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The best rackmounted Multi FX

#2
The Reff said:
I'm currently in the market for a new Multi FX.

I have two demands :

1. Rackmountable

2. Better sounding than the G-major ( for now my main Multi FX )

I can think of only one : Line 6 bass pod XT

Any suggestions ?
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Line 6 better than the G-Major??? We hear things VERY differently I think.

I've never heard one but the Rocktron Blue Thunder has been reviewed favorably.
 
#6
Benjamin Strange said:
TC Electronics G Force. End of story. I replaced $5500 worth of hi-end analog pedals with this, and I couldn't be happier.
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Anything else in its class you'd recommend if you had to buy something new now? Am just starting to think about building up collection of analog pedals (slowly), I've never been happy with multi-effect stompboxes on the whole.

Never really considered rack effects before now though.

Do you use this in live situations too? Do you find the fact that it's designed for guitars limiting at all? Any effects on it suck bass tones away?
 
#7
I think the good thing about having rack Fx's is that you program it or change it real-time via midi. No bending down and tweak your pedals.

Also I have other rack gear. A Line 6 Echo Pro and a Filter Pro is currently in my rack. So in order not to have to push to many pedals at once, a midi board does all the work.
 
#8
The pitch shifting in the G Force is crazy fast. The only other thing that might be faster would be an Evantide, which goes for multiple thousands (and is discontinued). Check out my song Sicarii, on my website; the noisy guitar solo at the end is actually a bass.

There's nothing much out there that I can think of in it's class out there. The demand for these things isn't nearly what it used to be, so I think TC is the only guys making a high quality rack effects unit for guitar/bass anymore.
 
#12
suicas said:
Was wondering why you preferred it to the analog pedals you used to own..

Is it convenience, sound quality, or range of effects that you like about it?

Is there anything that you'd say was bad about it?
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I find the G Force very easy to use. There's almost no manual to speak of, and it took me no time at all to figure it out.

I bought it mainly for the convienence of the thing; my pedal board was housing 22 pedals, and was 4'x3'. It weighed a ton, had cables running everywhere, powering all those pedals was a nightmare... and I was showing no signs of stopping with just 22 pedals. It was an addiction. Granted, they sounded great, but very inconvenient.

The TC does sound different than all the analog goodness, which sometimes I think is better suited for bass. It's much clearer and transparent than the analog, although it's not as warm. I can't be a spontaneous with my sounds as I've been in the past, but I'm learning ways to work around that. Maybe I will get back into pedals at some point, but for now I'm enjoying only having a single rack space unit to deal with.
 
#15
The G-Major is kind of a scaled down version of the G-Force.

The G-major is also a bit younger.

And then there's a lot of technical stuff that I don't know so much about. Basically the G-force has more options.

There's probably more to add............
 

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