Hi all
I'm sure this has been covered before, but some advice would be useful.
I have a Warwick pedalboard, decent power supply, and about 8 pedals on the board - mainly Boss but a couple of others too.
I've always used pedals and like the sounds I get with them though my Orange Thunderverb, but I'm tempted to make a change to a multi FX unit.
I've looked at the Kemper, Fractal etc. stuff but that feels like I'd then be wasting the sounds I get from the amp and cab so I've been thinking about as Boss GT-1000 which is claimed to work well with a tube amp and retain some of it's characteristics.
Or even a cheaper ME-80 which seems fairly interesting.
Any thoughts/advice - or is anybody looking to trade something for my pedal board setup?
Many thanks,
Simon
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Maybe a multi fx through the effects loop might be an idea that would suit me ...
Will try the 4 cable method and see how it interacts with the amp
This is exactly what I now do. I previously had a full set of Strymon pedals (Timeline, Big Sky, Mobius, Riverside and Sunset), but felt I wasn't even close to using each one to its full potential. I sold everything except the Riverside and bought a Line 6 HX. I run the Riverside in one of the loops and a King Tone Mini Fuzz in the other, using the Helix for all my non-drive effects. The HX allows me to control the Riverside through MIDI, so it's really flexible. After a bit of tweaking I can honestly say that all my sounds are easily on a par with what I had previously and it's much easier to use live. One big bonus was that after selling all my unused pedals and buying a used HX and a Mission expression pedal I had nearly £1k left in the guitar fund :-)
Don’t let that be your deciding purchase.
I’ve got a board of Chase Bliss, Klon, Keeley. Just bought a HX Effects and it’s great. Sure it’s not as good as each individual pedal, but to get the really good sounds you have to tweak and mess about, with the HX it’s very easy to get similar sounds that I was getting with my Chase Bliss setup.
Bought a cheap Zoom G£X when they came out, used it ever since. stupidly easy to use, sounds great and very cheap.
Even to use as a spare amp in case amp packs up.
I'm considering an analogue pedal board but trying to save up some cash to get some good kit.
an AX8 with an EP boost in front (mainly to boost the level of single coil guitars) and an EHX synth 9 or c9 in a loop,
a board with an HX FX , a Superego and a recently added Boss MO-2
A Metro 20 with Suhr Riot, Tumnus, Gain Changer, Koji Comp, Zoom MS70CDR, Flashback Delay
The AX8 and HX FX equipped boards allow for a massive variety of sounds and the routing and blending options mske them really flexible and capable of getting almost any sound i can imagine. The extra pedals on each of those boards are only there to do things i can't do with the units themselves.
The small pedals-only board is great for more straight-ahead stuff.
I think that's the conclusion ive finally come to - if you have simple sound requirements, a handful of choice pedals is perfect. If you cant get everything you need on a Pedaltrain Metro 20 or smaller, a multi-fx makes more sense to me.