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Published on 05/28/07 at 15:00Been playing guitar most of my life (i'm 41 now). Tastes range form Rock, blues, Christian worhsip.
Purchased from Sound Control in Birmingham around the same time I was upgrading all my gear - it was used with my Mesa Boogie F50 and Gibson Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster. I think it cost £399 - they had only just come out at the time - you can get them much cheaper now.
I was attracted by having all effects in one unit, it looked great with two expression pedals and the valve showing and the flexibility and number of effects was just out of this world.
I've sold it on ebay now. I'm a bit of a techno-junkie (and computer programmer), but never really had the time to work out how programme it properly - it was just a little too complex for what i wanted for a live gig - even though I had pre-programmed the channels beforehand (although for recording when I had more time to dial in the efects and play with it a bit more it was great). I never seemed to be able to get the best sounds on the unit and had problems in getting 'equal' volumes / levels when switching between pre-sets, especially when changing between clean and crunched sounds. When it was used in bi-pass mode it seemed to loose gain / brightness (even with the gain switch at the back set on max) and again, problems getting even levels between bi-pass and effects.
Fantastic - at a gig I accidentally dropped my Gibson on it - took a chunk out of the headstock of the guitar, only made a minor dink on the case - rock solid construction.
If you have the time, patience and ability, then this unit is well worth having - I take full responsibility for not generating the time to get the best out of the unit, but hey, i just decided I wanted something simpler.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Purchased from Sound Control in Birmingham around the same time I was upgrading all my gear - it was used with my Mesa Boogie F50 and Gibson Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster. I think it cost £399 - they had only just come out at the time - you can get them much cheaper now.
I was attracted by having all effects in one unit, it looked great with two expression pedals and the valve showing and the flexibility and number of effects was just out of this world.
I've sold it on ebay now. I'm a bit of a techno-junkie (and computer programmer), but never really had the time to work out how programme it properly - it was just a little too complex for what i wanted for a live gig - even though I had pre-programmed the channels beforehand (although for recording when I had more time to dial in the efects and play with it a bit more it was great). I never seemed to be able to get the best sounds on the unit and had problems in getting 'equal' volumes / levels when switching between pre-sets, especially when changing between clean and crunched sounds. When it was used in bi-pass mode it seemed to loose gain / brightness (even with the gain switch at the back set on max) and again, problems getting even levels between bi-pass and effects.
Fantastic - at a gig I accidentally dropped my Gibson on it - took a chunk out of the headstock of the guitar, only made a minor dink on the case - rock solid construction.
If you have the time, patience and ability, then this unit is well worth having - I take full responsibility for not generating the time to get the best out of the unit, but hey, i just decided I wanted something simpler.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com