EHX makes such cool pedals. I need to daisy-chain or parallel them to get the tones from many boxes into my rig, however.

Internal to many EHX pedals is a DSP and firmware to process the signal, read knobs, and determine modes and values accordingly. (POGs, C9, B9, Key9, etc.) Nothing more than DSP algorithms differentiates the box internals.

It’s time to combine many of these boxes into a single pedal.

The box could appear similar to the current line of EHX multi effect boxes (Soul POG, Holy Stain, etc.).

A key distinction would be a back-lit LCD strip just north of the knobs.

One knob (perhaps the left-most), would be an encoder-type and would swing through the various effect types from all the pedals that it could do. The LCD section above it would give a description of the effect in play. The LCD sections above each of the other knobs would describe the parameter they are controlling for that particular effect (e.g., “Rate,” “Depth,” “Click,” etc.).

To show the patch value of the knobs, a section of the LCD screen beneath each knob description would be dedicated to a “zero-to-ten” bar. As you rotate the knob, the length of the bar would track accordingly.

If the present number of knobs is kept (six), one knob would be for effects selection, two others would be for dry versus effect volume. That leaves three knobs for parameter tweaking, allowing “deeper” editing than present on the small-box processors (e.g. C9, B9, Key9, etc.).

When you have the effect that you want tweaked with its parameter knobs to how you like it, a toggle switch (for instance) would assign it to one of five stomp switches. Essentially five selectable “patches.”

When you select any of the “patch” stomp switches, the effect name, parameter names, and saved parameter bar reading would pop up in the LCD strip. That along with the sound output changing accordingly, of course.

For this size of box, you’d then have five effects of your choice, along with your presets, available to you during a set.

A sixth stomp switch would be the overall bypass.

I believe the above idea is in keeping with EHX’s ethos for effects and pedals: keep it simple for the user. Too many multi-effect pedals are overly complex, something EHX knows its customers can’t stand.

I could see this box selling for perhaps $1000.00, because of all of the effects choices that become available. Incontrast, implementing some random set of those using existing EHX boxes would require a large and somewhat complex array of pedals.