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| aaronharmon |
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| Oh *** another passion of mine! I have many, many stomp boxes and pedals. You are really talking about two separate issues though so let me address each one individually. First multi-effect pedals... I have had a lot of them and have always gone back to stomp boxes. I just don't personally care for multi-effect pedals, they tend to be too complicated and rather limiting. I am also not a huge fan of Digitech I have owned two or their big dogs, the GNX3 and GNX4. I found the Line 6 products more versatile and easy to use. I had the Line 6 Pod X3 and the Pod X3 Live and thought they were fun and well suited for the home. I wouldn't trust one at a gig without a back-up though. They tend to be less heavy duty. The Boss GT pedals are built like a tank and sound great. If I were forced to have just one pedal I guess it would have to be a Boos GT 10. You can get the older ones like the GT 8 much cheaper used. Now, my true love, stomp boxes! These are the bee’s knees but they are far from perfect. I love Boss pedals because just like their big multi-effect pedal the GT10 they are built like a tank. I have seen a few that have been through hell and still sounded great. The down sides are: A) Many (including Boss) use buffered inputs, so if you are running a bunch of boxes you end up with a bit of tone suck. True bypass boxes are all the rage now and many manufacturers are going to this. Keep in mind tone suck is only an issue if you are running a bunch of pedals. 1 or 2 and no one will notice, 5 or 6 pedals though and a trained ear could probably pick it up. In short it’s rarely an issue just something to keep in mind. B) Big complex pedal boards with 8 or more pedals tend to get a lot of signal noise. That's really not an issue if you are playing metal in a bar setting but it sounds like garbage in your living room at practice volume. The easiest and most effective way to combat this is with high-end patch cables. I used cheapies for a long time and was constantly trying to reduce noise then finally one day I made some changes to my pedal arrangement and discovered that It was much less noisy. It turned out that some of my patch cables were better than others. Rather than trying to narrow it down, I threw them all away and spent a small fortune (multiples of a hundred) on patch cables and have had no noise since. C) Both analog and digital pedals have drawbacks. The only way to reduce the drawbacks is to go either all digital or all analog (including your amp) (Let the flame wars begin, I know there are people who will disagree with me all day long. Some of them may have owned as many pedals as me. It’s just my opinion.) D) IMHO analog pedals sound way better than digital but only in an all analog rig. You can have a million dollars in analog pedals but if you have a digital amp (anything without tubes) or a single digital pedal in your chain, you end up with the drawbacks of both. Analog pedals (especially vintage pedals) make strange sounds sometimes and can be a little noisier. They sound warm and organic though. Digital pedals artifact sometimes and to me, they sound more sterile. Run a fact warm tone into a digital pedal and you lose some of it character. All that said, I still occasionally put a digital pedal in my mix because they are cheap, reliable, readily available and do things that some analog pedals cannot. For example, I don’t feel like owning and maintaining a Roland RE-201 so instead, I use a Boss RE-20 when I need that sound. Check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQjsoMJDxt8 These are just a few of the hundred or so pedals I own or have owned. I have a picture of most of them out and together somewhere I just cant find it at the moment. I think its on the memory card to my camera were ever that is.       Edited by aaronharmon 2012-05-25 3:00 PM | |||
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| ProfessorBB |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881 Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | "Hey, soundman! There's a hum in my board. Can you fix it for me?"
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| dobro |
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| Geetarism |
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| Modern Saint |
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Joined: April 2012 Posts: 25 Location: SoCal | Here is a pic of my Acoustic Board. The pedals are shifted a little more than shown because the XLR output of the Fishman is on the top right.
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