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Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 4, 2016 at 8:41am

Not sure what a guitar modeler is but I hope you find one. I'm interested in a multi effects pedal for the effects, naturally, but also for a first experience of a looper. Never used one before. The Zoom G3 only offefs a 40-second looper but it will give me some experience of using one. The drum sounds are good too but I'm not over fussed with it. I did see that either the mooer ge100 or the NUX mg 100 gives 180 seconds, I can't remember which one right now, but the effects seemed geared towards rock and heavy rock rather than blues. I'm happy with the G3 and will make do with the 40-second looper for now too. I'll have a look in to the effects pedal you mentioned now. Always willing to look at other options. Thanks. 

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 4, 2016 at 7:51am

Thanks Wayfinder and Paul too. I'm very well suited to the diy instrument building in that I'm always cash strapped so wherever and whenever possible I have to do things cost effectively. Cheap but quality is my aim. As important as it is to save money that also means avoiding false economies. No poiny buying something cheap to only be disatisfied and have to buy something else to replace cheap and useless. Research is a massive allie so with having looked for a while and ascertained what will give me the sound that I particularly want I'm going to buy the Zoom G3. If the two weeks comes around and I have enough to pay for it that is. I'll let you know what it's like and aim to do a video of it. Thanks again for all the help. It's hugely appreciated. 

Comment by Paul Craig on August 4, 2016 at 7:37am

Multi effect pedals usually have one good effect bunched with a couple that are so-so, but a so-so effect can be better than no effect.

Back in the day, DOD made a multi-effect pedal that was awesome. Called a Multiplay. It had their American Metal Distortion and their Delay combined. If you ever find one, grab it and you'll be very happy you did. Mine got stolen, been looking for another one ever since.

CBGitty is now selling an onboard distortion/overdrive effect and those usually work good. You'll need to have a place in your git for a 9volt battery though.

Stewmac sells a "BlackIce" effect that replaces your tone cap in your guitar(or you can wire it to a switch with your existing cap) that does a distortion/overdrive effect without a battery for 20 bucks. It worked good in my guitar, they recommend 250k tone pot, but mine worked good with a 500k pot.

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 4, 2016 at 6:10am

Thanks again Wayfinder. I'm probably going to buy a multi effects pedal in a couple of weeks then try the guitars I've got with and without a preamp effect on them. As long as choosing the wrong setting, or trying each setting as the case will be, won't fry the pedal then I'm happy doing things that way. You've helped loads. Thanks again. 

Comment by Dave Lynas on August 4, 2016 at 4:57am

Great info Wayfinder. Good to know.

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 4, 2016 at 3:25am

Thanks for explaining Wayfinder. I didn't know that some magnetic pickups benefit from a preamp too. My electric guitar has a single coil pickup. It's small and ever so slightly curved but otherwise resembles a flat lipstick pickup. No idea what kind of pickup it is but hope I explained it well enough. I'll definitely put a pickup feature on the piezo electro acoustic and try the preamp on the magnetic pickup too. Glad I asked for multiple reasons now. Very helpful. Thanks.

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 3, 2016 at 4:47pm

Thanks G. Rider. I'll use some word association to remember that now. I have an electric and a electro acoustic guitar (that's one of each and not two in one)  so thought I should find out. I appreciate your help. Would the preamp that's present in the effects pedal mean I can use all the effects with the piezo electro acoustic just as I can with the electric? To a lesser degree? Just trying to understand before deciding to spend +£100. While I do have both types of pickup, the electro acoustic is still my favourite so I'd like to think I'll get to use it with the new toy. 

Comment by cigarBGuitarEfx on August 3, 2016 at 4:30pm

Slow Blues Dani: I assure you that a piezo is a passive pickup. However, they do represent some problems with effects. Piezos don't have the same impedance as magnetic pickups. This is why they sometimes sound out of place in pickups. I plan on making a few effects that will handle both piezo and magnetic pickups, I just have way too many hobbies. I have an example of one of my overdrive circuits on my page here. I want to do a tremolo eventually and some micro controller based effects as well. As far as the switch in the effect that you want goes, use whichever switch position sounds better. The active one might work depending on the circuit.

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on August 3, 2016 at 11:57am

Hey guys. I'm looking at buying some effects toys but I'm confused about my pickups. Is a single piezo to volume control and jack with NO preamp an active or passive pickup? The toy I'm thinking about getting handles electro acoustic and electric guitars anyway but it has a selector switch for choosing which one you're using at the time. Probably a good thing to know anyway and something I feel I ought to know by now. Cheers for helping guys. Much appreciated.

Comment by Scavanged Sound (Pete) on June 14, 2016 at 2:38am

Ok. Not sure how to post the pics here. I can email them to you

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