What's better?! A £300 Pedalboard or £300 Multi FX!?

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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 Welcome Back!
» 0:39 What We Are Doing!
» 1:20 About the ME-90
» 2:00 Let's Start Shopping!
» 4:20 Delay
» 6:40 Modulation?
» 8:50 Tuner
» 10:03 Overdrive & Distortion
» 14:43 Compressor
» 15:23 The Boards!
» 16:10 The Cost?
» 16:41 Comparing Tuners
» 17:24 Comparing Compressors
» 18:30 Comparing Overdrives
» 20:04 Multiple Overdrives?
» 22:01 Comparing Modulation
» 24:30 Comparing Delays
» 27:20 Other Products?
» 28:03 Final Thoughts!
» 28:58 Testing Preamp & OD in ME-90
» 30:20 Final Thoughts!
» 31:05 Outro Jam!

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[michaelsnydermusic]

What I’ve found in my early days as a pedal guy and now a Helix guy is the biggest difference is in the way we approach them. Having everything at once can cause us to not appreciate and spend the necessary time on an individual pedal. With pedals, we get them as we need them. And when we’re spending money on them we tend to really investigate and appreciate them. With a multi Fx you get it all at once. Every effect feels less important because there’s always a new one to try. With this in mind, I force myself to take time on the helix. I focus on a pedal at a time, research its real life counterpart and experiment with the chain which makes all the difference.

[DollarAndAPint]

They should be using the same guitars. When Pete says that he prefers the Overdrive on the pedal, how can he/you tell? The Humbuckers sound dramatically different than the single coils. I like my ME90 a lot, and would really have loved to see this one with the only difference being the pedals themselves, same guitars, same amps.

[yanicklajoie]

Multi effects unit for me.
Pedals settings are great for some songs and aren't on others. Then I went to a minimalist set-up. Pitch-dark tuner, Boss Equalizer, a FullTone overdrive with two settings of distortions and a boost direct to the amp.

[louiswagner]

The moral of the story is Pete can sound fantastic playing anything! Whether he's using fantastically expensive gear, or bottom dollar budget stuff, he always sounds incredible.

[trokey]

Because of the myriad of pedals out there, as a beginner the choice is daunting. My thought is the ME 90 funnily enough, and using that to identify sounds I like to perhaps develop a separate pedal board in the future.

[AlexGiordaniMusic]

Why not the Hybrid format? I use Ampero 2 stomp together with my 3 best sounding drive pedals 😉

[jar]

You guys should do this using the same guitar when you're making a sound comparison.

[colonelangus]

As a hobbyist guitar player my favorite part of the hobby is the pedals. The hunting on reverb and various websites for what’s on sale, the tearing apart a board and building a new one just to nail a tone for a song, stacking different gains, etc. I think a multi-fx is great if bang for buck is what you’re after but man I love buying a new stomp box just so I can reconfigure my pedal board.

[matthewlee]

I def think it’s more personal preference than anything. But I do think everyone would benefit from having a comprehensive multi effects pedal early in their playing as it can really help them discover all the cool things the electric guitar can do. Once you find what you like you can dig into more unique effects that “play” to your style and liking. For me I’m a Helix guy through and through. I’ve got a really nice tube amp and I tried fancy pedals and I just didn’t like twisting the knobs all the time. I play everything from country to metal so to be able to just push a single button and get a whole different genre really works for me.

[SoManyTopics]

Pedals are fun, sound amazing. It's cool to start building pedals as well because you start to understand and appreciate how they work and which pedals work better together, and where in the chain sounds best for yourself. That being said, I received a Fender Mustange GTX 100 for my birthday and have been so surprised at how closely I can match the pedals in the amp to the pedals I have. In the end, the only thing that matters is that you're making music that you're happy with.

[timwrigley]

Can you do another video comparing expensive multi-fx vs expensive pedals?

Also dial in each setup nicely and do a blind test.

Please 🙏

[flybynight]

I've owned Roland/Boss multi-effects since they introduced them (I still own the original) and after playing and gigging with many people who had the misfortune of trying to track down which pedal or cable was either faulty or had a dead battery (power supplies saved that) sometimes right in the middle of a gig, I've never regretted my choice. I have mine set up with literally a hundred different pedalboards for every style and option, with groups set up for each and every different guitar I choose to play at any given moment. The sound is always balanced from one to the other, and the effects are always spot on for the guitars and musical situation, even using different amps.

Pedals seem to be a never ending chase for the next latest and greatest, and I don't have the time or funds to join the race.

[DollarAndAPint]

I love these guys, watch all of their stuff, and admire them tremendously. Having said that, they had no clue how to use the ME-90. They used about 1% of it's features. Did not know how the chain was setup. Like when Pete said "this is all the gain I can get", are we kidding, just flip the dial to the next Distortion pedal, there are like 12 of them. They did not even use the built in Wah/Volume pedal, and could not afford one for their rig. I would like to see someone who actually knows how to use the ME-90 vs. those pedals. I absolutely am convinced it would blow them out of the water.

[Majik]

I have both a 12 spot pedalboard and an ME-90. The ME-90 is just so versatile, not to mention much lighter that the discrete pedalboard that it has become my first grab for a jam or gig.

[marcemusic]

20:30 On the "me90", if you select a boost on the "fx2", it will automatically be placed at the beginning of the chain, and you can select whether it is a clean, mid or treble boost. You give it a lot of gain and it can be used before an "OD"

[KahnuevsKrake]

When I started playing, my dad lent me an old Line 6 pod to experiment with so I could discover what I wanted out of an amp and effects.

Multi FX units are great to experiment with when you're a relative beginner, but I found I didn't use half the functions it was capable of so I then discovered what I actually wanted. For example, the first pedal I ever bought was a Digitech Hardwire Delay, which had loads of different delay settings and bells and whistles at £150. It was a good pedal to try the different functions, but I only ended up using one delay type. Now I've got a TC Electronic Prophet, which is amazing and does exactly what I want for only £40.

Simply put, if you know exactly what you want, invest more in decent pedals that you will actually use that would perform the specific functions better.

[brusselssprouts]

Don't forget the send/return feature of the ME-90 where you can bring other pedals in when you need

[Nik-itp]

I started off with pedals years ago, I find a multi fx pedal board so more versatile. I think once you find 'your sound' you pretty much dial it in no matter what you get used too. I am all for modelling gear these days. Use what you find fit.👍

[ThePlanarchist]

Individual pedals are great if you have all the time in the world or don't have too many variations in the sound you want but if you're playing live and require a lot of different sounds a multi FX unit with memories is invaluable. I love my individual pedals but not many get a live HX Stomp is so much easier for that.

[markharwood]

There are a couple of astonishing multi-FX on the market right now for about £100. You could start with one of those & never feel the need to move on.
On the other hand, my small board has 2 units, combined value about £300: MXR Micro Flanger and Strymon Cloudburst plus expression pedal, and I wouldn't swap that for any multi.
Developing a substantial board over a long period is an absorbing hobby in itself, especially now that there are videos like this one around.