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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    EvilTB wrote:
    I think it depends on your budget and how long you have been playing. I wasted quite a bit of money on effects I seldom used over the fifteen years I sporadically played guitar. I recently bought a new Digitech RP 250 for $180.00 it is a multi effects processor. Multi-effects processors, especially cheaper models like this have many weaknesses with regards to flexibility, and most older models have poor tone. I find however that this one sounds decent, is reasonably tweakable, looks to be reliable as it is made mostly of metal and it is relatively easy to use. If you don't already have a unit like this I recommend one if you are still starting out so you can learn which effects do what. Knowing this you can then so you can decide which individual analog effects you want. Had I what effects I'd use starting out I would have saved money.

    I still want to buy analog pedals, but I'll keep the RP 250 for things like its tuner, effects I seldom use, and for its digital delay which is better then my Boss DD-3. (It is also cheaper than the DD-3 back when it first came out!) It also makes a half-decent direct recording device. It has good overdrive models but the amp models are only adequate direct. It is small and has true bypass so it can integrate okay with normal pedals on a pedal board. It has USB output so it is very useful for recording into a computer.

    It is also a useful practice tool it has a simple drum machine and a metronome. Zoom offers a unit with similar features, but I don't know if it sounds as good. I wish they offered $200.00 multi-effects units with features like that when I started playing, my rhythm and timing sucked for years! I don't think anybody else on this forum would recommend an effects processor like this, as it is a sort of jack-of-all trades master of none deal.
    I'm sorry, I just wouldn't reccomend a multi effect.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I'm sorry, I just wouldn't reccomend a multi effect.


    +1
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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    I dunno, I started out with a multi-effect unit, a BOSS ME-33, and they are damn handy for beginners to get the hang of shit. They pack a lot of bang for the buck, and while most peeps outgrow them in time, they give you the chance to muck around with a lot of stuff and learn about a lot of different effects.
    Having built in tuners, phrase trainers, drum beats, expression pedal etc is all good. I don't use it much now, but if I really want a phaser or ring modulator, it's there.

    For my young mate, I bought him a Fender GDEC as his first amp, he is in a dorm, and it is perfect. Lots of stuff, economical, small and handy, not too loud. He loves it !!
    Music is not a competetion.
  • IrwinFletcher80
    IrwinFletcher80 Posts: 18
    I don't know much about pedals, but one thing I've learned, at least I think, is that you get what you pay for. I've always bought the cheapest one I could find, and am usually disappointed, meanwhile a friend of mine spends quite a bit more, and I love his. The worst thing I ever used was a "Dan O Wah" a friend of mine sold it to me for $10 when he bought a new Wah Wah pedal, and I think I overpaid. It's a real piece, and very cheesy looking, but that doesn't matter as much as the crappy sound. I also bought a DOD FX69 Grunge Pedal, it's not too bad, but most of the time the sound just comes out like screaming distortion, you can't hear much tone. I guess the only pedal I have that is halway decent is a DOD SD-1 Super Overdrive. It's probably not as cool as some of these pedals others have mentioned, but it gets the job done for me, and was very reasonably priced.

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