What Guitar Multi Effects pedals or pedal board is best with a Mesa Dual Rectifier Half Stack?

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Bryan Dame

i have a mesa dual rectifier half stack and i need guitar effects like delay reverb, volume pedal, and maybe more and i was wondering what i could use for the best price or cheapest price cause i dont really have quite a whole lot of money but money isnt the issue?

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Go with Boss pedals because they are truly the leading industry in pedals (after all they made the first multi-effects pedal and they are owned by Roland which is a Japanese founded company). The boss gt-10 has gotten nothing but 5 star reviews and has lots of excellent effects and sounds for rock and metal (which is what you want if you have a mesa).

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How would I build a tone knob pedal for guitar?

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Nick Gross

I have a guitar with a single volume pedal and no tone and would like to make one myself, I'm wondering how I would go about doing it... I have a saudering gun just need to know the parts, schematics, and wiring diagrams... I want the pedal to work as a tone control with 1 or 2 knobs, and be as close as possible to the guitars actual tone control knobs... I want this knob to work as my tone control knob as my guitars tone control knobs where removed

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As a basic idea for the tone control, you might need a potentometer and a capacitor. The capacitor is attached to the tone control potentiometer. The capacitor is the filter component that adjust the level of tone in the signal. It acts as a high pass filter, it captures higher frequencies in the signal and bleeds it out to ground the more treble you give on the dial knob. It resists low frequencies. The input signal for the tone control would come from the volume control (volume pot) and the output would be some pre-amp signal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdkberGdX0

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What Guitar Multi Effects pedals or pedal board is best with a Mesa Dual Rectifier Half Stack?

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Bryan Dame

i have a mesa dual rectifier half stack and i need guitar effects like delay reverb, volume pedal, and maybe more and i was wondering what i could use for the best price or cheapest price cause i dont really have quite a whole lot of money but money isnt the issue?

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Go with Boss pedals because they are truly the leading industry in pedals (after all they made the first multi-effects pedal and they are owned by Roland which is a Japanese founded company). The boss gt-10 has gotten nothing but 5 star reviews and has lots of excellent effects and sounds for rock and metal (which is what you want if you have a mesa).

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What is the best way to setup a pedal board?

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adhoye

I have a Ernie Ball Jr. volume pedal, a weeping demon wah, metal muff distortion, echo park delay, and a tuner...what is the best way to setup this array of effects?

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well, what I do is put the tuner first (straight from the guitar), so none of the other pedals are muddying up the signal for it, then go with the volume pedal next. you may want to play around with what you want in what order, but I like my distortion after the wah. Then put the delay last.

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Is there any way to turn a digitech jimi hendrix guitar expression pedal into a volume pedal?

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I want to be able to turn it into a volume pedal. Can I or do I need to get something else?

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It's possible to do it, but a terrible waste. There's a lot of electronics in that pedal that you'll just wind up throwing in the trash, and then it's not going to be exactly right without some major rewiring.

If you don't need the pedal as it is anymore, you're much better off selling it and just getting a proper volume pedal. The Hendrix pedal cost almost $200 new. A good volume pedal can be had for $70.

Good luck.

Greetings from Austin, TX

Ken

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What Guitar Multi Effects pedals or pedal board is best with a Mesa Dual Rectifier Half Stack?

How should I organize these effect pedals?

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t22

I play guitar, and I am planning out my pedal board. I was wondering what order I should put these pedals in. Boss Chromatic tuner TU-3, Boss DS-1 Distortion, Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, Boss PS-6 Harmonizer, Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Signature Wah, Boss AC-3 Accoustic Simulator, and a volume pedal.

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I have all of the same pedals, plus a few others. I always keep the Wah first in my chain, it sounds best to me before it hits any other effects (distortion). Wah effects the tone, its like turning your tone knob in your guitar really fast in each direction. I don't like when the wah effects the tone of the distortion... anyway, thats the way I always have it, but you can experiment. I also have the harmonizer before the other pedals. I like that when the harmonizer splits the signal, each signal will get the effect on it. Otherwise it can turn into a bit of a mess. Other than that... the rest of the stuff is really irrelvant. The reason why, all the other pedals would be used by themselves. You wouldnt have the AC-3 and MT-2 on at the same time. So, the other pedals would be in bypass mode. If you gig, Id recommend you get a line boost, line selector, chorus, reverb (if your amp doesnt have it), and a noise suppressor. I have some other stuff on my board like Digital Delay, Phaser, Rotovibe... but get what you need.
Good luck!

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What is the best way to setup a pedal board?

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adhoye

I have a Ernie Ball Jr. volume pedal, a weeping demon wah, metal muff distortion, echo park delay, and a tuner...what is the best way to setup this array of effects?

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well, what I do is put the tuner first (straight from the guitar), so none of the other pedals are muddying up the signal for it, then go with the volume pedal next. you may want to play around with what you want in what order, but I like my distortion after the wah. Then put the delay last.

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I have a question about guitar distortion pedals?

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the_dude

Many players (including myself) prefer the sound of distorted tube amp circuitry vs. transistor circuitry. I know the distortion is produced from the overdriven tubes, whether preamp or power amp, and adjusting the guitars volume as well as the amps volume (channel and master) will effect the distortion as well.

All this said, why then, do so many of us use distortion pedals? What exactly is the pedal doing? Is it increasing the gain of the guitar signal to overdrive the tubes, or is it processing a synthetic "distortion" tone?

Example: If a guitarist with a Marshall JCM 800 plays his guitar through its clean channel and steps on his distortion pedal, (lets say it’s a Boss OS-2) is he getting tube distortion (is the pedal now overdriving the tube by increasing the gain) or is he actually getting transistor distortion introduced into the signal via the pedals transistor circuitry?

Anyone? I'm interested in the basis for your answer as well. Thanks!
Thanks for the responses, but perhaps I should clarify the question- I'm wondering if using a distortion "effect" of any type- actually overdrives the tubes in a tube amp to produce the "distortion" or if it introduces a "processed signal" into the chain.

I am completely aware that the tone will be different from setup to setup, and that overdriving the tubes with high gain/volume will cause them to distort.

That's the basis for my question- does an effects pedal (if it's built into the amp and you have to "click" or "switch" it on I consider that an effect) overdrive the tubes to produce distortion or does it simply alter the guitar signal the way a transistor effect would- by introducing a square wave?

Would it be accurate to say that if you use a distortion pedal with a tube amp and aren't playing at high volume, then you aren't getting tube distortion, but rather transistor distortion?

Again, I'm not searching for a "sound", just an answer to a technical question.

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That's a good question, I pondered the same thing a long time back. A distortion pedal does not overdrive the tubes of an amp; if this was the case then distortion pedals wouldn't work with solid state amplifiers! And neither is it producing a 'distortion tone' so to speak. Rather, it is distorting the waveform that is being produced, and the resulting wave distortion creates the 'fuzz' that we now call 'distortion'. Additionally, some do (as you say) increase the gain and then clip the waveform to reduce the overall volume, resulting in an altered waveform that emphasises certain tones and harmonics, though these are usually known as Overdrive pedals rather than distortion pedals (my preferred choice of pedal on top of a valve amp).

So in the case of your example, the guitarist is getting distortion introduced into the clean wave form via the pedal, which is either changing the wave form from one shape to another, or boosting and clipping it to produce an altered shape. Have a look at the following links if you want to know a bit more about distortion types and effects.

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What to buy? The Dunlap Crybaby Wah Pedal or The Morley Pro Series II Wah/ Volume Pedal?

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death to y

price doesn't matter and i want an opinion from some who is good with guitars because though i know one doesn't offer a volume pedal...ive heard dunlap crybaby's are really nice...

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ha Death go with the crybaby and and a Ernie Ball volume pedal. I use this in my setup and it works great

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How do you use a wah pedal to make a guitar sound like a harmonica?

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Crispus E.

Is it possible to combine the wah pedal and the volume pedal into a single unit?

I've heard that most volume pedals make your guitar quieter when you depress the pedal. Is it possible to make a wah unit with a volume pedal that gets louder as you depress the pedal?

What are some good wah pedals to use?

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Here is a great thread on making your guitar sound like a harmonica http://acapella.harmony-central.com/archive/index.php/t-2574799.html

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What is a good bass guitar chorus pedal?

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Eeyore

I'm looking to buy a bass guitar chorus pedal but not sure which to get. I'm a hobbyist so I'm not looking to buy the top of the line. I'm just looking for something I can play around with and gives me versatility as well as a good sound. I'm currently looking at the DigiTech XBC Bass Multi Chorus Pedal.

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Hi. You want to check them out here

http://tinyurl.com/3xkv9le

There are 14 brands of bass effects to select from
and mostly are under $100.

Among them DigiTech BP80 looks promising with:

# Amp modeling - 11 award-winning amp models
# Built-in expression pedal
# 20 effects include compression, cab modeling, 3-band EQ, noise gate,
auto swell, chorus flanger, phaser, vibrato, octavider, envelope filter,
detuner, pitch shifter, 3 delays, and 6 reverbs
# Built-in drum machine
#Wah, volume, and whammy via optional expression pedal.
# 5 Stompbox models
# 9 simultaneous effects
# 40 factory/40 user presets

Happy hunting
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