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.