Will the Zoom 505ii users please stand up!
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Genoscidal
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haha.. i think its e efx itself.. E latest Zoom G2 boasts bout being e fastest patch changer.. no obvious lag time.. haa. haven tried out tho
theblueark
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Digital:
Break your sound into tiny little pieces, play with them, put them back together, then give you back. Generally the smaller the pieces, the better it sounds to the ears. Supposingly because then your ears can't hear them being broken up. Digital usually has more powerful capabilities than analog but can be cold sounding.
Analog:
Take your sound, play with it while it is still in one piece. Generally not as perfect or clear as Digital, but allows your tone to remain 'warm' whereas digital is sometimes refered to as 'dry' or 'sterile'.
Some effects blur the line by using Digital to Analog systems sometimes even driven by tubes, to try and 'fix back' the missing pieces in the signal and to get some of the warmth.
Personally I never really bothered if an effect is digital or analog. I play it first and if it sounds good, then it sounds good. Usually this leads to me buying analog stuff, but I do have some digital effects.
Break your sound into tiny little pieces, play with them, put them back together, then give you back. Generally the smaller the pieces, the better it sounds to the ears. Supposingly because then your ears can't hear them being broken up. Digital usually has more powerful capabilities than analog but can be cold sounding.
Analog:
Take your sound, play with it while it is still in one piece. Generally not as perfect or clear as Digital, but allows your tone to remain 'warm' whereas digital is sometimes refered to as 'dry' or 'sterile'.
Some effects blur the line by using Digital to Analog systems sometimes even driven by tubes, to try and 'fix back' the missing pieces in the signal and to get some of the warmth.
Personally I never really bothered if an effect is digital or analog. I play it first and if it sounds good, then it sounds good. Usually this leads to me buying analog stuff, but I do have some digital effects.
theblueark
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Analog Delay
Imagine a line of laid back, hippy monkeys, each with a guitar just like yours. They're sitting on little stools in a cunning arrangement such that each monkey can only hear the monkey sat before him. The first monkey hears what you played, turns to the next monkey and plays it back to him. He then turns, and plays to the next monkey. At each stage, little mistakes are introduced due to the hippy monkeys' inherent laid-back-ness. At the end, the last monkey plays, and his guitar is connected to the output.
The monkeys are in a big big circle, and the first monkey, as well as hearing what you're playing, can also hear the last monkey - but not very well. There's a baffle between them, which cuts down how much he can hear. The first monkey plays both what you're playing and what he can hear of what the last monkey is playing, and this is passed on as before.
Now imagine the monkeys are tiny, as before, with tiny guitars and tiny stools and a tiny baffle. They're in a box. A knob labelled "feedback" controls the baffle. Then, kapoosh! The monkeys disappear and are replaced by a Bucket Brigade chip, and off we go.
Digital delay
Exactly the same as analog delay, but there are many more monkeys, and they're all actuaries and very precise. Some people miss the laid-back-ness of the hippy monkeys, but many like knowing that little actuary monkeys are taking very good care of what they're playing. Some of the monkeys know special tricks, like making what they play come out of the output even though they're not the last monkey.
Imagine a line of laid back, hippy monkeys, each with a guitar just like yours. They're sitting on little stools in a cunning arrangement such that each monkey can only hear the monkey sat before him. The first monkey hears what you played, turns to the next monkey and plays it back to him. He then turns, and plays to the next monkey. At each stage, little mistakes are introduced due to the hippy monkeys' inherent laid-back-ness. At the end, the last monkey plays, and his guitar is connected to the output.
The monkeys are in a big big circle, and the first monkey, as well as hearing what you're playing, can also hear the last monkey - but not very well. There's a baffle between them, which cuts down how much he can hear. The first monkey plays both what you're playing and what he can hear of what the last monkey is playing, and this is passed on as before.
Now imagine the monkeys are tiny, as before, with tiny guitars and tiny stools and a tiny baffle. They're in a box. A knob labelled "feedback" controls the baffle. Then, kapoosh! The monkeys disappear and are replaced by a Bucket Brigade chip, and off we go.
Digital delay
Exactly the same as analog delay, but there are many more monkeys, and they're all actuaries and very precise. Some people miss the laid-back-ness of the hippy monkeys, but many like knowing that little actuary monkeys are taking very good care of what they're playing. Some of the monkeys know special tricks, like making what they play come out of the output even though they're not the last monkey.
Genoscidal
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theblueark: hahaa.. i love your anology dude! =D
Genoscidal
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Oh ya.. anyway.. can other expression pedals be used to plug into the 505ii? like Wah pedal ? or must u use e FS-02
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