After Low blowing my head off with their avalanching walls of sound a few months back, I wanted to try play around with reverbs and delays. I had a Hall of fame but sold all my delays yonks ago. I also just got a minilogue and wanted something that might help get odd sounds. So I ended up with one of these secondhand.
Reviews said it was "surprisingly good" and it was only 60 quid delivered, so I grabbed it. This thing is unreal and solidly built. It has a bunch of presets loaded in and they all sounded impressive and full and just not what I expected. Then I started going through the individual pedal models and was blown away. Loads of great sounding choruses, trems, vibes, delays, reverse delays, reverbs, reverse reverbs, filters, gates, bitcrusher, eqs and even a fucking tuner. Most models seem to be clones of existing popular (ehx, strymon, boss, eventide, tc electronic) and boutique (red panda particle!) pedals. You can stack up to six of them together and save it as one of the presets. Seems like there's space to save over 50.
I had an old zoom multithing before and it sounded terrible. This is nothing like that. They do an od and distortion pedal too, with tubescreamers and rat clones etc. Going to look out for it cheap.
Here's a comparison with one of the pedal clones vs a strymon off the YouTube.
Hall of fame is now sold. As is my small clone. Might get rid of my trem and eq too after I a/b them with this. Great pedal and seem to be cheap secondhand.
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It's telling you see it on a lot of 'pro' boards.
I've had it since it came out and since then, I've downloaded the free firmware giving quite a few things from the MS-50G (not the preamps which I think may have been the issue) and it really is a Swiss Army Knife pedal that punches well above its weight. I'd recommend the firmware download if you haven't done it already.
Even as a Tuner and just one of the Modulation, Reverb & Delay pedals, it's worth the price, but when you factor in pitch stuff, trems, filters etc, it's terrific and let's face it, some of these effects might be ones for studio or occasional use, and so knowing they're to hand without having to invest in the specific pedal is a boon.
Yep, live, navigation between presets can be a PITA as you have to cycle through them. However, Gassage mentioned that the Dave Gilmour in one of the Pink Floyd tributes was using a couple of these.
No brainer for me, and for quite a few here. With used prices at £40-50? Come on!
I haven't uploaded the new download.what extra does it give you.is it easy to do? Not that clever with computers
Sad I didn't do it about 2 years ago.
How are you guys powering it? it seems quite power hungry. I guess the other thing is that its not very convenient for live use but I can cope with that, I'm only amusing myself these days anyway.
Though I tend to use it with my Warwick Rockboard rechargeable power supply/