[quote name='bobbass4k' post='998107' date='Oct 23 2010, 02:49 PM']The absolute essentials for the muse sound are a grindy distortion, a gated fuzz, an octaver (perferably a boss oc-2) and a filter. These will get you most of the synth sounds hes uses, and you'll also need them individually.
An important part of his sound is that everything is blended with clean bass, not sure if any multis can do that, but the ls-2 is your cheapest stompbox solution for blending.[/quote]
Majority of multi's should let you blend dry with wet, my ME-8B allows 100% wet and 100% dry on all effects.
Actually the me-8b can get some good muse tones on some settings, synth is VERY good, mixed with the overdrive and clean bass sounds great Hard to come by, but i got mine for a bargain on here so can be found!
GT10B wise, never had experience of it, seems too expensive to bother with (id never spend more than £100 or so on a multi effect, but then again i only buy effects second hand ). I had a GT-6B and found it to be quite poor for synthy type tones, although it has some good distortion models. I preferred the ME50B, but again not for synth.
Do consider the difference between Chris's live and studio tone, highlighting just how much processing goes into his sound.
But pleassse dont buy 6 big muffs and a deep impact and expect to be him
Again, no experience, but a couple on this forum have said good things about the Podxt Pro/Live in terms of synthy type fuzzness, worth checking out.