I just brought this thing home today so don't expect too much. A couple of these samples are just factory presets, and I must say that this is the first thing I've brought home from the music store in a long time that had any presets worth a darn. I should have done some tweaking with them before I recorded anything probably though coz there's a bit too much bass and so on with a few of them but I was in a hurry to post something since we've been discussing this gadget for a while now. The last 2 samples here are a couple of my own presets I made off the cuff in the last couple of minutes. Remember that phrase "off the cuff" because that's par for the course with what you'll hear on this stuff. There's some noise throughout most of these cuts (all around 30-seconds) and mostly that's either my speakers interacting with the guitar pickups from sitting right in front of them while recording live through them, and then some of the rest is because I haven't looked at setting the noise gate with this thing yet. If I use the factory presets through the headphones there's no noise at all though so bare that in mind. This thing ain't noisy—I am. Oh, and I got the levels a bit too hot with some of them too...oh well.
I think this things great at any price and I hope to post something a bit more worthwhile before long coz I think it deserves something better than what I'm giving you here to get your feet wet. What are it's advantages compared to other products like the J-Station and Pod? Well, for one thing almost all of the parameters can be edited on the front panel without getting into a bunch of midi crap in your computer. There are a few that have to be done that way but I think I'll seldom have to do that. I paid $130 for it making it very inexpensive and there's a lot of bang for buck. This unit is a huge improvement over last year's model not only in terms of sound but in features. There are twice as many amp sounds now and a bunch of different output routing options. You can bypass the amp modeling and use it as an effects unit with your guitar amp too. I haven't sat and counted all the effects but there's plenty and they're all very usable. In fact, I could see somebody buying one of these to use in conjunction with their POD just to use the effects alone plus getting a few different sounds. It's cheap enough to do something like that and then some.
1. Blues-Rock
2. Fender Bassman Blues
3. Fingerpicked with a Little Distortion
4. Extreme Chorusing/w Compression Clean
5. Auto-Wah Distorted
6. Santana
7. Fusion
I think this things great at any price and I hope to post something a bit more worthwhile before long coz I think it deserves something better than what I'm giving you here to get your feet wet. What are it's advantages compared to other products like the J-Station and Pod? Well, for one thing almost all of the parameters can be edited on the front panel without getting into a bunch of midi crap in your computer. There are a few that have to be done that way but I think I'll seldom have to do that. I paid $130 for it making it very inexpensive and there's a lot of bang for buck. This unit is a huge improvement over last year's model not only in terms of sound but in features. There are twice as many amp sounds now and a bunch of different output routing options. You can bypass the amp modeling and use it as an effects unit with your guitar amp too. I haven't sat and counted all the effects but there's plenty and they're all very usable. In fact, I could see somebody buying one of these to use in conjunction with their POD just to use the effects alone plus getting a few different sounds. It's cheap enough to do something like that and then some.
1. Blues-Rock
2. Fender Bassman Blues
3. Fingerpicked with a Little Distortion
4. Extreme Chorusing/w Compression Clean
5. Auto-Wah Distorted
6. Santana
7. Fusion
