Product: Alesis NanoVerb
Price Paid: DM 348
Submitted
10/21/1996
at
02:04am
by
Rainer Boettchers
Ease of Use
:
9
Very easy, no manual needed. No user presets but only two knobs, so not the main problem.
Sound Quality
:
10
Perfect reverb and delay. For that price the best you can get (IMHO). Best to use in the effects loop.
Reliability
:
9
Just new, no experience. Seems to be quite stable.
Customer Support
:
9
No problems up to now.
Overall Rating
:
10
Best sound quality for that price. Support stereo mode.
Product: Alesis NanoVerb
Price Paid: #UK 169
Submitted
10/06/1996
at
02:50pm
by
John Nevill
Ease of Use
:
8
Extremely easy to use, 16 rotary preset programmes with input, output, mix and adjust pots. The adjust pot is the good bit !, providing one parameter adjust on each preset. The front panel also has two leds, one for power, the other showing clipping distortion. The back panel has stereo inputs / outputs and the left channel input doubles as mono in. There is also a bypass footswitch connector, a must for killing the effect, as there's no on or bypass switch. (Bad point- why dont they provide an on switch!). The manual explains everything and tells you which parameter the adjust knob effects. The whole thing is powered by a 9 volt wall wart.
Sound Quality
:
9
The unit is very quiet and since there are only sixteen effects, well heres the lowdown. Hall 1 - Bright reflections Hall 2 - Warmer hall with decay set to max for good results Hall 3 - Medium hall with 12ms delay before reverb starts Room 1 - Hardwood studio with early reflections Room 2 - Good for Antispetic synth sounds Room 3 - Warm studio, great on acoustic gutiars Plate verb 1 - Classic bright vocal plate Plate verb 2 - Sustain for guitars Plate verb 3 - Vintage tube plate, snappy Non linear - Brilliant for snares Chorus - Well its better than my Boss - its should be its stereo! Flanger - Same again! Rotary - Dont use it - or havent found a use for it yet Chorus/room 1 - Multieffect with reverb decay adjust (nice) Chorus/room 2 - Multieffect with delay adjust Delay - Very clean with upto 1270ms delay time
The quality of the effects are, well better than my Zoom 3030 by a long way.
Reliability
:
8
As I only use in a bedroom studio its hard to say if it will stand up to gig work. The knobs dont look that strong and if all the leads are in, it needs bolting in a rack as its a bit light.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Its only been on for about 50 hours so I havent had to ring customer support yet, hope they are better than Roland.
Overall Rating
:
8
All in all, a good medium priced unit, however with a little more though i'd be better off buying a used midiverb.
