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pdc06
Published on 02/12/09 at 15:08
Value For Money :
Excellent
Sound card and speaker "all in one", while the USB connected to a computer.
Walk in USB 1.1 and USB2, no external power supply.
Simulation software very well-known amps and effects. Driver-free problems, plus 2 CDs to import old classics to play on.
The speakers are stereo, about 5cm in diameter. The case must be in the 10-20cm. However, it still requires an extra bag if you want to play with from his laptop.
More than enough connections for my liking: XLR mic and guitar + to the rear, behind the stereo output as well, while the 6.5 jack.
3 knobs on the front for the microphone input level and output line and speakers / headphones.
UTILIZATION
The installation is all done without any problems, updating and connecting to the site JamVOX Online impeccable. On a positive note: downloads from the site is super fast.
Given the small number of settings on the case, it is very easy to handle. The same software is frankly very easy to learn compared to other similar soft.
A lot of cool features on paper, but far from all effective for use:
- The +
* Simulator microphones is very very good. I spent my G & L Start with a humbucker and I got a pretty close to my Squier Custom 2 Humbuckers and P-90. Same in the other direction by passing the Squier in single coil. The sound is very close and very well done.
* The effects and the amp simulation is more than adequate, but it is still quite far from the quality of Amplitube in my humble opinion.
* The simplicity of the settings in any order and the establishment
* Practical, comprehensive and rather cheap to make scratches on a computer.
* Tuner and metronome are nickels.
- Les -
* The sound output of the box is changed almost every time we touch we change a setting or sound, making it necessary to change the volume on the case regularly and frankly it's super boring. They might have a master volume output level of the software or the sound to match its setting knob.
* The GTX is not good: it frequently happens that it "eats" not the guitar or that it "eats" other instruments. Anyway, it's a tool that I am not interested a priori.
* Changes in pitch and tempo work only amend them, later, it quickly becomes anything. And it's annoying because the loops are almost all batteries at the same tempo for a given style of music and it is hard to slow it down or speed it up without a consequent loss of quality.
* Even in v1.10, there are still very annoying bugs. If the software is stopped and restarts it, for some reason, the playback tempo of songs is so ultra fast cartoon. Only solution, reboot the PC. The stability of soft also leaves a bit to be desired.
In short mixed feelings about using.
GETTING STARTED
Sound, well ...
Already, as many people: regular crunches and untimely. I set the latency to peak and it is true that in the soft JamVOX, the higher latency was imperceptible to me playing and the crackling disappeared as if by magic. Great!
Except that listening to MP3 or making video games, they come back and it's super super bad.
So it works well to play the guitar but I can not use JamVOX in sound card for other things and yet it's also why I bought it.
In terms of soft and simulations, as mentioned above, is still far away from Amplitube, also set out in the Asio JamVOX.
The HP are tiny and powered by USB, so do not ask for miracles. The power is just enough, and again, and the sound quality is very average.
Note that I played with a G & L S500, an Epiphone Sheraton and a Squier Tele Custom II.
In short, level sound quality, for me it's passable. Yet I have a racing machine (quad core, 4GB RAM, XP SP3, powerful quality PSU) but I'll more than likely go back to my Edirol FA-66 connected in output to my Vox DA5 and Amplitube as simulation, since the level overall quality of sound is the day and night with JamVOX.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for one week but this weekend I return to my Edirol FA-66 and Amplitube. I will sell for perhaps buy the speakers worthy of the name to plug it or put my DA5, more cumbersome it is true
I had sound cards M-Audio Fast Track USB, Edirol UA-25 Edirol FA-66 and JamVOX (it is between the M-Audio and Edirol).
I have tried many simus: Guitar Rig 1 & 2, Revalver, almost all AmpliTube. Again, the JamVOX is pretty good and I will be between Revalver and Amplitube.
It's still a good value to me because for 200 euros, we have a solution for a guitar player on a PC.
Besides, if it had been one of my first card designs and soft, I would have surely loved it. But there, I lost a lot as compared to before so I return to my previous installation.
Walk in USB 1.1 and USB2, no external power supply.
Simulation software very well-known amps and effects. Driver-free problems, plus 2 CDs to import old classics to play on.
The speakers are stereo, about 5cm in diameter. The case must be in the 10-20cm. However, it still requires an extra bag if you want to play with from his laptop.
More than enough connections for my liking: XLR mic and guitar + to the rear, behind the stereo output as well, while the 6.5 jack.
3 knobs on the front for the microphone input level and output line and speakers / headphones.
UTILIZATION
The installation is all done without any problems, updating and connecting to the site JamVOX Online impeccable. On a positive note: downloads from the site is super fast.
Given the small number of settings on the case, it is very easy to handle. The same software is frankly very easy to learn compared to other similar soft.
A lot of cool features on paper, but far from all effective for use:
- The +
* Simulator microphones is very very good. I spent my G & L Start with a humbucker and I got a pretty close to my Squier Custom 2 Humbuckers and P-90. Same in the other direction by passing the Squier in single coil. The sound is very close and very well done.
* The effects and the amp simulation is more than adequate, but it is still quite far from the quality of Amplitube in my humble opinion.
* The simplicity of the settings in any order and the establishment
* Practical, comprehensive and rather cheap to make scratches on a computer.
* Tuner and metronome are nickels.
- Les -
* The sound output of the box is changed almost every time we touch we change a setting or sound, making it necessary to change the volume on the case regularly and frankly it's super boring. They might have a master volume output level of the software or the sound to match its setting knob.
* The GTX is not good: it frequently happens that it "eats" not the guitar or that it "eats" other instruments. Anyway, it's a tool that I am not interested a priori.
* Changes in pitch and tempo work only amend them, later, it quickly becomes anything. And it's annoying because the loops are almost all batteries at the same tempo for a given style of music and it is hard to slow it down or speed it up without a consequent loss of quality.
* Even in v1.10, there are still very annoying bugs. If the software is stopped and restarts it, for some reason, the playback tempo of songs is so ultra fast cartoon. Only solution, reboot the PC. The stability of soft also leaves a bit to be desired.
In short mixed feelings about using.
GETTING STARTED
Sound, well ...
Already, as many people: regular crunches and untimely. I set the latency to peak and it is true that in the soft JamVOX, the higher latency was imperceptible to me playing and the crackling disappeared as if by magic. Great!
Except that listening to MP3 or making video games, they come back and it's super super bad.
So it works well to play the guitar but I can not use JamVOX in sound card for other things and yet it's also why I bought it.
In terms of soft and simulations, as mentioned above, is still far away from Amplitube, also set out in the Asio JamVOX.
The HP are tiny and powered by USB, so do not ask for miracles. The power is just enough, and again, and the sound quality is very average.
Note that I played with a G & L S500, an Epiphone Sheraton and a Squier Tele Custom II.
In short, level sound quality, for me it's passable. Yet I have a racing machine (quad core, 4GB RAM, XP SP3, powerful quality PSU) but I'll more than likely go back to my Edirol FA-66 connected in output to my Vox DA5 and Amplitube as simulation, since the level overall quality of sound is the day and night with JamVOX.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for one week but this weekend I return to my Edirol FA-66 and Amplitube. I will sell for perhaps buy the speakers worthy of the name to plug it or put my DA5, more cumbersome it is true
I had sound cards M-Audio Fast Track USB, Edirol UA-25 Edirol FA-66 and JamVOX (it is between the M-Audio and Edirol).
I have tried many simus: Guitar Rig 1 & 2, Revalver, almost all AmpliTube. Again, the JamVOX is pretty good and I will be between Revalver and Amplitube.
It's still a good value to me because for 200 euros, we have a solution for a guitar player on a PC.
Besides, if it had been one of my first card designs and soft, I would have surely loved it. But there, I lost a lot as compared to before so I return to my previous installation.