Calling all guitarists....effects board, processors, etc. recomendations needed

[PonyXpress]

Can anybody reccomend a good multi-effects board or processing software? At the moment all I have is a Strat, a POS 25 watt Fender amp, and nothing between the two.

 

[Emmerson_Biggins]

What is your primary style of play and budget??

 

[RAZRS EDGE]

What is your primary style of play and budget??

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[PonyXpress]

What is your primary style of play

Pretty much everything from bllues/blues rock to thrash metal to neoclassical and prog. So I need something with a wiiiiiiiide array of tones.

and budget??

Whatever my broke ass can scrounge up :-D Nothing more than about $400 tho...

 

[jrc347]

I have a Zoom 505II pedal. It's on the low end of the scale- about $100, but has a pretty decent array of sounds. Has a pretty good copy of Eddie VH's "brown sound".

 

[Emmerson_Biggins]

For that kind of budget, I'd probably get on eBay and try to hunt down a Boss GT 6. It has COSM (composite object sound modeling) which will help in the tone department, but it also has an expression pedal you can use for volume or wah, or whatever. Used they probably fetch around $200. The digital processing engine in the unit is actually a Roland piece, so it is not as much a toy as some effects systems are.

Good Luck!!!

 

[MikeDoom]

Look into digitech. I don't know alot about the 'new" stuff, but I got my digitech rp750 (i think it's 750) in '97, and it covers everything as far as I'm concerned. I also have A roland processor and 12 track recorder which gets one hell of a sound, but that was like 1600 bucks or so. I think the digitech was a bit more than 500 bucks at the time.

 

[RAZRS EDGE]

If you are willing to spend the $400 get the Digitech GNX4. Since you play such a wide variety this is the PERFECT pedal/board for you. I have it and it is UNREAL. It has absolutely everything you need/want that you could imagine. I'm not going to get into details about it b/c there is so much shit it can do so I'll just give you the link. I got mine for under $500 new but you can find them around or less than $400 used. The last model of this which is just as good i think was called the GNX400 or something like that. Trust me, this this is undervalued for all that u get. Check it out and hope it helps! It has made me play 20x better b/c it has allowed me to get that tone i have wanted for each song/band i play.

Link> http://digitech.com/products/gnx4.htm

 

[Black Justin]

Look into the Line 6 POD XT. I have one and i love it. They're only 299 now from american musical.

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-LIN-PODXT.html

I think it has 32 amp models and 28 cabs and an assload of effects, and you can tweak all that stuff. So that's the one i'd go for. :rockon:

 

[03Cobra_hopeful]

Well, since you're on a budget I can reccomend what I use.
I use a Behringer X V Amp Effects Pedal..
I think I paid about $85 for it. (new in the box from our local music store)
Pretty good deal I think.
I'm happy with how well it works too.