Modeler & Multi FX memory lane

[AlbertA]

I had one of these bad boys back in the 90s

Then graduated to this

Which lead to

Then

Which culminated in

And eventually an Axe-Fx I Standard, with FW version 2.x

 

[Elric]

Digitech GSP7, bought around 1993 from the printed Musician's Friend catalog, back when you actually had to call in.

Using a landline.

My first processor was the one before that one, the GSP-5. It seemed pretty amazing at the time.

For proper digital modelers, I've about run the whole gauntlet.... Notable exceptions being I have never owned a Kemper and have only owned two Roland/Boss units: the VF-1 and GP-100.

I even had the Behringturd POD knock off, that was a lot of value for the $$$ at that time, the V-Amp Pro.

Had a Zoom GFX-707 too; along with gobs of Line 6 stuff, of course.

Fractal has been my main digital platform since the Ultra dropped.

 

[GTR37]

Yamaha DG and the H&K Zentera were way better than the Line6 stuff of that era. I feel like the blue Vox Valvetronix was the first true advancement in digital modeling.

The Zentera was insanely costly was it not like 3000 like 20 years ago

 

[laxu]

The Zentera was insanely costly was it not like 3000 like 20 years ago

I don't know if it was that much, but it was really expensive!

 

[GLiDE-BPM]

I had one of these bad boys back in the 90s

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Then graduated to this

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Which lead to


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Then

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Which culminated in View attachment 56529


And eventually an Axe-Fx I Standard, with FW version 2.x

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Did the GNX Train, multiple models!!!! Forgot about those!!!

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Wow, so interesting seeing some of these processors being currently sold for anywhere between $5 and $150.

How cheap is your stroll down modeler memory lane?

 

[Dez]

Wow, so interesting seeing some of these processors being currently sold for anywhere between $5 and $150.

How cheap is your stroll down modeler memory lane?

Can be had for $80 used at GC right now

 

[laxu]

Wow, so interesting seeing some of these processors being currently sold for anywhere between $5 and $150.

How cheap is your stroll down modeler memory lane?

I saw a Yamaha DG-Stomp in pretty beat up condition sold for about 20 euros in Japan last year. I gotta admit, I was tempted!

 

[Shask]

I remember I bought one of these amazing things way back in the day. I am pretty sure that was the first multi-effects I owned. I had single pedals before that.

 

[Los-D]

I remember I bought one of these amazing things way back in the day. I am pretty sure that was the first multi-effects I owned. I had single pedals before that.

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Had one of these as well as my first multi effects (with a crappy amp).

 

[saarangnarayan]

The RP350 was my first ever guitar "processor" as we called them then. Bought it at the same time as my first cheapo Strat copy and ran it through a Roland Cube 20 (which I still have). Then graduated to the POD X3 Live a year or so later and eventually ended up running them together in various combinations.

I eventually got a Marshall MG100HDFX (which to this day I think sounded awesome; I regret selling it during the pandemic) and ran both the RP350 and POD X3 along with a bunch of analogue pedals in that rig. POD X3 went in the loop for modulation and time-based stuff and solo boost etc. The RP350 ran in front of the amp for whammy, pitch, envelop filters and other such Digitech digital craziness.

POD X3 Live is still going strong and I'm always surprised by how nice it sounds without the in-built IRs.

The RP350 recently died. It was sitting in a cupboard (along with the POD X3 Live) ever since I got an Axe Fx II in 2014. I flipped it on maybe twice over the years, and then last year, I wanted to give it a go and see if it could still make decent sounds as a standalone rig, but unfortunately, it just didn't turn on anymore. RIP Digitech RP350, you were the gateway drug I needed...

Picture from c. 2011.

 

[Dez]

First modeler thing was a Roland Cube 30x which was great for me in college. I sold that off and the next modeler I got was a Boss ME-25 - that thing wasn’t bad but compared to anything else I’ve gotten it’s at the bottom of the pile.

I was wrong, I saw this thing and my memory rushed back. This was my first digital device lol

 

[Someoldqueenorother]

Bought for £50.

The pedalboard then was Big Muff-Skreddy Screwdriver-RAT2 - Paul C Tim v1 into a Diamond compressor.

Signal then got split. One side went to a central amp, usually a valve amp of some type. Laney, Cornell, a few others came and went.

The other side went into a Boss GT-3 for stereo delay, reverb, panning, all sorts. The volume pedal was used to control the reverb mix (sweeeeeeelllllls). Outputs from the GT-3 went straight into the effects return of a pair of Peavey Bandits. My first and thus far only wet dry wet setup and it was so much fun to play it.

 

[Orvillain]

@Someoldqueenorother stop posting porn you tart.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Yamaha DG and the H&K Zentera were way better than the Line6 stuff of that era.

I remember having some regrets about buying a flextime instead of the DG80, but it didn’t take long for me to realize “oh, the knobs need to be set different for these amps than they did on my solid state Fender 112”

 

[Lysander]

 

[Someoldqueenorother]

@Someoldqueenorother stop posting porn you tart.

Vintage porn at that. I think I've had every GT box from 6 to now and nothing compares to the GT-3. Had a GX-10 come in this week and it's on the departures list already.

 

[PorcinePicker]

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Always wanted one of those because of how the look of 'em screamed '80s. Never happened though.

 

[Sleezy E]

I gotta chime in with the GT-3 as well! I sold it when I upped to a GT-8 and even though I didn't acknowledge it at the time... the GT-3 was better. The feedbacker.... my man.

I was gigging the GT-3 (and the 8) through a Hafler power amp and a 4x12 loaded with celestions. Sounded glorious and other guitarists either loved it or didn't understand it... "What do you mean ALL of your tone comes from your pedals? Where's the head?"

You can clearly see me playing my Parker Nitefly with the GT-3 in front of me early 2001.. the halfer half stack is next to the grey camo....

Now I'm Helix direct w/ a DRX-10 for monitoring

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I gotta chime in with the GT-3 as well! I sold it when I upped to a GT-8 and even though I didn't acknowledge it at the time... the GT-3 was better. The feedbacker.... my man.

I was gigging the GT-3 (and the 8) through a Hafler power amp and a 4x12 loaded with celestions. Sounded glorious and other guitarists either loved it or didn't understand it... "What do you mean ALL of your tone comes from your pedals? Where's the head?"

You can clearly see me playing my Parker Nitefly with the GT-3 in front of me early 2001.. the halfer half stack is next to the grey camo....

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Now I'm Helix direct w/ a DRX-10 for monitoring

Yup. I see the 1/2 stack. Uh huh.