Nux Mod Force

Dopesick

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nux-Modulation-Digital-Guitar-Effects/dp/B00BK3V8DO

Have heard about Nux products for the past year or so, and was just wondering if they were any good? I know, 'for the money' it's a steal, but I don't want to have to take it to a gig and then find out it'll pack up on me half way through, or make my tone sound like dirge.

Also any other fairly inexpensive multi-modulation pedals about that I don't know about?

vasselmeyer

For the price it's amazing. I bought a Mod Force and a Time Force, for even cheaper. The sounds are actually pretty good but the jacks on both of them went dodgy fairly quickly. Theyr'e probably OK for messing around at home with but I'd never rely on them for gigs.

Dopesick

Hmm yeah the construction does look a bit rough, and I can be rather heavy footed during gigs (especially if I decide to wear my steelies). Might plump for a ZCat Q-Mod even if more than double the price, but they look the business.

A Zoom MS70CDR perhaps also but it's packed with so many effects I'd spend more time arsing around twiddling knobs and settings rather than getting creative with my material.

EricTheWeary

Funny enough I spotted the Nux Tape Core earlier and that looks interesting. There's a demo on YouTube I'm going to watch later. 

The Nux pedals have a 'lock'  feature -  I think this effectively gives a preset? 

dogload

I have a ModCore which is absolutely brilliant (for the 18 quid I paid for it!). Actually, it's the second one I've had as the first gave up the ghost and I found it necessary to have a replacement. Great sounds (if not necessarily faithful recreations) that sit nicely in a band situation. BTW, the replacement one has lasted for a few years now.

vasselmeyer

They have a set of 9 presets you can choose by cycling through. You can choose 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 or 1-9. You put it into preset mode and then just use the footswitch to cylce through them. 

Dopesick

Think I'll take the plunge. What's the worst that could happen?

vasselmeyer

Quite. I still have mine, they still (mostly) work and if I want a mess around with them they're there. When they break completely then they'll go into recycling and I won't have felt I'd wasted my money.

EricTheWeary

Sorry, not trying to hijack this but now got the tape core YouTube demo on and I'm preferring this to demoes of stuff I've seen three times the price. Assuming it doesn't fall apart then the Nux stuff does look interesting and not just, as far as I can see ( I may well have missed something), a bunch of clones. 

vasselmeyer

Agreed. They're cool pedals with poor build quality (in my personal experience), especially the "FORCE" series which have a little colour LCD and presets and tap capability.