Effect processors

[LovasJB]

Hello guys. I need your help again. :) I would like to buy a cheap effect processor(I don't have a job, since I'm a secodary school student), and I found three, which look like it could be cool in the price range. They are:

-Korg AX5G

-Zoom G1X

-Digitech RP-90

I've chosen them, because, frst of all, they are pretty cheap, probably decent, and have an expression/volume pedal. I haven't tried any of them, because you can't really find them at the local music shop, so I'll have to order them from the internet. I know this is very bad, but that seems to be the only choice(or I can buy horrible stuff from the shop, that I tried :D ).

So please if you can tell me which of these three is the best - IN YOUR OPPINION! Mostly I want good delay, reverb, tremolo and that stuff... And some amp models, of course.

My guess would be the Korg, because... well, it's Korg, so it has to be cool. :D

 

To be honest, I wish I could buy a Line 6 processor, but they come without expression/volume pedal, and are a bit more expensive than this 3 others.

 

Thanks for your help!

[telecaster]

hey man , i'm going to buy my first effect too! :D . zoom g1x is pretty awesome and also cheap. i'm going to buy that one.

 

i'm jovi from indonesia. what's your guitar anyway?

[bearcat1229]

You can always add a volume/expression pedal to the mix seperately....

 

Line 6 is the way to go if you can afford it, but out of the 3 you mention our old guitarist used an older model Digitech and it worked well. Korg is great for keyboards, not so much for guitar stuff.

[LovasJB]

telecaster: Cool, have fun with it! :) My guitar is a Squier Affinity Telecaster. I know what you people think deep in you, but here where I live the instrument prices are pretty high, so I'll have to stick with it for the moment.

 

bearcat1229: Yes I know that I could add an expression pedal later, but that would be way too much at the moment unfortunately, I I bought Line 6 stuff. :( Probably with a Line 6 Pocket POD but I haven't heard much good about it.

[telecaster]

ahahah , mine is squier california series ! what color you got?

[LovasJB]

Butterscotch Blonde with a black pickguard.

[telecaster]

I was looking the affinity, but kinda hard to find it in jakarta.

 

Well this is the first forum i join :)

what's your name? Nice to know ya

[LovasJB]

telecaster: My name is Lovas J. B. (yes, I have 3 names, but I won't tell them all).

But let's get back to the topic. You told that you are going to buy that Zoom effect. So, have you bought it?

 

bearcat1229: I did some research on the Digitech RP-90 pedal and it looks like that it was the worst of the three. I'm sure your guitarist could afford an older, but better pedal than this, that's why it was cool. :) But I could be wrong, and this RP-90 could be the best of the three? :lol:

[telecaster]

no i havent. maybe in 2 months i'll buy it.

 

which one would you buy?

[LovasJB]

At the moment, I really can't decide... I've seen YouTube videos of the Korg and Zoom pedals, but not the Digitech. I wish some who knew the effects better than me wrote in the topic, and helped me out. :\

[telecaster]

hmm. i have no clue which is better . the reviews said zoom is easy to be broken. but some said it's okay if you taking care of it well.

 

i dunno. is korg got wah on list effect?

[LovasJB]

Yeah, if I'm correct the Korg has a wah. And you can controll it with the expression pedal.

[telecaster]

i've checked them out in ulitimate-guitar. the best rattings they got is korg.

but check this man's impression with his zoom and korg.

 

 

Impression: I mainly play all types of metal, Grunge and classic rock.. also a little bit of blues and jazz, but mainly metal/grunge/rock, and I think that this pedal is pretty good for those three genres. I've been playing for about 1 and a half years. I also own a DigiTech Grunge pedal, a Behringer UD100, UM100 and a Korg AX5G multi effects pedal (which I replaced by buying this). I decided to buy this pedal as I heard that Zoom products were very good, and that they're good for the type of music I play, and after trying it at the guitar shop, I had no doubts that this was the perfect pedal for me, and also because I was very unsatisfied with my Korg AX5G pedal. I really wish I had known about this pedal when I bought my first multi effects (about 2months ago). If this were ever stolen or lost or anything happened to it, I would definitely buy a new one, because this is an amazing pedal and it is very reasonably priced. I compared this to my Korg AX5G (my 1st multi effects pedal) and I think this is much better than the Korg pedal. I really wish it had a bigger expression pedal as I think the expression pedal on this is a bit too small for me, as I have a size 12 foot, but hey, not everyone wears a size 12, so I don't know about others, but I wish it had a bigger expression pedal. But overall, I am very satisfied with this product, and if other Zoom products are this good, then I am always going in for a Zoom product. // 10

 

Ease of Use: First the Zoom G1X has no on and off button so, you have to either use the adapter, plug it in every time you want to play and unplug it every time you want to turn it off, or you can use batteries and have to take put them in and out every time you want to play. So, me being a lazy person I really do not want to do all that work. I just want to jam. Is it really so hard to put an on and off button on the thing. Also, editing the tempo of the drumachine to me just looked like a headache to me. I looked up how to do it in the manuel and to do it you have to and I qoute hit (bank up-tap) key once and then turn the (valve) know while the tempo value is being shown on the display. // 4

 

 

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_effects/zoom/g1x/index.html

[LovasJB]

Thanks very much. :D

I've just recently visited the local music shop, and to my surprise, they have the Digitech pedal! So I think I'll try it out in a few days time.

[telecaster]

well that's good!

 

just try it in the store or you meant you're going to buy that one?

[Mig-El]

question: do some electric guitars come with effects already or you really need to buy a pedal???? the only guitars I've seen in person are pretty cheap guitars of some friends and they sound almost like an acoustic without a pedal

[dorffy]

question: do some electric guitars come with effects already or you really need to buy a pedal???? the only guitars I've seen in person are pretty cheap guitars of some friends and they sound almost like an acoustic without a pedal

 

It's VERY unusuall that guitar come with built in effects. The only guitar i can think of is Matt Bellamy's custom "Mattocaster" :P. It has a built in z-vex fuzz factory, and one of the models have a built in korg kaosspad. All electric guitars sound like acoustic guitars if you play it through an amp that doesn't distort the signal. To get the distortioned electric sound you either need a box, or a tubeamp to crank :cool:. Guitars with humbucking pick-ups sound more "distortiony" than a single-coil pick-uped guitar.

[fakfak]

It really comes down to which of them sounds best to you, and which one you find the easiest to use. Of the three, the Digitech is the only one I have no personal expeience with, and personally, I'd prefer the Korg, but that's just my opinion, as they're both good units (neither is top of the line, but IMHO both are pretty good) I'd say the Korg is not only better, but is also a better value for the money.

[LovasJB]

It really comes down to which of them sounds best to you, and which one you find the easiest to use. Of the three, the Digitech is the only one I have no personal expeience with, and personally, I'd prefer the Korg, but that's just my opinion, as they're both good units (neither is top of the line, but IMHO both are pretty good) I'd say the Korg is not only better, but is also a better value for the money.

 

Thanks very much! As I said in the first post, I wanted to hear personal oppinions, so this is a perfect reply. :)

Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to try these exact pedals in my local music shop. :( If I remember well, there are only different versions(like the Korg without the expression pedal) of the processors. But when I decided to buy an effect processor, I was going for the Korg, so it's still my number one at the moment.

 

If you(or anyone reading this) know this Korg processor well, could you please tell me, if I can create my own reverb, delay and other effects? Because I heard that some effects aren't separated. And how many effects can this Korg run at the same time?

 

(please don't tell me "Google is your friend" or something like that, because I've already done search on the processors, but what I found were mostly just marketing stuff)

 

Thanks! :)

[fakfak]

I have limited experience with the specifics of the Korg. (the one I have heard belonged to a friend of mine and I never really got into the specifics of it's technical workings.) I do know that it seemed to run at least 3-4 distinct effects and still seem to sound good, other than that, I really couldn't say.

[Mig-El]

oh thanks well I understood 80% of what you said actually, so the amp could help just to distort the sound but I played once a guitar that had a mmmm don't know how to call it, a little stick or switch or something by the volume buttons and stuff and by moving it the sound of the guitar changed so it's not common?? or what?? sorry if I'm annoying you

[acade365]

oh thanks well I understood 80% of what you said actually, so the amp could help just to distort the sound but I played once a guitar that had a mmmm don't know how to call it, a little stick or switch or something by the volume buttons and stuff and by moving it the sound of the guitar changed so it's not common?? or what?? sorry if I'm annoying you

 

miguel, y believe what your talking about is just the pickup selector switch. its not an effect or anything similar, it just lets you choose which pickup (or pickups) you are going to use.

 

Most electric guitars have 2 or 3 pickups: one located near the neck ("neck pickup"), one near the bridge ("bridge pickup") and possibly one in between ("middle pickup"). With the pickup selector, you can select which pickups are active. Each pickup detects string vibrations at different locations along the string's length; this makes every pickup sound different.

[LovasJB]

Alright, I ordered the Korg AX5G, and it will arrive tomorrow. Hope it's worth the money. :)

[Mig-El]

MAN IF YOU SPOKE SPANISH I THINK I WOULD UNDERSTAND, but I kind of got it

[acade365]

MAN IF YOU SPOKE SPANISH I THINK I WOULD UNDERSTAND, but I kind of got it

 

perdon miguel, te respondo en español entonces.

 

ese interruptor del que hablas es simplemente el que te deja cambiar de receptor o pickup en la guitarra... no es ningun efecto, sino que basicamente cambia el tono porque cambias el pickup elegido.

 

la mayor parte de las guitarras tienen dos o tres pickups, uno cerca del cuello de la guitarra y otros en el medio y del otro lado. ese interruptor te permite elegir cual utilizaras.