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and so commences another season of Who wants to be a product designer
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but I literally do want to be a product designer.

I'd rather like to be a kinda "consultant". Thing is, I'm very likely a miserable designer (so I have no ideas about how to put things into the right places and what not), but I'm a pretty experienced user with some decent ideas (sure, patting myself on the back here, but some people seem to agree every now and then...) that I'd really love to see materialize.
 
I possibly would as well, but there should be some improvements, namely these:

- A dedicated amp button as on the bigger units. Ideally, when you push it, it should take you to the amp(s) and then alternate between those and where you've been before. That'd be just perfect to edit a combination of amps and dirt (or whatever) pedals.
- Better parameter order. As is, it's even almost horrible (and without much logic behind it) for some blocks, most notably for all drives with >3 parameters and for all delays/verbs with >3 parameters, as the most relevant parameters are on page 2 (or even 3).
- 1-2 more encoders.
- Ideally one more switch. Might only be me, but a 4th switch would make a most terrific difference for all my use cases. I'd happily deal with the increased size as a tradeoff. But then, I'd understand if people wanted to keep the size the same.
- More flexible output routing. I'd like to be able to have L or R for my personal feed including volume control and global EQ, whereas the other side would be used as an FOH feed without volume control and EQ.
- Allow me to completely deactivate all capacitive switch functions. This is sooo much going on my t**s sometimes.
- Get rid of the stupid 2.5mm PSU barrel plug. It serves zero purposes others than being a royal PITA.
- And while we're at it, implement global blocks. A Stomp unit would profit from them more than anything else.
Great list, and add a power switch!
 
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