@@dpajc056Yeah, if you build it all at once. I’ve been building my board over the course of 2 years, I get a new pedal every so often and really learn to lock into a certain sound where I feel like I’d get lost in tweaking the all-in-ones and never actually start to play. This is just a me thing tho, I just enjoy pedals and the fun of using them and figuring them out.
Watching this plugged in to my ME-90 practicing. Sold my GX-100 for a "downgrade". The ME-90 f*cking rules. It's an amazing interface, amazing live and amazingly simple. Love it.
So why did you switch from the gx-100? It has 4 knobs that can be customized/programmed to control any of the parameters of the effect they’re assigned to. Maybe 4 knobs per effects chain isn’t enough?
@@snapintoaslimjimohyeah You'll hear some people talk about the "one knob per function/dedicated knob per function" attribute of a pedal, and its the idea that you don't have to setup or program a knob, you can just quickly find it and turn it for the desired effect, and it's more tactile so you feel more connected. pedals that you have to customize can add a lot of the friction of designing tones, which if you don't have a lot of time, can be a game changer. and while the me-90 doesn't have exactly one knob per function, it gets a lot closer than a digital fx unit so it definitely appeals to a lot of people. but the gx-100 is still great and super flexible. I enjoyed it, but only created a patch once or twice before the flexibility became more of a hinderance than a help.
The ME series also is perfect for beginner guitarists. With one unit, we can duplicate just about any combination of stompboxes without falling prey to a very expensive pedal addiction. Learning things like chords and scales is tough enough, but effects add yet another layer of things to learn about. Experimenting with MEs can affordably expose beginners to the intricacies of effecting one's tone.
I have the Boss ME-80 and I love it; so much so thanks to falling prices due to the introduction by Boss of their new ME-90 pedal board. The sale prices of the ME-80 were so good I bought two. I sold off the stomp boxes I did have as not needing multiple outlets of the same thing. With the money I made selling off my pedals effectively paid for the first ME-80. So my rig is a Fender Champion 100, a Fender Champion 40, my pedal board(s) and a few other things. Mix in a few guitars (2 Squires, 2 Epiphones) and we're doing our best to be "Rockin' in the Free World" and being blessed to have the rig I have.🎉😅
@@Jmunoz7k You can always get an ME-90 and occasionally add separate pedals... either in the ME's loop, or before or after the ME. Best of both worlds. With everything the ME-90 has to offer you can choose fewer & more specifically tailored pedals to your set-up and sound requirements.
@glennmichaelthompson4112 - That's what I ended up doing. I prefer an all-analog signal chain and have learned from using the ME-80 the effects I want and the ones I don't. I've since gotten a Keeley Compressor Plus, a Keeley Fuzz Bender, an EHX Electric Mistress, and will get a tuner and maybe a delay. (My amp has an OD channel.) These cover most of what I want to play, including Zeppelin, Rush, and my own compositional efforts. The ME-80 still works for the exceptions, but usually, I'm now all-analog.
I'm an old man who plays bass in a church. I have a tuner pedal as my chain. I'm always amazed at the digital stuff I see folks using. It is cool to see all the knobs again... Love your channel and your playing.
ME-90 is amazing. I just got mind a few weeks ago. It’s like having (almost) every BOSS stomp box ever made! I just put it in “manual mode” and use it like a it’s a pedal board full of stomp boxes
BOSS ME-90 is an amazing pedal. I've used Boss multi-effects pedals, and Digital and Home Recording Studio devices with their COSM effects (predecessor to the new AIRD effects) for 20 years, and it's never failed to sound awesome.
I already have a large pedalboard and it's a hassle having to lug it around during gigs... I'm glad to have bought myself the ME-90. The knobs are a great thing to have for quick adjustments during a gig.
6:45 this is the main reason why, I love the ME series, it’s easy to get your tone quickly and on the fly you can change things or set and forget. It’s as flexible as you are able to be.
It took me about a week to really bond with my Boss GX100. I absolutely love the tone and footswitch assignment. It's the best piece of gear I have ever owed.
I love the ME range. I started with the 80 and then updated to the 90. I use the 80 now with my keyboard/synth to add extra effects to it and the 90 is part of my pedalboard alongside a selection of OD/Distortion pedals
The ME-90 lets me quickly dial in whatever tone I want . My interests are all over the map and I can easily tweak whatever tone I need to play whatever song I want . Gilmour, Hendix , Funk , Country etc. , the possibilities are endless and easy to dial in . In the past I had to rearange my pedalboard to accomidate whatever artist I was trying to copy . I think I will be selling some of my pedals now . I've had / have other modelers but twisting knobs is so much easier than touch screens or menu diving . The ME-90 is great with headphones when I want to play and my family is watching TV or sleeping . I also have the Boss IR-2 which works great as a headphone amp too. I love both units . I think I am done buying pedals honestly .
It was perfect timing that this video came out. I got my ME-90 on April 27 around the same time the video was released and had my first gig with it last Saturday. It's confusing at first, but it's so fun and easy to use. I was playing with it for about 2 weeks before the gig and luckily was able to perform.
Multifx is my favorite piece of gear ever. My Boss GT-1000core allows me to carry all my different pedal settings in a small pedalboard. With a good PA I don’t even need to take an amp and cab. It makes gigging so effortless and I wouldn’t have it any other way anymore. AND it sounds amazing.
I had a frustrating start with the ME-90. Figuring it out was pretty easy, but nothing seemed to sound good. Then I saw that it could load cabinet IRs and started exploring the options. I didn’t like most of them, but I did find one that I really liked. That has made all the difference in the world! I only like one of the amp models, and I only like it through this one IR, but that that one combination sounds excellent, and the other effects give me lots of variations on that one basic amp sound. I also figured out that rechargeable 1.5V Lithium batteries will last about as long per charge as alkaline disposables, and that makes the setup really easy. I am basically going for one particular sound: the sound that finger style players like Emile Erneboro or Joe Robinson use, and I can get very close to that. I also love being able to reach down and dial in the sound without going through menus. Yeah, I am happy with it.
I'm planning on picking one of these up later this year. It seems just about perfect for what I need. Enough flexibility to do most of what I could ever want to do, but without being overkill or cluttering the interface with difficult-to-use features.
If you need an entire rig on a budget, you can get it today. Live in the mix the average Joe or Jolene isn't going to be able to tell a Mooer reverb from a Big Sky
I came into a ME80 after almost exclusively using vintage pedals and no mfx for years. I don’t use maybe half of it but I love having everything with no menus, analog on the fly control, and I like the extra eq controls. I’m not a patch guy, I like it set and go. I mix it with vintage fuzzes, wahs, and delays (although the 80s delays are pretty good), and it has shocked me on how good I’ve gotten this to work for me through my old amp. Old dogs, new tricks…
Big fan of these MultiFX units. I play bass and recently switched to a Quad Cortex for the touch screen interface, capture ability, and midi control features, but I previously played through a Boss GT-6B and GT-10B. They both sounded fantastic.
I had a Fractal FM3 and while the sound was incredible, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the interface. I picked up the ME-90 the end of last year and it’s become an essential piece of gear. Great video and I’m loving your channel!
one thing that i really like it from ME90 is the AIRD amp, it looks so convincing, tested in many situation, from small venue gig to big one and sound really consistent
I know this was a long time ago. Just want to say I really enjoyed this video and how fun you make it. I will now be switching to digital. Cool resonator on your wall!! Peace
This pedal is GREAT!!! I love this style of footswitches over the metal ones because the switches don't get clogged with sand ( we live in SW Florida & do a LOT of outdoor gigs), I use it direct to P.A. & go back & forth between manual & memory modes, just can't beat it!!! Great video my friend, just subbed to your channel and will support, you ROCK BROTHER!!! Rock On & God Bless.
Love the ME90 , easy to use also brought the Headrush FRFR 108 mark2 speaker, loud enough for any pub gig, makes transport and set up so easy, no more farting around with cables, heavy amps and pedalboards.
No joke, I cant tell you how much I have spent in my life on pedals and building the "perfect" pedal board. Buying the next greatest pedal and finding out the very next pedal was what I needed. I can't tell you how many times, minutes from "go time", something in the chain didn't work for whatever reason. I had a board big enough to land a 747. It was in a rolling case. A friend of mine showed me the Boss ME. I went home and blasted through the videos on multi effects boards and settled on the Zoom G5n. From the first time I tried it...zero issues. Best part, it was compact and didn't need a forklift. I've had guys ask the "what if it has a meltdown?". Get a spare. They're cheap.
I just picked up a TC Electronic Nova System for 125 quid. It's a great system, really well thought out and practical, a pro piece of gear. Doesn't overload you with options.
Cool! I fell into the 3 Zoom multi-pedal systems for my guitars - electric G2-1U, my acoustic A2.1U my favorite for bass B2-1U. I do have more for electronic special guitar about 14 more single foot pedals. My favorite is the geraniums overdrive with the half man and horse. It's high gain is perfect before adding to a clean yet louder output before clipping occurs. Dam nice tool. My 2nd is the B & B OD and 3rd for constant Fuzz I'm making a EHX - Big Muff Pi. Mine will use a schematic I found and a switch and a guide from Stu-Mac a sustained switch and true bypass. I will call mine "Small Puttz
I have an me50b for my bass rig, I use it for an equaliser/preamp and a way to blend different effects along with single pedals. It's a huge part of my sound I'd never be without it now
I bought a Headrush Gigboard to use for one reason. I'm tired of carrying all my gear and I want to cut down on the weight. Only tried it once, still using a tube amp and pedalboard.
the me 80 was my first pedal after using a pedalboard I borrowed from a mentor at church for a year. i've used it for almost 3 years and I love it. kinda wish i would've waited for the me 90 but thats ok.
Helo Mike. I just found your channel, after type multiefek at my search. In my opinion, for a beginner, its more cheap and easier to get a multiefek than a single stombox. And, my first multiefek is ZOOM 707 II, I bougth at 6 July, 2005, and the multi still working. But, as the time past, I used pedalboard now. With 6 pedal effects and 1 wah pedal.
When I first started performing in front of people for like The Battle Of The Bands thing, I remember my teacher let me borrow a zoom multi effects pedal once so I could practice going from distortion to clean for a performance that me and my friends were practicing for. And then when that performance came around I was playing in front maybe 50 people and we didn't do a sound check so when I played my first chord I forgot to set it up and it sounded like a motor engine. Because of that traumatic incident thats why I swore from ever using a multi effects pedal until a couple of days ago.
I've had my POD HD500 for around 10 years and it is the best multi-effects pedal I've ever owned or used. You have to find or make custom patches for it to really get the best from it and there is a little bit of a learning curve there but mix a few different tones together in a DAW and you too will have pro level sound.
Personally I love the style of the me-90 I don’t mind having a big touch screen and navigating throw that, but my first pedalboard experience was the me-50. I’d personally rather have have that more cause of it’s simpler design
Always had some kind of Multi FX somehow and I find them to be a very convinient way to get much sound without any hassling with boards, velcro, patch cables and so on, especially if you like to experiment a lot. Also being able to store tens to hundreds of presets makes it even more versatile. Some of the older units have some questionable to outright horrible sounds on board, but there are a lot of decent to good models too. I just started playing guitar more seriously, after decades of mainly Bass, and just plug into my old Zoom G5 for some flanger, delay, "whammy" and the integratated 12AX7 Tube OD, into the lead channel on my little Joyo Zombie and out to a V30 4x12. Simple setup, lightweight, hassle free, chugs like hell! Sometimes I throw a Digitech Drop in the mix, just to experiment a bit here and there.
I bought a Digitech RP360 a few years back. Lots of new stuff comes out with IRs, capture, machine learning, thought i should get up to date but the RP 360 is still relevant and adaquate for practicing, and learning about effects. User interface is excellent and i think me x0 types are just pot fields emulating multiple pedals. So i would tend towards the toneX one or pod express as an upgrade, fewer knobs.
I just use an HX stomp, an external channel selector, and a Dunlop mini VP and I’ve gotten some amazing tones out of it and compliments from our sound guy. Turns out you don’t need need $20000 worth of pedals to play four to five songs for church
I started playing guitar in the early 2000s, when everyone still pushed tube amps and looked down on multi-FX pedals. I used a $100 Zoom multi-FX back then. I'm back to guitar after a long break, and presumably the technology has improved right, or are they the same as they were? Can anyone comment on the evolution of multi-FX in the $100-200 range over the past 20 years?
Been a stomp box guy for most of my life until I tried a really crappy Zoom multi effects. Almost gave up on them until I got a Korg AX1000G. That thing was it. A friend had the ME 60 and I wasn't a fan. Not enough stuff to tweak. No amp or speaker models. I now own the Korg AX3000G. The modelers are much better than the 1000G. Patches are awesome on stage. Still love my stomp boxes though. Great job sharing your journey Mike. 🎸🎸
The ME-90 is definitely a win for me. I prefer multi fx pedals for my style. no. 1 this unit only needs 4 batteries to operate. So If I have a limited power situation or want to jam in the middle of nowhere with a battery powered speaker I'm good. Also I prefer multi fx because I can switch to particular sound I want with 1 button press. go from heavy metal distortion to like some clean spaced out sound in like 2 seconds. the size is not that big also, so for those small stage gigs I do not need much room.
I have a cheap multi-effects pedal and am looking to make another guitar purchase when this question popped up in my mind; does the quality, output etc. of pickups impact multi-effects pedals as much as they do tube amps? I began this thought after looking into Fishman Fluence Modern pickups with 3 voices. How does a pickup like that impact these pedals?
Had the Boss GT-100 then I bought the Boss GT-1 just to have a smaller/lightweight unit with the same sound engine. Just didn't have all the sends and returns in the back. Ended up selling the GT-100. Played the GT-1 for a couple of years. Still have it. Bought a Helix Floor and I feel like I'm done...I think. Oh wait, I did buy the new little Line 6 POD Express recently. I love the Helix Floor. I love the 'scribble strips' that allow me to see what patch in the preset I'm using. Press a button and I can be in stomp box mode like a real pedal board. I love the Software for the Helix.
I bought my ME80 in 2018 and loved it. However one day browsing around at Guitar Center i bought a Boss OD1 to compare the sound and my good the analog pedal sounded much better, after that I started buying individual pedals, but I still use the ME80 for all modulation, compresor and delays, also the volume pedal is handy and the looper.
I bought nux mg400 a couple weeks ago. I'm no pro, just a lifelong amateur having fun. And I must say, I'm glad I bought it and not falling into tone seeking rabit hole head first.
IsIs there a boss pedal that doesnt require an amplifier to plug into? Im looking for a pedal that can be connected to a mixer and powered speakers without the need of an amplifier.
I saved my lawn-mowing money for months to buy a mail order Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face distortion pedal back in 1981 for some $120.00 and I recently tore it apart and reverse-engineered it with $4.50 worth of cheap electronic parts.
I started out using a solid state amp and a few stomp pedals up until Boss came out with the ME5 which will tell you how old I am. I have used amps and pedals throughout the years as well as multi FX pedals and I've now settled on the Helix direct to F.O.H. for ease of use.
When you realize that manual mode makes it like a pedal board, and you can select each effect, and control everything in real time, it's pretty darn simple.
I like to think of myself as a tech master. I’m not. Five minute into the menu dive I’ve forgotten what I wanted in the first place. If I did this for a living I’d have the skills and knowledge to dive deep and come up with pearls every time but I don’t. I’m a local musician/mechanic that plays in a dad band. This video has cemented my decision to accept my limitations and abilities and make more music with simpler gear.
I have the Digitech RP500, RP355 and BP355. I like the way the RP500 is laid out, it’s very user friendly. I’ve heard the amp models are really good and some of the most realistic available on the BOSS. They’re not spectacular on the Digitech but not the total worst either-however, the reverb and the effects are great plus other features. I have wanted to try an ME-80 for a while even if I might not buy one. Now the ME-90 sounds like a good unit, but I’m not sure about what the difference is between the two. You’d think that on the newest ones they’d have more reverbs than just spring, room and hall but I know that’s pretty much all you need. The Digitech has Lexicon Reverb which is top notch and has added plate, ambiance and studio to the normal ones. I won’t buy units that have the little window plus requiring you to scroll through banks to change a tone or gain knob-that’s what’s good about the Digitech. With the Digitech to get to different things you hit a button and go up or down into the category you want and then push the knobs to change more adjustment. Even though the Digitech is easy to use, the ME-90 looks better because it’s got total knobs for everything all laid out without having to push any buttons or scroll. I have lots of boutique pedals but if I was a young person on a budget I would not be afraid of the ME-90 especially because people had told me the amps are realistic and I assume the effects are too. Thanks for a great video.
I guess pedalboards have a bit of sunken cost in them, the pedals, the board, the power supply… plus I’m a bit too old school with gear to get into the newer stuff with USB ports and apps, even having a screen on a pedal that’s not just an LCD number display is a no for me. I just want knobs and lights. I started off with a Boss OS-2, a DOD FX75B and a Vox wah, I did have a Sovtek phaser for a while but the giant size of it was a huge turn off… I did love that it came in a wooden box.
you just helped me figure out what was wrong with mine, i too use katana and it was on one of my presets with a heavy phaser so thats why its been sounded shit, dusted off my old zoom gfx and its working great feel very stupid
the only reason i dont want multi effect pedal is because a pedalboard looks cooler
Perfect- absolutely agreed
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Honest
Ok sure but the cable spaghetti does not. Neither does paying 10 times the price for the equivalent effects
@@dpajc056Yeah, if you build it all at once. I’ve been building my board over the course of 2 years, I get a new pedal every so often and really learn to lock into a certain sound where I feel like I’d get lost in tweaking the all-in-ones and never actually start to play. This is just a me thing tho, I just enjoy pedals and the fun of using them and figuring them out.
I just built a Trio43 board with a 2nd tier on the back row.
Watching this plugged in to my ME-90 practicing. Sold my GX-100 for a "downgrade". The ME-90 f*cking rules. It's an amazing interface, amazing live and amazingly simple. Love it.
Totally agree. I really like my ME-90.
I'm also about to sell my gx-100 since I got the me-90B. GX was powerful but the simplicity is way more valuable to me right now.
So why did you switch from the gx-100? It has 4 knobs that can be customized/programmed to control any of the parameters of the effect they’re assigned to. Maybe 4 knobs per effects chain isn’t enough?
@@snapintoaslimjimohyeah You'll hear some people talk about the "one knob per function/dedicated knob per function" attribute of a pedal, and its the idea that you don't have to setup or program a knob, you can just quickly find it and turn it for the desired effect, and it's more tactile so you feel more connected. pedals that you have to customize can add a lot of the friction of designing tones, which if you don't have a lot of time, can be a game changer. and while the me-90 doesn't have exactly one knob per function, it gets a lot closer than a digital fx unit so it definitely appeals to a lot of people. but the gx-100 is still great and super flexible. I enjoyed it, but only created a patch once or twice before the flexibility became more of a hinderance than a help.
@@snapintoaslimjimohyeah The GX-100 is great, but can easily become overwhelming. The less parametres, the less can go wrong. :)
The ME series also is perfect for beginner guitarists. With one unit, we can duplicate just about any combination of stompboxes without falling prey to a very expensive pedal addiction.
Learning things like chords and scales is tough enough, but effects add yet another layer of things to learn about. Experimenting with MEs can affordably expose beginners to the intricacies of effecting one's tone.
Exactly
I have the Boss ME-80 and I love it; so much so thanks to falling prices due to the
introduction by Boss of their new ME-90 pedal board. The sale prices of the ME-80 were so good I bought two. I sold off the stomp boxes I did have as not needing multiple outlets of the same thing. With the money I made selling off my pedals effectively paid for the first ME-80. So my rig is a Fender Champion 100, a Fender Champion 40, my pedal board(s) and a few other things. Mix in a few guitars (2 Squires, 2 Epiphones) and we're doing our best to be "Rockin' in the Free World" and being blessed to have the rig I have.🎉😅
I saw this too late, I’m in the first phase and got broke buying the first pedal
@@Jmunoz7k
You can always get an ME-90 and occasionally add separate pedals... either in the ME's loop, or before or after the ME. Best of both worlds. With everything the ME-90 has to offer you can choose fewer & more specifically tailored pedals to your set-up and sound requirements.
@glennmichaelthompson4112 - That's what I ended up doing. I prefer an all-analog signal chain and have learned from using the ME-80 the effects I want and the ones I don't. I've since gotten a Keeley Compressor Plus, a Keeley Fuzz Bender, an EHX Electric Mistress, and will get a tuner and maybe a delay. (My amp has an OD channel.) These cover most of what I want to play, including Zeppelin, Rush, and my own compositional efforts. The ME-80 still works for the exceptions, but usually, I'm now all-analog.
I'm an old man who plays bass in a church. I have a tuner pedal as my chain. I'm always amazed at the digital stuff I see folks using. It is cool to see all the knobs again... Love your channel and your playing.
ME-90 is amazing. I just got mind a few weeks ago. It’s like having (almost) every BOSS stomp box ever made! I just put it in “manual mode” and use it like a it’s a pedal board full of stomp boxes
Brandon carter ! Didn’t know you played guitar! Man we got things in common 💪
BOSS ME-90 is an amazing pedal. I've used Boss multi-effects pedals, and Digital and Home Recording Studio devices with their COSM effects (predecessor to the new AIRD effects) for 20 years, and it's never failed to sound awesome.
I love your vids! No clickbait thumbnails, elite edition, as well as the topics you pick. You the best!!
The ME90 rules. The Fender Deluxe Reverb model is on point. I also love how any delay pedal can instantaneously use tap tempo.
That's the amp one has to access through Tone Studio right? I can't find the correct cable for both the ME-90 and my laptop
I already have a large pedalboard and it's a hassle having to lug it around during gigs... I'm glad to have bought myself the ME-90. The knobs are a great thing to have for quick adjustments during a gig.
6:45 this is the main reason why, I love the ME series, it’s easy to get your tone quickly and on the fly you can change things or set and forget. It’s as flexible as you are able to be.
It took me about a week to really bond with my Boss GX100. I absolutely love the tone and footswitch assignment. It's the best piece of gear I have ever owed.
I've been following your content for awhile now. I love how every video has a story. Keep it up dude
I agree. Simplified my gear - got rid of some pedals, got the OD-200 and incorporated the pedals I kept.
I love the ME range. I started with the 80 and then updated to the 90. I use the 80 now with my keyboard/synth to add extra effects to it and the 90 is part of my pedalboard alongside a selection of OD/Distortion pedals
it wasnt the pedal that kept you from rizzing up that girl, it was your nerves
The ME-90 lets me quickly dial in whatever tone I want . My interests are all over the map and I can easily tweak whatever tone I need to play whatever song I want . Gilmour, Hendix , Funk , Country etc. , the possibilities are endless and easy to dial in . In the past I had to rearange my pedalboard to accomidate whatever artist I was trying to copy . I think I will be selling some of my pedals now .
I've had / have other modelers but twisting knobs is so much easier than touch screens or menu diving .
The ME-90 is great with headphones when I want to play and my family is watching TV or sleeping .
I also have the Boss IR-2 which works great as a headphone amp too.
I love both units . I think I am done buying pedals honestly .
Mike love your enthusiasm and joy you bring to guitar
Thank God for Mom! Keep up the good work.
It was perfect timing that this video came out. I got my ME-90 on April 27 around the same time the video was released and had my first gig with it last Saturday. It's confusing at first, but it's so fun and easy to use. I was playing with it for about 2 weeks before the gig and luckily was able to perform.
My ME-80 is like my daily driver for everything, regardless of what guitar or bass I’m using
Multifx is my favorite piece of gear ever. My Boss GT-1000core allows me to carry all my different pedal settings in a small pedalboard. With a good PA I don’t even need to take an amp and cab. It makes gigging so effortless and I wouldn’t have it any other way anymore. AND it sounds amazing.
I had a frustrating start with the ME-90. Figuring it out was pretty easy, but nothing seemed to sound good. Then I saw that it could load cabinet IRs and started exploring the options. I didn’t like most of them, but I did find one that I really liked. That has made all the difference in the world! I only like one of the amp models, and I only like it through this one IR, but that that one combination sounds excellent, and the other effects give me lots of variations on that one basic amp sound.
I also figured out that rechargeable 1.5V Lithium batteries will last about as long per charge as alkaline disposables, and that makes the setup really easy.
I am basically going for one particular sound: the sound that finger style players like Emile Erneboro or Joe Robinson use, and I can get very close to that. I also love being able to reach down and dial in the sound without going through menus. Yeah, I am happy with it.
I have an old multi effect board somewhere on my attic.Time to dig it out and give it a second try.Thankyou for inspiration.
Using the ME-80 myself after a friend let me borrow their ME-70
I'm planning on picking one of these up later this year. It seems just about perfect for what I need. Enough flexibility to do most of what I could ever want to do, but without being overkill or cluttering the interface with difficult-to-use features.
If you need an entire rig on a budget, you can get it today. Live in the mix the average Joe or Jolene isn't going to be able to tell a Mooer reverb from a Big Sky
I came into a ME80 after almost exclusively using vintage pedals and no mfx for years. I don’t use maybe half of it but I love having everything with no menus, analog on the fly control, and I like the extra eq controls. I’m not a patch guy, I like it set and go. I mix it with vintage fuzzes, wahs, and delays (although the 80s delays are pretty good), and it has shocked me on how good I’ve gotten this to work for me through my old amp. Old dogs, new tricks…
I own a katana 100 and a me90 for giging and it’s absolutely amazing what I can get for less than $800 bucks.
Big fan of these MultiFX units. I play bass and recently switched to a Quad Cortex for the touch screen interface, capture ability, and midi control features, but I previously played through a Boss GT-6B and GT-10B. They both sounded fantastic.
Multi fx are great to figure what fx you really want or need. In general they sound very good except the od/ds/fz stuff but that is maybe just me.
I am using ME-80, love it.
Love your work Mike. Great stuff.
I had a Fractal FM3 and while the sound was incredible, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the interface. I picked up the ME-90 the end of last year and it’s become an essential piece of gear. Great video and I’m loving your channel!
I’ve got the ME 50. Had it for over twenty years. Actually had to buy a second one. Absolutely love them
one thing that i really like it from ME90 is the AIRD amp, it looks so convincing, tested in many situation, from small venue gig to big one and sound really consistent
I know this was a long time ago. Just want to say I really enjoyed this video and how fun you make it.
I will now be switching to digital. Cool resonator on your wall!! Peace
Have a Nux Cereberus. Love it. Super simple, and no fiddling with bloody patch cables. But these days I prefer going straight through a mic'ed up amp.
This pedal is GREAT!!! I love this style of footswitches over the metal ones because the switches don't get clogged with sand ( we live in SW Florida & do a LOT of outdoor gigs), I use it direct to P.A. & go back & forth between manual & memory modes, just can't beat it!!! Great video my friend, just subbed to your channel and will support, you ROCK BROTHER!!! Rock On & God Bless.
i'll be honest i'm not really in the pedal community for guitars but i have never seen a multi effect pedal before, this is really cool!
I have a zoom g3xn which is a lot less quality but it was pretty cheap for what it added to my life. Im grateful for multipedals they are awsome
I had a RP 500 back in the day, it was pretty awesome. Im getting back into guitar and may pick this up. Thanks.
Love the ME90 , easy to use also brought the Headrush FRFR 108 mark2 speaker, loud enough for any pub gig, makes transport and set up so easy, no more farting around with cables, heavy amps and pedalboards.
No joke, I cant tell you how much I have spent in my life on pedals and building the "perfect" pedal board. Buying the next greatest pedal and finding out the very next pedal was what I needed. I can't tell you how many times, minutes from "go time", something in the chain didn't work for whatever reason. I had a board big enough to land a 747. It was in a rolling case. A friend of mine showed me the Boss ME. I went home and blasted through the videos on multi effects boards and settled on the Zoom G5n. From the first time I tried it...zero issues. Best part, it was compact and didn't need a forklift. I've had guys ask the "what if it has a meltdown?". Get a spare. They're cheap.
I had a BOSS ME-80 and it rocked
I just picked up a TC Electronic Nova System for 125 quid. It's a great system, really well thought out and practical, a pro piece of gear. Doesn't overload you with options.
The ME90 was the first piece of tech I bought. So easy to learn and I can only talk positively about it!!!
it's an amazing audio interface i don't have hard time bringing out delicious sounds😇
Cool! I fell into the 3 Zoom multi-pedal systems for my guitars - electric G2-1U, my acoustic A2.1U my favorite for bass B2-1U. I do have more for electronic special guitar about 14 more single foot pedals. My favorite is the geraniums overdrive with the half man and horse. It's high gain is perfect before adding to a clean yet louder output before clipping occurs. Dam nice tool. My 2nd is the B & B OD and 3rd for constant Fuzz I'm making a EHX - Big Muff Pi. Mine will use a schematic I found and a switch and a guide from Stu-Mac a sustained switch and true bypass. I will call mine "Small Puttz
Nice video man, I like how you connect the gear with these cool stories.
As always, fun and entertaining video!! Thanks Mike!!
I have an me50b for my bass rig, I use it for an equaliser/preamp and a way to blend different effects along with single pedals. It's a huge part of my sound I'd never be without it now
4:14 I have been running an ME-50 for years and ME-80 . Those are my go to to do everything. I prefer the 50, it is my dream effects unit.
I bought a Headrush Gigboard to use for one reason. I'm tired of carrying all my gear and I want to cut down on the weight. Only tried it once, still using a tube amp and pedalboard.
I have a ME-90 and it sounds absolutely great! Of course pedals are cool but for those that want a one stop shop this is IT
the me 80 was my first pedal after using a pedalboard I borrowed from a mentor at church for a year. i've used it for almost 3 years and I love it. kinda wish i would've waited for the me 90 but thats ok.
One of my first pedals was the ME-20, and it taught me more about how stomp boxes worked than just about anything else!
Helo Mike. I just found your channel, after type multiefek at my search. In my opinion, for a beginner, its more cheap and easier to get a multiefek than a single stombox. And, my first multiefek is ZOOM 707 II, I bougth at 6 July, 2005, and the multi still working. But, as the time past, I used pedalboard now. With 6 pedal effects and 1 wah pedal.
Picked up a used ME-25 for my first pedal I absolutely love it
When I first started performing in front of people for like The Battle Of The Bands thing, I remember my teacher let me borrow a zoom multi effects pedal once so I could practice going from distortion to clean for a performance that me and my friends were practicing for. And then when that performance came around I was playing in front maybe 50 people and we didn't do a sound check so when I played my first chord I forgot to set it up and it sounded like a motor engine. Because of that traumatic incident thats why I swore from ever using a multi effects pedal until a couple of days ago.
I've had my POD HD500 for around 10 years and it is the best multi-effects pedal I've ever owned or used. You have to find or make custom patches for it to really get the best from it and there is a little bit of a learning curve there but mix a few different tones together in a DAW and you too will have pro level sound.
Is the 7:14 riff something from Blur? Sounds a lot like something Coxon would play.
Artists are always honest. You are an artist. Obviously.
Knobs for the win, that tactile touch is super tangible. Love your videos.
Personally I love the style of the me-90 I don’t mind having a big touch screen and navigating throw that, but my first pedalboard experience was the me-50. I’d personally rather have have that more cause of it’s simpler design
I have a 12 yr old fender mustang floor. Works fine. Then again all I need is three tones: High Voltage, Highway to Hell and Back in Black.
Great stuff ! thanks for sharing! Would you consider doing a tutorial on how you set up the effects and signal chain on your ME 90?
Always had some kind of Multi FX somehow and I find them to be a very convinient way to get much sound without any hassling with boards, velcro, patch cables and so on, especially if you like to experiment a lot. Also being able to store tens to hundreds of presets makes it even more versatile.
Some of the older units have some questionable to outright horrible sounds on board, but there are a lot of decent to good models too.
I just started playing guitar more seriously, after decades of mainly Bass, and just plug into my old Zoom G5 for some flanger, delay, "whammy" and the integratated 12AX7 Tube OD, into the lead channel on my little Joyo Zombie and out to a V30 4x12. Simple setup, lightweight, hassle free, chugs like hell! Sometimes I throw a Digitech Drop in the mix, just to experiment a bit here and there.
I bought a Digitech RP360 a few years back. Lots of new stuff comes out with IRs, capture, machine learning, thought i should get up to date but the RP 360 is still relevant and adaquate for practicing, and learning about effects. User interface is excellent and i think me x0 types are just pot fields emulating multiple pedals. So i would tend towards the toneX one or pod express as an upgrade, fewer knobs.
I love my ME-90. If you own one buy the Midi dual adapter it opens up the Tone Studio it sounds great better than expected
I just use an HX stomp, an external channel selector, and a Dunlop mini VP and I’ve gotten some amazing tones out of it and compliments from our sound guy.
Turns out you don’t need need $20000 worth of pedals to play four to five songs for church
I started playing guitar in the early 2000s, when everyone still pushed tube amps and looked down on multi-FX pedals. I used a $100 Zoom multi-FX back then. I'm back to guitar after a long break, and presumably the technology has improved right, or are they the same as they were? Can anyone comment on the evolution of multi-FX in the $100-200 range over the past 20 years?
I been down the never ending quest for that great guitar tone…. It’s an addiction that can’t be satisfied!
Been a stomp box guy for most of my life until I tried a really crappy Zoom multi effects. Almost gave up on them until I got a Korg AX1000G. That thing was it. A friend had the ME 60 and I wasn't a fan. Not enough stuff to tweak. No amp or speaker models. I now own the Korg AX3000G. The modelers are much better than the 1000G. Patches are awesome on stage. Still love my stomp boxes though. Great job sharing your journey Mike. 🎸🎸
The ME-90 is definitely a win for me. I prefer multi fx pedals for my style. no. 1 this unit only needs 4 batteries to operate. So If I have a limited power situation or want to jam in the middle of nowhere with a battery powered speaker I'm good. Also I prefer multi fx because I can switch to particular sound I want with 1 button press. go from heavy metal distortion to like some clean spaced out sound in like 2 seconds. the size is not that big also, so for those small stage gigs I do not need much room.
I have 3 ms 80s and love them one is for my studio one for my solo live board and an9ther for bands and backing gigs
I waited for nearly two years for
the ME-90 and it looked like it would never be released so I bought an ME-80. A few months later the ME-90 came out.
The ME-80 is fantastic though and I won’t be upgrading it. I have a board with lots of analog pedals but it’s just fun to have everything on one unit.
I have a cheap multi-effects pedal and am looking to make another guitar purchase when this question popped up in my mind; does the quality, output etc. of pickups impact multi-effects pedals as much as they do tube amps? I began this thought after looking into Fishman Fluence Modern pickups with 3 voices. How does a pickup like that impact these pedals?
Had the Boss GT-100 then I bought the Boss GT-1 just to have a smaller/lightweight unit with the same sound engine. Just didn't have all the sends and returns in the back. Ended up selling the GT-100. Played the GT-1 for a couple of years. Still have it. Bought a Helix Floor and I feel like I'm done...I think. Oh wait, I did buy the new little Line 6 POD Express recently. I love the Helix Floor. I love the 'scribble strips' that allow me to see what patch in the preset I'm using. Press a button and I can be in stomp box mode like a real pedal board. I love the Software for the Helix.
Hell, I still mess around on my old Boss ME-X with a trio of Boss dirt boxes in the slots
I bought my ME80 in 2018 and loved it. However one day browsing around at Guitar Center i bought a Boss OD1 to compare the sound and my good the analog pedal sounded much better, after that I started buying individual pedals, but I still use the ME80 for all modulation, compresor and delays, also the volume pedal is handy and the looper.
Me too. I’ve had a couple of od-1’s and the ME80 model is similar but lacks the dynamics. Still love the ME80…
I bought nux mg400 a couple weeks ago. I'm no pro, just a lifelong amateur having fun. And I must say, I'm glad I bought it and not falling into tone seeking rabit hole head first.
I've watched a few of your videos, and....I like your smile much (and your content), that I had to subscribe. 😊
IsIs there a boss pedal that doesnt require an amplifier to plug into? Im looking for a pedal that can be connected to a mixer and powered speakers without the need of an amplifier.
I saved my lawn-mowing money for months to buy a mail order Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face distortion pedal back in 1981 for some $120.00 and I recently tore it apart and reverse-engineered it with $4.50 worth of cheap electronic parts.
AIRD is amazing. I have a GT1000core and it’s amazing. So much better than my HX Stomp was.
I started out using a solid state amp and a few stomp pedals up until Boss came out with the ME5 which will tell you how old I am. I have used amps and pedals throughout the years as well as multi FX pedals and I've now settled on the Helix direct to F.O.H. for ease of use.
Me5 is solid as f. Great mfx!
When you realize that manual mode makes it like a pedal board, and you can select each effect, and control everything in real time, it's pretty darn simple.
I like to think of myself as a tech master. I’m not. Five minute into the menu dive I’ve forgotten what I wanted in the first place. If I did this for a living I’d have the skills and knowledge to dive deep and come up with pearls every time but I don’t. I’m a local musician/mechanic that plays in a dad band. This video has cemented my decision to accept my limitations and abilities and make more music with simpler gear.
Dude, thanks for putting this together! Do you prefer pedals, this board, or other "solutions"?
I have a Digitech GSP-5 from the 1990s. It makes a lot of sounds, but I never found any that I liked. I should try it again.
I have the Digitech RP500, RP355 and BP355. I like the way the RP500 is laid out, it’s very user friendly. I’ve heard the amp models are really good and some of the most realistic available on the BOSS. They’re not spectacular on the Digitech but not the total worst either-however, the reverb and the effects are great plus other features. I have wanted to try an ME-80 for a while even if I might not buy one. Now the ME-90 sounds like a good unit, but I’m not sure about what the difference is between the two. You’d think that on the newest ones they’d have more reverbs than just spring, room and hall but I know that’s pretty much all you need. The Digitech has Lexicon Reverb which is top notch and has added plate, ambiance and studio to the normal ones. I won’t buy units that have the little window plus requiring you to scroll through banks to change a tone or gain knob-that’s what’s good about the Digitech. With the Digitech to get to different things you hit a button and go up or down into the category you want and then push the knobs to change more adjustment. Even though the Digitech is easy to use, the ME-90 looks better because it’s got total knobs for everything all laid out without having to push any buttons or scroll. I have lots of boutique pedals but if I was a young person on a budget I would not be afraid of the ME-90 especially because people had told me the amps are realistic and I assume the effects are too. Thanks for a great video.
Your editing is amazing
Great channel. Good job!
5:23 overwhelming 😂, bro have you seen an 1975 Moog Modular 55 system.
I guess pedalboards have a bit of sunken cost in them, the pedals, the board, the power supply… plus I’m a bit too old school with gear to get into the newer stuff with USB ports and apps, even having a screen on a pedal that’s not just an LCD number display is a no for me. I just want knobs and lights. I started off with a Boss OS-2, a DOD FX75B and a Vox wah, I did have a Sovtek phaser for a while but the giant size of it was a huge turn off… I did love that it came in a wooden box.
Boss multi effects are the best, I have a gx 100, it’s sweet
hey mike im gonna get one soon ..which one should i get vaelton gp 100 or zoom g1x4 which would be better please reply soon
I have a Boss GT-100 & GT-10 but my Headrush is my go-to unit
It always cracks me up how so many of your videos are basically ‘I was an elitist prick and I was proven wrong’ XD
you just helped me figure out what was wrong with mine, i too use katana and it was on one of my presets with a heavy phaser so thats why its been sounded shit, dusted off my old zoom gfx and its working great feel very stupid