About Marius A. Schmidtke Expertise U2`s sound and equipment! I metU2`s Edge and his guitar tech already personally in real life.
Experience I met Edge's Tech Dallas Schoo once and he was quite amused about the design of the webpage. He laughed, when he saw the little VOX images there.
Expert: Marius A. Schmidtke Date: 6/21/2004 Subject: Pedal Boards and a Boss Line Selector
Question Hello Marius...
I've been reading the U2 sound page that you have and its been so helpful, very entertaining too. I've been playin guitar for 7 years but just now I'm very keen on effects and getting a better tone, etc. I gig with a bar band and have a pedal board with a few effects.
Then my FX loop has - Boss GE-7 - Line 6 MM4 Modulation Modeller - Boss DD20 Giga Delay.
My question is this...Would a boss line selector help me at all? WOuld it make the stomping of pedals any easier? I' started reading about looping pedals because of its apparant benefits, such as a more pure guitar tone, etc. But I don't have the money to buy a looping bay nor Do i have the money to control it all with a midi ground control unit! hahaha...
Do u recommend anything that could clean up my signal or make it easier for me when playin live, instead of dancing all over the pedal board?
Thank you very much,
Dave - Canada
Answer hi dave!
thanx for your question. unforutnately my answer is a bid shiort now, as it is quite simple: YES, any looping system will help you with that signal path.
the first problem i can identify is the boss tuner which seems to be permantently in the signal path and that's of course bad as this affects the sound all the time (and you aren't tuning your guitar all the time, aren't you?). so i would throw this out in some way.
everything else looks fine so far as you said already that you don't want to invest the big money. the bad thing with loopers is: either you pay much money or you leave it. there's no "gray-zone". anyhow... if you are ever planning to bring in loopers (which will imporve your sound dramatically!) then you should check out the worlds best loopers here: www.skrydstrup.com ! i know steen since years and i was allowed to visit his development garage and i can tell you: those units are surely the bests. CAE stuff is cheap and crappy against this.
ps: make sure to use good cables and good jacks (mogami and switchcraft or neutrik will do a great job!).
i hope i could help you, if so, i would be happy if you could rate me on allexperts.com website.
