| Yes, for guitar, I use my Roland SDE1000 when we're making demos.
When we're not making demos, it's used as the primary effect
for our sound board. (The studio stuff we use has a DEP5 and
that baby is just out of this world. Too much for Guitar though.)
With the SDE1000, You have the ability to store up to 4 programs, these
programs can be flange, or chorus, or doubler, or long delay, short
dealy (Sde1000 can give you up to a 1500 millisecond delay if you play
with the delay phase/time knob in the back.)
There is also a few foot switches available for the SDE 1000. (There's
serveral different foot switch jacks in the back of the dealy, and they
can be used for various applications, one being on/off, one being
program switcher, and one being a "play mate" which allows you to
adjust dealy patters with the switch.)
In short, it's the best bang for the buck I saw when I was in the
market a year and a half ago... approx 300 bucks u.s.
The also mae an SDE3000 which has more functionality, and more cost...
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| I use quite a bit of my guitar effects for vocals, in fact, I've
built a foot operated switch that routes the vocals thru the guitar
effects, or leaves them in line with the guitar amplifier. I have a
stereo chorus unit that is in this chain (actually the last thing in
it & my guitar goes to the PA and Twin Reverb no matter what).
It really works pretty well. I use a Phase Shifter, a Flanger, an
Octave divider, Analog Delay, Compressor, Distortion box, Wa-Wa Pedal
and Chorus unit. You can get some strange sounds out of this set up.
Also, I play in a Duo, much like you described. I'm the guitar player
(the other fellow plays keyboards - we still haul an old 1950's Hammond
M3 with us everywhere we go!!). I have spent an unbeliveable amount of
time (more than I really wanted to) getting up to speed in the
technology, but after 6 month of screwwing with things have finally
gotten to the point where the MIDI stuff (Alesis MMT-8 Sequencer,
Roland MT-32, CZ-101, Yamaha 2.8 inch MIDI Quick Disk drive, and
MX-8 patch bay) actually is working pretty close to tolerable. When it
works it sounds great. When you screw up, the Sequencer just goes on
happily & it sounds pretty poor.
Send me some Email & I'll try to decribe the problems and my solutions
as they have proven to work for my Duo. I suggest that you also
consult the NOVA::COMMUSIC notes file for many execellent opinions on
approaches & available hardware. It's been an unbeliveable help to
be & provided much insight to what I was getting into. You'll find
out what's best only after trying many things & seeing what works best
for you.
Jens Moller
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