Ambient / Post-Rock Guitar “-26°C” (Godin LGX, Meris Hedra, Strymon Volante, Expression Pedal)

The main point of my setup for this video is an expression pedal for changing Meris Hedra pitch-shifting patterns.
External pedal is something that all guitar nerds keep in mind, but rarely use. This idea came to my mind when I thought about improving my volume swells technique.
Normally I would use one setting for bass layers and another setting for higher / melody layers. This needs two different presets in one or maybe even several pedals. The usage of an expression pedal can be a promising alternative.
The first thing I did I connected the Roland EV-5 control pedal to the Morningstar FX MC6 MK2 midi controller and programmed the pattern I needed. At the heel position it gives me -1 octave for fat bass sound and in the toe position the pitch rises to 1) +5, 2) +1 octave, 3) +1 octave and +5th.
Thus I use the expression pedal to alter pitch settings for different parts of a “song”. This approach can be applied to several pedals at one time if you need.
I’m still a bit disappointed with the Microcosm pedal. Though all delay pedals had synced tempo with midi Hologram Microcosm still lived its own life… Even if you think that this is the beginning of the beat Morningstar and alike pedals (Chase Bliss, for example) will think different. They have their own understanding of what the main beat is… The next time I will try constant MIDI TEMPO instead of MIDI TAP message - maybe it will help…
Gear used:
Godin LGX-SA
Morningstar FX MC6 MKII
Disaster Area Midi Box
Roland EV-5
Meris Hedra
Strymon Iridium
Meris Polymoon
Strymon Volante
Hologram Microcosm
Strymon Zuma
Shot with Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K + Samyang 14mm f2 (hand-held outdoors, gyro stabilization in DaVinci Resolve) and Sigma 18-35 f1.8 indoors.
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