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Schneibster 
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Posted 08 November 2005 - 01:42 PM
How much did you purchase this item for? $140 US
Where did you purchase this item? A Seattle area (East Side, for locals) music shop, Mills Music
Is this item new or used? New
Features:
Sound: 24-bit; digitization rate unknown, but I have never heard artifacts; tends to clip the high end slightly, but this can be compensated with the EQ (mostly). You'll have no question that you're playing through a digital processor, and if you have a bright amp like a JC120 or an Ampeg SS140, you'll hear the difference, but the emulations are excellent. Overall, given the price, a very high-quality sounding unit. No discernable power hum from the high-quality, well-filtered power supply. Note: I have not used this unit direct into the preamp ("guitar") input on my amplifier; I use it exclusively into the power amp input, bypassing the preamp. Volume is controlled from the unit, in this setup. This is because I have stereo power amp inputs, but mono preamp, and I want the stereo effects the unit puts out.
Ease of Use: Plug'n'play. The three parameter controls and storage button make it quite easy, but you'll refer to the manual for a little while figuring out what some of the more esoteric effects are, and what the amp models are; other than that, it's pretty simple.
Reliability: No problems so far. It's solidly built and I confidently expect many years' service without any problems. No "gotchas" that might blow it up, either. Note: the power demand is quite heavy; do not try to substitute off-brand wall-warts, they will probably burn.
Overall: I would buy it again, for $50 more. If you play copy tunes and insist on the correct sound for them, this unit is for you. I run it into my mixer and out to my power amp inputs, and run a separate chain for my own sound, switching between chains for copy tunes and originals. There is no reason why you could not develop your own sound using it, as well. This thing and a stereo power amp and a pair of speakers are all you need to rock'n'roll. Distortion sounds range from smooth tube-style overdrive to mind-bending diode hash, with everything in between. The plate reverb combined with the boogie amp and a little chorus is awesome; the tweed slips smoothly from bell-like tones into overdriven 12AX7 depending on your attack; the vox allows you to do Brian May; and the Marshall stack is the Jimmy Page sound from "Custard Pie." There's even an "Angus" setting. You could theoretically throw away all your stomp boxes and be no worse for it, unless you have developed your own sounds, in which case you might have some trouble emulating them but not for long; the only two problems I have found is that it's not possible to set the modulation rate for phase, flange, and chorus separate from the intensity, and that little bit of loss of high end.
Experience Level: two years.
Where did you purchase this item? A Seattle area (East Side, for locals) music shop, Mills Music
Is this item new or used? New
Features:
- Assignable control pedal
- 12 Amplifier models, including particularly good Marshall, JC120, Boogie, Twin Reverb, and Tweed emulations
- Conversion from single coil to humbucker, and vice versa, combined with static wah setting, assignable to the control pedal
- Separate compressor and 3-band EQ
- 3 cabinet types, 4 mic positions for a total of 12 cabinet models
- Noise gate
- 14 modulation effects, including the expected stuff plus pitch shift, Roland's YaYa, Auto Wah (envelope follower), whammy, and a Leslie
- Separate delay and reverb- delay is digital, analog emulation, or pong, in various mixes, up to two seconds, the first second in 10ms steps and the second in 100ms steps, reverb is a few room types, plate, several hall/amphitheater types, and spring, with decay and mix controls
- Stereo out (TRS); can be used mono, auto-switches by sensing resistance between ring and sleeve
- Separate power supply (included)
- Headphone out
- "Jam-along" input that mixes with the instrument post-effects
- Tuner- quite accurate, according to my trusty QwikTune, which I calibrate using a high-accuracy reference
- Choose among 40 factory presets or 40 user presets (initially programmed identically to the factory presets) by up-and-down footswitches; chosen preset or current parameter being changed or tuning information displayed on bright LED readout
- Full bypass with no A/D/A conversion
- "Rhythm generator" which creates
Sound: 24-bit; digitization rate unknown, but I have never heard artifacts; tends to clip the high end slightly, but this can be compensated with the EQ (mostly). You'll have no question that you're playing through a digital processor, and if you have a bright amp like a JC120 or an Ampeg SS140, you'll hear the difference, but the emulations are excellent. Overall, given the price, a very high-quality sounding unit. No discernable power hum from the high-quality, well-filtered power supply. Note: I have not used this unit direct into the preamp ("guitar") input on my amplifier; I use it exclusively into the power amp input, bypassing the preamp. Volume is controlled from the unit, in this setup. This is because I have stereo power amp inputs, but mono preamp, and I want the stereo effects the unit puts out.
Ease of Use: Plug'n'play. The three parameter controls and storage button make it quite easy, but you'll refer to the manual for a little while figuring out what some of the more esoteric effects are, and what the amp models are; other than that, it's pretty simple.
Reliability: No problems so far. It's solidly built and I confidently expect many years' service without any problems. No "gotchas" that might blow it up, either. Note: the power demand is quite heavy; do not try to substitute off-brand wall-warts, they will probably burn.
Overall: I would buy it again, for $50 more. If you play copy tunes and insist on the correct sound for them, this unit is for you. I run it into my mixer and out to my power amp inputs, and run a separate chain for my own sound, switching between chains for copy tunes and originals. There is no reason why you could not develop your own sound using it, as well. This thing and a stereo power amp and a pair of speakers are all you need to rock'n'roll. Distortion sounds range from smooth tube-style overdrive to mind-bending diode hash, with everything in between. The plate reverb combined with the boogie amp and a little chorus is awesome; the tweed slips smoothly from bell-like tones into overdriven 12AX7 depending on your attack; the vox allows you to do Brian May; and the Marshall stack is the Jimmy Page sound from "Custard Pie." There's even an "Angus" setting. You could theoretically throw away all your stomp boxes and be no worse for it, unless you have developed your own sounds, in which case you might have some trouble emulating them but not for long; the only two problems I have found is that it's not possible to set the modulation rate for phase, flange, and chorus separate from the intensity, and that little bit of loss of high end.
Experience Level: two years.
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