Looking for Good, Small, Multi-FX Floor Pedal

[Stringrazor]

It must have a "gas" pedal for Vol and Wah, be able to bypass ALL amp and cabinet modeling without badly sucking tone or adding noise, and easily fit in a carry-on bag leaving room for clothes.

I've got a J-Station which does a great job (tho' intelligent harmony would be nice) but my FCB1010 MIDI pedal is too big to carry on fly-away gigs. An older unit that I could pick up cheaply 2nd-hand would be perfect.

Suggestions?

[briaNsr]

wait for the smaller M-series of line 6.. ill be worth it

[pitseleh]

how small, exactly? i had a tonelab se that was huge, but when i bought the rp500 over the 1000, aside from not needing the added features on the 1000 due to not gigging or having an amp with an effects loop, it was because of the smaller footprint. having owned the tonelab, i expected the rp500 to be as big from photos, but it's probably 40% smaller. i'm really impressed with how tiny this thing is, but it's not as small as it gets. the m9 that's supposedly coming out, or that new tonelab st or whatever are both smaller. but for those, you might be compromising features, so who knows.

[Electric I]

tonelab st

[peridot1]

I've heard the digitech RPs there's no degrading of sound when the modelers are turned off. Never tried them but that seems to be the general opinion.

[bluesdoc]

ME70 should be in the running.

[Will Chen]

Digitech RP355. Has intelligent harmonies but the tracking is a bit wobbly. Other wise is quiet and sounds very good and includes a manual mode for individually toggling od/mod/delay or preset mode with channel switching. Also includes a looper.

[buddaman71]

Originally Posted by Stringrazor

It must have a "gas" pedal for Vol and Wah, be able to bypass ALL amp and cabinet modeling without badly sucking tone or adding noise, and easily fit in a carry-on bag leaving room for clothes.

I've got a J-Station which does a great job (tho' intelligent harmony would be nice) but my FCB1010 MIDI pedal is too big to carry on fly-away gigs. An older unit that I could pick up cheaply 2nd-hand would be perfect.

Suggestions?

Sure sounds like you are describing an RP500:

a) Great sounds
b) affordable
c) expression built in
d) one-button amp model bypass

pretty sweet little mfx

it doesn't offer 4cm hookup, but other than that, it has some very organic tones in a modeler and has really good, real-world presets.

[Stringrazor]

Originally Posted by Will Chen

Digitech RP355. Has intelligent harmonies but the tracking is a bit wobbly. Other wise is quiet and sounds very good and includes a manual mode for individually toggling od/mod/delay or preset mode with channel switching. Also includes a looper.

That's just about the right size. Smaller wound be even better but definitely no bigger. I've been gun-shy of Digitech pedals since I was sorely disappointed by the RP-1 which had decent effects but badly sucked tone even in so-called "direct mode" (it also hissed badly when into an amp's front end). I'll have to check the RP355 out.


EDIT: The RP255 is the perfect size - will it allow effect on/off switching within a patch and amp/cab modeling bypass?