I need help from ya guys...

[Zax666]

I finally decide I need at least descent amp modeler where a good echo/delay and a chorus are a nice bonus. BTW I don't need it for home recording, the GuitarWorks JCM900DR plug-in does REEL good modeling. If you use a VST-compatible platform, I'd advice you to try it ut, it's VERY warm sounding.

I've narrowed down the choices to building a Sansamp GT2 or buying a Korg AmpworksG or Zoom GFX-707II.

The 707II had descent models, it's got Zoom's VAMS technology. I have no clue if the amp modeling is digital or analog, the GFX-5 which also has the VAMS is said to have analog modeling and digital effects. The 707II's switches are plastic, though. *eek*

Then comes the option of the Korg, it seems I'll have 3 chanells, and a usable chorus plus noise gate. Could be useful, but I'll obviously have to make myself a footswitch for it. I haven't tried it yet, so I'm waiting until next week for it. How does a sustain pedal for keyboards work, BTW?

And last comes the DIY sansamp thingy... I recall reading here that it'd squeal at high settings with some layouts... Would this mean I won't be able to dial in say...  :twisted: Petrucci's tone in 'Home' without ultramegamuchnoise? That project will be pretty much the cheapest option for me, so I'll be able to buy a boss delay as well.

What would you advice me :?:

P.S. I'm in a price range of about 150 Euro, you may reccommend another options, but consider my budget first. :wink:

[MarkDonMel]

Hello,

Well, I have never built any of these projects, but I can say that I went shopping a while back for modelers... tried many and came home with a sansamp.  Its a bitchen unit.

Matt.

[Zax666]

I can only build, the sansamp, tho other two are digital. :lol:


You mean that thing is better than the Line 6 POD 2 (2.0/2.3, not the XT)?

If it does high gain great, I'm on it, seeking for toner paper tom- wait, monday.

[MarkDonMel]

I don't think that Line 6 was in production when I bought the sansamp.  I could be wrong, or maybe it wasn't in the store at the time... I just don't remember hearing about Line6 so much around the time I bought it either  The sansamp sound great, but its simple.  You could find the manual online somewhere I am sure.  And, maybe go try it out at a music store to confirm or deny my opinion with your own.

It is only one channel, its not a sophisticated unit, just a stompbox.  Well, not sophisticated compared to some of the new highly digital units that do everything under the sun.  I have always belonged to the school of thought, right or wrong, that simpler is better.  


All I know is that I am happy with it.  I think I looked at the schematic for it a while back and it was a little too much for me.  I'm still a beginner when it comes to stompbox building, but I have been playing guitars through amps for about 15 or 16 years.  Not too long, but long enough to have hheard many different guitar related "things" to know when one sounds like crap or sounds decent orr great, obviously its all personaly preference, but I think this thing sounds good.

I don't know if places like musiciansfriend ship over seas, but you can go there and look up some pedals of which lots have sound clips.  You may get ideas from there and then ssearch for them in europe?  Just an idea.

Have a good one, Matt.

Edited.... It does a clean "tweed" sound to a "britsh crunch"  With other settings in between.  It basically does fender/marshal/mesa boogie type modelling I think with different gain settings and different microphone placement.

pots are level, high, low, and drive.

then three, three position slide swithches, MIC- off axis, center, classic.  MOD- Hot wired, hi gain, clean.  AMP- california, british, tweed.  

I'll scan the manual if you want and post pictures.  I guess that's why I bought the damn scanner in the first place haha.  I guess I should figure out how use it.

Good luck finding what you want,  Matt.