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Hi, been thinking about my FX setup lately - thing is, I have quite few pedals, some bought back in the late 80's (Ibanez) which might be worth a bob or two, plus various others acquired more recently. They are all basically kicking around more or less unused - I play in a couple of jazz bands, covering various styles from Swing through to bebop and more modern/contemporary stuff occasionally. But I never use any effects other than a smidge of reverb from the amp (usually a Polytone Minibrute), and just a warm clean tone. It works fine, but I do sometimes think it would be nice to have a touch of delay, or some nice lush chorus, perhaps some quality digital reverb, perhaps a fusion-ish overdriven/distorted tone sometimes for the odd solo.
So that's one factor in my thoughts, another is I often play in fairly cramped venues, and don't really have space to spread out with a "mission control" style pedal board in front of me (though that would be fun...). So given my fairly modest FX needs, and the lack of space sometimes, I'm thinking of converting to a small setup - perhaps just a single well chosen distortion pedal (I quite like the look of the Joyo US Dream, or the Mooer Solo Distortion, and then I was looking at the Zoom Multistomp MS70-CDR as a small unit that could provide any modulation, delay, and/or reverb needs. Another option would be the Zoom Multistomp MS-100BT to do everything, including distortion. Or maybe some other small multi FX unit. Really just wondering if I will be happy enough with the sound quality with something like this - I would like the Chorus to be nice and lush/warm sounding for example. Or, would I be better looking at a small pedal board, with say 4 pedals (distortion/overdrive, chorus/modulation, delay, reverb) - Mooer maybe to keep the footprint small.
I must say at the moment I'm leaning towards something like the Zoom Multistomp units, because they do provide a fair bit of additional capability beyond my immediate needs, but it could be handy and fun to play with! Also that would seem to be a very cost effective way to go, and would keep the footprint really small (could even just sit the unit on top of my amp, which might help sometimes). But would really like to know what you guys think on this, cheers!
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Thanks for that mq, I'm looking at the Zoom G3 as we speak, and it does seem a possibility. Could you just elaborate a little on why you aren't that keen on the reverbs? And is this more of a personal preference than a criticism of the actual quality of the reverbs?
I'm just going to add one thing, which is not an essential for me at all lol, but I am a massive fan of Eric Johnson, and love his chorused clean tones especially - can any of the Zoom gear get me into that kind of territory? This really is not one of my main buying criteria though... ">
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I have to run the G3 on a separate PSU as it does make my OD pedals hum and it didn't work with the DIago isolator (even though they claim it does). I do run it off one cable as I have a figure 8 mains y lead.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Thanks for that extra info monq - tbh this whole world is new to me, I have been existing as some sort of guitar technology luddite for far too long I think. It's a bit of a shame about the restricted patch shifting, but I think the g3 would still be adequate for me - highly unlikely I would need more than 2 patches for any music I was playing. The g5 would be overkill for me I reckon. But at the mo I am being sucked in by the g3 I must say - it does so much more than I need, but dammit, you get so much for your money, it's just too tempting... I really have to decide if I would be happy with the sound quality from such a unit - from what's been said, the likely answer is yes at this point. This thread is not taking me in the direction I thought it might!
A couple of supplementary questions:
If I put a separate distortion/overdrive pedal in front of the g3, would it work fine?
What do people think of the g3x with built in expression pedal - is it worth the extra £20 or so? is the pedal good enough quality to stand up to gigging? Would I be better of just getting a g3, and then can add an external pedal if needed? (OK that's 3 more questions there in fact... )
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Just thought of another g3 question, sorreee... but:
The g3 can have up to 6 effects at a time, is it possible to have a couple of delays running in the same patch? Going further, could I have a patch with reverb, a couple of delays, and chorus say? (Eric Johnson... )