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Post by rayden44 on Nov 28, 2011 19:07:55 GMT -5
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 28, 2011 18:42:31 GMT -5
Huh something I had no idea about, but is called the 4 cable method. Hope this image stays up. Ok to do this you need an amp with an FX loop, a pedal with an fx loop (that can be switched off) like the POD HD pictured or the digitech 1000, a guitar and 4 pretty cables. Now what this would let me do is bypass the amp modeling on the pedal and just use it as an FX box like normal OR if I turn off the FX loop I can avoid the preamp section of my amp and make use the amp simulation on the pedal (and obviously still the FX) without changing a single cable. I'd never heard of it before so there you go
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 28, 2011 17:31:29 GMT -5
Okie doke, neither the TC Nova nor the G200B 'appear' to have a looper and I say appear cos if you read the manual of the rp500 it doesn't state there is one (yet the website does).... unless I am of course being lame which is possible I'm actually considering (if I can source from the US) just going back to my original idea of just buying a looper lol then I'll try and see what else I can find. Still waiting to see if PGS will do anything for me so maybe thru them. The Digitech RP1000 is looking like the business for working with an amp as you can easily defeat all the amp/cab sims and the FX are of high quality (some say better than line 6's HD). It has its own FX loops too which is pretty cool. The Line HD series is not out of the running tho I'm going to need to investigate these a bit more. New comer to even this up a bit, and this will be a shocker. Zoom's G9.2tt pedal. Zoom I had totally ditched the idea of long ago thanks to lots of very bad Zoom pedals I've seen. However this thing has tubes, is sampled at 99khz not 44, and is 32 bit. Rare in its price bracket. 2 pedals, and one moves left and right also (tho I'm uncoordinated so that might be bad) Ok enough online research.... time to get out and about
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 27, 2011 21:19:45 GMT -5
Digitech RP500 - basically the features I'm looking for just a little concerned about FX quality, and seems to be more geared to running into a PA / direct recording. www.digitech.com/en-US/products/rp500Line 6 M9 / HD400 - EDIT: Maybe some punctuation here: M9 has no amp modeling (yay) and no pedal (BOO! I've bought a line 6 EX-1, it's plastic and looked like *I* constructed it), HD series with amp modeling (meh I want FX!) and pedal. These are highly rated everywhere I've looked. I've not kept in active service any line 6 product I have used. Due to the reasons in my opening post and the Line 6's I've used suffering usually more than one of them. (stutters, zipper noises, flat tones, hard to use interfaces). If they have moved on hopefully I can too line6.com/m9/line6.com/podhd/multi-effects/index.htmlTC Electronics Nova System - May not have a looper as I'm still digging through the manual. Sounds VERY good and is based of their much more expensive processors. VERY VERY VVEEERRRRRRYYY pricey if I can't source from the USA, but then I may have voltage issues. www.tcelectronic.com/novasystem.aspRocktron G200B - May also not have a looper. This is another I'm plugging through the manual for. Mostly interested because it integrates a Rocktron Talk Box into the multi fx which I have wanted to play with for a while. www.rocktron.com/products/floorprocessors/utopiag200b/
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 27, 2011 18:51:15 GMT -5
Nice endorsements for digitech here. Maybe I should be actually doing work at work, and not researching stomp boxes.... oh well..... Ok I seem to have narrowed down my options a bit so I'll just throw them up here so I can remember. And it would be very nice Multi FX makers if I didn't have to dig through all your product manuals to find all the FX you do Also I want like 3-4 good FX of each type not <insert stupidly high number here> of bad FX. AAANNDDD stop reviewing your pedals FX distorted all to heck so I can't hear the actual effect When I've managed to get a demo without distortion of these boxes they sound alright. EDIT lets chop this up a bit and I'll give ya's some links
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 27, 2011 6:32:58 GMT -5
Ok some first impressions just digging around what I can online first: TC Electronic: sounds very good, looks very sound engineer in design. still looking around some 2nd hand see what's about. Can't see a looper in their multi FX tho Digitech RP series looking quite nice. does have a looper, but also has an amp sim sitting in there - could be useful if it's good or for direct recording, but otherwise would have to bypass. I like the design - LCD looks BIG and friendly for me From what I've heard online of the Line 6's they still seem to be missing that little bit of sound and given I've had that issue with Line 6 before I'm either still looking at the wrong gear or need to find people who do better demos EDIT: Bit more poking around forums, some people seem to like the higher end boss fx units so I might take a look For non-tone fiddling fx - TC Electric has a lot of votes sorry kidney, I might have to sell you Carl Martin? Who? lol apparently rated quite highly as well. Also looking at Delta Lab and apparently Yamaha has one too I'm trying to track down. One thing I should mention.... some expression pedals have a 'click in' to change from volume to wah... I've tried this, you have to stomp your foot all the way down, putting you at full volume, to click and change to wah. To change out of wah you have to wah all the way to the top which is generally not a pleasant sound. This is the stupidest idea in practice, yet every reviewer says wooo look you have a dual purpose expression pedal... bleh
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 24, 2011 22:06:55 GMT -5
I was having a poke around for a looper to play with, and I've stumbled across an old enemy. Much like humbuckers, I've sworn off multi fx pedals, amp simulators and the like many times. But in looking for a looper I've run into them again - and they're better and cheaper. What happens to me tho is a quality v quantity war. Usually in the comparatively limited amount of time I have at the music store quantity of effects and sounds is king, and even if I can 90% dial in the sound I think "wow with all these sounds there must be the sound I want in here, and that 10% has got to be in this box what with all the other cool stuff it can do it is truly the win!!" Then in the vastly longer time of living with the pedal I generally just can't find that 10% anywhere. It does all the things I want, just not quite as well as the dedicated pedal equivalent. Or I have to live with something odd happening, like a noise or delay going from A to B, that would not otherwise exist. Or maybe the interface was created by some sound engineer with a pocket protector who buried every useful setting 100 menu's deep on an LCD you can't read while standing. I am however liking the look and sounds of the Digitech RP series and I have heard very good things about some of Line 6's new floor boards. Maybe I've given a perfect summation of multi-fx pedals that's still true now I don't know. I've gone back and forward 2 or 3 times now, so I'm still slightly jaded on the subject, but any other opinions out there? tc electronics has some interesting stuff too if I don't need my kidney
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 24, 2011 21:22:52 GMT -5
yeah but also the more you do something wrong the more annoyed you get at it lol stomping my foot also doesn't always go so well - moving around does hehe
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 24, 2011 14:30:18 GMT -5
That probably means it's a good thing me and HJ are far apart, we could end up with too much 'blues weight' on one side of the planet. That can't be good
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 23, 2011 16:54:55 GMT -5
.... then they were more surprised when the Happy Jack and Les Blues band became their last minute opening act Good to hear you guys managed to survive another round great sounds and good times hehe
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Layla
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 23, 2011 15:40:34 GMT -5
Since Mojo hasn't gotten to this yet, and I hadn't watched the video before (I could already play the song when I came here) I can say yes, yes he does he played a B but said B flat. Whoops I also notice that over "No one waiting by your side" when I play this song, I play A - D - E not C - D - E. I kinda like the C so I'll have to have a play it again and see which I like better! Welcome to the forum and have fun!
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 22, 2011 20:03:03 GMT -5
Oh and Les, you guys had another adventure? So what's the news, and ummm where is that Happy fellow? Haven't heard from him for a while. Did you kill him and hide the body? Or more likely he's pished somewhere in Europe and still trying to hitchhike home Details man!!
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 22, 2011 14:40:09 GMT -5
Youtube has a bunch of lessons from his DVD on there. Search for 'Duke Robilliard lesson' pulls em up. He's a fantastic player, and very unique in his style. Gives some good info on different chord shapes from the norm and rhythm patterns. I must sit down and watch more of them myself. Here he is with my friend hahaha
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 21, 2011 20:09:16 GMT -5
Head on over to the video clips section. When I did the S-500 several songs demo, I also picked up my Epiphone EM-1. The amp was left on the same settings as for the S-500. The P90's are not as loud as you'll hear, tho tonally still pretty nice EDIT: I should also note - MAN did I notice the difference from the G&L medium jumbo's coming down to whatever tiny frets epiphone put on the EM-1. Though to be fair I've had to get used to the S-500 compared to pretty much all my other guitars heh
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Post by rayden44 on Nov 21, 2011 15:05:01 GMT -5
ta buddy my multi-tasking is getting better, but every time I tried to lift my voice when doing the second 'he used to hang around my crib' I'd bork the timing chords up lol managed to iron it out a little after a couple goes. Stupid only do one thing at once brain... can I get a refund?
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