Small board / multifx / backup

John_P

So the festival and wedding gig season has started and it occurred to me I made a mistake selling my amplifire mini board. - it doubled as a backup and was handy for gigs when space is really tight or I need to get on and off super quickly   

So i could stick a few pedals on a mini pedaltrain or get another little multi.    I'm leaning towards the latter for ease of use.    
Ideally 3 or 4 footswitches with decent clean/edgy:crunch/lead tones.    

Any suggestions? 

vasselmeyer

Zoom G3. I use one for rehearsals and as a backup for my main board. It has three buttons, some excellent effects and surprisingly good amps sims for the price. You can pick one up second hand for around £60.

I've hooked mine up to a TechU Midi Moose and can just jump to individual patches like a pedalboard.

mike_l

Zoom G3  was the only multi FX I've got on with.

Or stripe down to the basics and make a small board* with Boss pedals (relatively compact and mostly bomb-proof).

*IE have 1 drive, 1 modulation and maybe 1 delay (dependant on your setlist needs......

Gassage

There is (or was until last night when it ended) a Carl martin Quattro on eBay. for c. £250. Get it and you'll thank me.

John_P

Thanks chaps.   I was thinking a fly rig or trex soulmate but the Quattro is a good unit I'd forgotten about and I'll check the zoom out.  

I didnt realise there are now more versions of the flyrig - Brit and Cali - they look nice. 

Sassafras

Helix LT seems to be the standard answer these days.

Gassage

John_P said:

Thanks chaps.   I was thinking a fly rig or trex soulmate but the Quattro is a good unit I'd forgotten about and I'll check the zoom out.  

I didnt realise there are now more versions of the flyrig - Brit and Cali - they look nice. 

Tried them all- the Quattro is a level above, plus it's got 5 FX you'll actually use!

Legionreturns

The Boss ME80 is pretty damn good. Like every boss pedal in a box as it uses all the same tones. 

mike_l

Gassage said:

Tried them all-

Today's shocker........

Sporky

Gassage said:

Tried them all- the Quattro is a level above, plus it's got 5 FX you'll actually use!

Well, four.

Plus chorus.

Cookiemonster

Boss me series is very good

redwedge

Boss Me-80 with a decent drive pedal in front of it

Flanging_Fred

A small Boss pedal box with an sd1 overdrive, bd2 blues driver and a dm2w delay does the trick for me.  It's simple reliable and will run off batteries fine.

John_A

Shameless plug:

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/101247/valeton-dapper-like-a-fly-rig#latest

John_P

John_A said:

Shameless plug:

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/101247/valeton-dapper-like-a-fly-rig#latest

I'll check out some videos.     


Of course what what I should have done is not sold my El cap and Flint last week and instead added the sunset to make a mini board.