NEPD (New Effects Pedal Day)!

DonRoos

After many weeks of research and searching, I finally got myself a ZOOM G3. I have been relying on the limited set of features in my VOX till now. This thing is amazing - tuner, looper, USB Audio Interface, up to 6 of 96 effects and 22 amp models simultaneously in any order and a DI box all in one case. A whole pedal board and back line in one.

Now I can create unique sounds for every song if I want to, edit them on my laptop and download them into the G3. A whole new world of fun!

AlanRatcliffe

Congrats! Welcome to the world of MFX. It's all downhill from here... ?

arjunmenon

Congrats! They're highly under-rated units.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Congrats! Welcome to the world of MFX. It's all downhill from here... ?

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DonRoos

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Congrats! Welcome to the world of MFX. It's all downhill from here... ?

Oh so true! I spent over an hour today and hardly played anything other than a few basic chord sequences and running through all the patches to see what sounds good. I am probably going to have to sit with my play list and find a patch (or make one) for each of the songs I play on electric. Maybe I should just create one patch with 6 good effects and then switch them for various songs. Perhaps someone can give me a basic list to start with for Blues/Rock covers? Not having used effects much I have little knowledge of how to make the sounds I hear on songs.

Fortunately most of my playlist is acoustic at this stage. Still, I see many hours ahead of happy tweaking.

AlanRatcliffe

Spend some time creating basic amp patches first: Clean/twang, chime, crunch and drive. Then add some FX to each according to your tastes, but save most disabled. For me that'd be: chorus, slapback tape delay and spring reverb on the clean; phaser and room reverb on the chime; short digital delay and ambient reverb on the crunch; flanger and long delay on the drive. Once you've got those you can cover 90% of whatever you'll need. Then write specialised ones for songs that need something specific.

MoJo-JoJoe

Glad you're enjoying it Don. I found the Sequel LE cd for you. We can work out a time next week to get it to you.

DonRoos

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Spend some time creating basic amp patches first: Clean/twang, chime, crunch and drive. Then add some FX to each according to your tastes, but save most disabled. For me that'd be: chorus, slapback tape delay and spring reverb on the clean; phaser and room reverb on the chime; short digital delay and ambient reverb on the crunch; flanger and long delay on the drive. Once you've got those you can cover 90% of whatever you'll need. Then write specialised ones for songs that need something specific.

Excellent advice thanks Alan. I will do just that.

MoJo JoJo - glad you found the CD. Any time you are free give me a heads up as I am normally at home.

DonRoos

Thanks Alan, I now have 4 basic setups that cover most of my requirements and am slowly tweaking them to suit the songs I play.

I also discovered a web site that has several patches to download (http://guitarpatches.com/patches.php?unit=g3) for the pedal and have downloaded some really great ones such as a Mandolin patch that makes playing REM fun. I also joined their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZoomG3.G3xuser/?fref=ts) and some patches are also being shared on this page and have found a few more to try out (a Santana patch sounds interesting).

I will test these out and steal some of the chains for my own patches. Now that I am playing the Cort through the pedal as well I should create a couple specifically for this. I have entered the vortex - a never ending spiral of tweaking! :?