kid rock Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 6 months ago I finally bought an electric guitar and fulfilled a long term ambition to play at the age of 40!!!! I bought the Squier showmaster by Fender and a little Fender 15 watt amp. After some lessons and a lot of practice I am quite pleased with what I have achieved. But now I want to try out some of the multi effect units that are on the market.The problem is I havent got a clue which one to look at there are so many. The type of music i like listening to and playing are modern blues stuff and 70s rock a la Black Sabbath but I also listen to and try to play newer stuff anyone any suggestions for a multi effect unit at the budget end of the market. Ta Kid Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbox99 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 You weren't very specific with regard to the type of amp you got. If you got the Frontman 15 amp you aren't going to get a good blues sound no matter what you do. It's a solid-state amp. Now if you got the Hot Rod series (all tube) Pro Junior then you're more likely to get what you're looking for. You might even benefit by getting a Blues Driver. And since this amp doesn't have reverb, you'll want to get a reverb pedal as well. To get the heavy metal sound you're after, any number of distortion pedals should work just fine. Congratulations on fulfilling your dream! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodlesbad Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Kid Rock, I bought myself an el cheapo Alesis Guitar FX so I could tinker around with various sounds. It was okay for fooling around on, but noisy and not very robust. You might consider something a little more solid like the Zoom G2 or G2.1u, which comes with an expression pedal. National Capital Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy P Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Check amp Behringer's Vamp. They are a German company. They make good products. Behringer Vamp www.birdblues.com My Stuff On Sound Click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rw2003 Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 You may want to check out the LINE 6 POD family of multi-effects... http://www.line6.com/products/pods/ "Spend all day doing nothing But we sure do it well" - Huck Johns from 'Oh Yeah' Click to Listen to Oh yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbox99 Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Originally posted by rw2003: You may want to check out the LINE 6 POD family of multi-effects... http://www.line6.com/products/pods/ rw2003 is right. I was thinking about a Line6 pod this morning. It will have everything you need. A new pod 2.0 sells for about $200. If you don't want to spend that much my guess is you could find one on eBay for half that. Best of luck to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid rock Posted May 20, 2006 Author Share Posted May 20, 2006 Thanks for your help guys much appreciated. After having looked through all of your suggestions I have bought a Behringer v amp series 2 as it was a real bargain on e bay and has all i would need at this stage. Thanks Kid Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid rock Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 Finally arrived (the Behringer vamp2) and having a bit of fun with it but only on headphones. my problem is it has 1\4 inch phono outputs and my amp Fender Frontman(yeah I know little beginners amp) only has rca inputs therefore I cannot hook them up!!! Can anyone recommend a suitable cable??? Many thanks guys Kid Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Ellwood Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Go to radio shack and tell them what you want to do, they will sell you a converter plug that will let you use a standard guitar cable. EDIT: sorry I just noticed you are in Germany, I'm not sure if you have Radio Shack there? anyway go to any store that sells audio accessories. http://www.thestringnetwork.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid rock Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 Ellwood thanks man I have found a suitable cable now from a local music store specifically a 2 phono to rca cable. Like the link by the way... Kid Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Originally posted by Pappy P: Behringer....[is] a German company. They make good products.OK, I'm going to just hope you were being sarcastic here... If not, for the sake of the novice asking for help: Behringer is a German company, true, but they make everything in China. They don't make good products, they make extremely inexpensive products. One out of every six or so of any given product they make will at least hold up for a few years before it breaks. The other 5+ will crap out shortly after the very short (90 days to 1 year) warranty period expires. What products they do manufacture typically pale in comparison to their more expensive counterparts in overall sound quality, build quality, etc. They also don't innovate anything. They have been sued by Mackie and Aphex for copyright infringement, and a number of smaller companies (Ebtech comes immediately to mind) have elected to not sue them because they didn't have the financial resources to fight a long drawn-out court battle. Behringer is bringing to the world what already exists rampantly all over Southeast Asia - cheap knockoffs of the real thing. A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Never mind, looks like I was too late... A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Buy the extended warrenty! Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windjammer Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Originally posted by Griffinator: Originally posted by Pappy P: Behringer....[is] a German company. They make good products.OK, I'm going to just hope you were being sarcastic here... If not, for the sake of the novice asking for help: Behringer is a German company, true, but they make everything in China. They don't make good products, they make extremely inexpensive products. One out of every six or so of any given product they make will at least hold up for a few years before it breaks. The other 5+ will crap out shortly after the very short (90 days to 1 year) warranty period expires. What products they do manufacture typically pale in comparison to their more expensive counterparts in overall sound quality, build quality, etc. They also don't innovate anything. They have been sued by Mackie and Aphex for copyright infringement, and a number of smaller companies (Ebtech comes immediately to mind) have elected to not sue them because they didn't have the financial resources to fight a long drawn-out court battle. Behringer is bringing to the world what already exists rampantly all over Southeast Asia - cheap knockoffs of the real thing. Behringer aren't all that bad. Most Boss, Korg, and other 'name' brands are also made in China, as it's the world's factory place. Cheaply made, and cheaply shipped to wherever. Having said that their recent TU-100 tuning pedal is an exact knockoff of the Boss TU-2 pedal, including all the buttons, and lights - but at nearly half the price. I reckon there will be litigation soon. Personally I own a Behringer mixer and Bass DI box, for which I was only experimenting and wasn't prepared to pay full whack for a name brand. So for entry-level I don't see anything wrong with Behringer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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