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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've won a BBE Univibe in a contest. It's an analog pedal. I'm thinking I'd like to get a overdrive / distortion pedal of some sort, some of my choices include, a BBE Green Screamer, Ibanez Tube Screamer, Bad Monkey or a POD 2.0. The question I have is will an analog univibe pedal mate successfully with something digital like the POD, or do you have to keep analog with analog?
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Location: Omaha, NE | You'll get as many different opinions as answers on this, but I can only tell you that after many years of chasing tone, I decided to go all analog, all the time.
I keep my pedals to a minimum, but there will be no digitization between my pickups and my speakers.
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Location: Utah | Mixing won't hurt anything. The input signal from your guitar is converted to digital in a digital unit, processed, then converted back to analog for the output. So whatever is upstream or downstream from your digital pedal won't know or be affected by the digital processing.
The question is whether the sound of a pedal is good for you. If it works, it works. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "The question is whether the sound of a pedal is good for you. If it works, it works."
That's it in a nutshell. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Thanks. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The reason I asked is that a few months ago I played a Digitech Bad Monkey, which I love, into a reverb pedal that was analog, and the combination sucked, even though alone both sounded great ... and I was wondering if there was some analog to digital hoodoo. So I guess what I'm left then is taking my Soul Vibe to a store and just cranking it with a few likely combinations and see what I like ...
Anyone here use an analog univibe with an overdrive pedal? |
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Location: enid, ok | What Flysig and Miles said. I mix with reckless abandon, looking for cool sounds. The question is always, "is this monster I've created worth listening to?" |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I don't know if this is all in my head or if its real, but my sense is that digital pedals and effects can sound great in the living room, but then go completely flat on stage. Something about getting them up to volume in a performance situation exposes how they lack the three dimensional nature that you want. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This is not anything I've ever thought about before, so here's my dumb question. Having done no prior research on this, is there a quick way to determine which pedals are analog and which are digital (besides the obvious, i.e., Boss Digital Reverb, and older pedals that were designed before the digital age)? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | There are also many many articles that suggest the "order" for multiple effects. Usually some variation on
1. Dynamic Range – Compression
2. EQ – Wah Pedal, Equalizer
3. Drive – Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz
4. Modulation – Phaser, Flanger, Chorus
5. Time-Based – Reverb, Delay
... which is fine.
However, it's a guide. I had a setup with a Univox Reverb/Mixer for a long time. The rev/mixer was the first thing in the chain, because I rarely used the reverb with any other effect at that time. So.. the result was "when" I used the reverb, yes it was still last in the chain, because it was the only thing on. BUT, it didn't look like that when wired.
As has been said... experiment. |
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Location: Jet City | my setup is usually pretty basic. guitar->wah->overdrive->volume->chorus->delay->amp |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know that analog just means the sound is processed electically, like with transistors, resisters and tubes etc. While digitially means there's some sort of computing going on processing the signal. When I've opened a POD it looks computery, more circuit board action, while analog pedals look more transistor radio-ey. Other than that I don't know. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | When I get this up and running I evision it looking like:
Guitar>compressor>distortion>univibe>amp w/ reverb. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Tuner>compressor>distortion>driver>modeler, then XLR out to the house and 1/4" out to the AAD as a powered monitor. The tuner doubles as a mute switch. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Oh yeah, I forgot my planet waves stomp tuner!
guitar>tuner>compressor>distortion>univibe>amp w/reverb.
That AAD is a nice monitor! |
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