A LOVE LETTER FOR THE MULTISTOMP
The first effect pedal I got was from some strange older guy I found on Facebook marketplace. I needed a distortion pedal, I needed it cheap, and I didn't really care what it was. The guy was a rad dad of sorts. I'm sure he had no idea the kind of mess I was about to get myself into with these metal noise boxes we all love. $60 later, a brief conversation about a strange noise rock genre that somehow relates to staring at your feet, and an even shorter talk about guitars (I didn't even own one for myself at the time) I had it. My very own DOD FX-56 American Metal.
If you've heard a Boss HM-2, you've heard a much better sounding pedal compared to the DOD FX-56 which is pretty much a direct clone of the famous Swedish Chainsaw. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my FX-56. But for the sound I was going for I needed something bigger. Something different. That something was reverb.
There are a lot of reverb pedals out there. From simple room reflections, to absolutely massive soundscape generating cave echoes. They all have weird names like spring, plate, hall, room, and shimmer. The idea is simple though. You make a noise, and the reverb spits your sound back out and trails off like a ghost. A decaying image of yourself.
After searching far too long for the reverb I needed for my sound I was completely overwhelmed. Again, there are a lot of reverb pedals out there. So, instead of obtaining something simple to get to know the effect, I got a confusing little digital powerhouse that would surely overwhelm me even more.
The Zoom MS-70 CDR.
I fell in love with exploring sounds.
You can spend hours crafting sounds with a multistomp. Be it trying to emulate an old 8 second long rack unit effect from the 80s or recreating the sound of a modern boutique pedal. The combinations are -almost- endless. There are many sounds that a MultiStomp cannot do. But there are more sounds that you wouldn't expect it to be able to pull off.
This isn't a review of the MS-70 so I won't bore you with the details. But I encourage everyone to get one, and explore the sounds you can make with it. There's a huge community dedicated to finding new sounds on it too. So it's easy as ever to share your own or try out new and exciting patches made by others. I'll never get rid of my MS-70, and it will always have a spot on my pedalboard. Be it for simple things or strange complicated noise. Never stop exploring sound. Create what you love. And share those findings with others. Thank you MultiStomp.
The first effect pedal I got was from some strange older guy I found on Facebook marketplace. I needed a distortion pedal, I needed it cheap, and I didn't really care what it was. The guy was a rad dad of sorts. I'm sure he had no idea the kind of mess I was about to get myself into with these metal noise boxes we all love. $60 later, a brief conversation about a strange noise rock genre that somehow relates to staring at your feet, and an even shorter talk about guitars (I didn't even own one for myself at the time) I had it. My very own DOD FX-56 American Metal.
If you've heard a Boss HM-2, you've heard a much better sounding pedal compared to the DOD FX-56 which is pretty much a direct clone of the famous Swedish Chainsaw. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my FX-56. But for the sound I was going for I needed something bigger. Something different. That something was reverb.
There are a lot of reverb pedals out there. From simple room reflections, to absolutely massive soundscape generating cave echoes. They all have weird names like spring, plate, hall, room, and shimmer. The idea is simple though. You make a noise, and the reverb spits your sound back out and trails off like a ghost. A decaying image of yourself.
After searching far too long for the reverb I needed for my sound I was completely overwhelmed. Again, there are a lot of reverb pedals out there. So, instead of obtaining something simple to get to know the effect, I got a confusing little digital powerhouse that would surely overwhelm me even more.
The Zoom MS-70 CDR.
I fell in love with exploring sounds.
You can spend hours crafting sounds with a multistomp. Be it trying to emulate an old 8 second long rack unit effect from the 80s or recreating the sound of a modern boutique pedal. The combinations are -almost- endless. There are many sounds that a MultiStomp cannot do. But there are more sounds that you wouldn't expect it to be able to pull off.
This isn't a review of the MS-70 so I won't bore you with the details. But I encourage everyone to get one, and explore the sounds you can make with it. There's a huge community dedicated to finding new sounds on it too. So it's easy as ever to share your own or try out new and exciting patches made by others. I'll never get rid of my MS-70, and it will always have a spot on my pedalboard. Be it for simple things or strange complicated noise. Never stop exploring sound. Create what you love. And share those findings with others. Thank you MultiStomp.