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Published on 01/12/10 at 02:23
Best value:
Excellent
Mono guitar input> section "pedal (wah pedal with better but not usable as a filter, autowah, excellent Univibe, excellent distos - basically a treble booster, a nice kind OD1/DS1 OD, OD a grotty RAT kind, a distortion called oddly aggressive fuzz, etc..)> Section "amp" (modeling Vox, Mesa, Fender, etc..)> Section "pregnant" (ditto, you can mix everything together and turn it off if you play on amp)> Section "Module" (flanger, phaser, etc.).> section "delay" (a digital emulation of tape, a tape emulation MultiHead as watcat)> section reverb. Already, you are clearly facing a major limitation of the machine: you can not choose which way will the signal, and for those of you who like to put on stage before the amp, well it dead. Or for those of you who like me put the reverb before AND after the amp, well it dead too. And if you like put the reverb before your distortion, to obtain his "big mash" often used by guitarists certain doom, the manual explains that the machine is not well and need not do because it sounds ... puree. Except ... Obviously you are free to leave the machine on an amp and transplanting the output signal with a microphone. The machine is fully editable via a PC editor with access to additional parameters including the delays, which must be really good when it works, because as it is not compatible with all MIDI interfaces (it is also written in the manual) it does not work with me or not. It is a desktop storable, that I love because I saw that no one uses that home studio, I have everything close at hand. It is a technology "valvereactor" found on all products using Korg Vox and a lamp - passing is a 12AX7 electro-harmonics, I wonder what it's like if you change the lamp. There's a stereo audio output to two output levels "line" = the sound card and "amp" = to the amp, and a nice digital SPDIF output, input and MIDI output. And the obligatory headphone in front, another plus point.
UTILIZATION
Configuration, editing, use is childish. The book is funny and well made - even if it takes you a bit for a sausage from time to time - especially useful for combinations amp / speaker and general knowledge to know what this amp is based simulation. This is by far the multi-purpose the simplest and most intuitive I have ever had. On the other hand, it probably reflects the fact that the editing capabilities are much more limited than on a Boss GT series for example.
SOUND QUALITY
The effects range medium (the autowah is not configurable and sounds way) to honorable (rotary, less than a leslie simulation software for a pedal but honest) to really excellent (phaser, flanger, chorus sound as although the "real", although as stated above the chaining is weird and reverbs and delays are excellent, particularly the spring reverb emulation and delay type watcat). Me, I really miss a reverse delay and inability to assay the dry / wet on the reverb and delays makes me really miss - I like to send only the original signal without the delay but here we can assaying the amount of processed signal without cutting the original signal. Say to summarize the reverbs and delays sound good and sound good bill fishing but a lack of parameters and versatility. But the heart of the machine, ie amps, so there it beats. Whether or not it is "faithful to the original" when it comes to an emulation of a fender of the 60 it requires financial resources that I did not, it sounds great cons! In his clear typed Fender (blackface) as its saturated typed Mesa (front, U.S. higain supposed to imitate a Soldano) is really good. Obviously it does not sound likely to be "a true 100w Soldano thoroughly in a well insulated, subcultured by three microphones positioned correctly after two weeks of testing, ironed duplicate tracks in three different amp through a filter to moog give depth to the sound. " Well no, eh, but we're talking about a box plugged into the sound card at $ 100, not $ 15 000 of stuff in the studio of Steve Albini. To summarize it the best sound quality / size / price I've seen in this type of product. I tried it with my baritone guitar (Danelectro and Epiphone) and my Guvnor "normal", it sounds very very good, but as I said in the ultra higain but anyway I do not like it, I prefer obtain the thickness with a less saturated by other methods. With my Fender Jazz Bass that sounds medium, surprisingly, but with the simulation of the bassman, you get something pretty good.
OVERALL OPINION
I've had a week to provide update as usual. I multi-effects for approximately ten years, I practiced as it is the digital multi kind of Boss GT. The box is made of steel, well finished and quite beautiful. The screen is red and it's led to the former, not the LCD backlight. The knobs duck Vox facade is really not bad. Side effects are great but I feel a bit limited. But it is better to do little and although a lot and evil (cf. the old Zoom) Side on the other hand amp simulation is ROYAL for the price, so much so that I use with my usual pedals to record Live in cubase, the bottom is his vocation to the Tonelab. Speaking of calling, not "buy it not to do live with. Plugged into an amp, it sounds much less used in home studio for what it is actually emulate convincingly amp transplanted by a microphone. Ergonomics for the stage seems catastrophic. In addition to the optional foot costing an eye, and it is difficult to find. Compare a bit: - it sounds much better than Guitar Rig 4 amp simulation side, but obviously with much less versatility and possibilities - it sounds better Amplitube Fender, including Fender amps are better reproduced by the Tonelab j 'were the first surprise - it sounds better than Peavey Revalver, fewer opportunities there too, and may be more density in its Higain on Revalver? (Just for the record, we talk about software that is two to three times more expensive than the Tonelab and need hardware to run) - obviously, we must compare with a POD. In addition the XT is more expensive and ugly, I never wanted to try one
- and I will not insult you compare the Tonelab with foo Berhinger ugly and plastic, which has nothing to equivalent to 90-100 euros, the value for money is just incredible, remember what kind of stuff "equivalent" was at that price (Zoom G2, Korg AX, Pod Studio, etc..) that do not really play das the same court. If I do fall tomorrow, I repeat the same!
Edit June 2010: I still say it's the best value for money market in this type of product. I'll sell mine not because I'm tired ... but because I live in another with a back light better ...
UTILIZATION
Configuration, editing, use is childish. The book is funny and well made - even if it takes you a bit for a sausage from time to time - especially useful for combinations amp / speaker and general knowledge to know what this amp is based simulation. This is by far the multi-purpose the simplest and most intuitive I have ever had. On the other hand, it probably reflects the fact that the editing capabilities are much more limited than on a Boss GT series for example.
SOUND QUALITY
The effects range medium (the autowah is not configurable and sounds way) to honorable (rotary, less than a leslie simulation software for a pedal but honest) to really excellent (phaser, flanger, chorus sound as although the "real", although as stated above the chaining is weird and reverbs and delays are excellent, particularly the spring reverb emulation and delay type watcat). Me, I really miss a reverse delay and inability to assay the dry / wet on the reverb and delays makes me really miss - I like to send only the original signal without the delay but here we can assaying the amount of processed signal without cutting the original signal. Say to summarize the reverbs and delays sound good and sound good bill fishing but a lack of parameters and versatility. But the heart of the machine, ie amps, so there it beats. Whether or not it is "faithful to the original" when it comes to an emulation of a fender of the 60 it requires financial resources that I did not, it sounds great cons! In his clear typed Fender (blackface) as its saturated typed Mesa (front, U.S. higain supposed to imitate a Soldano) is really good. Obviously it does not sound likely to be "a true 100w Soldano thoroughly in a well insulated, subcultured by three microphones positioned correctly after two weeks of testing, ironed duplicate tracks in three different amp through a filter to moog give depth to the sound. " Well no, eh, but we're talking about a box plugged into the sound card at $ 100, not $ 15 000 of stuff in the studio of Steve Albini. To summarize it the best sound quality / size / price I've seen in this type of product. I tried it with my baritone guitar (Danelectro and Epiphone) and my Guvnor "normal", it sounds very very good, but as I said in the ultra higain but anyway I do not like it, I prefer obtain the thickness with a less saturated by other methods. With my Fender Jazz Bass that sounds medium, surprisingly, but with the simulation of the bassman, you get something pretty good.
OVERALL OPINION
I've had a week to provide update as usual. I multi-effects for approximately ten years, I practiced as it is the digital multi kind of Boss GT. The box is made of steel, well finished and quite beautiful. The screen is red and it's led to the former, not the LCD backlight. The knobs duck Vox facade is really not bad. Side effects are great but I feel a bit limited. But it is better to do little and although a lot and evil (cf. the old Zoom) Side on the other hand amp simulation is ROYAL for the price, so much so that I use with my usual pedals to record Live in cubase, the bottom is his vocation to the Tonelab. Speaking of calling, not "buy it not to do live with. Plugged into an amp, it sounds much less used in home studio for what it is actually emulate convincingly amp transplanted by a microphone. Ergonomics for the stage seems catastrophic. In addition to the optional foot costing an eye, and it is difficult to find. Compare a bit: - it sounds much better than Guitar Rig 4 amp simulation side, but obviously with much less versatility and possibilities - it sounds better Amplitube Fender, including Fender amps are better reproduced by the Tonelab j 'were the first surprise - it sounds better than Peavey Revalver, fewer opportunities there too, and may be more density in its Higain on Revalver? (Just for the record, we talk about software that is two to three times more expensive than the Tonelab and need hardware to run) - obviously, we must compare with a POD. In addition the XT is more expensive and ugly, I never wanted to try one
- and I will not insult you compare the Tonelab with foo Berhinger ugly and plastic, which has nothing to equivalent to 90-100 euros, the value for money is just incredible, remember what kind of stuff "equivalent" was at that price (Zoom G2, Korg AX, Pod Studio, etc..) that do not really play das the same court. If I do fall tomorrow, I repeat the same! Edit June 2010: I still say it's the best value for money market in this type of product. I'll sell mine not because I'm tired ... but because I live in another with a back light better ...