HELP! Please!
Muggins here has a problem, and I thought you guys would be the best people to turn to for some advice.
I am the rare beastie of a guitarist that actually reads proper sheet music and not just chord boxes and tablature, and this means that I've been snapped up to play lead guitar for a local theatre groups production of The Full Monty.
Now my fabulous Laney Lionheart LT5 has performed faultlessly, and at the kind of volumes it needs to be to be heard over a VERY loud brass section it sounds amazing, but the only issue I'm having is that I need a load of different sounds to keep the MD (Musical Director) happy as the music dictates what sounds should be played ("Taxman", "Duane Eddy" to give just 2 examples written above the music at certain points). In rehearsals I had been making do with my little Aria stomp boxes fed into the effects return of the Laney, but at performance volumes they haven't got the beans to get over, and the buzz I'm getting from them is awful. They also don't stack well together (i.e. if more than one of them is on at any one time) and when I use my wah, as I have to do on a couple of mubers, I get a pretty poor sound that is liable to feedback at any moment which doesn't endear me to the actors on stage.
Now I'm looking at biting the bullet and heading off today to buy a shiney Multi Effects Footpedal, but would like some advice from you guys as I'm probably not going to be able to try everything I'm interested in at the shops.
I've used a Vox Tonelab SE before and was very impressed with it's wonderful versatility, and the great flexibility with the two expression pedals it had. Best of all those two pedals could be set up to give different effects and I remember having one set up for Wah and the other set for a tremelo, which is kinda useful considering one of the vocal lines in the final song of the show is "I've got a whammy bar on a brown guitar", and I don't own a guitar with a whammy bar! :( (to be honest every guitar I've ever had with a trem on it I've sold as I never get on with the things!).
Now unfortunately Vox have discontinued the Tonelab SE and replaced it with the LE which only has one expression pedal, but I've seen on the net that Zoom do the 9.2tt which is similarly valve driven and has two expression pedals.
I can get a Vox Tonelab SE secondhand for £200 but I won't have it for the last 3 performances this weekend, although I would then have it for future shows (Footloose next year......Kenny Loggins here we come), or I can bite the bullet and get the Zoom 9.2tt for £279 brand new today from a local store.
If I brought the Zoom, does anyone think I might end up kicking myself that I didn't buy the secondhand Tonelab SE and simply put up with the stomp boxes for this weekend?
P.S. The doubleneck is a great orchestral guitar! Two guitars for the price of one which is invaluable in a very cramped orchestra pit! Bob Johnson strikes again! :D
