ChadVanHalen
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Are you ready to... Say hi and answer a few questions?
First off, hi, name's Chad, from Salt Lake City, play guitar and had to join the site when I saw threads about and multiple people talking about 80's metal without a single asshole calling it gay... I couldn't believe it so I had to come join you guys in your not assholeness!
So after introduction, I'm in need of some advice. I've recently started working 2 jobs and have noticed a bit more spending money coming in allowing me to instead of search eBay knowing I wont be able to buy any of this to searching ebay knowing something like that can be mine in a very short time, and after my current guitar build I'll need to upgrade my rig.
I play through a Marshall AVT150 halfstack with MXR disto+ in front and a CryBaby for solo boost. Now, I get decent tones for what I'm doing most of the time (But I get so finnicky with it, it takes about a week for the EQ to sound wrong and have me tweak until it sounds a little better) but I need something more.
I'm looking to start a rack with MIDI almost everything but don't know where to start. My big thing is I want my solos to have the mid and slight gain boost plus adding some chorus and delay, and that's a bit of tap dancing on and off if I buy stompboxes for that sound, so I'm looking for MIDI effects that can turn on and off multiple effects at a time.
The secondary bit of rig I'd like to change is my Marshall. Now, I've been thinking of eventually upgrading to like a DSL (I've also had my eyes on the Krank Chadwick, which may or may not be my full first name) but I also would like to have tonal variety at my feet (Have like a George Lynch ultra high gain sorta sound but also a typical Marshall crunch for songs that may not sound right coming from that tone) which has me sorta leaning towards some MIDI preamps like ADA MP-1 that can get me from Dream Warriors to Sweet Child for gigs... Ya know?
TL;DR give me some good MIDI controllable effect and preamp units that I can program channels with very different settings with (Example, I can go from clean and reverby Dream Warriors intro, to George Lynch distortion chorus to boosted leads with more chorus and delay without stepping on a billion pedals during the song) for the somewhat cheap budget
Sorry about the long introduction and question, thanks and pleasure to meet you all in advance!
First off, hi, name's Chad, from Salt Lake City, play guitar and had to join the site when I saw threads about and multiple people talking about 80's metal without a single asshole calling it gay... I couldn't believe it so I had to come join you guys in your not assholeness!
So after introduction, I'm in need of some advice. I've recently started working 2 jobs and have noticed a bit more spending money coming in allowing me to instead of search eBay knowing I wont be able to buy any of this to searching ebay knowing something like that can be mine in a very short time, and after my current guitar build I'll need to upgrade my rig.
I play through a Marshall AVT150 halfstack with MXR disto+ in front and a CryBaby for solo boost. Now, I get decent tones for what I'm doing most of the time (But I get so finnicky with it, it takes about a week for the EQ to sound wrong and have me tweak until it sounds a little better) but I need something more.
I'm looking to start a rack with MIDI almost everything but don't know where to start. My big thing is I want my solos to have the mid and slight gain boost plus adding some chorus and delay, and that's a bit of tap dancing on and off if I buy stompboxes for that sound, so I'm looking for MIDI effects that can turn on and off multiple effects at a time.
The secondary bit of rig I'd like to change is my Marshall. Now, I've been thinking of eventually upgrading to like a DSL (I've also had my eyes on the Krank Chadwick, which may or may not be my full first name) but I also would like to have tonal variety at my feet (Have like a George Lynch ultra high gain sorta sound but also a typical Marshall crunch for songs that may not sound right coming from that tone) which has me sorta leaning towards some MIDI preamps like ADA MP-1 that can get me from Dream Warriors to Sweet Child for gigs... Ya know?
TL;DR give me some good MIDI controllable effect and preamp units that I can program channels with very different settings with (Example, I can go from clean and reverby Dream Warriors intro, to George Lynch distortion chorus to boosted leads with more chorus and delay without stepping on a billion pedals during the song) for the somewhat cheap budget
Sorry about the long introduction and question, thanks and pleasure to meet you all in advance!
If you're looking for rack mounted stuff the only one I've had experience with is the ADA. There's one for sale in the classifieds I think for 250 shipped. Mine came with the footpedal, not sure if the one for sale has it as well. But you can pick up a midi board that will work with it for 100 or so. You could get a Quadraverb GT for less than 100 used for additional effects, and then you would need a power amp to run it all through. Lots of different choices for those but I would recommend a used EL34 based power amp. Peaveys are probably the cheapest, used I think you can get them for 300 or so..Guitar Center.com is a good source if you can't find anything here..with all that you have about 800 into a new rig...then after that you start hearing clips of AWESOME amps from guys here and start thinking about modded Marshalls, Wizards, Camerons, Soldanos, Fortin/Gowers, Friedmans...that's when the GAS really starts to hurt..sorry I digressed..anyway welcome and hopefully some other guys will chime in with more rack experience than I.. 
