School Me On Multi Effects - Boss ME50?

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Bedroom rockstar? Recording? GT-6 all the way!

and multi-fx rule! The key to taking on tone snobs there is subtle use of effects and great EQ. I usually have a set of killer pedals and a multi-fx. They are for different things. Love them for what they are. There is always the hybrid approach s well. A great peda/amp combo up front and multi-fx in a loop for ambience (delay/chorus/verb etc)
 
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10 years ago i got the boss me-30 and it was alot of mind boggling fun. i recommend em. but ya if you want to be a toedancer to get better tone, stomp boxes are kewel. for recording the podXTs sound good to my ears.
 
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GNX4 anyone? Never owned one but have heard many good things, and they seem flexible as hell (every Guitar World issue has the GNX tone settings for the song, that's kind of impressive).
 
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When layering effects with single units or with multis, I always make sure to cut back on some of the parameters. For example, blasting distortion with a heavy chorus cna sound unpleasant, so when layering them up, I just clean it up a little.
 
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I find myself using my boss me50 too for just chorus and delay and then using single effects (wah, distortion, etc etc)
 
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JB_From_Hell said:
Dude, the foot pedal thing is NOT silly. Bank up/down has been a standard FOOT operated function on every processor since they've made floor-based processors.
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You're missing my point. This is a different kind of unit. It encourages you to play with these sounds in real-time like analog, not store them in banks to recall them later. It will do that but that's not the purpose of this unit. Boss already has the GT multi-effects stuff that'll do this. If you had a pedal board with various pedals all connected together you wouldn't get a bank up/down switch, would you? You also wouldn't need one.

JB_From_Hell said:
I recommend that you get both
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You must work for Boss, Digitech, or someone else and get kickbacks. Do you have any idea what that would cost?
 
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JB_From_Hell said:
Dude, the foot pedal thing is NOT silly. Bank up/down has been a standard FOOT operated function on every processor since they've made floor-based processors. Look at the cheap Digitech, Korg, and Zoom stuff.... the only foot switches they have is up/down. It's like guitar companies requiring that you pay extra for volume and tone controls on the guitar.

If it had those footswitches, I would probably own one. In all honesty, though, the GT-6 does not cost that much more used, does way more, and is NOT difficult to use.
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It may not be silly, but hearing you gripe and complain and think that this is somehow a big conspiracy on the part of Boss to rip off customers is silly. I was just fine using mine and bending down to switch banks for a long time. Then I got the add-on footswitch so I didn't have to.

Beyond your preference, it's still up to what people want and what people think. I didn't mind mine one bit. Some of the early GNX series pedals were like this as well: no up/down bank pedals. I didn't see people rushing to bash those either.
 
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I use a rocktron Xpression in a small rack I set up. I used to use individual pedals, but tap dancing on pedals at gigs was not really helping me concentrate on the playing enough. With my current setup, I use a midi foot controller and a single tap will call up the correct patch on the Rocktron and switch my Mark IV to the right channel. I am using an Axess midi switcher to do this. This setup is highly effective. The Rocktron sounds just as good to me as the Boss pedals and it has a ton of options that I didn't have with the pedals like effect spill over. The Rocktron goes for about 300 new at MF, and you can get older rocktron me's on ebay such as the Intellifex for quite a bit less. The Intellifex sounds really sweet but it is harder to program than the xpression and somewhat more limited to what effects you can use together in a given patch.

The only thing to consider with my suggested setup is that there are no overdrives or distortions. Just delays, reverbs, pitch shifting and modulations.


HotSEXJ said:
Okay, so I want some effects, but I hate getting effects and then thinking "Hunter, what the hell did you think you needed a __________ for?" (phaser, envelope filter...)

So I'm thinking a multi-effects board may be for me. I used to have one (DOD TEC8) a hundred years ago and I remember nothing about it.

Questions:

- I've heard about digital vs. analog effects, and that analog effects > digital effects. I have no experience here, help me out.

- Boss ME50 = digital or analog?

- What are the other options? Multi effects is a cop-out niche I know, but what else is good?

- Is multi-effects a cop-out? Do you think I'd be better off with a collection of single boxes?

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I'm looking for good overdrive for a Blues Junior (I don't have one, but I'm going to get one once I get settled in at my new place) chorus, delay, reverb, flange from time to time, and compression!

TIA!

-Hunter
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i was looking at the gt-6 on ebay - decent prices - you could score one for 200$ - I would go that route if there is no delay between switching effects.
 
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