The Boss ES-8 Effects Switching System has 8 individual effects loops, which means you could have say 8 effects pedals connected individually in the most basic setup.
Then during the chorus while you are contributing your backing vocals you accidentally step on the wrong pedal whilst concentrating on singing and ruin everything!įinally at the end of the song you get angry stares from all of your band mates while you stand there banking through all of your delay presets trying to find the right patch for the next song, and they just don’t understand why you won’t keep things simple and buy a multi effects unit instead of all these flashing lights by your feet! SURELY THERE HAS TO BE A WAY AROUND THIS? CAN’T I HAVE MY SOUND BUT WITH THE EASE OF A MULTI-FX UNIT?! Next thing you turn up at rehearsal and find yourself spending the whole time tap dancing on your board anxiously turning off one pedal at the right moment while trying to turn on another two at the same time to nail your solo! Sure you could just buy a multi-fx unit, but then you wouldn’t get to use that uber-cool £200 distortion unit right? You’ve got two different chorus pedals because they ‘suit different songs’ and spent hours fine tuning the presets of your boutique delay unit so that the repeats sync in time with your song and you’ve shelled out for the expensive power supply that makes sure everything is powered with minimal noise. Picture this you’ve spent the last few years slowly building your pedal board, meticulously adding each carefully chosen pedal one by one to build your dream setup.