Affordable multi fx unit that sounds great through headphones suggestions ?

Last week I bought a valeton 100 multi fx which I wanted to use with headphones and backing tracks for practice purposes at home. It sounded like dogshit through my headphones and it was returned the next day. An affordable unit with aux and headphone inputs shouldn't be so hard to find. The valeton tones were truly dire and imo I'm stunned the usual youtube shills gushed about it so much. Affordable units that sound decent through headphone connection would be most welcome. 

If it's for headphone practice then it's hard to beat the Nux Mighty plug 2 . You can bluetooth backing tracks, use it as an audio interface and it has a built in drum machine as well as all the amp models and effects you need.

It's very unrated because people THINK price to related to quality of sound but I think the unit sounds better than modellers costing £300 or more. I mean I have a Pod Go but actually record with the Nux because I think the amp sounds are more realistic in response to how I play. 

It's about £58 at the moment ..there's a newer version out with more features but the MP2 is fine IMHO 

I had one of those danny, thought it sounded dreadful. The cleans on modelling gear are usually passable, but drive tones leave a lot to be desired.

I have a Waza Air.
Ruined everything else for me. I do occasionally get out my Korg Pandora (the blue one with the rhythm feature) and just think about playing, not Tonez.

HX Stomp.  Expensive but worth it.

Depending on what type of human being you are you might find that your ears are accustomed to air so whatever the product,through headphones.your sound will always sound like a North Korean soldier talking through an antiquated mic.

I bought a Nux MG30 a couple of years ago and was very satisfied with the sounds. It went into retirement when I got a secondhand (but very new) Headrush Gigboard. I was loving the Gigboard for a while, but unbeknown to me they have a fatal error (lots of them do) whereby something internal dies and you can no longer connect to a PC. Headrush as a company are a piece of Sh*t, turfing out this rubbish. 

I would say it’s more to do with the headphones / earphones than the device you are using. I found a set of earphones I could tolerate and now I’m accustomed to the sound. You could use the same setup I do and think it sounds dreadful. So it’s more about finding something that works for you.

axisus said:

I bought a Nux MG30 a couple of years ago and was very satisfied with the sounds. It went into retirement when I got a secondhand (but very new) Headrush Gigboard. I was loving the Gigboard for a while, but unbeknown to me they have a fatal error (lots of them do) whereby something internal dies and you can no longer connect to a PC. Headrush as a company are a piece of Sh*t, turfing out this rubbish. 

Same thing happened to me. I bought a 2nd hand unit (thankfully from a shop) but found it couldn’t connect via USB to anything. 

LionAquaLooper said:

HX Stomp.  Expensive but worth it.

With all the menu diving you have to do with the hx stomp, I think it would destroy my patience. I would probably prefer something more analogue with set em and forget em control knobs. Its a real pity the tech 21 kotzen flyrig doesnt have an aux input for backing tracks.

Telejester said:

LionAquaLooper said:

HX Stomp.  Expensive but worth it.

With all the menu diving you have to do with the hx stomp, I think it would destroy my patience. I would probably prefer something more analogue with set em and forget em control knobs. Its a real pity the tech 21 kotzen flyrig doesnt have an aux input for backing tracks.

If you get a headphone amp with more than one input you can have BT' s coming in on an aux input .. I have and Art one with 4 inputs, Behringer do one, so do Alesis etc 

Brio said:

I have a Waza Air.
Ruined everything else for me. I do occasionally get out my Korg Pandora (the blue one with the rhythm feature) and just think about playing, not Tonez.

Does the waza air  sound such much like the mini boss headphone thing released earlier in the year ? I thought that thing sounded dreadful, I would be expecting so much more from the waza air.

Sorry, no idea. If its not the Waza its Kemper or Tonex or THR11 into my DAW.

Telejester said:

Brio said:

I have a Waza Air.
Ruined everything else for me. I do occasionally get out my Korg Pandora (the blue one with the rhythm feature) and just think about playing, not Tonez.

Does the waza air  sound such much like the mini boss headphone thing released earlier in the year ? I thought that thing sounded dreadful, I would be expecting so much more from the waza air.

What headphones? 

I have a Katana Go (if that's what you are referring to) and it sounds very good for travel practice & the bluetooth is useful. I have tweaked some presets on the app.

I would consider myself a 100% gearslut too.

Next up in price before the fancy stuff like an FM3 or Kemper is an HX Stomp or GT-1000 core. You should try both and they will have much better latency than budget devices. 

You can use the TONEX One pedal with headphones I’m told. Haven’t tried it yet with them though. 

Are you sure you had it set up right. 
Presets can be pretty bad on these kinds of things.

I'm very surprised, but I suspect it was your headphones.  I had a Valeton GP200 that sounded really good through FRFR and headphones. The only reason I returned it was because of the lack of footswitch naming in stomp mode that made it useless for my gigging needs.

With mfx you really need studio monitoring headphones rather than mp3 headphones because of the wider frequency response (sort of like FRFR). Two of the most popular headphones, both at a similar price, are the Audio Technica ATH50mx and the Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 Ohm. I have the m50x but both are excellent.