MasterKtulu
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Well, I Went On A Bit Of A Shopping Spree…
First, let me state that I’m not a professional, I’m not in a band, and when me and my friends get together and jam, we do so on acoustic guitars exclusively. Secondly, since 1996 I’ve only owned and played on digital multi-effects pedals. Not because I thought they sounded better, but because they were relatively cheap, versatile and sounded good enough for the amount of electric guitar playing I did. Now the last multi-effects I bought myself was a Zoom G7 and I was satisfied with it for a few years. But starting about 6 months ago, when I plugged into my Zoom G7, I noticed that I was spending more time editing sounds than actually playing… That although the G7 sounded OK, it didn’t inspire to play anymore… Now this has happened to me a few times before over the years, so I knew it was time for an upgrade. Problem was, although I always liked the versatility of digital effects (As I like to play a lot of different styles of music), I knew I needed Analog tones…
But I’m not a very patient person, so I know that I can’t just buy a single pedal and be happy for a while. I know I would need to buy all the pedals I needed at once. And I knew I would need a lot of pedals and that was going to get expensive… Another problem I have is that I live in the middle of nowhere and I don’t have a decent guitar shop nearby to go and try out different pedals. So my only option was to watch hundreds YouTube clips of different pedals and try to find the ones that I needed. Well two weeks of searching later and I think I’ve found everything that I need, then I ordered them all online…
It’s a bit much I know, but I still feel as though I need all of these to get all the sounds I want. And to tell the truth, I would still like to have a few more…
Now I’ve played with them for about 2 weeks and they all sound as good as or better than what I though they would, so I have no regrets.
As for the pedalboard, I built it out of some scraps of wood I had lying around, a can of black spray paint, a drill and a bit of Velcro.
First, let me state that I’m not a professional, I’m not in a band, and when me and my friends get together and jam, we do so on acoustic guitars exclusively. Secondly, since 1996 I’ve only owned and played on digital multi-effects pedals. Not because I thought they sounded better, but because they were relatively cheap, versatile and sounded good enough for the amount of electric guitar playing I did. Now the last multi-effects I bought myself was a Zoom G7 and I was satisfied with it for a few years. But starting about 6 months ago, when I plugged into my Zoom G7, I noticed that I was spending more time editing sounds than actually playing… That although the G7 sounded OK, it didn’t inspire to play anymore… Now this has happened to me a few times before over the years, so I knew it was time for an upgrade. Problem was, although I always liked the versatility of digital effects (As I like to play a lot of different styles of music), I knew I needed Analog tones…
But I’m not a very patient person, so I know that I can’t just buy a single pedal and be happy for a while. I know I would need to buy all the pedals I needed at once. And I knew I would need a lot of pedals and that was going to get expensive… Another problem I have is that I live in the middle of nowhere and I don’t have a decent guitar shop nearby to go and try out different pedals. So my only option was to watch hundreds YouTube clips of different pedals and try to find the ones that I needed. Well two weeks of searching later and I think I’ve found everything that I need, then I ordered them all online…
It’s a bit much I know, but I still feel as though I need all of these to get all the sounds I want. And to tell the truth, I would still like to have a few more…
Now I’ve played with them for about 2 weeks and they all sound as good as or better than what I though they would, so I have no regrets.
As for the pedalboard, I built it out of some scraps of wood I had lying around, a can of black spray paint, a drill and a bit of Velcro.
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