Pedalboard or digital floor rig that models pedals?

[Shreddy Mercury]

Since I got this here 3rd Power amp and need pedals now for something other than reverb (this has a nice reverb tank in it), should I get a board and some pedals, or a digital unit that emulates the pedals?

I was looking at some used pedalboards around here on Marketplace and I'll be damned if people don't think that used strips of aluminum with beveled edges and a black powdercoat don't depreciate compared to their new price. Some of the prices are crazy for just a board and some strips of old velcro that are covered in cat hair because, well...velcro. I had a friend put in a good word for the Boss GX100. It's about $650 new, maybe $450 used.

I have a Tube Screamer clone in storage, a TC Mini Delay (which I never really cared for, even when the Tone Print function did work), a Duncan 805 Overdrive, I think a Fulltone Full Drive 2 Custom Shop (I think it's custom shop, I can't remember), a Boss DD20, and a Dunlop Cry Baby Original that screams and hisses when active and totally unusable. And I've got a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus.

I'd probably need a good delay, a good chorus, and maybe a flanger and phaser for occasional fun, but I don't think I'd need anything else, at least after I got my wah fixed, except maybe a volume pedal. I don't know if I'd ever really use an octaver or harmonizer. Anyways, that's how ever much money to buy the board and pedals and find a way to fashion the power supply to it; compared to a pedal emulator, I don't know which is the smarter buy. My friend says with his GX100 he can set overdrives and wahs to route out into the input of the amp, while the delays and reverbs and such can be routed to run through the amp's effects loop, so it'd be like running real pedals. I just don't know about everything being 100% digital, like overdrives/distortions.

 

[DanTravis62]

I have an extra custom built pedalboard im not using that ill sell super cheap if you need one - i make/fabricate them in a machine shop for peeps.

I build them at a slightly steeper angle than normal, it makes steppin on them easier.

 

[rsm]

Try the pedals you have and see first?

I prefer MFX; I used a Line 6 HX-Effects for years in 4CM; I got a Boss GX-100 on sale, and use it for effects only, and I like the integrated expression pedal.

Most recently, I got the Fractal VP4 and I think it's great...though I'd like a VP6; i.e., two more effect slots.

Changing pedals, pedal order, routing, etc., is much easier in the MFX; and if you really like./want/need a specific pedal or a few, you can easily integrate them into most MFX.

 

[BenoA]

Another vote on try the pedals you already have first. Then see what is missing to get your sound. Sometimes, it's just a simple pedal addition to your collection.

 

[4406cuda]

I am using a VP4 in 4CM.

 

[VonBonfire]

should I get a board and some pedals, or a digital unit that emulates the pedals?

If you go digital I'll block your texts.

I'd probably need a good delay, a good chorus, and maybe a flanger and phaser for occasional fun, but I don't think I'd need anything else, at least after I got my wah fixed, except maybe a volume pedal. I don't know if I'd ever really use an octaver or harmonizer.

Press Waynzo for a dual analog delay. Good chorus=Visual Sound H20 v1 is affordable and sweet but kind of large. Get the Griffin Analog 20th anniv phaser. Your style is ripe for a harmonizer. I wish I had licks like yours cause my playing sounds like that Henry Kaiser guy when I try to use one.

 

[BeZo]

Just get the CE-MOD and the Rig-Talk 20th Anniversary Big Stones Analog Phaser from Griffin Analog and a delay pedal and build a board. You have all the other pieces.

 

[Greazygeo]

I just spent a month looking into units to do the same thing….ended up with the HX effects. Tried to not buy it and spend way more on Kemper Stage MkII or a Fractal something. Only had it a couple weeks, used it at last weeks gig. Barely got time to figure out how to program a few things….sounds suprisingly good and it can switch my amp’s channels…