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Published on 10/21/02 at 15:00Purchased from Music Retail Store. Paid $109.99 (in July of 2001) without AC adapter. Best choice for the money at the time.
Unit is very easy to use. Selecting and editing patches is straight-forward and intuitive. Overall sound is good. It has a power switch and will work on seperately purchased AC adapter. Effect pedal can be calibrated. Overdrive effect is clean and rich. Analog controls are very handy.
Most preset patches are not useful and some are downright irritating (for rock music). Many of the effects are weak including the toner and chorus. The octaver is strong and somewhat overpowering. The effect pedal range is woefully small (feels like it only has three settings), and some of the parameters it can control are comical. Analog controls react wierdly when swapping patches. Would have been better to use a jog type control.
Constructed of high impact ABS plastic and has held up well for 2 years. The effect pedal is still tight. Never used live so cannot vouch for stage performance.
Great unit for price. Wide variety of effects and great control over them. Probably not best unit for recording but for practice and some gigs works very well.
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Unit is very easy to use. Selecting and editing patches is straight-forward and intuitive. Overall sound is good. It has a power switch and will work on seperately purchased AC adapter. Effect pedal can be calibrated. Overdrive effect is clean and rich. Analog controls are very handy.
Most preset patches are not useful and some are downright irritating (for rock music). Many of the effects are weak including the toner and chorus. The octaver is strong and somewhat overpowering. The effect pedal range is woefully small (feels like it only has three settings), and some of the parameters it can control are comical. Analog controls react wierdly when swapping patches. Would have been better to use a jog type control.
Constructed of high impact ABS plastic and has held up well for 2 years. The effect pedal is still tight. Never used live so cannot vouch for stage performance.
Great unit for price. Wide variety of effects and great control over them. Probably not best unit for recording but for practice and some gigs works very well.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com