
I Had To Make It Clear That Two Signals
Are Being Fed In And Out of The Mixer.

Pretty Hard To Write Out A Setup Like
A Wet/Dry/Wet Setup And Make The
Message Clear That This Is A Parallel
Effects Setup 100%.

I Have Seen Really Old Bradshaw Racks
And This Is The Same Way They Hand
Wrote Out The Wiring.

People Using UML 2 Are Unable
To Address Parallel Signal Paths
Becasue UML2 Can't Address
Parallel Diagrams.

Parallel Programing Has Caused
Huge Redesign Issues Due To
The Fact CPUs Run In Series.

Parallel CPUs Started With The Dual
Core CPU's, Or Multi Cores CPU.




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