MGR/Dave « Alesis GuitarFX »
Published on 07/01/05 at 15:00Purchased from Musician's Friend for $69.00(US)
Replacement for aging DOD Acoustic1 multiFX board.
Visually attractive. Unfortunately, that's about the only nice thing I have to say about this unit. A piece of petrified dung encased in crystal is still a POS.
Where to begin?
First, the factory presets are substandard. Many of them just sound like a bunch of hissing snakes.
Although the advertising hype says all the settings are user editable. storing the user edits is impossible using the instructions provided in the owner's manual--which was probably written by Chinese slave labor with no real knowledge of English. I then attempted to use the procedures based on 8 years of owning a DOD multiFX unit. Those didn't work either. The customer service at Alesis has been unresponsive to questions about this issue.
The construction of the unit is sound, but as I observed above, encasing a piece of dung in crystal still makes the core content a POS.
Avoid this unit. Purchase something else.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Replacement for aging DOD Acoustic1 multiFX board.
Visually attractive. Unfortunately, that's about the only nice thing I have to say about this unit. A piece of petrified dung encased in crystal is still a POS.
Where to begin?
First, the factory presets are substandard. Many of them just sound like a bunch of hissing snakes.
Although the advertising hype says all the settings are user editable. storing the user edits is impossible using the instructions provided in the owner's manual--which was probably written by Chinese slave labor with no real knowledge of English. I then attempted to use the procedures based on 8 years of owning a DOD multiFX unit. Those didn't work either. The customer service at Alesis has been unresponsive to questions about this issue.
The construction of the unit is sound, but as I observed above, encasing a piece of dung in crystal still makes the core content a POS.
Avoid this unit. Purchase something else.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com