Pedalboards or processing units?

[TFEman]

Do most of you guys prefer pedalboards over processing units? I wanted to make a pedalboard rig with actual amps, but I found the processing units are more efficient. Still, it seems like the majority of you guys get the actual pedals. Edited May 7, 2017 by TFEman

[Maverick]

I've never had rack gear, but I think I will always prefer pedals. It's just who I am.

[stoopid]

Do most of you guys prefer pedalboards over processing units? I wanted to make a pedalboard rig with actual amps, but I found the processing units are more efficient. Still, it seems like the majority of you guys get the actual pedals.

 

If you need elaborate effects in a live setting, a rack processing setup is ideal because you can pre-program things and trigger/switch them with a foot switch. Trying to replicate with pedals would likely requiring hitting multiple pedals at once. If you generally use one or two tones per song then a pedal board is fine. Pedals are obviously fine for tinkering and noodling at home. There's also some amps with decent processing built-in now, and similar to rack effects you can toggle programming with a foot switch.

[JARG]

My gigging rig was a rack system with the following components (all of which were sold long ago):

 

ADA B200S power amp

 

 

ADA MP-1 midi pre-amp:

http://tonereport.com/uploads/img/ada-mp1-black.jpg

 

 

Alesis Quadraverb:

 

Rocktron Hush Guitar Silencer:

http://img.audiofanzine.com/images/u/product/normal/rocktron-hush-guitar-silencer-99568.jpg

 

ADA MPC midi controller:

http://medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/ada-mpc-234416.jpg

 

I liked it because I could switch out many different parameters with just the tap of a button.

[Maverick]

My gigging rig is an assortment of pedals I feel like having that night, for those songs. I don't even have a pedal board.

 

#ToLateToChangeNow

[Fridge]

I've tried both, and to be honest, pedalboards are good, but sometimes I like to switch two or three parameters at once, so then you need to start investing in loop switchers, which makes the process cumbersome.

 

Nowadays, I use an old Boss GT8 in the four cable method into my Blackstar and it works fine...I have the best of all worlds in that I can set the GT8 to manual mode and use it an stompboxes, or I can get it to control several parameters at once (eg boost, chorus and delay simultaneously), and I also get the advantage of the Blackstars tone with a minimum of digital interference.

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

I like both!

 

 

Rack units for MIDI-controllable delays, reverb and harmonies (plus a Cry Baby rack wah), and analog pedals for modulation effects. The G-Major can do chorus, flange, phase and compression, but analog pedals sound better.

[Ancient Ways]

I'm using a line 6 unit that looks like a pedal board but is all simulation

[pjbear05]

Oops, wrong thread. Though you meant bass pedal boards, like the Moog Taurus, or the Roland my musician friend (who's gear I used to haul to gigs) had at one time.

[jdouglas]

I've had many of both, and now I just have a simple digitech 360xp that is great. I have headphone patches for practice, and effects only patches for the effects loop playing live. I use the expression pedal as a volume pedal. I think the tc chorus on that unit is a great sim of the original.

[HemiBeers]

My gigging rig was a rack system with the following components (all of which were sold long ago):

 

ADA B200S power amp

 

 

ADA MP-1 midi pre-amp:

http://tonereport.com/uploads/img/ada-mp1-black.jpg

 

 

Alesis Quadraverb:

 

Rocktron Hush Guitar Silencer:

http://img.audiofanzine.com/images/u/product/normal/rocktron-hush-guitar-silencer-99568.jpg

 

ADA MPC midi controller:

http://medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/ada-mpc-234416.jpg

 

I liked it because I could switch out many different parameters with just the tap of a button.

If your power amplifier was bipolar did it go through different moods quite frequently? Today I'm a happy amp. Tomorrow a sad amp.