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Published on 10/02/05 at 15:00I play lead/rhythm electric/acoustic guitar. I have been playing instruments for 14 years. I am currently in a band that plays a wide variety of songs. My main influences are 80s hard rock, blues, and metal.
I received this unit for my birthday this year (may) from my fiancee. There were many choices of units in this price range, but I picked this one. It was $99 new. My fiancee bought this at a local guitar store.
It has many good sounds including the amp sims and the effects are quite good as well. I love the fact that there are 4 footswitches which can be assigned any patch, instead of having to tap your way to what you want.
The range of each effect is very strict to what the manufaturer put on it. There is no gray area like you would find tweaking a knob on a pedal. The layout of the input/outputs is set so that the only way to hook this up to my rig is to have the guitar directly into this unit and then to my other pedals, finally into my amp. Doing this and trying to bypass the unit to use my Fender Deville 2x12 only - causes a good deal of noise to come through the amp. Its almost like the unit wants control of the rig. For that reason alone I am really starting to hate this unit. Overall the amp sims are in the ballpark, but as I do not own a Marshall/Mesa/Peavey I can't tell you how close it is.
It is made of nearly indestructible metal with hard plastic pedals, and rubber knobs. Excellent.
Very versitile, yet confining. This is great for what it does which is give me the ability to include effects and new distortion tones to my current setup without have to buy 5-10 new pedals. Very good unit.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
I received this unit for my birthday this year (may) from my fiancee. There were many choices of units in this price range, but I picked this one. It was $99 new. My fiancee bought this at a local guitar store.
It has many good sounds including the amp sims and the effects are quite good as well. I love the fact that there are 4 footswitches which can be assigned any patch, instead of having to tap your way to what you want.
The range of each effect is very strict to what the manufaturer put on it. There is no gray area like you would find tweaking a knob on a pedal. The layout of the input/outputs is set so that the only way to hook this up to my rig is to have the guitar directly into this unit and then to my other pedals, finally into my amp. Doing this and trying to bypass the unit to use my Fender Deville 2x12 only - causes a good deal of noise to come through the amp. Its almost like the unit wants control of the rig. For that reason alone I am really starting to hate this unit. Overall the amp sims are in the ballpark, but as I do not own a Marshall/Mesa/Peavey I can't tell you how close it is.
It is made of nearly indestructible metal with hard plastic pedals, and rubber knobs. Excellent.
Very versitile, yet confining. This is great for what it does which is give me the ability to include effects and new distortion tones to my current setup without have to buy 5-10 new pedals. Very good unit.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com