I have that Joyo pedal and it’s great. I’d also recommend the Mooer Rader, which is a cab sim. Very good if you want your guitar to sound like it’s going through a real amp.
But you don’t need either. The only essential thing IMO is an audio interface with a proper Hi-Z input. Without that, and guitar will sound thin and weak.
If you have a Digitone, try routing that signal through its master mixer. The DN’s distortion sounds just killer. Really great. Plus you have chorus and reverb!
Get the Line 6 “Helix family” product that suits your budget. Guitar, bass, and general FX madness for other items.
If you’re going to go the computer route, the Neural DSP plugins are worth a look. They have quite a few different amp and cab sims now covering everything from cleans to extreme crunchy metal. They sound great!
They do free trials and half price sales from time to time.
I’m most definitely missing something. I can not get a clean or decent volume output from the Simplifier 1/4 outs to the OT. Headphones on the Simplifier sounds great. Through the OT not so much. Dir set to 127 and messed with the gain with no luck.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
I don’t really know what sound I’m going for. I’m just looking to make them sound nice somewhere along the signal path.
Probably some modeling mostly since I’m already well versed and swimming in FX.
I used the xlr out to OT. Bought some xlr to 1/4" cables. The headphone jack DOES sound better though. OT is weird with guitar (for me) so I just deal with it.
Me too. Thanks for the reply.
I did notice the headphone output is better. I threw the 1/4th outputs into the MPC and immediately made a difference. I’ll keep experimenting.
Like someone else said above, using the XLR outs will give you a better output. The manual isn’t clear, but I done think the 1/4" outs carry the same signal. I always run it into my mixer first to gainstage some before sending to the OT as well. I also noticed keeping the presence and resonance dialed under 3 o’clock keeps the signal coming out from clipping.
It’s really starting to be. It’s making me create more patches on Zoia. It’s ALMOST a pedalboard killer. Still have to have a tuner pedal and a dirt pedal. Now I’m regretting selling my Analog Drive. I’m probably going to get a Morningstar midi foot pedal so I can scroll/change patches on the Zoia easier AND initiate sampling on the OT. I have a Logidy midi foot pedal but it only has 3 buttons and I have to use a Kenton usb to midi box with it. But yeah, the Zoia through the effects send/return of the Simplifier sounds really good. I used to never care about my guitar being in stereo but I don’t know if I can go back now. I may even run to two amps live if I’m not running straight out of the Simplifier to the PA. Got a bunch of gigs coming up so I’m gonna try some stuff out.
These look interesting, thanks!
Maybe I’ll try a demo and watch for sales.
You can find a small combo for a hundred bucks 2nd hand, and some have a decent headphone out that has solid state cab sim, like the Orange “crush” series. I’ve used the headphone on one of mine, sent to mixer for recording.
That’s not a bad idea, maybe I look into how those sound.
Oddly enough, that was one of the things we sold off when my brother in-law passed away. A little Orange amp.
I wasn’t in a place where I could take on much stuff at the time (small apartment). So I only kept the guitars, which are more personal and sentimental to his mom.
if you’re open to combo amps, I use a yamaha THR30II and the feature set is outstanding for working with a sampler. It has an AUX input and Bluetooth which can be used simultaneously, stereo line out which can mix between the guitar and AUX, Runs on batteries, separate speakers for the amp and other inputs, bass and acoustic amps as well.
The bluetooth speakers aren’t that exciting and the amp sims kinda feel like amp sims but altogether it’s a very useful piece of equipment. Mine lives in the living room with the digitakt.
Thanks, I’ll look into it. I definitely won’t use the speaker part of an amp often. I might consider recording with a mic down the road but I’m not planning on it any time soon.
I’m open to something that can be used as both if it’s my best option. It would have to be small enough to tuck away under a desk.
I’m 1/2 considering removing the couch from my studio to free up more space. I really like my couch though 
I like to play my guitar (via DI box/small mixer) through the Digitone, and use its master FX. The overdrive is just fantastic.
Has anyone tried this with the Digitakt? Or even compared the two? I’m wondering if it’s the same overdrive.
I did this with my monomachine and I loved it.
Made a thread for an ambient guitar album I made, figure it would make sense to link to it here:
Answering my own question: The Digitakt doesn’t have a master overdrive, so that’s that.
HX Stomp has modeling and is also interesting if you want to sequence its parameters with OT for instance. Quick midi learn assignments.
The pedals functions can be assigned to many parameters and with min / max morphing, kind of scenes A/B crossfader you can control with 1 CC from OT.