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Published on 12/18/06 at 15:30
Value For Money : Excellent
Silent says it all

UTILIZATION

Operation is intuitive and trs is partly why I turned to the TSE. No need to spend a sleepless night for paramtrer sounds all done using knobs (like on an amp). We turn, has come!
Prsence the two expression pedals is also more compared to competitors.
The manual is very well done, clear trs, trs well explained points APRS points, and trs forcment subjective reading everything is great.

SOUND QUALITY

Well, as I often read ds forum, it is foremost an amp simulator, not a multi-purpose. If you therefore seeks to effect straight out of a sci-fi movie, will not be a good tool. There's just all the Necessary for guitar players and it is still one of the reasons behind my choice: I did not want to find myself with tons of effects, half of me would never and are more galre rgler. L I have what I need (Chorus, flanger, delay, reverb).

I start with good points ngatifs (which are my own):
- The Rducteur noise, I find it efficient trs. For my part I qd even a lot of buzz, especially with distorted sounds. I use the paralllement rducteur my old BOSS GX700 works much better. But I tjs a buzz of the power supply of the TSE and microphones in my scraper (a left-handed Fender Stratocaster made in Japan) but the it is a pb inhrent my guitar left-handed Japanese Mr. ... (There is a post about it on the forum)
- Pitch Shifter: not good
- The Ring Mod: never had my Boss GX700 useful, has not change with the TSE.
- One point which we do not talk enough, no doubt: you can edit only one effect of the "pedals" is - that if you want a wha wha and a compressor example (or maybe a fuzz or overdrive ... etc) for the same, well, it's not possible! Is to know.

Well, now the positives:
- Sound: clearly orient "vintage". Do not say the clean sounds are excellent, all amps combined. The crunch sounds are great also. Distos sounds are good for hard trs fawn AC DC, Led Zep and Deep Purple. APRS was not all the means to afford a Mesa or ENGL. We do with what we have, and it is more than satisfactory.
The 16 amp panel modliss provide more than enough for what I do.
- Channels A and B: very practical, they offer the possibility to edit two DIFFERENT amps and cabinets, potentially two DIFFERENT sounds for a given program. What I do personally is to use as a clean channel and a channel distortion, using the same amp but the gain rglant Different.
- Fashion Fx or "effect pedals" to enable or to cut diffrent sections. This allows you to add an overdrive solos of your time and then remove it. Ditto for the modulation, delay and rverb.
- Switch Control: Allows diffrent manipulations, tap tempo for the delay, on / off certain effects.
- The two expression pedals: trs useful. Many functions are assignable to the pedals, the list is rather long example is the tps of delay, the drive of one of the pedals of distos the wha (off course), volume, etc ... . They may be on or off using a small switch in situ them. Just a lgre pressure on the top of the pedals.
Voil I did not turn prs.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about a month.
What I parat the less convenient it is to change Manir programs. Two switches up and down to change the bank and the switches 1 4 for changing preset. Obviously not to go from preset 1 to 4 bank, for example, four of the bank 9 or 20! Fortunately I have the solution: use a pdalier noon to control the change of the TSE program, which allows me to leave and more activate FX. (My Yamaha MFC10 which I used to drive my Boss GX700 is not yet retired).
What I like most: clean sounds and crunch, the two pedals and expression ... the bag to carry!
Good quality price, buy nine for 449.
It's a choice I would do.
In good résumé trs pdalier if you are looking vintage sounds and you play jazz, blues, pop / rock or heavy metal of Led Zep. A fair bit of the same for any large distos trs.