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Published on 03/10/12 at 15:57An analog section consists of an overdrive and distortion. This section is placed before all other treatments and can be disabled by inserting a loop Novasystem in order to benefit from the pre-amplification stage of the amp.
Followed: a compressor (three variants), a parametric EQ, a noise gate, a block modulation (chorus, flanger, tremolo, phaser, tremolo, panner), a block Pitch (pitch, octaver, Whammy, detune, harmonizer programmable ), a Delay block (clean, analog, tape, dynamic, dual (as U2), table tennis) and finally four réverbes.Pas Wah available, sorry!
Jack-connector input for Guitar
-Jack connectors for insertion in a loop (bypass of OD and Disto)
-Connectors SPDIF in / out RCA
Triplette-MIDI in / or / throuh
-Connector for expression pedal or GSwitch TC to call the preset mode Pedal
-Power connector (no need external power)
UTILIZATION
We can not say that editing on this machine is very simple.
The number of available parameters is complete, the use of menus and submenus is imperative and requires the user manual.
Once tamed, the Nova System finally seems logical. The manual is well written and clear, though it lacks some subtleties to be discovered by chance and use.
No software publisher, or usb socket to communicate with a pc.
The MIDI dump is still possible for updates and load banks.
Each effect can be edited in a comprehensive and nuanced. You can store 4 settings "favorites" for each one that can be recalled at any time to develop an entire preset. Each program can be saved in a bank. 30 factory programs, and 60 available to the user. This is less than the competition but more than adequate.
Each parameter can be edited via a two-line monochrome display, very bright. Four knobs serve to vary the settings on the display.
Two main modes of operation:
PRESET MODE: In this mode switches the pedal increment two banks and three other programs operate in the bank. There are three switches to operate the Boost, Tap / Tempo (and tuner), delay. In this mode, 3 sounds per bank may seem insufficient, but we made it.
PEDAL MODE: here it is as if we had a traditional pedalboard to 8 pedals. The limitation comes from the fact that you can not stack multiple effects of the same famille.Par ex: it's either chorus or flanger or phaser but never together. This is a restriction to the truth but I do not see when I had to use a flanger together with a chorus ... Same for the pitch, not Octaver along the harmonizer. It does not matter but you must know.
Just then prepare its sounds in advance (as we would solve the pedals) and then turn them on and off on demand as with a traditional pedalboard.
There is also a speaker simulator for direct output to console or a tuner enregistreur.Ainsi accurate but difficult to read because of the narrowness of the display, it helps out good anyway.
SOUND QUALITY
Here, there is more ambiguity.
The sound quality is at the rendezvous, as always with TC Electronic, we fly far above the competition in terms of transparency, dynamics, compliance with it connected. This is the digital (except DO), but no emulation! The sound is great, the staggering Delay, reverbs small but perfectly usable, the sublime chorus ... Everything is monstrously efficient!
There are no miles sounds like an esoteric Line6 HD500 or a Digitech RP1000, but everything is far from usable ridiculous, far from my face.
Small problem: the overdrive and distortion, while being of good behavior, look ordinary in terms of the quality of the rest. The sounds are similar, roughly speaking a SD-1 and DS-1 at Boss. Nice but not transcendant.Attention in front of a tube amp that makes him seriously anyway, but it will forget the abysmal distos the metal beyond the grave!
This is done to the Rock and Heavy Metal to the limit, of Maiden Hendrix to Satriani through if we want ...
Do not hesitate to put the Nova in the loop and connect his favorite distortion pedal in front.
In any case, having heard the G-System of the same brand (but three and a half times more expensive), I was hoping to get a bit of magic in this TC Electronic pedal "economic" and I'm not disappointed! ! I assure you that there is a world between this machine and disappointing Boss GT10, the side of IRONMONGER Line6 successful emulations with a cold but still marked.
For better is AxeFX, G-System (more complete).
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for three weeks in the rehearsal studio and home studio. For this I set all of the pedals to stick with the band's repertoire. Few hours of toil and trial and error, but the rewards are worth it. Exit my pedalboard heavy and cumbersome. My preferred configuration is: just NovaSystem with my expression pedal in front of my Laney VC30 on clean channel.
For concerts I plan to pull through the loop and use my BlackStar HTdual for saturation because of its texture.
Before acquiring the Nova System, I tried a Vox Tonelab SE, Line 6 HD 500, Boss GT10 and DigitechRP1000. I admit that these products are more complete in terms of possibilities, not really sound limitations in delusions. It's really the sound that tipped the balance in favor of TC. When you hear the purity of the TC effects, we realize that it is not the same audience. A very similar rate, we must choose between opulence and ... quality.
The price / quality ratio seems paradoxically more favorable to the Nova System.
Not only that choice I would do the same budget, but I plan to stay in the same family and migrate to the big brother to have the cake and eat it too.
Followed: a compressor (three variants), a parametric EQ, a noise gate, a block modulation (chorus, flanger, tremolo, phaser, tremolo, panner), a block Pitch (pitch, octaver, Whammy, detune, harmonizer programmable ), a Delay block (clean, analog, tape, dynamic, dual (as U2), table tennis) and finally four réverbes.Pas Wah available, sorry!
Jack-connector input for Guitar
-Jack connectors for insertion in a loop (bypass of OD and Disto)
-Connectors SPDIF in / out RCA
Triplette-MIDI in / or / throuh
-Connector for expression pedal or GSwitch TC to call the preset mode Pedal
-Power connector (no need external power)
UTILIZATION
We can not say that editing on this machine is very simple.
The number of available parameters is complete, the use of menus and submenus is imperative and requires the user manual.
Once tamed, the Nova System finally seems logical. The manual is well written and clear, though it lacks some subtleties to be discovered by chance and use.
No software publisher, or usb socket to communicate with a pc.
The MIDI dump is still possible for updates and load banks.
Each effect can be edited in a comprehensive and nuanced. You can store 4 settings "favorites" for each one that can be recalled at any time to develop an entire preset. Each program can be saved in a bank. 30 factory programs, and 60 available to the user. This is less than the competition but more than adequate.
Each parameter can be edited via a two-line monochrome display, very bright. Four knobs serve to vary the settings on the display.
Two main modes of operation:
PRESET MODE: In this mode switches the pedal increment two banks and three other programs operate in the bank. There are three switches to operate the Boost, Tap / Tempo (and tuner), delay. In this mode, 3 sounds per bank may seem insufficient, but we made it.
PEDAL MODE: here it is as if we had a traditional pedalboard to 8 pedals. The limitation comes from the fact that you can not stack multiple effects of the same famille.Par ex: it's either chorus or flanger or phaser but never together. This is a restriction to the truth but I do not see when I had to use a flanger together with a chorus ... Same for the pitch, not Octaver along the harmonizer. It does not matter but you must know.
Just then prepare its sounds in advance (as we would solve the pedals) and then turn them on and off on demand as with a traditional pedalboard.
There is also a speaker simulator for direct output to console or a tuner enregistreur.Ainsi accurate but difficult to read because of the narrowness of the display, it helps out good anyway.
SOUND QUALITY
Here, there is more ambiguity.
The sound quality is at the rendezvous, as always with TC Electronic, we fly far above the competition in terms of transparency, dynamics, compliance with it connected. This is the digital (except DO), but no emulation! The sound is great, the staggering Delay, reverbs small but perfectly usable, the sublime chorus ... Everything is monstrously efficient!
There are no miles sounds like an esoteric Line6 HD500 or a Digitech RP1000, but everything is far from usable ridiculous, far from my face.
Small problem: the overdrive and distortion, while being of good behavior, look ordinary in terms of the quality of the rest. The sounds are similar, roughly speaking a SD-1 and DS-1 at Boss. Nice but not transcendant.Attention in front of a tube amp that makes him seriously anyway, but it will forget the abysmal distos the metal beyond the grave!
This is done to the Rock and Heavy Metal to the limit, of Maiden Hendrix to Satriani through if we want ...
Do not hesitate to put the Nova in the loop and connect his favorite distortion pedal in front.
In any case, having heard the G-System of the same brand (but three and a half times more expensive), I was hoping to get a bit of magic in this TC Electronic pedal "economic" and I'm not disappointed! ! I assure you that there is a world between this machine and disappointing Boss GT10, the side of IRONMONGER Line6 successful emulations with a cold but still marked.
For better is AxeFX, G-System (more complete).
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for three weeks in the rehearsal studio and home studio. For this I set all of the pedals to stick with the band's repertoire. Few hours of toil and trial and error, but the rewards are worth it. Exit my pedalboard heavy and cumbersome. My preferred configuration is: just NovaSystem with my expression pedal in front of my Laney VC30 on clean channel.
For concerts I plan to pull through the loop and use my BlackStar HTdual for saturation because of its texture.
Before acquiring the Nova System, I tried a Vox Tonelab SE, Line 6 HD 500, Boss GT10 and DigitechRP1000. I admit that these products are more complete in terms of possibilities, not really sound limitations in delusions. It's really the sound that tipped the balance in favor of TC. When you hear the purity of the TC effects, we realize that it is not the same audience. A very similar rate, we must choose between opulence and ... quality.
The price / quality ratio seems paradoxically more favorable to the Nova System.
Not only that choice I would do the same budget, but I plan to stay in the same family and migrate to the big brother to have the cake and eat it too.