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I wanted effects for my electric guitar but I didn't have enough money to afford a whole line of stomp boxes. For example I really like delays, fuzz/distortion and wah effects. For a good digital delay alone I found I would need $180-220. Add-on distortion and wah and I was looking at $290-330 depending on brand selection (I mostly priced Boss, Ibanez, Dunlop, Morley, DOD and Danelectro branded stomp boxes). A friend of mine bought a Digitech (unsure of model number) for almost $400 which had all the effects I wanted and more. The Digitech was too expensive and my friend said it was too difficult to manipulate the effects. The instruction manual is thick and full of technical languange. I wanted something to plug in a jam on right away that sounded the way I wanted, something affordable and user-friendly. I found the Zoom gfx707 at a small independently owned shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It costed $180 and features effects like distortion, phaser, tremelo, delay, echo, ring, vibrato and more. It has a expression pedal which can be assigned to control variables in a wide range of effects including wah-wah, volume control and delay time/rate. It even includes 24 pre-programmed play along drum beats with variable tempo. The sound quality is very good. Certainly the Digitech line of effects sound better, for twice the price. So for those of you who buy the cheap guitar cords because the Monsters are too much and are the least of your sound quality worries; I recommend Zoom multi-effect guitar processors.


I realize I didn't follow the form but I said what I needed to in the first secion. I didn't see these boxes below yet. Hope you can use it somehow as is.

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