Hi all, hope you all had an acceptable Christmas/new year. I have a dilemma for the hive mind as I want the world on a stick but don't want to pay for it!
I'm after a multifx to link four cable method style to my peavey classic 30.
I want to be able to build a signal chain (compression, wah, drive, effects loop, delay etc) and save it to four ish switches as well as have the occasional wild card effect for certain tracks.
I also want the wah to be switchless (properly switchless not turned off at a certain point in the sweep) and assigned to an attached expression pedal.
I've looked at a few (helix/headrush) but they all have major price tags + bells and whistles I won't use and therefore don't want to have to pay for.
Is there an older board that can do all this? I'm really mad at boss at the moment as they seem to have a vendetta against switchless wah or I'd just get a gt100...
Thanks in advance
Jazz
Edit for clarification:
I want a single multifx unit that will:
Have at least four programmable switches and an attached expression pedal,
Change the channels on my amp (5 cable method?),
Allow me to save patches to each switch,
Have a wah effect activated by moving the expression pedal,
Be around £250-300
Comments
For everything apart from the switchless wah, then an HX FX should do it. My only problem with it was the workflow and the fact it wasn't conducive to twiddling the knobs, like real pedals are. It might even do the switchless wah, but I never tried to use a wah in the 18 months I owned one, so can't confirm one way or the other.
Thoughts on a switchless wah (and I still don't play with a wah)...
I've got a GT-1000 Core sitting on a board at the moment.
I think it's possible on the GTk to have the wah turn on and off using assigns related to the position of the pedal. So you could have it turned off when fully depressed or fully up. As soon as you moved away from that position it would turn on. The problem I'd see is that playing it runs the risk that you'll drop the pedal to the "off" spot and it would turn off. Every "real pedal" wah I've used had a footswitch. I believe you can buy expression pedals that also have a footswitch. On the GTk, that switch could be your on/off assignment and the rest follows.
Or you could just use a real wah pedal and stick it in an effects loop after the compressor in your signal chain. That would mean you'd need two effects loops on the MFX - one for the wah and one for 4CM. The GTk has two send/return loops, so does the HX FX, and I'm sure others will do too.
Or - if you never use a compressor for sounds that also use the wah - stick in front of the MFX.
The GT1000 core is 'better' imho but pound for pound the pod go is the best priced unit on the market. 2nd hand you can get them for £250-280 which for what it does is a steal.
A secondhand Standard or Ultra model is outside your budget, but worth thinking about because it also offers midi, lots of other FX, and FX switching. One thing you can do is use different Wah models for clean (cry baby), overdriven (Vox), and solo (mortal) sounds.
I have the wah on my LT set up to work exactly like that (except the sprung treadle, obviously).