Guitar Effects Questions (show your rig?)

[Evil]

I've got a terrible addiction to buying music equipment. I recently bought an Ibanez Artcore, a hollowbody with a Bigsby style tremolo. It doesn't stay in tune at all. If you work with the tremolo a lot it'll loosen up and I can play without tuning for a while, but use it rarely and it'll throw you'll whole tuning out.

I have a great computer tuner, and I used to have a tiny hand tuner, but sooner or later I'm going to need a sturdy tuner for shows. Right now it's between the Boss TU-2 and the Fender PT-100.

The Fender is half as much as the Boss, but the Boss has a cent display. Anyone have any of these? Is the cent display worth the extra $50?

I know you can get reviews of these things online (MusiciansFriend), but I rather hear it from a person that doesn't say "OMG! Tehish es teh BeSt tuNers eVres@!1"

Also, any tone difference between the Big Muff and the Little Big Muff?

I guess this could turn into a "Here's my Rig" thread, which might be fun too.

[cpage]

You know you can call Musicians Friend. They can give you suggestions.. And they are open 24/7...
I have the Frender... It is okay at times but I like the Boss more...

And the difference is only size. The big muff is the classic and the little big muff is the same thing shrunk.. And it currently comes with a free shirt.

If you have any more questions feel free to give us a call

[earlwood]

I certianly cannot imagine paying an extra $50 for esentially the same chromatic tuner.  But from my understanding, the Tu-2 does comes with some alternate tuning presets.  I've never owned the Fender PT-100, but I've never had a more durable processer than my Boss GT-3 (as outdated as it may be now).

As for the Artcore, I used to own one myself, transparent blue, and that Bigsby is a pain in the ass, both to string-up and use.  I ended up selling it so I could buy a Strat.

[DoorKnobHandle]

Well, your question is pretty much answered. So, let's start with "that's my rig"-talk:



That's mine. (As Pedalboard, I'll use a Behringer FCB1010 with two expression pedals on it and place for 100 presets, I guess.)

Here are some pictures of my TC Electronic G-Major effects unit that I took recently, I didn't have the time yet to take photos of the other stuff (and I still don't have the ENGL Powerball)...






I personally use the tuner that is in the G-Major. It works great and you can even switch it from "fine" to "coarse" mode for live gigs, so it isn't as accurate anymore and enables you to tune up good enough faster.

[Nine Toes]

At first glance, it looks like a microwave oven.

[DoorKnobHandle]

Hehe, your microwave ovens must look strange where you live, with an open back?

[Helm]

Nowdays it's red Les Paul studio. I only use an old (NOT NEW LINE, IMPORTANT)



stompbox for distortion. From that signal, I go directly into the Audigy 2 ZS external rack, and from henchforth into a neat little plugin called Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2 in which I go through this amp set



and then through this effects rack



and I end up sounding like this.