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Post by telefan24 on May 25, 2006 15:33:32 GMT -7
I've played the guitar for most of my life, but I've never ventured much farther than a guitar and an amp. My guitar instructor suggested that it would be very helpful to my progress if I got a good drum machine to practice my timing, etc. with. The reason I'm posting this in the Effects section is because several people have told me that if I'm going to invest in a drum machine, I might as well look into a total effects setup with a built-in drum machine.
The particular product that keeps popping up in conversations is the DigiTech GNX4. Not that's it's the best product out there, but it's a great product that is the most versatile. They say the drum machine on it is very realistic, it has a ton of guitar effects, you can hook your MP3 player directly up to it and can even record directly to a CF card on the fly. You can also hook it up to your PC and use the included recording software.
The one downfall I have heard about it is that it is very complicated to operate, but I'm a pretty techie person so I'm not real worried about that. I did see a big book at Guitar Center dedicated to just that product so maybe it is that complicated.
Anyways... it sounds good for what I want... drum machine, tons of effects, play-along capability and recording capability.
Does anyone have experience with this product, or can you recommend another product similar to it that will fit my needs?
Thanks in advance!
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Post by steveinnashville on May 26, 2006 22:21:26 GMT -7
You could get a Boss RC-50 Loop Station, which has a sort of drum machine built into it, and you'd have 3 independent loops... Some of the Dr. Rhythm units seem pretty great to me. Phase III of my setup includes adding an Electro-Harmonix 2880 stereo looper, and then I think I'm going to slave an RC-50 to that for keyboard, acoustic guitar and the drum machine going through the PA in sync with the EH looper handling the guitar... hehehe
This way, you've got a badass looping setup, and you can add in quality effects as you like, or slap an all-in-one multi-fx box with it, but you're not locked into mediocre-grade digital effects that you will want to upgrade from later. Sadly, all in one solutions do not usually match single-purpose effect units in terms of character, quality or dependability...
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Post by foxx on May 27, 2006 8:59:22 GMT -7
Telefan24, Have you considered a digital home recording unit. If your primary concern is to play with a drum beat or other instruments you could go with one of the many pre-recorded drum tracks that I have seen online. One of them has 1200 different beats. That digitech thing might just be a temporary piece of equiptment for you, whereas a digital 8-track, $259 for one in Musicians Friend, will also have a drum machine and effects. You can then record your chord progressions and solo over yourself, write songs or whatever. I don't like putting money into something that I would not need in the future.
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Post by bustertheboy on May 27, 2006 17:32:12 GMT -7
i like the looping solution- i use an upgraded boomerang both for performance and practice/ compostion but i'd agree with the comment above about a loopstation because it can keep recordings and the boomerang can't other soltuin is something like apple's garage band or pc equivalent- easy and powerful it's all good though!
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