We haven't had a good spam bot post for a while. I was kind of hoping this was one.

Shinji wrote:

I have the ME-50b. It's a solid piece of kit. Having an octave pedal is just a barrel of laughs. Hate the distortion on it though, really hollow. I recently got my hands on BBX1 and it's an awesome pedal. Blends your clean with the distorted so get the fuzz without losing anything

Aye, I used to have the ME-50 and loved it, it had some interesting sounds that aren't in the ME-80. Had an ME-70, too but the 80 tops them both.

It has eight foot pedals, a pre-amp, about five separate delays, distortion, countless modulators, so you can make some interesting noise. It also has a looper, though I have a dedicated pedal for that already.

It's easy to over-cook things and end up sounding like the Edge but treading that dangerous line is part of the fun. I'd say the distortion is pretty decent and the sound modelling in general a big step up from the 50 and 70. Worth a look if you're interested in such things, was £155 on ebay.

Amazing idea, I want to watch you use one of those to play Sim City.

No doubt someone has already completed Dark Souls using one.

gaming peripherals need more nobs.

At least you can do it yourself in this forum. Have made the same mistake - don't fret.

OOoh, my mate Jay has just started building his own pedals, got a couple of fuzz creations available. He owns a studio and rehearsal rooms, has pretty much recorded every Derby band at some point or another. In all honesty I think they sound pretty good, without being so wild that you can't replicate the sound each and every time

He's working on his third model now, they're all available to buy. But yeah for convenience a multi makes complete sense. Same reason I bought a digital mixing desk years back when all my mates said stay analogue, I just thought having so much onboard plus flying faders made live work a lot easier to pack for. Although obviously it takes a few more button presses to react to anything. That's why I stuck a feedback ferret outboard, cheating I know but it buys me back the few seconds lost selecting channel and hi-sweep-lo that I would have right in front of me on an analogue desk of the same age. Obviously they've got a lot better now but mine was a pretty early one

FranticPea wrote:

davyK wrote:

don't fret.

Niiiiice.

I have talent for doing things like that unintentionally...

Brooks wrote:

Klon clone, a germanium diode treble booster, EHX hum remover and the ISP Decimator noise gate just in case.

Klon Klone?

There's a poetry to that list. I've just been through four years of a loop pedal only so it's nice to trip out to noise again.

I can almost get an Assault on Precinct 13 sound out of this bad boy. Perfection.

I just sold an old Marshall Shredmaster that I bought in my teens for 80 notes and probably could have got more if I didn't want a quick-ish sale. Crazy what people will pay fo some stuff, but it is a bit of a classic. Bar that, when I had time to play, I used a Cry Baby and a Zoom 707.

trippy wrote:

Syph79 wrote:

. Crazy what people will pay fo some stuff, but it is a bit of a classic.

I've found that with the boss ones, too. They're built like tanks so you can buy one, play for a few years and sell for the same price or more.  In an ideal world I'd have loads of them daisy-chained together, they'd make such an awesome noise that I'd only have to touch a guitar string once to unleash 60 minutes of perfect sound. Sadly 'when I have time to play' is a phrase I know all too well.

Realised the other day that my almost 2 year old had never heard me play!

I think I would like to find The Best Chorus Pedal. Short of buying a JC-120 for just for that section.