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Sep 5 2009, 01:18 PM
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Sep 5 2009, 01:28 PM
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id get seperate pedals, thats my cup of thee!
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Sep 5 2009, 02:00 PM
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The Nova should be very good for time based effects - pretty certain that TC have used the 2290 as their main source for it. The 2290 was an industry standard for quite a while - albeit a few years back.
As an alternative to the Nova you might want to look at the floor based Eventide Timefactor or Modfactor though these are either to time delay (plus looper) or modulation (chorus/phaser/flanger/wah/filters) only. I think Eventide took most of the respective patches from the Eclipse and 8000 for these. A timefactor would be around 300UK pounds so you would have cash left to add a few extras if you needed them. The Nova is more expensive but you do get both modulation and timebased effects in a single box. Either TC or Eventide will have better audio quality than the Digitech - even with Lexicon - and better build quality. Lexicon have great audio quality up with TC and Eventide - my concern is that even if Digitech have used Lexicon's maths and modeling they may not have used the same quality hardware etc. Eventide, for instance, produce hi quality audio partly due to the algos, partly due to the quality of the hardware that is 'over specced' and partly due to the build quality. One other thing to maybe think about - for 500UK you could instead buy a TC G-Major and move towards a rack based system (albeit that you might need a midi based controller for it). Just a thought... -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 5 2009, 06:21 PM
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QUOTE (VictorUK @ Sep 5 2009, 07:12 PM)  You can use the nova system in your amps effects loop... (just dont use the distortion lol) Yeah.  What would you use for distortion btw, from your amp, pedal or? And what kind of amp do you planning to use? I'm asking this because for many gigs you don't actually need an amp, you go straight from multi effects unit (or from pedals) in mixer/PA system. Of course your tone would suffer that way cause nothing can beat real amp but still many guys work this way and get descent results. 
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Sep 5 2009, 11:00 PM
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For distortion it's a bit hard to use the one from MultiFX. I've read lots of reviews on Nova system, I wanted to get one as well to replace all the stomps at one time. But the analog drive circuit that they market is not that much of a quality as most players complained. On the other hand everything else was top notch, as you can expect from TC.
I have only one Guitar Processor to recommend that I believe it is worthy or replacing the pedals, and it is Roland VG99 system:  It's a bit pricy, it's around 1200-1300$, but if you get one of these, you can forget about the pedals, and go straight into PA on any gig as Muris suggested. I would really recommend that you stretch out a bit for this one, since it is the final word in guitar processors. If this is too pricy, I suggest that you check out if you can find the older model, Roland VG88  I played this unit and I can safely say that it is the best guitar processor I've played on. Very smooth and thick sound. You can send the signal into PA, it has modeling and everything. On top of everything I should say that I'm now trying to convert all my stomps to boutique analog ones, and that I never had any problems when playing gigs with them. I put them all in Boss BCB60 pedalboard, need only one power outlet on the stage for the adapter and that's it. All the pedals go there, I like using them, and the sound is much better than any digital unit. So if you really like your stomps, perhaps it may be worth to organize them so they are gig-friendly. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Sep 5 2009, 11:03 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 6 2009, 03:02 PM
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The VG99 is really top notch, and Roland knows their stuff, they've been out for too long. Boss is a "B" company of Roland and the Boss GT10 is made to resemble to VG99, although compared to it it is nothing but a toy (with all respect to GT10 which is great in it's price range).
If you have the chance check out VG88, it has support for Roland VG pickup as well, although it can be used without it no problem. This unit is really sweet and still holds it's price. Fantastic value for money these days if you want to go from pedals to processor. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Sep 6 2009, 03:03 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 7 2009, 11:25 PM
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Try to find a GK pickup that goes with it, you will be pleasantly surprised of what it can do
Also be sure to try it with the PA system, it's mainly designed to go through PA, rather than guitar amp, although clean guitar amp could be used ofc. Just gotta get the presets right. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Sep 7 2009, 11:28 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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