Stompbox Modeler
Stompbox Modeler
guitar questain...........?
whoever can find a M13 Stompbox Modeler for the least money gets 10 points.(leave a site name and the price)
and/or any other effects boards for less than 240$?
Line 6 POD is great
Digitech rp250 is great
I own a boss M20 And I say it has alot less effects but it sounds more realistic/boutique.
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Best Guitar Effects Processor?
I've been looking at the Line 6 M13 Stompbox Modeller, but when I realised I don't have and kind of good solid-state OR tube amp a friend told me I might be better off with their POD X3 Live because it has amp modelling. I play a Gretsch 6136T White Falcon that belongs to my Father and I. I'm trying to figure out if the processing, or more specifically the tone colour of the Overdrives etc., is good enough to simply plug my guitar into the M13 and it into a PA? I'm not some kind of tone freak but my tone is important to me - is the X3 Live more versatile? Will either model give me stompbox effects the other can't? Is there another processor from say, Korg that would give me a good solution for the same or lesser price?
-JCS
Forgot to specify although I would've thought it was self explanatory... I wanna be able to switch under my feet, no rack-mount. Expression pedal or at least connection to an external one is a must. effects needed, not just a tone modeller
Let me state this clearly - I do not like Line 6. I feel that it tends to play very compressed, it doesn't do well in reproducing dynamics, and that the distortion tends to sound like a various combinations of bees and power drills.
That said - if you are going from a Line 6 directly into a PA, then you should be just fine. Any multifx with an amp modeler will benefit greatly from an amp/speaker combination with a flat frequency response, as it depends a lot on those upper frequencies to sound good... the same upper frequencies that a Guitar Speaker will tend to roll off.
If I was going for the simplest but most versatile setup I could get, I would probably go for one of the Boss GT-x models. I'm not a huge fan of multifx distortion, but I have a GT-3 and the clean effects are really nice sounding. Not as many amp models as the comparable Line 6, but waaay more EQ and effects options, including routing... with the GT-x series you can put the fx in any order, and with over 13 different fx, that's a lot of possibility! Reverb before distortion? Sure. Compression after your amp model? Sure. Etc.
The GT-x series also has a lot of programmability in respect to its foot pedal, etc, meaning that you can assign multiple functions to it. One of my favorite settings is to set it up so that it's normally all the way forward, but as I draw it back it starts adding more and more echo, and around halfway back starts adding phaser and delay as well. All the way back I've set up as a mute, just to have a quick volume killswitch right there.
So one of the GT-x models would be my preference. I picked up the GT-3 for 100$ used at Guitar Center.
Again, all that said, if all I had was a guitar, a pedal, and a PA, I wouldn't turn down the Line 6 either, as long as it wasn't the first POD (which I loathe fiercely).
Saul