As well as recovereing from a mystery stomach illness, I've been working on some progressive dark metal riffs with Spike... Hence the reason why all's been quiet on here for a while!
I found an awesome setting on my Boss HM-2 Effects Pedal a few days back and I got some heavy use out of it, but unfortunately the batteries keep running out every couple of hours, so I couldn't get a decent metal sound out of my Marshall... This has been seriously frustrating me, seeing as pedals tend to go through batteries so damn fast. My first solution in mind to this was to get a proper power supply (as I've heard that the knock-offs don't power the pedal correctly, and make it sound terrible). But, when I wa sout looking out for a decent power supply, I found something which I thought I wouldn't be bothered about simply 'cus of the price - A Boss GT-8 multiple effects pedal.
As ridiculously complicated as it looks to me, I've heard some decent opinions of this and they all say that figuring it out is simply down to preference and time - Both of which are things that I have in abundance. Now, I am considerably skeptical of some pedal functions, seeing as they can be used to make you sound like a better player than you actually are by drowning what you're doing in too many effects, but that's not the sort of function I'm aiming for. I think it'd be cool to diversify the sounds which my guitar can produce, and seeing as I've been developing my alternate picking and alternating strumming, I'm sure I'll get plenty of use out of it.
The best bit that I've seen listed amongst the functions is the way that it senses how hard you are strumming, and changes between pre-set functions by sensing whether you're strumming hard or soft. that to me has got to be the best bit - It almost completely invalidates the purpose of having a pedal on the board! The expressive pedal looks pretty whacky, too.
No doubt, alot of these functions are advanced and aren't usually used by intermediate novices like myself, but I'm always trying to try something new with my guitar (don't take that the wrong way...).
So I'll be deciding if I'm getting this over the next few days, as well as working on yet more riffs with Spike.
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