yea i love my j-station. for a while i only used it for recording. when i would hook it up to my mackie pa-mixer deal, it sounded like garbage. i think it was the pa speakers themselves. but now i have it through a power amp and a mesa 4x12 cabinet, it sounds great.
i bought a j-8 on ebay a while back for only like $110 - $130 or so. don't remember off hand. it works fine and adds wah. the wah is decent but a real pedal is of course much better. but those cost a lot more obviously. also, when changing patches on the foot controller, it usually takes a split second after you press the button. its not immediate, but almost.
i currently record through the line in on my soundblaster live! card. i dont mind the quality, but i don't know what i'm missing with the spdif option. if anyone is bored, feel free to email or post a sample recorded through the line-in, and then recorded through the spdif. i'd like to go spdif, but the SB doesn't support that.
also, whats an in-expensive way to go about adding spdif-in capibilities to my computer setup?
also, i have a pretty decent distortion patch. pretty heavy. works for megadeth, metallica, dream theater. etc. i'm not sure where i got it but i can go through my downloaded patches and figure out which one it is, or probably just dump it to its own file.
i also have (in my opinion) a nice clean, and one thats supposed to sound like yngwie. actually i think what i did was looked at a supposed screen shot of yngwie's settings (he practices on a j-station) and put it in my setup. it sounds ok.
eddie
