Ok, this is a goofy post, I know wee're a bunch of boutique nerds here (myself included), but I'm interested in everyone's "guilty pleasure" effect(s). I use 10 boo-teek effects on my "real" pedalboard, which I truly love, NVN, Barber, Z Vex, C. Martin, Etc.

I want to know what piece of digital crap you guys & gals(?) use that you wouldn't normally talk about on this elitist forum. What qualifies as a "guilty pleasure" effect? Anything that requires more than 4-knobs to get a great...OK, good sound. That means rack stuff from the 1980s + 90s, new digital crap and so on.

At the risk of excommunication, here's mine -- a Zoom 9150 rack unit with a genuine 12AX7 tube inside (I think it may actually be connected to some circuitry, but I'm not sure...)

Anyway, let's hear your worst!

no guilt here:

in addition to my ampegs, i was using and still use on occasion a Sans Amp PSA1 and Mosvalve stereo amp. in addition to my pedals i routinely use a mix of TC and Lexicon rack delays/verbs. i've also had good results using a Roland GP100 which has some killer pedal simulations and a Digitech Time Machine 8000 which is the rack version of the PDS8000 pedal. there's a lot of good stuff and sounds to be had, and like anything else they're just tools, and it depends on the application.

I've got lots of digital stuff -- and not an ounce of "guilt"

TC G-Major
L6 Pod Pro, Echo Pro, Mod Pro & Filter Pro
SansAmp PSA-1 (it's analog)
Korg A3 rack unit (got it DIRT cheap!)
Boss GT-6
Digitech RP2000

Sometimes you can get a cool out-of-the-ordinary sound that's just right for a track, but that doesn't sound particularly "authentic". I'm holding on to the Digitech thing in particular, because it's got some modulation capabilities that nothing else can do (like modulating ANY parameter with a free LFO).

I have a J-Station that I use for demo recordings, and the thing actually sounds pretty dang good. Especially when you blend it with an actual amp sound, it's very hard to tell that it's a modeling device. For 149.00 it's pretty hard to beat.

Head

The times we've had a J-Station in the studio, we've noticed that it had some very nice sounding reverbs.

Next to the littany of expensive analog effects on my board the last in line is a *gasp* Boss DD-20 digital delay. It just sounds so good and is very versatile. Forgive me tone fathers for I have sinned

I used to have a Korg pedalboard (1000?) and it had lots of really good models. I loaned it to my bass player, and when he moved back to NY, it went with him. Anyway, I hated the noise gate it had, so I wasn't that sorry to see it go...

Otherwise, my favorite digital pedal I currently own is undoubtably the ubiquitous Line 6 DL4, don't leave home without it! And I still love my trusty old Alesis Quadraverb for studio work.

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