To Modeler Or Not To Modeler
Last night I played without a digital modeler. I basically went straight out from the guitar (2 humbuckers) into a Echo/Delay foot pedal and then into a small PA amplifier which feed 2 each speakers with 12 inch woofers and a 4 horn. I must say the sound and tone was great. This maybe the way for me to go. Even with the keyboard player, my tone was very good.
I am a bit confused why I can not obtain the same sound and tone with either the Digitech RP-200A or the V-Amp2? I have tweaked and tweaked these two modelers until I am blue in the face. I have even turned off the amp modeler and still can not obtain that tone. As I mentioned in past threads, as soon as the keyboard player starts playing, I loose all bass tone in my signal and my tone becomes very trebly.
Anyone have thoughts on this problem I am having with loss of bass while playing with a keyboard player?
As I stated above, I will probably just stay away from the modelers and plug straight into the PA system amp. Now the only effects I really use are chorus, echo/delay and occasionally the Bad Monkey.
Does anybody know if they have a combined chorus/delay pedal? If not, what would be an inexpensive chorus pedal? Presently I can not go the $125.00 route for a BOSS or other high dollar pedal. Has anybody tried the Behringer line of pedals?
Guitars:
Electric: Washburn HB-30, Squier Tele Custom Deluxe, Jay Turser Strat.
Acoustic: Seagull S6.
AMPs: VOX AD30VT, Peavey Envoy 110.
Modelers: V-AMP 2, Digitech RP-100A.
Pedals: Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, Digitech Bad Monkey, Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo, DOD VFX40B 7-Band Graphic EQ, Ibanez CS-5 Super Chorus.