river patrol
I am returning to guitar after many years and am going ampless. The core of my setup will be the Simplifier DLX.
If I had to use only single-effect pedals, I'd probably start with at least a digital delay, tube screamer, wah, volume, and tuner. These four things (and their power supplies/cables) would cost at least $500 used... probably significantly more. Add in the fact that I'd like to have other effects to experiment with and suddenly a multi effects unit starts to make more sense.
Whatever I get needs to have the following:
- Dedicated tap tempo OR the ability to easily connect an external one
- Expression (for wah and volume, although I may buy a dedicated volume pedal regardless, so maybe just wah is fine)
- At least 3 footswitches that can be used to turn on and off individual effects
- Decent tube screamer and stereo delay
- Stereo output
- "Stomp box mode". I want to turn on and off individual effects with one switch, don't make me go through banks/presets/etc.
- If amp/cab modeling is built in, I must be able to easily disable it and have that setting be retained
Other considerations:
- Older units (10+ years old) are fair game as well as the latest
- I've looked at the ME-80 and it can be had for very cheap, but the tap tempo situation seems undesirable, plus...
- ...the ability to do "any effect on any switch" would be nice (a knock against things like the ME-80 that restrict each switch to a specific category of effect), but I may be able to live without this feature depending on cost
- I'm willing to consider options that aren't a single, self-contained MFX unit, but the price has to be right OR the benefit has to be worth stretching my budget
- My budget is more of a "target" cost of around $300. Less is great, more will need justification. Since I don't need [excellent] amp modeling/IR, I feel like this is do-able.
Thanks in advance!
pliant plinth
