What FX are you using.

[Graham Pearson]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the DigiTech GSP-2101 in this thread. It's fairly old technology (1994), but I've seen a lot of well-known players include one of these in their rack.

The 2101 has both an analog section (compressor, distortion, analog EQ) and a digital section (all kinds of DSP effects). The fabulous thing about the 2101 is you can build your own effects chains.

I use a 2101 in the parallel loop of my RM4, bypassing its analog section, so I rely on the RM4 for my tone and the 2101 for adding reverb, delay, detune, etc. to my tone without squelching the tonal character of my guitar.

I have a foot pedal for the 2101 and I use a MIDI cable to pass the program changes from the 2101 to my RM4. Easy peasy setup and very reliable.

 

[JKD]

Can't remember if I've posted in this thread but am using an old Lexicon MPX G2 in the parallel loop of my RM50...


It can also be used with 4-cable method but then the input/feel gets a bit solid statey...which can be a good or a bad thing depending on what you are after

 

[chacal]

I also got a G2 in parallel

In front of the amp I got MXR/CAE wah, EVH phaser and a good ol' boss ME5 for comp, overdrive and distortions.

 

[m0jo]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the DigiTech GSP-2101 in this thread. It's fairly old technology (1994), but I've seen a lot of well-known players include one of these in their rack.

The 2101 has both an analog section (compressor, distortion, analog EQ) and a digital section (all kinds of DSP effects). The fabulous thing about the 2101 is you can build your own effects chains.

I use a 2101 in the parallel loop of my RM4, bypassing its analog section, so I rely on the RM4 for my tone and the 2101 for adding reverb, delay, detune, etc. to my tone without squelching the tonal character of my guitar.

I have a foot pedal for the 2101 and I use a MIDI cable to pass the program changes from the 2101 to my RM4. Easy peasy setup and very reliable.

I like the idea of the 2101, but to me it's enormously outdated (logical, since the design is 15 years old now).
A PC editor is a big plus to me, makes building/tweaking sounds way easyer. The 2101 is very much a programmer's interface to me, no user-oriented design.

Digitech should rerelease the 2101, but with everything they've learned since then.. Then it would be a G-Force / G-Major killer.

 

[Mattfig]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the DigiTech GSP-2101 in this thread. It's fairly old technology (1994), but I've seen a lot of well-known players include one of these in their rack.

The 2101 has both an analog section (compressor, distortion, analog EQ) and a digital section (all kinds of DSP effects). The fabulous thing about the 2101 is you can build your own effects chains.

I use a 2101 in the parallel loop of my RM4, bypassing its analog section, so I rely on the RM4 for my tone and the 2101 for adding reverb, delay, detune, etc. to my tone without squelching the tonal character of my guitar.

I have a foot pedal for the 2101 and I use a MIDI cable to pass the program changes from the 2101 to my RM4. Easy peasy setup and very reliable.

I like the idea of the 2101, but to me it's enormously outdated (logical, since the design is 15 years old now).
A PC editor is a big plus to me, makes building/tweaking sounds way easyer. The 2101 is very much a programmer's interface to me, no user-oriented design.

Digitech should rerelease the 2101, but with everything they've learned since then.. Then it would be a G-Force / G-Major killer.

+1 ... But there is some crappy GSP software that can tweak via MIDI...
http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/gsp2101/sites/gsp2101editing_software.htm

 

[Graham Pearson]

There's also some excellent Windows-based software for interfacing the GSP-2101 and a PC, called MIDIWizard. Check the Yahoo gsp-2101 discussion forum for details. It allows real-time program editing and gives access to a bunch of other features that aren't provided through the 2101's front panel.