I can't disagree with anything anyone has already said. Digitech would not be my first choice, but they can be a lot of fun and sound pretty good. Any decent multi-fx unit gives you lots of versatility in one unit and a lot of opportunities to find YOUR sound. Last year I went through a hunt for a multi-fx, and demoed lots of stuff. I bonded with Zoom this time around, so I throw in a vote for a used Zoom G3/X. The G3/X is cheap, has an easy to learn interface, and IMO, great sound quality (YMMV of course). You also get the ability to switch on and off a few individual effects, and just generally to have more foot control so your hands can keep playing. I find them very easy to work with. FuzzyMuff brings up a good point. A complicated interface can be intimidating or distracting to any player. The worst for me is realizing I've just been fooling around with tones for an hour or two, and not really practicing per se. Sure I had fun, but I feel like I cheated myself a bit. To be fair, a pedalboard can be guilty of that too. ............I wandered off to make a drink and stayed away longer than intended. After reading my post, I had some more thoughts. I know, I know....TL;DR It's important to realize that many factory presets are going to sound like rubbish. Too heavy on the effects. To some degree, it's not as bad when playing with others, but man, they can sound waaaay over done practicing by yourself. Something I like to do, and it's easy these days when you can back up to a PC, is to go through a new multieffect and make notes on which tones I know I'll never use. I can then go in and delete/reorganize to have plenty of free slots to save my own effects to. Sound quality and ease of use sold me on a Zoom G5 near the end of 2013, and I've been very happy with it since. Not perfect but very good, and can be found new for $250 or so U.S. I was going down the road of building my own pedals, but the G5 has given me so many great sounds to explore, DIY is on hold for the time being. FYI some of the zoom stuff have mods if you like to tinker. Check out AshBass to see what I mean. I'm just waiting on my warranty to expire :-D I've never bonded with any Line6 stuff I've tried. I did keep an old bean (POD 2) around for when I travel for work and just want to use headphones. Not fantastic, but won't cry if it's stolen. The L6 HD series I've tried sounded much better than the old POD, but for me, the Zoom stuff wins in bang for your buck. I personally prefer the Zoom interface vs the HD series as well. It'll be interesting to see what changes come to L6 with the Yamaha purchase though.