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Originally Posted by Matty22
Perhaps a lesson on tone in itself....
When i look at my amp, i can pretty much figure it out and get something close to what i want.. But when i look at my multi effects, you need to be a pilot to figure it out, knobs and buttons and switches and i have no idea what half of them are (settings wise)...
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Mulit-effects can be overwhelming if you look at all the possible combination of effects it can do, but it can be simplified. If you want to treat it like an amp you can turn off all the chorus, reverb, compression, etc. settings and just focus on getting a straight clean or distorted sound. This would involve selecting the amp model you want to use, setting the gain (amount of distortion), then making adjustments to the EQ. Use this section just as you would an amp focusing on miminal settings should make it easier. However, navigating the menus may be a different story though.
My Digitech RP14 pedal is pretty simple compared to the likes of the Boss GT series from what I've heard about them (I haven't used one though). The above is how I go about setting up my pedal. Then I just add one effect at a time and tweak it until I have the sound I want and then move onto the next.
There is a lot of info on various effects online. Learning about each effect in isolation from the others would be very benificial as any multi-effects pedal consists of individual effects can should be understood separately from the other effects. For example, study what the various settings are for reverb and how they affect the sound, such as pre-delay, room size, diffusion, etc. Then take some time to experiment using ONLY the reverb effect. Once you fully understand the settings for the reverb then this one part of your pedal will not be as confusing. Doing this for each effect in your pedal will give you a great understanding of each effect individually and then you can start working on combining effects to create various sounds. If you already have the basics down for each effect you will have a much better idea of how to combine them to get the sound you want.
For the most part it is kind of hard to give specific multi-effects advice as there are
SOOOO many different settings and everyone has different tastes in the sounds they like. So the important thing is to just experiment and play around with them. For my plugins lesson I'll just make some samples of effects I like, post my settings, and that will give a good starting point for tweaking the effects further and seeing how changing certain settings alters the sound. A good way to start would be to turn off one effect at a time to hear what that particular effect contributes to the sound (then turn them back on one at a time). The next step would be to then turn off all but one effect and start tweaking the settings of one effect.
Some of my samples will have 5 effects running at once (I won't do more since Kristal has a max of 5 effects that it can use at one time).... So there will be a lot to play with.
-tkr