Just lately I have been playing about with my sound and wondering if I am missing a trick with all the new breed of floor processors out there - in particular the Boss GT-6 & ME-50.

To cut a very long story short, if you want an individual sound that will stay with you forever, under no circumstances should you buy any kind of multi-effect. I learned the expensive way that what I had was exactly what I needed.

My floor pedal setup is as follows (going right to left):

Crybaby wah
Boss Tuner
Boss Compressor
Boss Overdrive
Boss Metalzone
Boss Delay

All housed in a Boss BCB-6 pedal case.

I'm not a fan of modulation effects; chorus, flangers etc although I have dabbled.

What I'm trying to say is that whilst Multi effect units definitely have their place, in my humble opinion they don't come close to a well thought-out floor board. With some careful shopping you can put a killer set-up together yourself for the same price as a Boss GT-6 or similar.

This is all the more important if you are using decent guitars & amps. During the 5 seconds of me owning a Boss GT-6 I found that it stomped all over the natural tone of my boogie. I couldn't help thinking that what was coming out the other side of the thing was a computers interpretation of my guitar tone and that's probably exactly what it is.

Please don't take this to heart if you use multi-effects. There are some great units out there - especially the GT-6. I'm just trying to help any of you out there who are perhaps torn between the compact pedal & multi-efect route.

I'd like to think that in my 18 years of playing I've learned a few things and one of them is definitely to stick with what you know best!

Keep funkin'

Scotty

Co-sign on that. I use a BCB to that these days has: Dunlop Crybaby wah, Boss OS-2 Overdrive/distortion, Boss Chorus ensemble, Boss graphic equalizer and Boss DD-6 delay. That's it. It gives me a very vital tone that cuts through and projects well and I can still hear the character of my guitar. In my experience, multi-effects make it way too tempting to fiddle with EVERYTHING: just a little reverb and some EQ and a little bite and some compression and some flanging on that clean rhythm sound... But if you can resist that, they're cool I suppose.

I have lots of boss pedals 2 But im still looking for that small club distortion:(

I agree..


I use a multi-effects unit purely and simply cos I run out of sockets for mains adaptors otherwise and batteries cost too much!

I much prefer the sound of my individual pedals.

See, that's the beauty of the new Boss BCB pedal board: it come with one adaptor for six (Boss) pedals.

RocknRollDave said:

Co-sign as well,

Effects units are good in some instances, but I found that single pedals are much better.

The problem I find with multi effects, is that they fiddly, getting to a patch requires in some cases several steps, and theres alot of functions, tones etc that you will never use.

I have a zoom M11 its, but hardly use it as I much prefer my boss pedals.

As already mentioned you can any tone with the right single pedal set up my set up is;

Boss OS-2 over drives/distortion, Boss MT2 zone, Boss noise supressor, Boss F2 flanger, dunlop cry baby, and if I ever need chorus, delay (My favourite) or reverb I run it out of my Marshall 30 watt combo

I use to play around with the Zoom 505, my first multi effect pedal, than i get toneworks.

But right now i like the sound of my Roland guitar synth, its hot! ha