BobThomas
ack
in
the
late 1 970s, I reckoned that
owning a CSLWah-Fuzz-Swell and
an MXR Phase 90
was
the absolute
height of effects cool
and couldn't think of
any reason to buy anything else
-
until some
kind audience member
liberated
the CSL
from a stage somewhere near Limoges during
a tour in France. Not long after that incident
I
stopped touring and
went
to work in a music
shop,
with
the
result
that
I
ended up spending
a not inconsiderable
amount of money trying
and buying more
pedals
than any sane
person
(especially
one
who
wasn't
gigging)
would ever
neeo.
Over the intervening
years
the collection
has ebbed and flowed, and is now
pretty
much
non-existen! since for recording and rehearsal
l've moved over to modern
(and
vintage)
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Guitqr
mulfi-effecfs
processor
0n top of a wealth of
quality
effects, the latest
addition
to
DigiTech's
renowned RP series, the RP1000 features switchable external
amp and
stomp box loops
for maximum
on-stage flexibility.
rackmounted,
studio-grade
effects
units for all
my time-based effects, with a modern
boutique
distortion
oedal
at the head ofthe
chain for
when those moments of madness
strike. And
wah and volume nowadays come courtesy
of a couple of original 1970s, mains-powered
Morleys.
All of which means that it's taken me 30
years
or so to
go
from a simple, two-pedal setup to
two
pedals plus
a rack with enough
gear
in
it to outfit a
pretty
respectable home
studio
and that weighs enough to need a
trolley for
a long carry. As
you
can imagine,
over the
last
1 2
years
or so l've had a
good
look
at the effects
and amplifi er-modelling
multi-effects units
that have
entered the market,
and have even
(for
relatively
short
periods)
used
a couple of
them on stage. Mooret
Law
(named
for Graham
Moore, the
co-founder,of the Intel
Corporation,
who first
propounded
it)
states that the
power
of technology doubles
every two
years,
which
means
that
present-day
modelling
technology
should be 64 times more
powerful
than the first
amp and effects modeller
I ran into in 1997.
DigiTech's
RP1 000
guitar
multi-effects
processor
is
the
latest
in a
pretty
distinguished
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