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A very good friend of mine has the ME80. I disliked the amp modelling and although the distortions are useable I don't share @ICBM 's enthusiasm as most are not great IMO, but the FX are mainly very good.
If you're going to use just a few patches or just as a simple stomp set up, these units get the job done. But for anything more involved for gigging, for me personally the biggest problem of all these units is a lack of patch naming.
Although I have a conventional pedal board for the last 5 years I've used my Vox Tonelabs (SE and LE) for gigging. A used TLLE will give you a really good combination of good quality amp models (very important for me), effects, patch naming (vital for me) stomp option, Expression pedal, MIDI, control pedal, tuner and more, and it's simple to tweak on the fly.
2 months ago I bought a Line 6 Pod Go which is blindingly good and the first MFX unit at a sensible price that has been able to wrench me from my Tonelabs. So, although @ICBM and I have adopted different solutions, we are both confirmed MFX devotees.
I have it with two external expression pedals which are set for Wah and Volume.
This is the first time that I've used the AX8 live for 6 months - fired it up, no issues - played for a bit and thought "this sounds a little bright" - so I turned the treble control down a bit and then saved it in the current preset.....as a SCENE! - nice and easy.
It turns out that it was bright because the Wah was off it's end stop so had engaged itself and I'd now saved the Wah's new default "on" state into the Preset / Scene.
It took me half the gig to work out why the Wah kept engaging every single time I changed to Scene 2 - my only course of action was to keep disengaging it everytime.
I've corrected it now though next gig on Friday, I'm going back to pedals!!!
One of my big bugbears with multi-FX is finding that no sound comes out or it's just unusually quiet, checking the guitar volume control, checking the cables, checking the amp... then finally noticing that the expression pedal is heel-down, which with most of them - when the wah isn't engaged - makes it a volume pedal. That's something I would prefer to have to deliberately select, since I very rarely use a volume pedal.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You and every other guitarist. It hasn’t happened to me since I started using auto engage.
Trouble is - I think I pressed "save" when the Wah was not fully off - the Wah Block was therefore "On" and this state was saved into a Scene for that Preset. The only way to turn it off whilst playing was to quickly cycle the pedal up and down again to use auto engage to turn it off again. I actually think it was Scence 1 (my clean / default sound). So going to Scene 2 (Drive) was fine but reverting back to Scene 1 engaged the Wah at its toe down treble setting......lesson learned!
For my money, I believe that Boss have got it right with their GT-1000. I find it easy to tweak on the fly, especially as they have Bluetooth apps for smartphones and tablets.