So I am not much of a pedal or effects guy. I play 95% acoustic, the electric is just for fun at home. Up until a couple days ago, the only effect I ever used was just basic overdrive on my amp. But I got a really good deal on a used Line 6 POD Express. I have had ridiculous amount of fun fiddling with 1,000 different sound options. The biggest issue I have with it is just that there are too many features that I am unfamiliar with, but I am sure I will get used to that. I would certainly recommend this pedal for anyone who does not want to spend a lot of money on pedals but wants to try out many different sounds / effect. It also contains a 30 second looper, which is just ridiculous given the price.
I think thatās a good choice. I find editing sounds easier with knobs, compared to touch screens, etc. So I am sure this will be a great platform for learning, and a good way to find out what you really like in terms of a guitar sound. One way to learn more about the functions and differences behind the names of effects is to watch a few of the YouTube videos of Josh Scott:
Now youāll have to figure a way to incorporate this to work with your acousticā¦
Donāt know if you record your acoustic, or if ya got a acoustic/electric. But if ya do, I plug my acoustic/elec. guitar into my pedal, then into my audio interface. I only got two pedals so not a lot of choices, looks like ya got infinite choicesā¦ and all with one pedal. Sweet, not so much clutter.
Just donāt have to too much fun with your new sounds. It may be a rabbit hole ya knowā¦
Congratulation on your new found sounds! Your gonna have a bunch of fun with that!
Thanks that looks helpful. Because I have never used any effects other than overdrive, I have not really had need to learn about what sound I was looking for. So it was basically clean or distorted. Now i have a plethora of options, I guess I will certainly need some education. Thanks for the link!
My line 6 gear accounts for about the same amount of joy as my guitars do.
Lots of neat things to fiddle with. I recommend coming back to something you liked a day or two later. I find that I usually donāt like it with a fresh ear and can make some adjustment and after a week or so land on something I always like.
I second this. It is also worth pointing out that sometimes something you donāt like one day sounds better on a second listen. Iāve found that after too much time fiddling with tone, I get to a point where I donāt like anything, but a day later I go back and think, āthatās not too bad!ā.
Iāve been looking at pedals latelyā¦probably going to buy my first one soon (an overdrive). Iām going to be kinda careful about getting pedals with a whole bunch of options on them and only one or two switches. I can see benefit there - say you want a specific mixture of sounds for a specific part of a song and you donāt want to have to hit a whole bunch of switches to enable or disable a bunch of different effects. One switch and you got it, right? But on the flip side of that, what if you only want to turn on/off only one of those effects during the song?
This probably means a mixture of options eventually. Itāll probably include a multi fx pedal at some point as well as few single-use pedals. I think most of the pedals I wind up with are going to be āfunctionalā pedals rather than FX pedals, though.
