Favorite All In One Pedal?

[trevorus]

Re: Favorite All In One Pedal?

I'm not seeing the FlyRig appeal. It's got a delay, a SanSamp, and then a Plexi model? No chorus, flange, reverb, phase, fuzz, wah, octave, or pitch shifting? And it's not programmable?


I'm currently still experimenting with the Line6 M13, though my rack stuff still has a certain charm. Caught myself scanning Ebay moments ago for the old Digitech RP10 and RP20 units, which were the Legend and 2101 in a floor unit with a treadle.

Would like to try the BOSS rack with all the pedals and the ability to arrange them in any order. Might put that on my short list.

I run mine on a pedal board with other pedals around it. For my church gigs I often play, that plugged into my cabinet emultion DI covers all my needs. The one I played this week had fantastic in-ear systems, and I almost never use an amp anymore. One guitar, tiny pedal board, and I'm good to go.

It can be run alone, and I have done it, but I like more reverb and delay options. Even adding pedals to it, it makes for a very small rig and a fast load in/out. I can also go to jams and play through nearly any amp and get predictable results.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

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Would you recommend the Line 6 ?

Haven't put it through its paces in a simulated live setting yet (switching effects during a song), but it does sound good. Individual level controls, 2 expression pedals, color-coded effect groups, and effect-order customization, as well as being able to assign where the fx loop appears. I did try running it so the distortion goes into the front of the amp for boost and the effects go into the loop for cleans, but I got no sound at all. Don't know if that was the amp or the pedal causing the problem, though.

I'd definitely recommend it based on the fact that it's one pedal rather than several, but at this point that's about it.

 

[LLL]

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If you were going to use one to cover all possible needs, what would you prefer and choose as your one single pedal/pedal board on stage? Which all in one pedal currently stands out?

Mine would simply be an EQ; flip the freq's around for many different tones.

As it stands, the ubiquitous MXR 6-Band or Maxon GE-601 are my favorites.

 

[Hecubus]

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Captain Coconut!

 

[ehdwuld]

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I have but one everything pedal
Digitech GNX3000
the expression pedal can fade between an acoustic sim and an electric guitar amp
I prefer to swap back and forth from Jumbo acoustic to Fender twin or Marshall JTM45 sims

it has five "pedals"
1) Amp Channel- lets you swap from pre-selected clean to dirty channels
2) Stompbox- your pre-selected dirt box
3) Chorus/Mod- pre-selected modulation
4) Delay-you know
5)and a Tap Tempo

 

[Snake Aces]

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I've never found a multi-fx pedal I liked or got along with. Sure, they are convenient but at the end of the day I find I can get more satisfying tones from individual pedals.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

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With the branded all-in-one units like Digitech or BOSS, you are pretty much stuck with their pedals/tones for everything, which may not be the greatest for that particular function, and while I'm not a fan of Line 6's slavish devotion to vintage/boutique replicas, the M13 does (at least claim to) have several models of various "classic" pedals that are high on the "hard to find on Ebay for a low price" list, like the BigMuff, BOSS Dimension C, BF-2, as well as the RAT, and a '63 spring reverb tank and various delays, plus effect sounds like synth pedals and whatnot.

How accurately they recreate those tones I cannot say, but reading their documentation it sounds like they put a lot of effort into it.

I'm sure in a head-to-head against a board full of "the real deals" the M13 would come up short, but in a typical cover band or live setting, I'm doubting Willy Wanker would be able to tell an original BM Pi from the M13.

 

[treyhaislip]

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After using Line 6 and Boss I would say a Boss Multi-Effects pedalboard...Boss just seems a step above IMO

EDIT: As cheap as one can buy them, I really dug the Berhinger V-Amp

 

[IM4Tone]

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I'm not seeing the FlyRig appeal. It's got a delay, a SanSamp, and then a Plexi model? No chorus, flange, reverb, phase, fuzz, wah, octave, or pitch shifting? And it's not programmable?...............

It does have reverb and chorus (although it's not called 'chorus'). I couldn't wait to get mine when they were first released. It was the biggest disappointment imaginable. Very 'hissy' noisey and the tones, in real life, were meh if you could live with the hiss. I thought the concept was tremendous, but the product wasn't. I often wonder if I received a bad one?

Returned it.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

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This is actually a problem I have with VSTs like Amplitube - they even modeled the hiss. Trouble is, you can't disable it. You HAVE to run a separate noise gate/hiss remover. Whether or not one has/had to do that with the real-world amp is absolutely irrelevant, as the primary purpose of a software or even hardware model is "all the good, none of the bad of the original".

 

[BriGuy1968]

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...the primary purpose of a software or even hardware model is "all the good, none of the bad of the original".

I can use Line 6's software to turn the modeled amp's hum/hiss on or off with my POD HD400. I ALWAYS choose "off." Just because you might have been willing to deal with it on the original doesn't mean that you'd want to hear it now!

 

[DrNewcenstein]

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Sadly, Amplitube doesn't have the option. At least not v1 or v2.

 

[stevie_bees]

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I've always thought I could cover a lot with a Carl Martin Quattro.


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[PFDarkside]

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Captain Coconut!

Great choice.

 

[trevorus]

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It does have reverb and chorus (although it's not called 'chorus'). I couldn't wait to get mine when they were first released. It was the biggest disappointment imaginable. Very 'hissy' noisey and the tones, in real life, were meh if you could live with the hiss. I thought the concept was tremendous, but the product wasn't. I often wonder if I received a bad one?

Returned it.

You MUST have gotten a bad one. Mine has been absolutely great. I even run it on a Joyo power supply with other pedals. No noise problems at all. Up the gain a ton, and anything will hiss a bit.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Black Arts Toneworks Coven. Midrangey 60s overdrivey fuzz or bassy Muffy 70s fuzz or both at once.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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I can use Line 6's software to turn the modeled amp's hum/hiss on or off with my POD HD400. I ALWAYS choose "off." Just because you might have been willing to deal with it on the original doesn't mean that you'd want to hear it now!

Tube rush is one my favourite parts of using valve amps!

 

[IM4Tone]

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You MUST have gotten a bad one. Mine has been absolutely great. I even run it on a Joyo power supply with other pedals. No noise problems at all. Up the gain a ton, and anything will hiss a bit.

Involved in this discussion on another 'Flyrig 5' specific thread and several others also complained of the 'hiss'. So, perhaps you're using minimal gain compared to my taste, but even on lower gain, mine hissed a bit (and I almost exclusively use either humbuckers or filter'tron pups). Tried it on multiple amps, and direct t a PA as well.

 

[trevorus]

Re: Favorite All In One Pedal?

Involved in this discussion on another 'Flyrig 5' specific thread and several others also complained of the 'hiss'. So, perhaps you're using minimal gain compared to my taste, but even on lower gain, mine hissed a bit (and I almost exclusively use either humbuckers or filter'tron pups). Tried it on multiple amps, and direct t a PA as well.

That's interesting. I just used mine last weekend, with other pedals, running some drive pedals into it, through a cab emulation active DI into the PA, with a telecaster with real singles. No hiss out of the ordinary.

I suppose everyone has different experiences.

 

[Boogie Bill]

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I just saw an ad for the new Fractal AXE pedalboard. I'm sure it's expensive, but if it performed like the rack unit, I'd definitely give it a try--the AXE FX II is an amazing unit. The one feature that I like is the ability to run some efx through the front of the amps, and the modulations, reverbs and delays through your amp's efx loop. That's a proper way to do it.

Bill