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Captain Savon
Published on 02/05/07 at 06:25
See website for complete specifications (or download the leaflet. For me to read the manual before acheterest a great way to see if the device that you will buy will suit us or not). Basically: preamp, amp simulator (no distortion, they are emulations of amps distortion), compressor, eq 3bandes semiparametric, noise gate, wah-wah, microphone simulator, various modulation effects (chorus, flanger , whammy, pitch, detune, etc..) several delays, reverbs multiple, assignable expression pedal, three knobs (bank up, bank down, channel select), plus a button to save the presets, one to select the effect and one for the drum (40 paterns, tempo and volume adjustable independently), 5 knobs for the settings.
All treatments are digital. In this version of the pedals, they can be edited by the buttons over there. It was only later that the pedals in this series have had USB ports (RP 400 for example).
Connections:
- 6.35 1xIn HiZ jack mono
- 2xOut 6.35 mono jack (stereo output for convoluted reverb type effects or ping-pong delay, auto-pan)
- In jack 3.5 stereo to play playback on an external source (discman, stereo, PC, etc.).
- Headphone Out jack 3.5 stereo
No MIDI.
Various: good sturdy metal housing, power supply provided (!!!!!), ability to record phrases from the auxiliary input and slow (time stretching) to work pieces.
UTILIZATION
Attention is a bit of a gas plant. The interface is very long to master. In fact, it works on the principle of a matrix: we select one of the floors, and the parameter on which the act was amended five pots to match. When no is selected, it works like a normal amp (gain, treble, middle, bass, volume).
For wahwah / pickup:
- On / off
- Type of wah (cry baby, shop "ideal" that is, S does not change depending on the position of the knob ... it's actually a bandpass filter ideal Frequency converter adjustable center .. what .)
- Minimum value of the pedal
- Max
- Emulation micro off/SC-> HB/HB-> SC
Amplifier is chosen for the type, gain, baffle, etc..
etc..
It takes practice to change that live, but it limits the number of buttons on the front. So there is no footswitch for each section, for example, it is not possible to disable the modulation or delay independently of the rest, you have to preset the same without delay for that. It is a choice. For example, the Boss ME50 works completely the opposite: full of buttons simultaneously accessible and you can turn off sections as you want ...
Where: edit sounds is quite difficult, it is easily lost, although we do not know what is saved, what is not saved, what you are currently editing. .. That pest, but it is common to all multi-effects (I try ME50, a Tonelab is the same brothel).
There are factory presets which show the capabilities of the beast. on the other hand, presets "artist" are well crados, they all look alike and are very typical metal. Indeed, it is the original use of this thing. 40 user memories seem more than enough, unless you have lots of groups with lots of different sounds, but you really want to just fill. In addition, there is, for each memory both channels amp, with independent settings of the amplifier section. It allows for a clear sound and a lead sound in the same preset. It's a good idea, it catches up with the lack of footswitch.
The manual is paper and very well done, he explains everything very clearly.
SOUND QUALITY
Effects. It's to be effective, they are effective! The vibrato gives seasick, flange beyond 10/50 is so profound that does not recognize the note played, same for the chorus and phasing. It leaves a great variety of sounds out the same. The whammy is nice, the detune anecdotal. The wahwah are unconvincing, but pretty good walk. Emulations of microphones are not miraculous, but can save a guitar sound too crystalline or too dark, or on the contrary dégeulasser sound even more, for lovers ... the delay and reverb are very good, efficient equalizer, the rotary speaker useless in mono.
The biggest advantage, the one who pushed me to buy, it can assign the pedal to almost any parameter adjustment. For example: damping of delay, reverb level, pitch shifter height, speed or depth or rate mix of the chorus, volume pre / post / mid-chain effects, or voulme gain of the amp ... So far I have not found any multi-effect of this price range (and far above) that allows that. It provides editing capabilities phenomenal!
What disappointed me most, it is the amp emulations.
Whether one is clear: I bought this thing when I was young and naive, and I thought it was the digital emulation must. Well now I'm vaccinated!
The distortion is most hideous. But perhaps parceque'elles are faithful to the originals? The correct and marshall are atrocious, the fuzz inaudible, the shop ... argh! I'd rather not talk about it. The tweed is not like a tube amp, at least to the idea that I did. I compared with a true, not dreaming. For a tube amp sound, you need a tube amp, period. For cons, the cleans are interesting, the more distinctive crunch "lamp" as tweed (my opinion) and the simulation of the Boogie gives a slobbering going very well for the blues cradingue as I like.
So, about a dozen amp simulations, only four are really interesting. As for the simulation of acoustic guitar ... it is not credible, and I can not get sound convincing, even by grinding all the possible settings. I guitars of shit, but still ...
I played with a live mixing desk, with a Roland Jazz 120, 20R Custom Epiphone SG Special with Squier Start and Affinity. Oh yes, indeed, sounds shitty it may have come from there. Though! I bought a Hagstrom Sweden to € 600, and I have not the same sounds terrible, when plugged directly into the amp, the difference with my old guitars is staggering! I made the rock of families (ledzep 70's and stuff in this taste), blues-rock to the White Stripes / Black Keys, funk, and jazz. In the latter case, I would not even considering the possibility to use it. The guitar direct into the amp end!
Regarding the amps, if you have such a monster stack at € 3,000 lamps, a priori it seems silly to stick to an amp simulator, while the sound of the stack is sufficient unto itself. In fact, for me, the interest of such devices is to improve the sound of a transistor amp, or live mixing desk. If you already have a amp with good sound egg, why all dégeulasser bof with emulation? I already try, therefore, a ToneLab with a stratum and a marshall MG100, or UX2. It's fun, nothing more! For me it's the gadget, as fully below what can the "real thing", the amplifier in real life. For cons, the effects section is quite good, and seems to me more interesting than on other models equivalent in the competitors.
OVERALL OPINION
I have 3 years.
Assets:
+ Full of effects in one box (the principle)
+ Effects with a good range of adjustments
+ Expression pedal assignable to any parameter. Believe me, that changes everything!
+ 2 channels per preset (it is often useful)
+ Recorder sentences efficient and time stretching makes a lot of services
+ Ultra strong metal case
+ Power supply provided (that is not true of all brands, is it Boss?)
Ds + sound quality not disappointing, we'll say.
Cons:
- Presets "artist", supposed to provide "more" cans are completely unless it is metal (not me)
- The terrible distos
- Feedback very easily
- Infernal to master interface
- Drum gadget
- Type metal and sounds of all kinds of pork
I would do this choice? Until recently, no. And recently, I tried for the trip, to amplify my tropette with a preamp and paste the Digitech. And then I thanked God for being so dumb to buy this stuff! The amp simus rajoutent a really interesting color, and effects chelou, I love, I do improv sessions with trumpet pitch + or + flanger thoroughly delay + reverb, it's huge! In this use there, it's worth it. As the price almost halved within a year after its release (Grrr. .. is that the pigeon who bought it at full price?), 200 €, just for the effects and capacity settings it seems to me a good deal, but experimentation is a good Swiss Army knife. As for cons of real sounds ... ben ... you buy an Orange amp.
All treatments are digital. In this version of the pedals, they can be edited by the buttons over there. It was only later that the pedals in this series have had USB ports (RP 400 for example).
Connections:
- 6.35 1xIn HiZ jack mono
- 2xOut 6.35 mono jack (stereo output for convoluted reverb type effects or ping-pong delay, auto-pan)
- In jack 3.5 stereo to play playback on an external source (discman, stereo, PC, etc.).
- Headphone Out jack 3.5 stereo
No MIDI.
Various: good sturdy metal housing, power supply provided (!!!!!), ability to record phrases from the auxiliary input and slow (time stretching) to work pieces.
UTILIZATION
Attention is a bit of a gas plant. The interface is very long to master. In fact, it works on the principle of a matrix: we select one of the floors, and the parameter on which the act was amended five pots to match. When no is selected, it works like a normal amp (gain, treble, middle, bass, volume).
For wahwah / pickup:
- On / off
- Type of wah (cry baby, shop "ideal" that is, S does not change depending on the position of the knob ... it's actually a bandpass filter ideal Frequency converter adjustable center .. what .)
- Minimum value of the pedal
- Max
- Emulation micro off/SC-> HB/HB-> SC
Amplifier is chosen for the type, gain, baffle, etc..
etc..
It takes practice to change that live, but it limits the number of buttons on the front. So there is no footswitch for each section, for example, it is not possible to disable the modulation or delay independently of the rest, you have to preset the same without delay for that. It is a choice. For example, the Boss ME50 works completely the opposite: full of buttons simultaneously accessible and you can turn off sections as you want ...
Where: edit sounds is quite difficult, it is easily lost, although we do not know what is saved, what is not saved, what you are currently editing. .. That pest, but it is common to all multi-effects (I try ME50, a Tonelab is the same brothel).
There are factory presets which show the capabilities of the beast. on the other hand, presets "artist" are well crados, they all look alike and are very typical metal. Indeed, it is the original use of this thing. 40 user memories seem more than enough, unless you have lots of groups with lots of different sounds, but you really want to just fill. In addition, there is, for each memory both channels amp, with independent settings of the amplifier section. It allows for a clear sound and a lead sound in the same preset. It's a good idea, it catches up with the lack of footswitch.
The manual is paper and very well done, he explains everything very clearly.
SOUND QUALITY
Effects. It's to be effective, they are effective! The vibrato gives seasick, flange beyond 10/50 is so profound that does not recognize the note played, same for the chorus and phasing. It leaves a great variety of sounds out the same. The whammy is nice, the detune anecdotal. The wahwah are unconvincing, but pretty good walk. Emulations of microphones are not miraculous, but can save a guitar sound too crystalline or too dark, or on the contrary dégeulasser sound even more, for lovers ... the delay and reverb are very good, efficient equalizer, the rotary speaker useless in mono.
The biggest advantage, the one who pushed me to buy, it can assign the pedal to almost any parameter adjustment. For example: damping of delay, reverb level, pitch shifter height, speed or depth or rate mix of the chorus, volume pre / post / mid-chain effects, or voulme gain of the amp ... So far I have not found any multi-effect of this price range (and far above) that allows that. It provides editing capabilities phenomenal!
What disappointed me most, it is the amp emulations.
Whether one is clear: I bought this thing when I was young and naive, and I thought it was the digital emulation must. Well now I'm vaccinated!
The distortion is most hideous. But perhaps parceque'elles are faithful to the originals? The correct and marshall are atrocious, the fuzz inaudible, the shop ... argh! I'd rather not talk about it. The tweed is not like a tube amp, at least to the idea that I did. I compared with a true, not dreaming. For a tube amp sound, you need a tube amp, period. For cons, the cleans are interesting, the more distinctive crunch "lamp" as tweed (my opinion) and the simulation of the Boogie gives a slobbering going very well for the blues cradingue as I like.
So, about a dozen amp simulations, only four are really interesting. As for the simulation of acoustic guitar ... it is not credible, and I can not get sound convincing, even by grinding all the possible settings. I guitars of shit, but still ...
I played with a live mixing desk, with a Roland Jazz 120, 20R Custom Epiphone SG Special with Squier Start and Affinity. Oh yes, indeed, sounds shitty it may have come from there. Though! I bought a Hagstrom Sweden to € 600, and I have not the same sounds terrible, when plugged directly into the amp, the difference with my old guitars is staggering! I made the rock of families (ledzep 70's and stuff in this taste), blues-rock to the White Stripes / Black Keys, funk, and jazz. In the latter case, I would not even considering the possibility to use it. The guitar direct into the amp end!
Regarding the amps, if you have such a monster stack at € 3,000 lamps, a priori it seems silly to stick to an amp simulator, while the sound of the stack is sufficient unto itself. In fact, for me, the interest of such devices is to improve the sound of a transistor amp, or live mixing desk. If you already have a amp with good sound egg, why all dégeulasser bof with emulation? I already try, therefore, a ToneLab with a stratum and a marshall MG100, or UX2. It's fun, nothing more! For me it's the gadget, as fully below what can the "real thing", the amplifier in real life. For cons, the effects section is quite good, and seems to me more interesting than on other models equivalent in the competitors.
OVERALL OPINION
I have 3 years.
Assets:
+ Full of effects in one box (the principle)
+ Effects with a good range of adjustments
+ Expression pedal assignable to any parameter. Believe me, that changes everything!
+ 2 channels per preset (it is often useful)
+ Recorder sentences efficient and time stretching makes a lot of services
+ Ultra strong metal case
+ Power supply provided (that is not true of all brands, is it Boss?)
Ds + sound quality not disappointing, we'll say.
Cons:
- Presets "artist", supposed to provide "more" cans are completely unless it is metal (not me)
- The terrible distos
- Feedback very easily
- Infernal to master interface
- Drum gadget
- Type metal and sounds of all kinds of pork
I would do this choice? Until recently, no. And recently, I tried for the trip, to amplify my tropette with a preamp and paste the Digitech. And then I thanked God for being so dumb to buy this stuff! The amp simus rajoutent a really interesting color, and effects chelou, I love, I do improv sessions with trumpet pitch + or + flanger thoroughly delay + reverb, it's huge! In this use there, it's worth it. As the price almost halved within a year after its release (Grrr. .. is that the pigeon who bought it at full price?), 200 €, just for the effects and capacity settings it seems to me a good deal, but experimentation is a good Swiss Army knife. As for cons of real sounds ... ben ... you buy an Orange amp.