digitech x series phaser and flanger...

[swt]

can somenone tell me if this are digital or digital controlled analog pedals?. because they sound good. If they are digital, then my thoughts about digital fxs is about to change. Also the boss se 50 and se 70 sounds really good and i think are digital...

[burnt fingers]

I'm pretty sure the x series are digital.  For what it's worth, I think Digitech has done a great job on their new pedals.  I am using the CF7 Chorus factory in the loop of my Boogie and it sounds great.

Scott

[mac]

A frien has a hot rod distortion pedal, nice pedal.
Check the site, a few days ago there was a promo, get 2x1.

mac

[nooneknows]

to me digitech xseries sounds a bit sterile, maybe the modulation pedals are better. The distorsions sounds to my ears, how to say? a bit 'fake'?
Of all the digitech pedal I tried the only one that I really like, I have one, it's the bad monkey, a tube screamer with wider tone regulations: if a boutique maker took it a part one, putting on a cool hammond box I think it could be a big seller

[Mark Hammer]

Many of the hesitations and negative reviews of digital effects stem from the previous generation of multi-FX rack units that attempted to do too much with too little processing power.  In the same way that console systems that did not need to pay attention to all those system variables and ports could run a video game more smoothly and at faster speed than a table-top PC, pedals using a DSP chip to accomplish a single effect (as opposed to attempting to do EQ, distortion, phasing and chorus in round-robin fashion) can do so quite effectively.

I think the jury is still out for many with respect to digitally emulating analog distortion (where I imagine the constraints are not processing speed but rather being able to describe what happens within an analog circuit n such a way that it can be turned into good digital algorithms), but for the vast majority of other categories of effects, such as the modulation effects you mention, digital more than amply succeeds.

[swt]

i didn't care about distortion, just focused on phaser, flanger, bass synth, and synth wah. Phaser is really vocal, I know that being digital it sounds a bit sterile, eg, no harmonic texture, but it's a usable tone at the least. the synths are great, and the bass tracks a lot better than any competitor.

[nooneknows]

Phaser is really vocal, I know that being digital it sounds a bit sterile, eg, no harmonic texture, but it's a usable tone at the least

Hi,
I didn't say that digital and sterile are synonyms, I only said the xseries, distorsions particularly, sounds a bit like that and, however, if the tone is right for your setup there's no problem at all about.
There are a lot of digital pedal around that sounds very good, harmonically rich and warm (my old Dan-Echo in lo-fi mode for example works like butter), I think digitech still lacks something to my ears, although the modulation and delay pedals are good for their price.
BTW, has anyone tried the digitech/fender emulation pedals?