best multi-effects for 4-track?

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Darth Idios

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Hello again!

So now that I have figured out my Yamaha MT4X to some small extent, I'd like to add reverb and delay.

Is there a good ( inexpensive ) multi-effects processor that you would recommend for use with a cassette 4-track? I have no problem with getting older used units.

Do any of them come with compression built in, or should I consider a separate compressor like the Alesis Micro Limiter?

The common complaints about Digitech units are that they are cold-sounding, and Lexicon units are cheaply built. Truth?

What other things should I be looking for?

thanks in advance

Darth Idios

Sith Lord / Party Clown
 
Yo Darth: [how are things on Alderon?]

At present I use two reverb boxes in my home studio. A lexicon MPX 100 and an Alesis Midiverb 3. Each one has its ups and downs.

The Lexicon units have been dropping in price so you might check around the 800 circuit. I find the Lexicon to do a nice job but the 100 has too many little clicks and variations -- I don't find a large difference between some clicks of the knobs so this amounts to wasted clicking.

On the other hand, the Alesis is programable; you can get into each patch and tweak it to some extent and sometimes to a great extent. For greater and easier variety, the Alesis is better and has much better delay patches -- the Lexicon requires you to punch a button to set the delay timing and this doesn't make sense to me; I like the patch to be all set when I punch it in and then, if I want, I can tweak it.

I think the key here is, reverb boxes perform better as the price goes up. Try to check some out and find one suited to your needs.


Green Hornet
 
What are you using the effects on (guitar, vocals,???)....also what is your budget for the combined effects unit/compressor?.......

the mpx100 isnt the greatest box in the world, but for its price($199) it does quite good...for compression the RNC cant be beat for $175 or the Behringer Autocom at $119 for smaller $$$ budgets.....
 
I'd be using the effects on vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass, my crappy Casio keyboard and ACID loops run from my computer.

Hell, do I even need a compressor?
 
Yo Darth: {I forgot, Alderon is dust.}

I had a compressor and after a while I just put it in the basement with much other retired gear.

I guess some vocalists live by them [compressors] but I never could hear much difference one way or the other and the dials on the compressor I had [an Alesis] were ambiguous -- turn this one or that one and "nothing" happened.

But, a GOOD reverb box will enhance your "everythings."


More than once I've been given a tape done from a commercial studio somewhere and I put the tape into my system, added some warm reverb, and re-recorded it on my Sony tape deck;
the musicians involved in the tape were very, very good and one of them, a friend of mine, said, "WOW, is that an improvement over the original...."

So, buy what you need and need what you buy.

Green Hornet
 
Yo Darth: {I forgot, Alderon is dust.}

I had a compressor and after a while I just put it in the basement with much other retired gear.

I guess some vocalists live by them [compressors] but I never could hear much difference one way or the other and the dials on the compressor I had [an Alesis] were ambiguous -- turn this one or that one and "nothing" happened.

But, a GOOD reverb box will enhance your "everythings."


More than once I've been given a tape done from a commercial studio somewhere and I put the tape into my system, added some warm reverb, and re-recorded it on my Sony tape deck;
the musicians involved in the tape were very, very good and one of them, a friend of mine, said, "WOW, is that an improvement over the original...."

So, buy what you need and need what you buy.

Green Hornet


:D :D :p
 
check out a multieffects unit first....since you are doing analog and ifhave fairly decent technique, a compressor isnt necessary.......
 
Alright! Thanks for the advice, y'all.

with all best wishes

Darth Idios

sweeper of Alderon
 
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