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Multi-Effects for Electric Guitar from Zoom

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Published on 02/18/09 at 13:14
The digital effects in mass, but the cheap.
The +: editing of sounds that allows some adjustments.
The -: end not much to keep.

UTILIZATION

Config simple.
Edition even easier than the first generation.
Never read the manual ...

SOUND QUALITY

That's the important!
Factory settings pathetic.
With a BC Rich Warlock with Dean Markley 10/52, and on "home studio" for recording "Dtd."
Disto: type "MS", Eq on "37", because "Room 1 / 2" (no chorus or other effects making his typical ... and thank you !!!), BONTEMPI the AW16G allows to equalize all it's fine, otherwise ...
it does not send a stupid but it works, albeit with a peak incidence in recurrent upper midrange, right or downright stifling a gaping hollow sound (despite hours and hours of adjustments ...).

Even with the possibilities of the AW16G, it is nasal, it whines more than that sings, especially on the high strings.
In clean, several solutions are effective.
Distos settings are pre-listed for my taste, to each his own. But we will not simulate properly with that lamp. Just a hubbub just acceptable at times.

OVERALL OPINION

Well, not much has been said about this machine.
But apart from being in stereo, there are almost all distos the first 505, including "DIST", which, on the old fair, is "worse than if it was worse" here!
By 2 against which a new distos "MS", is held ... simul 'Marshall?
Well it is far from just Marshall. Or Mesa? ditto ...

And this distortion "MS" seems to me the only truly useful, others are drooling, screaming or just plain yucky ...., and despite all the settings, because it is sizzling over 9/10Khz, even by cutting the top spectrum with Eq, so it's not really a good simulation, or simply a good sound.
In clean, one can find his life following his style, being patient and without abusing effects.

A nice little device nonetheless given its price, to start, but get tired faster if you are music lover or a bit demanding.
Live, tested once, he acted honestly, without more, always with the same config directly into the PA system.

Not working in the studio and recording in the AW16G Dtd, we'll sell it all and move to the Pod XT or tubeman, hopefully. Unless a large metals with the radical solution for the large metal Dtd? I thanked him for me to communicate, I'm sick and tired of buying / selling all the time ...