[Tfug] Opine: Bricks, warts or...?

[Tim Ottinger]

Bexley Hall wrote:
>
>> Oh, you can program and configure the heck out of them. 
>>     
> Ah, OK.  So, they add considerable value... (?)
>   
As you say.
>> You have N banks of N patches which are amazingly configurable.
>> And you get a bunch of presets you can edit to taste.  One click
>> of a footswitch and you can go from an SRV overdrive/wah/vibe 
>> to a U2 overdrive/delay/vox model patch.
>>     
>
> SRV =?= "Stevie Ray Vaughn"?  U2 =?= "U2"?
> Or, some *other* acronyms?
>   
No, as you say.
>
> Not sure what you mean by "solid state"  :>  Are the effects
> processed *digitally* or just "with op amps"?
>
> In the former case, that would probably explain the special
> power supply -- also probably a much higher "load" than one
> of your other "dedicated pedals".
>   
Effects are either analog circuits or digital circuits,
and the analog sound better though they are less fun
to design, I'm told.  They are more transparent than
converting to/from digital.

Delay is almost always sampled and digitally produced. 
Multieffects are almost always digital or you couldn't
do the cool things they allow you to do. 

Digital effects tend to give compression you may not
want and are known for some "tone suck".


Thanks for all the information!