Best Multi Effect Unit of 2018

A multi-effect pedal is one unit that is capable of fulfilling the function of multiple stomp box pedals. In the past, multi-effects pedals have commonly been known to be less effective in producing quality of sound compared to individual stomp boxes. With advancements in technology over time, this is no longer the case. Even musicians with the most advanced pedalboards may begin looking for multi-effects units to add to their rig.

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Zoom G6 on RigShare
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G6

Videos Zoom G6 Introduction Video Zoom G6 Product Video Zoom G6 Multi-Effects Processor - Introduction The New Future of Pedals Jaw dropping effects combined with powerful amp modeling, the G6 gives you more sonic possibilities than ever before. Drag and Drop Your sounds may be complex but building them shouldn’t be. With easy-to-use, application driven technology, the G6’s 4.3-inch color touchscreen lets you drag, drop and swipe your way to new sounds. Amps + Cabs All the best amps in amp history are in here (and a few new ones, too), along with 70 pre-loaded, precisely recorded impulse responses (IR) and room to add more than 100 of your own. The Right Sound The G6 also delivers the ultimate collection of Zoom’s legendary guitar effects and tones, including brand new Distortion and Modulation effects. New Zoom Effects Plan Ahead The G6 has room for 240 patches, including 100 presets so you can build patches for each song in your repertoire and easily cycle through your setlist. Create patches of up to seven effects. Play Modes The four Play Modes on the G6 will change the touchscreen and footswitch layout to give you quick access to the controls you need. Looper: Use the Looper to add layers to your sound. Create loops up to 2 hours by recording to an SD/SDXC card. Memory: Ideal for organizing your patches, the Memory Mode allows the foot switches to activate one of the 4 patches in your bank. Preset Banks: This mode lets you scroll up and down through your Banks and Patches by clicking the corresponding foot switch. Effects Board: This mode provides a visual representation of your pedal chain. By clicking the assigned foot switch, you can turn on or off an effect in your patch. Infinite Looping The G6 can create loops up to 2 hours in length with an SD/SDXC card*. Create, store and recall up to 256 loop files. *45-second looper without SD card. Groove Choose your groove from the 68 onboard rhythm patterns, styles and time signatures. Take it With You Portable, versatile, and packed with tonal possibilities, the G6 is perfect for guitar players on the move. Connectivity The G6 has a mono input, stereo outputs with output volume control, a mono fx loop, aux in, control in and headphone out. Using the USB port, the G6 also functions as a 2in/2out audio interface for Mac and PC. Guitar Lab With a USB connection, Guitar Lab software allows you to browse and upload/download an endless assortment of amps, effects and artist patches. Guitar Lab is available for both PC and Mac. Download ZOOM Guitar Lab Handy Guitar Lab Connect the G6 directly to the Handy Guitar Lab app via Bluetooth. Using the optional BTA-1 adaptor wirelessly connect your phone as a secondary interface for your G6. Handy Guitar Lab is available for iOS. Download the Zoom Handy Guitar Lab app The G6 gives you 30 Years of Engineering Know-How in One Pedal.

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Zoom G5N on RigShare
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G5N

When we designed the G5n, our goal was to create the finest collection of guitar effects ever offered in one innovative package. From "FunkSauce" to "Texas Toast," from "Carlos" to "Heavensent," the G5n delivers dozens of tonalities sure to please the most discerning guitarist. FRESH NEW TAKES ON 159 ESSENTIAL GUITAR TONES (G5N V3.0) The G5n comes loaded with 127 beautifully-crafted and newly assembled DSP effects, plus 32 of the most faithful and realistic amp/cabinet emulators we've ever created. A wide array of effects The G5n comes equipped with freshly-developed takes on not only the most-essential guitar sounds like overdrive, distortion, compression, EQ, delay, reverb, flanging, phasing, vibrato, and chorusing, but also unique multi-effects such as Seq Filter, Gold Drive, Reverse Delay, HD Hall, and OSC Echo. Ultra-realistic amp/cabinet emulation You can connect the G5n directly to a PA system or audio interface, using the 32 brand new onboard amp and cabinet emulators. Choose from 16 classic amp models like the ‘59 Fender Bassman, Diezel Herbert Channel 2, Marshall JCM800, Fender Twin Reverb, and MESA Boogie Mk3 , all newly and faithfully created to be adjusted exactly as you would with the knobs and switches of the real thing. Pair your amp with one of the 16 newly-created cabinet emulators to complete the sound, choosing from cabinets like the Marshall 1960 A-type cabinet (4x12” Celestion speakers), Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb (1x12” Jensen C-12K speakers), Mesa Boogie Mark 1 (1x12” ALTEC 417-8H speaker), or Bogner Ecstasy cabinet (4x12” Celestion speakers). NOTE: Manufacturer names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The names are used only to illustrate sonic characteristics and do not indicate any affiliation with the Zoom Corporation or Zoom North America. 124 CUSTOM-CRAFTED COMBINATIONS AND COUNTING To explore the wealth of possibilities that the G5n offers, we continuously collaborate with inspirational, professional guitarists known for their taste and love of great guitar sounds. The G5n comes stocked with 124 custom-designed patches that both recreate decades of essential guitar tones—like the iconic sounds of Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, Foo Fighters, and Led Zeppelin—and pioneer new territory with combinations exclusively created for G5n guitarists. Stand out with "Lead BGN," a modern lead sound folded into a modulated delay, or "Phazed," an intense tube amp sound through a phaser. The "UFO" patch harnesses parametric EQ in the style of the lead guitarist of the band of the same name, and then there's "DreamWorld," an overdriven crunch enhanced with tape echo and hall reverb. With our free ZOOM Guitar Lab software, you can look for new effects and amp/cabinet emulators, as well as even more exclusive patches from our diverse and growing list of G5n creators, people like: Kyle Bolden (Stevie Wonder) Eric Struthers (Aaron Neville) Richard Patrick (Filter) Jeff Schroeder (Smashing Pumpkins) Luca Colombo Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth) Tommy Bolan (NYC, Banzai, Warlock) Errol Cooney (Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder) Wes Geer (Korn, hed PE) Download these patches from ZOOM Guitar Lab. Create your signature sound Easy editing Editing is simple and intuitive thanks to a unique, large overview display that allows you to quickly add, delete, or change the order of effects—something not easily accomplished with the average pedalboard. There are also four independent editing displays for zeroing in on the perfect sound, each bank providing the responsiveness and hands-on feel of a stompbox. Store up to 200 of your custom effects-chains as patches in memory, each instantly accessible at the touch of a footswitch. Powerful pedals The G5n's expression pedal gives you smooth real-time control over volume, tone, or selected effects parameters, with four stompbox-style footswitches to kick effects in and out on the fly. When you're ready to take a solo, get the bump you need with the G5n's output booster. And to synchronize rhythm patterns and delay times to the beat, just hit the G5n's dedicated Tap tempo footswitch to bring your sound in line. Complex tonalities It would take an arsenal of stompboxes, amplifiers, and speakers to duplicate everything you can do with a single G5n. With the release of firmware V2.0, G5n offers more efficient DSP power. This lets you chain up to nine effects more easily and in any order you like. It's like having hundreds of fully loaded pedalboards in one compact, easy to use device. PRACTICE UP, PLAY OUT 68 built-in rhythm patterns make the G5n the perfect practice rig and enable "one-man band" performances. A two-unit looper function, which uses dedicated footswitches to start and stop phrases, allows you to record and overdub phrases up to 80 seconds long through the effects of your choice. Plus there's a built-in chromatic tuner, always accessible at the touch of a footswitch—you can bypass the currently selected patch while tuning, or mute the signal altogether. THE INS AND OUTS The G5n can be easily integrated into any live performance or studio rig. In addition to a standard guitar input, there's an auxiliary stereo input for the connection of smartphones or music players, plus a dedicated headphone jack for silent practice and dual outputs for mono or stereo L/R connection to guitar amps, PA systems, and audio interfaces. ZOOM GUITAR LAB SOFTWARE With the new Zoom Guitar Lab app for Mac/Windows, you have access to Zoom’s library of amp models, effects and patches. A one-stop shop for effects management, users can easily edit effect parameters, build effect chains, and backup/organize their patches. Guitar Lab’s advanced UI monitors your CPU usage while you edit for maximum efficiency. For user convenience, the new Clipboard function memorizes up to four effects with custom parameters, so you can copy and paste them onto other patches. Finally, the NEWS section contains newly added effects and patches, as well as demo sounds, all available for download directly from the app. Download ZOOM Guitar Lab.

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JHS Pedals Switchback on RigShare
JHS Pedals
JHS Pedals

Switchback

The JHS Pedals Switchback is a small unassuming box with a massive feature set. It began its life as a device that we designed just for ourselves to test and compare pedals in the JHS workshop but we soon realized that it was extremely useful for everyone’s guitar rig on stage or in the studio. The Switchback has one input, one output and two separate selectable effects loops (Send/Return), plus an A/B toggle that is controllable by our Red Remote switching system. The foot-switch is 100% true bypass, so when it’s off, it's not affecting your signal in any way. There are millions of ways to use the Switchback (Maybe not a million but… You get the idea) but here are a few of our favorite applications that are incredibly useful! 1. An A/B True Bypass Looper Place a pedal or chain of pedals in the first loop and place a different pedal or chain of pedals in the second loop. The toggle/red remote will allow you to quickly switch between those two loops. This is great for instantly placing different effects chains in and out of your rig on the fly or for shooting out two pedals with zero dead time in-between playing… Find out if that old TS808 sounds better than your TS-9 :-) if you demo different pedals, this is a must have. 2. A Simple True Bypass Looper Place your pedal or chain of pedals that you want in the first loop. The toggle/Red Remote will now toggle between the loop with your effects and the clean bypass signal. There’s no need to bridge the second loop with a patch cable as the Switchback automatically bypasses any loop where there’s nothing plugged in to the jack. 3. An A/B Box Simply use Send 1 and Send 2 to go to two different amps or any other application where you need two switchable outputs, and don’t use the output. Again, using the Red Remote gives you the ability to switch on the fly while playing! 4. An Amp Input Switcher Use Send 1 to channel one and Send 2 to channel two. This allows you to “channel switch” on any amp with multiple inputs like old Marshalls and Fenders! 5. An Effects Loop A/B Plug your amp's effects loop Send into the input and the amps return into the output. Then toggle between the two loops of the Switchback as in example #1 above. Because of the red remote function you can place the Switchback and any effects in its loops completely out of sight under your pedal board or in a rack while only having the small 1x1” Red Remote accessible!!! The Switchback could become an essential utility in your touring rig or studio, helping you solve many switching puzzles with your rig. So grab a Switchback and get to climbing!

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Electro-Harmonix Pedals Turnip Greens Multi-effect on RigShare
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Electro-Harmonix Pedals

Turnip Greens Multi-effect

The Turnip Greens is a compact multi-effect pedal combining the award-winning Soul Food Overdrive and Holy Grail Max Reverb. The Soul Food delivers transparent sounds starting with clean boost and progressing all the way to intense overdrive. It's equally adept at adding punch to a player's tone, pushing an amp into saturation or in front of other dirt pedals driving them into new worlds of distortion. The Holy Grail Max provides four carefully crafted reverbs: Spring, Hall, Plate and Reverse. A newly designed analog wet/dry control yields a constant volume curve as the Blend knob is turned from fully dry to fully wet, while also keeping the dry signal analog through the pedal. The pedal's left side features the Holy Grail Max's controls and independent footswitch while the right side is dedicated to the Soul Food's controls and footswitch. A toggle effect-order switch, located in the middle of the Turnip Greens, selects whether the overdrive or reverb is first in the effects chain. Send and Return jacks let the player insert effects into the signal path between the two. With the switch to the right the signal chain is Soul Food → Holy Grail Max which produces a traditional sound familiar to most players. In the left position the signal chain is Holy Grail Max → Soul Food. Now the reverb is boosted by the overdrive which, when used in conjunction with pedals in the effects loop, can create very lush textures. The Turnip Greens features an internal switch that lets the player select between true bypass or buffered bypass for the Soul Food section. In true bypass mode, when the Turnip Greens is set to bypass, the input jack is connected directly to the amp jack and nothing else. In buffered bypass mode, the bypass signal passes through a high-quality buffer circuit before it is output from the Amp jack. The new Turnip Greens comes standard with an EHX 9.6-Volt/DC200mA AC Adapter.

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