General Music Chat

Hey lads, been a while.
You can see my FB page if ya wanna see what I've been up to: some very cool adoption/Haiti pics.

Anyhoo, what I'm wanting to know is if I'm about to make a good choice in rack effect gear or not.

For years, I used an all in one pedalboard(ZOOM), and I liked the way it worked.
I typically will plug straight into a snake/PA and also run another output into an amp for monitoring.

It finally died, and lately I've had my eyes on the GSP2101 (an older 90's beastie)


I own a Fender DSP amp, and would likely play through that and/or snake.

I use a pretty wide variety of tones from Dream Theater ish to Eric Johnson, to nice clean /choruses etc etc

Any opinions?

I'm assuming that I wouldn't NEED another power amplifier external to this rig...


Thanks fellas,
Rich

Hard for me to say Rich as for the present I am really stuck on my amp / guitar combination. But then I'm not seeking radically different tones but rather just gain / volume variations on the main theme.

I really like the convenience of having the powered mixer at my disposal.
And with more and more options coming available with the multi bus systems with six monitor sends, four way EQ ( dual mid sweep plus high and low ) per input channel plus the Main output EQ as well as foot-switchable or MIDI control on-board effects. These are on their way to becoming a do all for the independent musician IMO.

Some of the newer model I've had my eye on have the ability to do 500watts per four 4 ohm capable amplifiers.
More than enough for anything I'm doing venue wise utilizing three way speakers.
Would seem that the options are only limited by ones imagination.

Be cool too if you'd send me an FB friend request if you'd like.

George Heil

I have a Digi gsp 2101. I really like it. I use it on my ext effect on my mackie board for adding another effect to vocals. I use it for compression, delay, chorus. I thought the built in effects in my mackie board were awesome until I got this. It rocks. It works great for guitar and bass too, of course. It has a real tube preamp, great compression, gates, verbs, eq. The quality of the effects are super.

I wanted to add: This works a variety of ways, from guitar into the amp, snake into mixer, headphone. You wont need another amp.

It's funny we do such contortions looking for a tone ... at our last gig I never even stepped on my foot switch. Just cranked up my amp and flayed into the guitar. Everyone said we sounded great.

Go figure.

yeah, funny there Sans..

I'm such a product of the 80's hair band scene..
Though these days I' not so much into hard rock per se,
there's a need for the tones, ya know?

I'm a sucka for that lovely loooong delay lead patch....

or, on a strat 3 pickup setup, that killer position one click up from bottom , with clean chorus...

or that phat neck pickup position with some dirty overdrive..
ohh ohhhh

I hear you brotha !!

a friend just told me he'll consider selling me his BOSS GT-8

a mighty piece of gear in it's own right

...hmmmm

Go for it. The guitar player whom played opposite of us in Longview the other day was using the GT 8 I believe. Sounded pretty good.