Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
- Pepe Silvia
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Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
So I was thinking about buying a POG, A Moog Murf and Ring, a Stymon Timeline... and I realized im spending a ton of money. I just want a way to transform the sound of my guitar for home playing, delay options, glitches, octives, etc, and I assume some multifeffect pedal could do this. I have no need for amp modeling or distortion, are there any multi effect pedals that are good at doing what I want?
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
get the new boss ms-3! it has a pog, a ring mod, and a bunch of delay options. I dont think it can murf though
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
oh! that is interesting!
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
Don't think you'll find any multi-fx without a ton of distortions, but you can always scroll past those.
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
Well, it's not a PEDAL... but I've been picking up some of that rack gear I've never gotten around to, and could VERY highly recommend a Yamaha FX500. It's easily small enough to sit on top of an amp or on the edge of a desk. Since you mention it's for playing at home, it might be easy to include. I've always been highly averse to multi-effects, but after realizing what I can make with it, this thing's been a godsend for putting together recordings with interesting tones on the fly.
Pros? You can get Slowdive and MBV sounds out of it, if those are your thing. It's full of very, very lovely modulation and reverb and delay-type effects. You can have a few different effects active at a given time per patch. And while I was expecting to be instantly programming up my own long-ass plate reverb patches, a number of the presets are actually really, really cool. "Lush Strings", "Symphonic Hall", "Sweet Flange", and, surprisingly, "Sitar" have all ended up inspiring recordings of one kind or another over the past couple weeks. And in addition to "Soft Focus" (Slowdive), and "Early Reflections, Reverse" (MBV), you can get that sweet Yamaha "symphonic" double-chorus or whatever it is to scratch your modulation itch. I find that it's somehow too lush to be cheesy. I'm not a big delay user, but if you're willing to set it and forget it via the button settings, they sound pretty nice, too. It's not really "fussy" to deal with unless you want to make it that way and really tweak parameters.
Cons? The distortions generally suck. It's not difficult to use, but can be a bit tedious to adjust on the fly with the little buttons. It's not a huge footprint (8.5" x 10"?), but it's still a bit bigger than the size of a Deluxe Memory Man or Deluxe Electric Mistress, though much sleeker. Bypass isn't great, but a DIY true bypass looper box would fix that. The plastic jacks on the back aren't great, but mine work fine. A MIDI footswitch would make it easier to operate and I don't wanna dive in with all that. But it's pretty simple to set up your own favorite presets at the top of the user-definable ones and you never have to wander that far through the list.
Oh, and it looks like a car stereo.
I've been unexpectedly taking it to practice along with my board, and it sits on top of my Bassman Ten a-OK. And with my preferred/needed presets lined up from 61-66, I can scroll to one or the other in a second or two as necessary. But especially for recording and home playing, it's aces.
It might be be "lower-end" than you're looking for, since you're dealing in Strymon-level stuff. And I know you're specifically asking about pedals. But it's generally cheap (I finally bit on mine when I saw it for $75), and it's got that unique "mid-to-late '80s, early digital" sound to it. So, while you can probably tweak it magnificently, it might not have "glitchy" covered like you mention. But great for textural stuff and spacey lushness and weirdo affectedness. Pretty much any of the modulation/delay/reverb-based presets I pull up have me playing something new every time.
Good luck with your quest!
Pros? You can get Slowdive and MBV sounds out of it, if those are your thing. It's full of very, very lovely modulation and reverb and delay-type effects. You can have a few different effects active at a given time per patch. And while I was expecting to be instantly programming up my own long-ass plate reverb patches, a number of the presets are actually really, really cool. "Lush Strings", "Symphonic Hall", "Sweet Flange", and, surprisingly, "Sitar" have all ended up inspiring recordings of one kind or another over the past couple weeks. And in addition to "Soft Focus" (Slowdive), and "Early Reflections, Reverse" (MBV), you can get that sweet Yamaha "symphonic" double-chorus or whatever it is to scratch your modulation itch. I find that it's somehow too lush to be cheesy. I'm not a big delay user, but if you're willing to set it and forget it via the button settings, they sound pretty nice, too. It's not really "fussy" to deal with unless you want to make it that way and really tweak parameters.
Cons? The distortions generally suck. It's not difficult to use, but can be a bit tedious to adjust on the fly with the little buttons. It's not a huge footprint (8.5" x 10"?), but it's still a bit bigger than the size of a Deluxe Memory Man or Deluxe Electric Mistress, though much sleeker. Bypass isn't great, but a DIY true bypass looper box would fix that. The plastic jacks on the back aren't great, but mine work fine. A MIDI footswitch would make it easier to operate and I don't wanna dive in with all that. But it's pretty simple to set up your own favorite presets at the top of the user-definable ones and you never have to wander that far through the list.
Oh, and it looks like a car stereo.
I've been unexpectedly taking it to practice along with my board, and it sits on top of my Bassman Ten a-OK. And with my preferred/needed presets lined up from 61-66, I can scroll to one or the other in a second or two as necessary. But especially for recording and home playing, it's aces.
It might be be "lower-end" than you're looking for, since you're dealing in Strymon-level stuff. And I know you're specifically asking about pedals. But it's generally cheap (I finally bit on mine when I saw it for $75), and it's got that unique "mid-to-late '80s, early digital" sound to it. So, while you can probably tweak it magnificently, it might not have "glitchy" covered like you mention. But great for textural stuff and spacey lushness and weirdo affectedness. Pretty much any of the modulation/delay/reverb-based presets I pull up have me playing something new every time.
Good luck with your quest!
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
check out this:
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Snap...let me fix that on Thursday
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Snap...let me fix that on Thursday
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- Pepe Silvia
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
404 page not foundbudda12ax7 wrote:check out this:
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
Still ing the M9
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
Me too. Having a couple of expression pedals adds to the fun.Zork wrote:Still ing the M9
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
I second this. It's a cheap pedal with a TON of different sounds. If you're just looking to goof around at home and try a bunch of different things you can spend hours and hours with this pedal. It has 86 modeled pedals in it. 86! You can stack and organize multiple effects at the same time. They are decent too, and it's not like you have to be super-studio slick.mackerelmint wrote:Zoom ms70cdr.
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
Having one expression pedal and one EHX 8-step is even more fun.antisymmetric wrote:Me too. Having a couple of expression pedals adds to the fun.Zork wrote:Still ing the M9
I had to replace the switches lately after some years of live use, though...
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Re: Thinking of diving into a multi effects pedal
Zork wrote: Having one expression pedal and one EHX 8-step is even more fun.
I must investigate....
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