General Music Chat

I just bought a Mooer GE-100 Multi Effects Processor.
- 80 pre-set effects
- 80 custom effects
- Volume pedal/Wah pedal built in
- looper built in
- rhythm machine built in
- tuner built in.
. . .
. . . anyone else got one?

You misjudge.
I've played acoustically for 45 years, I've gigged, I've hosted several hundred open mikes, written over 150 originals.
I have paid my dues; I actually do know how to write and play pretty good . . .
You can hear my music on Reverbnation, if you want to pick it apart and tell me how I'm not ready
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But after 45 years of playing acoustically, I like to add a little reverb or echo, and a properly applied chorus is almost not noticeable, other than give the sound more depth and presence.
I don't need any pedal, but I have a couple parts of a couple songs where a solo song benefits.
A multieffects pedal gives you a foot operated volume control, too.
I'll go head-to head acoustically with anyone, but it's not a contest.
I just like to hear a lot of different stuff.

"No I don't any affects because I'm ready. Ready for big things!! Ready to make music ready to play music. ready to go to the top. If you need a pedal to alter YOUR sound you are not ready , and sadly never will be. So get ready like / and or with ready. I'm ready are you?"

WOW! I love that. When I grow up "musically" I want to play just like you. I'm not there yet but I'm getting there. The last thing I recorded only had 5 FX running at once in it so I'm getting closer.

Right now I prefer to use FX. I have 9 FX Modules in my Zoom pedal with 54 effect types. I can only use 6 at a time with this unit, but I can run the recorded guitar solos back through the FX box again and again so I can get all 54 types on a lead guitar track. It's like being in a huge stadium playing with hundreds of guitar players all at once. My FX box also has a swell pedal that assigns to volume, wah, echo, ring modulator, tremolo, and most other FX parameters. I love pumping it up and down when I'm playing to get a "live I'm on LSD" performance feel to it.
When I teach young guitar players I show them that they don't really have to learn any complicated fingering because you can make a really beautiful song just with a couple of notes and a bunch of FX. One of my students even made a CD already for his mom and he has only been playing for three days. It's really good too.

Yesterday I took 4 of my FX boxes with 6 FX each on them and wrote a lullaby for my neighbors kid. I had to redo it because the wall of various distortion types almost blasted him from his crib, but after toning it down a bit he really liked it. {after his mom bought some ear plugs for him..)

It's always nice to learn how to play but after watching bands on late night shows and on some public television venues like sound stage and the likes I see that learning to play isn't all it is stacked up to be. There are a lot of really great musicians that couldn't get anywhere by knowing how to play, yet these bands are all over the place on TV. Just goes to show ya.

I don't often use pedals, but when i do....

"that guitar looks like it would very hard to tune"

That particular bass would most likely have auto tune. The owner could be late for gigs due to traffic conditions and might not have the time to tune it.