Author Topic: EFFECTS (Read 23072 times)

Brow · « **Reply #15 on:** September 22, 2005, 08:53:52 AM »

Quote from: HJM

Dammit...there's a tone in here somewhere..... :lol:

I for one am still waiting for pictures!!!!!!!! :D

HJM · « **Reply #16 on:** September 22, 2005, 09:30:39 AM »

Later.....

Brow · « **Reply #17 on:** September 22, 2005, 09:32:54 AM »

Quote from: HJM

Later.....

Thank ya kindly :D

chrisola · « **Reply #18 on:** September 22, 2005, 11:04:39 AM »

its later now.... :lol:

HJM · « **Reply #19 on:** September 22, 2005, 11:40:36 AM »

Sadly I've got to work for my toys!

PhilKing · « **Reply #20 on:** September 22, 2005, 12:07:09 PM »

Quote from: carlaz

So really I'm kinda hanging out with my fingers crossed hoping for a next-gen digital amp modeller that offers both guitar and bass amp models, as well as a USB interface with support software that my Mac can use to talk to it. That would be cool.

THe Johnson J-Station has both bass and guitar models, and has a PC based edditor (don't think it works on the Mac ), and s/pdif output.

You will have to find a secondhand one though.

HJM · « **Reply #21 on:** September 22, 2005, 05:16:41 PM »

I used to be able to edit my old J-station on a Mac - may be os9 only though!

Bob Johnson · « **Reply #22 on:** September 22, 2005, 06:08:04 PM »

PLEASE!! don't ever mention Johnson gear. Johnson is a trade name registered by a german company called AXL/Gerhard Lutz GMBH to make themselves sound more Anglo American. After 20years of making Johnson guitars I had to drop my domain name and scr@p all the inlaid head veneers, logos, and guitar cases that I'd had manufactured 'cos they were going to sue my arse off.

If my name was Gerhard Lutz I'd want to changs it but is that really a good excuse?

'Just a bit of history, not really a gripe. :D

Kilby · « **Reply #23 on:** September 23, 2005, 07:30:07 AM »

Quote from: carlaz

I really want something that has at least a few sensible bass amp models mixed in with the guitar models; I think the PodXT has only guitars, while the Pod Bass has only basses--which is kinda lame.

The Korg have merged the guitar & bass pandoras, so you could have a look at those.

Kilby...

Elliot · « **Reply #24 on:** September 23, 2005, 08:50:26 AM »

Bob - I think you might have won that case, but £££££ to lawyers would have probably bankrupted you anyway!

HJM · « **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2005, 10:34:33 AM »

Here's my boards...by popular demand - they've been cut back since Tim saw them...and not quite 100% there yet!

My digi camera's not been the same since I took it on a boat at Niagra falls....sorry about the fuzzy images!

willo · « **Reply #26 on:** September 23, 2005, 10:55:43 AM »

ooh you have the King of Tone! I've been checking that out for a while, but the waiting lists scare me off! how long did you have to wait, and how do you find the pedal?

HJM · « **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:05:04 AM »

One of teh best ODs I've played - very open and dynamic, sounds perfect pushing a fender amp. beefs up clean tones too!

Only had about a month to wait - I got on the list very early (I have number 122). The new ones are more flexible - they have two gains, mine only has one for both channels :( but mike balanced the gain to make them usable. Sounds great! If Tim's OK with it I could bring it down to Music Live!

Skybone · « **Reply #28 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:02:19 PM »

I've had a few multiFX do-dah's in the past. Started off with a ZOOM GFX-707, it was OK for a few months, then I noticed that the sounds coming out weren't the one's in my head, but were buzzy, tinny approximations of some prat trying to play guitar. The prat trying to play guitar remains, the ZOOM didn't. At the time I was doing a part time recording course at the local college, so I needed something versatile enough to arse about with, but sounded as real as possible without breaking the limited gear budget, so I bought a BOSS ME-30. Far more usable than the 707, and better sounding (though still a bit tinny). That then went to buy a POD v2.3, which I kept for some time. Then, not long after they came out, I p/x-ed the POD 2 for a PODxt, which I still have, and use for recording at home.

The mutliFX / modeller argument will go on for a long, long time to come, and although I like my PODxt, I still wouldn't sell my amp for one. But I would sell one to buy a good amp. ;)

carlaz · « **Reply #29 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:22:31 PM »

I suppose this thread is really about "EFFECTS", after all, and not modelling. I've never liked the multiFX boards much -- even though I used the built-in COSM amp modelling in my Roland VS-1680 for recording, I still stuck my old Boss stompboxes in front of it when I wanted an effect. There's nothing I love better than abusing the dials on an old analogue delay pedal for outrageous Dr. Who noises :). (OK, there are some things I like better, but let's leave that aside for the moment :).) Anyway, it's tough to do that live, in real time, with a multiFX foot block thingy. (Either sort of thing ....

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On the other hand, I love "bang for buck", and love the ability to be able to record screaming, brutal, guitar thunder that sounds "pretty good, actually, for a computer" with nothing more to be heard in the room than some string plinking and a dim white-noise roar leaking from the headphones. So I really like the idea of digital amp modelling even if I haven't really found something I like well enough to plunk down a pile of cash on.

Hmm, I suppose something like the Boss GS-10 would emulate my old stomp boxes and give me a mix of guitar and bass amp models, as well as an OS X editor. Darned expensive in the UK, but I might be able to get one cheaper in the US sometime. Meanwhile, I've still got my old analogue delay pedal (works great with the bass -- makes a f*@&ing f*@&ed up noise :twisted:).