So, would you go for a greasy pedal or for a techy guitar processor?

This morning a discussion of some time came back to my mind and made me start this post. Are a fan of guitar compact sound processors or a fan of separate pedals? I know I have started by using separate pedals, BOSS pedals, at that time, a flanger pedal and then a serialized overdrive pedal. The sound was ok, as far as I can say now, just that each time I was playing, I was dreaming about a multi-effect of my band colleague, multi-effect that I have purchased from him at one moment and I am still using today. It is (again) a BOSS ME-6 which I just love even now. I know it is way over his time, has only a few effects, compared to today’s complex sound processors but I just love the greasy sound of distortion and the clean chorus plus that the delay that I had for my distorted solo tone remained for half a second when changing tones, which in a live situation was great.

I know that this is one of the first things I have observed listening it since when going from a distortion solo (with a delay) to a clean tone, in that exact fraction of the second you start playing the clean notes you still hear the tail of the solo. Man, I loved that!!!

On the other hand, there are many (professional) guitar players preferring to put together some separate pedals as one single group and use this arrangement on stage. The reason, they say, is the original sound, greasy, fat that nothing can emulate.

So, what do you prefer for yourself?

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