Korg 411fx Super Multi FX

It is very easy to use. It has all the info you need right on the pedal itself. It would have been great to allow Edit modes to have individual on/off switch. The reason for this is if I just wanted to use just the reverb as a send/return to and from my amp I am able to do so without worrying about the other edit functions

The manual is ok. Should have a FAQ quide but I don't remember seeing one. Maybe a user setting guide and a few other ways to connect the pedal would have helped. I love those diagrams or manuals that tell you how you can achieve something.

I believe all the sounds here can be used and sound above average. Like some comments, it is a matter of time of getting it through tweaking. It does well for what it offers. I really like the chorus, reverb, the phaser (some people love it, some hate it)

In terms of the sound it all boils down to the type of music and what you are trying to achieve. I just wanted something small to allow me to add chorus or reverb or other types of effects apart from wah and distortion which I get elsewhere for jamming and gigging purpose.

I have 5 different guitars and have only used this with 3 Ibanez which is a RG, JS and Universe. No problems with any of them as the input switch allows for either single coil or humbucker pickups. I used to use it with a small Marshall amp (can't remember the model) for bedroom jams. Today, I use it with a Mesa Dual Recto and Orange Tiny Terror. It works with any amp. I have used it at gigs with no problems. I mainly use the reverb with my other Volume, Whammy or Wah pedals. My main tone is from the amp which primarily is the Recto. For added gain, i use another distortion pedal (MXR DIme).

I don't remember getting noise from the unit as off yet. I do get noise at certain gain/distortion settings but other than that, it is ok.

Reliability is good. I can use this for jamming or gigging. I've even used it on a recording before but only for a specific chorus (I think) sound.

No opinion here.

I don't think you can get it first hand anymore. I have had this since 1998 and I still use it. I don't normally get rid of something unless it is spoilt. When you do music, you never know when something can give you a particular sound you want and that is why I don't sell anything I buy. Before I got this, I tried it out at the shop until I was certain. This pedal has something special in it apart from the size. The EQ is good. The Chorus and Reverb is good. The Compressor and Gate is an added bonus.

People say the distortion suck. I disagree. Back off the gain.

Pro: It is small, packed with important features or effects which actually sound decent, allows for 2 different effects on a programme, and CHEAP

con: Lacks the on/off function for each edit parameter. A switch to go trhough the programmes would have been great.

I would give this a 8. I dont know why Korg never bothered to improve this product like they do with most.

Takes some getting used to. Once yourve stored your presets on the
users banks, try using it for a live jam. You may need to do some
tweaking then.
I had the manual photocopied & laminated.

I have LOTSA guitars! Lets see...there are 5 in my display case, 2
in my hard case, one on the couch.. well all of them are modified/
hot rods with High Output Humbuckers on bridge like Duncans & Dimarzios, & all the other crap on the neck or middle. I have these
efx/stomp box in this order from guitar to amp. Dunlop Crybaby, korg411dfx, proel volume pedal, behringer eq & Boss LS2. As the Korg
has a stero out, I connected a stero jack out to my 2 inputs ot the
volume pedal & one vol pedal out to the eq & another, without the eq,
thru the Boss LS2. This way I could get a variety of sounds. I could
use the eq line, or the dry line, or I could combine both to get a very FAT sound for solos ect. If I have 2 amps for my disposal, I could use 2 lines out for some very delicous stero sounds. Bear in mind that with the Korg in the middle, you already have 2 presets & 1 bypass at your feet.
I could go on & rate the efx individually but whats the point? Maybe
zooms reverb is is tad bit better, maybe PODs Distortion is warmer,
who cares? The great BB King once said that , Its not how many notes
you play,...its how you play them. & if you apply that to efx usage,
I would like to say,..its not what efx you use,...its how you use them..
I mainly use the Distortion on one bank & Chorous/Delay on the other.
I store some Flanger & some other weired sounds on other banks, just
to f#$k around.
I play mostly metal & hard rock, & amongst others, Steve Stevens is my idol. I would like to state that I do not sound, or try to sound like any of my role models though. I like the idea of people comming to my gigs, wanting to listen to me, & see me play. It they want Vai,
they could always stay home & watch his DVD.

Had it for 10 years. Never let me down, never had a back up either.
I had used it to jam with my band, a 4 piece outfit & Im on vocals
and 2nd guitar. My 1st guitarist is using a Digitech RP2k & I drown
him everytime. Had to constantly odered to turn down my volume.
I had gigs with other bands too with similar outcome. Besides, I
could hammer all the other plastic coated multis with it to pieces
& carry on to do an encore.

I do not think that Korg wants any more association with this product, as I did not see it in its products archives. All for the better as Im the only few people using it in this region.If somehow
or rather it would die on me, I would send it to some pedal doctor, put a gun on his head & wait as he gets it repaired.

I play mostly metal, covering Iron Maiden, Metallica, Deep Purple & mostly anything that drives a crowd into a mosh. Ive been playing for 17 years & our group had been around for 12. I also own 2 stacks which I bastardised from a Yamaha and a Roland bass amps. Those two could eat the JCMs around my town for breakfast.
If it were lost, I would find a medium, put a gun on his head & force him to find it back. If it were stolen, finding the SOB would be easy as all this time, I had seen nobody else using the dfx, & shove his guitar up his a*%. Yes, I would definitly buy it again, in fact, I would like to buy another. I would like to try putting 2 side
by side & use 2 banks simultanously. Its gonna be hard coz its no longer in production, so for those of you people, having it & hating it, please contact me at my addy below.
I would like to also add that I had jammed with numerous bands with another guitaris, & this thing always cut through! Furthermore how
many muti efx are out there with the size slightly bigger than a stomp box with a stero capabilities?
I also like its simple layout. I hate those bulky all in one multi efx that has 999 efx 999 models 999 banks type $%^&. If there is one guitarist that uses 60% of its capabilites, I would be amazed. If you see a drummer with & full rack of rides, crash, power toms ect, but only knows how to hit the snare, bass pedal & hihat, what would you call him?

Everything is pretty easy until you get to saving patches. It took me a little bit to figure it out, but once I did its super easy to use. All you have to do is set the first knob anywhere from 7-11, edit your sound on the green or red preset, once done hold down preset button till it flashes, when it flashes let go and hold down again. It should do I think 3 flashes then your done.

I use a Jackson Archtop Soloist Pro with a Bill Lawrence L500XL in the bridge, an Ampeg VH-140C halfstack, Boss NS-2, Dunlop Cry Baby and this the 411fx korg.

I will rate this pedal in two ways of use-

Effects only- This is the way I use it because for the longest time I was looking for a pedal that could add effects when I wanted them while having a great bypass. This does what I want, I have the green presets for my clean channel effects and the red presets for my solos. All the effects are great( some more than others but overall great ). I use to have some line 6 stuff and I had boss's multi fx pedals and even the korg Ax1000g but this little pedal beats them for using it right in front of your amps sounds. The effects cant be edited too much but I like that its very easy to find great effects to use on the fly. Here I give it a 10.

Distortions-These are only so-so. Only 1 of them are good. If the amp your using has a weak distortion then use it, tweak the EQ and rool off some highs. They are kinda trebley, but you could make them usable. The high gain one sounds more like a mix of boss heavy metal and a metal zone which is cool but use the EQ's. The others I couldnt get a good sound out of really. Here I give it a 6

Its metal and its badass. Gig without a backup. Plus I bought it used and it works perfectly.

These are worth way more than you can get them for and for what they do there a blessing. The big multieffects pedals always gave me a hard time when bypassing, kind of like forcing you to use its distortions. This pedal dosnt do that and the effects are transparent so it dosnt mess with your existing tone. I like this so much I am going to by a backup one just incase anything happens. I think this is the best Korg pedal yet, hands down.

The manual gave me a headache, and I have a ^%$#$ PhD! There are still some aspects of saving patches that I defy anyone to explain.
When it started going bad, it would save the same patch in all of the available slots (of which there were very few anyway).

Since I was running an electric singing saw w/ a Gibson(?) humbucker through it, I did not have a standard by which to judge it, so I cut it a lot of slack as far as tone went. I did have to keep the volume down and the noise gate at maximum, and even then I could not use much of any of the distortions w/out hellacious feedback.
I used it first w/ a Roland GC405, then a Univox U-155R and a Univox U-305R. The BEST I could get out of it was a fuzzy warm generic distortion.
I went to a # of music stores, and tried out PODs, Boss, Digitech, etc....effect pedals and mostly multifxs, w/out hearing anything I liked, so I thought that the Korg wasn't too bad- then I tried a Behringer X-Vamp; it did what I wanted it to, and I bought it.

"Both stores that carried it in my area reported many returns of the Korg FX in this family due to malfunction of the foot switches." I saw a # of comments like this in the reviews, but ignored them, to my regret. The progranm switch went out on me, and when I called Korg they didn't offer me a free replacement, they wanted $17-something, + shipping, which would have made a simple switch cost about half what I had paid for the entire unit. Therefore, I soldered ina switch of my own. When I opened the case to se what the deal was w/ the switch, I saw a piece of heavy wire crudely soldered from the front of the board to one of the chips- I don't know if this was a factory
repair, or something some previous owner had put in, but it didn't look proper(?)

They were there- they had the switch, for like $25- that was IT. TOTAL.

Luckily, there aren't too many of these left out there, but IF you come across one, be cautious!! Check it out carefully!!

Uncle Tom McCahill said once in Popular Mechanics that "buying a used sports car is like buying a used snake", and I think that the same goes for buying a used multifx pedal. Not only did I buy it used, but w/out listening to it. I might as well have bought land in Florida over the Internet. I got what I deserved. I don't feel as bad as the guy who said that he rued the day he ever heard the name "Korg", but I don't feel much better. IF anybody stole my 411FX, they would be automatically punished, over and over.

Great sound
Editing is ease with some IQ

I use a ESP LTD H-201,Danelectric reverb, and Danelectric Compressor.
It has a little too much feed back on a few settings.
I sound like Joe.(If you don't know his last name, slap yourself)

I stomp the shit out of this box and it still sounds great.
I would certainly use it without a back up.

Never had to think of any repairs.

I play everything and it works with it all.
If someone stole it i would kill everyone I saw till I found it.
Stevie Ray Vaughn played mine!!!:)

That's a crap product of KORG's lineup! Really! Good Sounds? Forget about it! It has some patches to save but they are not enough! The memory space is very bad, as is the handling! You almost always need the manual to know which parameter or sound you are editing!

I wanted to use it especially for reverb-sounds and that's a thing this wacky machine cannot support! It sounds like a BAD spring-reverb! So I bought a Roland RV-5 instead! :o) There are a few nice Distortion-Sounds and the Phasers, Flangers and the rotating-speaker-effekt are nice... but not more!

Forget reliability with this pedal!! Nothing for the stage!

I've got no problem with the support! The fact that I'm working in a music-store makes the whole thing very easy! :o)

I sold it almost immediately after I bought it used! This was not a masterpiece of KORG!

Easy to get a good sound out of it.
Editing can be a bitch.
The manual helped a little.

I was using a Tele or Les Paul Deluxe to the 411fx and then to a Crate GFX65.
It wasn't noisy...when the Noise Suppresor was on.
The effects were too "over the top" for me.

Mine broke...along with a Poly 800 keyboard.

Korg sucks! Their marketing ploy is that there are new "better" products always coming out...friendly, in a way to where one is encouraged buy their wares. I don't consider Korg having good product support, let alone customer support.
It would cost more to get it repaired than buying a new different product.

I play just about every kind of music. The 411fx did help in certain music. I've been playing for 25 years. I also play bass, mandolin, drums, and keyboard(...speaking of which, I also had a Poly 800) that also broke down on me, which I also bought it new!) I know how to take care of my stuff.
I regret ever hearing the word Korg. If I had a million dollars, I wouldn't support Korg or any of their subsidiaries, i.e. Marshall and Vox. They couldn't even pay me enough money to be their endorser!
To be fair, both my Poly 800 and 411fx had decent patches. But it was just a matter of time before I realized that Korg wasn't worth putting money into. Save the cash for Yamaha or Roland products...it'll be worth it.

Once you download and read the 3-page manual, it's a doddle to program. Select which effect to modify, twist knobs to taste - NO MENUS. Without the cheat-sheet it'd STILL be simple, just play with it until it sounds good! Call me retro, but I love knobs and buttons.

I read all of the reviews here and decided to check one out.. while there's nothing in the box I'd call stellar, it DOES sound pretty decent - if you don't go by the presets! I have a 1988 Fender Heavy Metal Strat, into the 411fx, into a mixing board and then into my DAW.. no amp. Even the distortions, if you fiddle with the tone controls a while, sound fine - many of the distortion settings are top-end-heavy and can sound too brittle without EQing. If you're having noise problems, make sure the hi/low input gain switch is set right - set it wrong, and the noise gate doesn't function properly. You're not going to get EXTREME modulation out of this unit, but the echoes, reverbs, and phaser/flanger all are appropriate for real-world use. I personally like the tone out of this thing, it doesn't kill the sound of the guitar like my Digitech RP300 does. My worst complaint would be that the flanger isn't as obvious as I'd like, but it's servicable.

Once again - don't judge this by the presets! Sit down and twist knobs, you'll be well rewarded for your effort.

Had it two weeks, I don't gig (bedroom musician with my own DAW-based project studio), but I've stomped all over it and it just laughs at me. Nice metal case, and pretty well-built. I wouldn't use it to beat a groupie to death with, but it's fine for what it was made for (lol).

As others have said, getting info out of Korg about this unit is a waste of time. Plenty of Web resources, which is how I found the manual.

I play trance/rock, blues, and what I think of as darkambient/guitar (think psychedelia with old-school metal mixed in) and have been playing guitar off and on for 25+ years (yeah I'm an old man metalhead, deal with it hee hee!). I run this unit in parallel with my RP300 and it sits in the mix quite well - good straight-ahead distorted guitar tones, I can't complain. I *love* how easy it is to use, I can just sit and fiddle - unlike my RP300 where I always need the bloody manual to understand what's going on! If it were stolen I'd beat the thief to death with the box, clean it off, and take it back home! I'd certainly buy another one if it breaks/gets lost, it has a unique character that fits well with my other gear. I can't think of anything I wish it had, it's perfect in it's simplicity.

Note: DON'T USE IT WITH BATTERIES, GET AN ADAPTER. It sounds *very* different on batteries, you wouldn't think it was the same unit!

Pretty easy once you play with it for a while and don't make any sudden moves. I like the interface better than most I've tried.

I was using this pedal with an old '70's Peavey Classic which didn't sound too great to begin with. I liked it but got tired really fast. I just recently pulled it out again after about a year and plugged into my Peavey Delta Blues 2-10". What a difference. I've never been a big Peavey fan but the Classic line is pretty nice.
I was amazed at the full rich sound I got. A lot of people seemed to have a problem with tone on the distortions. That's why I put this pedal away in the first place. The cure for this is to not be afraid to back off on the gain. Almost every distortion you can do this without losing the power and get rid of that shrill feedback.

You also need to play with the countour and EQs. That's the hardest part but you can even make the fuzz (# 10) sound decent with the right EQ.

A lot of people didn't like the effects but I found them pretty rich and prominent. I never liked overkill on pedals anyway so the settings were pretty good to me. My first guitar was an Electra with built in effect modules and these effects reminded me a lot of that. Very simple and definitely adequate for live shows. The delays were set up nicely with plenty of different times and the echoes are very good and can be mixed heavily without becoming overbearing. You can even use them in place of the reverbs which are ok.

I kind of like the clean compressed preamp settings, you can get a lot of different tones, good rythm and with the gain up, it's pretty snappy and will overdrive just right. Like I said before, the distortions can be really great if you just mess with the gain and EQ's. It seems you might run into feedback problems with a crappy solid state amp, (Crate, Peavey etc.), I always found pedals like this are best suited for a more simple tube amp like the Peavey Delta where you don't have a gain knob on the clean channel. Also works great on a Marshall Bluesbreaker. The less knobs the better. Any amp I use with a multi-effect, you should be able to center all your knobs, it just seems simpler. I realize this doesn't have a lot of parameters to tweak, but most of the sounds are pretty good and I'm sick of Digitech and Zoom parameter searching, and pushing the wrong buttons. I think this is a very much underated pedal. It does a ton of shit and most of it well. I like the auto wah pretty much. It's volume sensitive and doesn't drop out on you. It's also very hard to even find an auto wah on a multi-effect unit. Everyone should have this pedal just as a backup if nothing else and you can pick one up on line for under $40.00 usually. That's less than a crappy Boss Chorus pedal.

Seems pretty tough. No problems.

I play most types of rock and you can get whatever you want if you work at it. Compared to Zoom crap, it sounds more civilized and doesn't color your tone. I've been playing over 20 years and I always wanted a pedal that could do all those cool things in the size of a single effect. I also use a Yamaha DG Stomp which I prefer over this, but if you're just going to practice and want something easy and good sounding, this is great. I was going to sell this pedal but after taking it out again for a test run, I will keep it, you won't find a better, more useful pedal for the price.

I got this because I ultimately found out how much the AX-1g sucks...
(I don't care if the Ax can let you use a foot-rocker/treadal to DJ-scratch a 1-sec sample of your guitar playing, the thing is a plastic piece of cancer, and it has a screen...it is for assholes...).

I bought this from a guy that ultimately traded me my ax-1 for a mint-condition casio sk-1 (...a fucking relic).

...hmm...in the world of multi effects there are two families: those that have SCREENS (to graphically navigate sub-menus), and those that do not (...having an LED matrix and/or a printed matrix to consult while looking at the manual)....
this fabulous box has NOTHING of the sort. just four knobs, which basically work heirarchically from left to right, and there is a small legend of the knob heirarchy printed right on the metal case....

thus...to me, it's frighteninly simple, because I step back and listen to the sound as I move thru the knobs...this unit may be a bit obtuse to those who defer their intelligence of sound to the skills of literacy (reading a sub-menu screen...ASSHOLES...).

many modern multi's out there today sport lotsa foot-buttons, allowing you to switch up and down banks with your feet, and or to independently engage the components (drive, mod, ambience...) of a given patch. this bastard-box works more the ZOOM 505 things, where you simply have a multi-effected sound ; setting the characteristics of each stage in a simple Drive-->Eq-->Mod-->Ambience-->level/gate chain system...then all of this is available at the push of a button...

the pedal has two switches (big metal pushbuttons...YAY), one for ON/Bypass (yellow light), the other two switch between the RED/GREEN Patch of the Bank that you are in (lights up green or red...yay...).
thus, while you can't move up and down banks like you can on a Zoom or any other modern multi, you also don't have to worry about that stupid push-both-the-up-and-down-buttons-at-once-to-engage SHIT...
this is a MAN's pedal : bypassing and bank switching get their OWN GODDAMN DEDICATED METAL SWITCHES....dammit I DON'T CARE IF IT REDUCES YOU TO PAIRED BANKS....my songs only have THREE PARTS ANY WAY....dammit...stop whining before I hit you again...
...so thus, this thing is really easy, because, with the foot-friendly metal pushbuttons, you don't have to so much look down at what you're doing and distract yourself (...not that it matters to me...).

the box has a mono guitar in, with a switch for hi- or lo-gain input...nice way to accomodate your shitty pickups...
the single output jack is actually TRS stereo, so get a splitter cable...quickly, before it's too late and you fail to experience the fact that this bastard can go stereo...).

use wall wart, or batteries (4X AA...they don't last...so use the wall wart)...

now, in regards to how to program this little hell box.
the first three of its four knobs are "selector knobs," with varying amounts of possible positions...these knobs are what navigate you around your patch. the last (rigth-most) knob is the only smooth knob on the bunch, usually set to edit a single important parameter of given effect selection...

the first knob selects one of 11 banks (11-position knob)...only 7-11 are user-writable, so you should only go to banks 1-6 (the factory set sounds) if you have no interest in making your own sound and/or just want to sound like Steve Vai (ASSHOLE) at the push of a button...

the second knob (6-position, labled "D-T-C-M-A-L") navigates which parameter of a patch you are editing; respectively, this knob navigates you to setting Drive, Tone (lo/hi), Contour (mid boost/cut), modulation, Ambience (reverb delay), and Level/NR (output level and post-fx gate). A parameter will be adjusted with the last two knobs, in a manner depending on what you're adjusting. as such..

the third knob (11-position) allows you to select a model for a given parameter (dtcmal) of the patch, choosing OFF/0, or 1-10.

the stipula

DRIVES- pick 1 of 10 drives,
2 compressions (only one seems to make a difference, smooth knob controls sensitivity)),
3 overdrives (surprisingly warm), 4 distortions (incl. fuzzies), 1 absolute-shit-feedback-monster-line-noise-heavy-metal-gain-thing (#6?)....where smooth knob controls gain on all the "boosters"...
as said below, most of these distortions are pretty weak and/or noisy, so it will be easy to sound like steve vai...but if you really work at building a sound, the drives can really work WITH you, not "do the work for you" (...steve vai...ASSHOLE...).

TONE - use the 10-position knob to set an estimation of lo-end, and set the hi-end with the smooth knob...simple....and it's actually a fairly powerful EQ-er..

CONTOUR - a variable mid control...anyone who's ever used a Metal Zone should have some idea...use the clicky knob to set the (approximate) position of the mid-band, and use the smooth knob to cut or boost (flat at noon...nice)....

...it is worth noting that, in light of this relatively advance capacity for custom tonality EQ-ing, this pedal hardly has "great tone"...it is a digital effect, and it's hardly true bypass: if you are anal about tone coloration, what the shit are you doing with a Korg product? it is nice, however, to have the capactity to roll of the high-end digital shit-noise that more extreme settings of this pedal can produce...

MODULATION...pick a mod...any mod...1-10...almost all modulations, the smooth knob controls the speed of the mod.
3 chorus (one does nothing, one sounds slightly milky, one sounds like a leaky vibrato pedal but it's the stereo)
2 phasers (one is "weak" , the other "whistles" too much),
one flanger (...WOW...an amazingly steep SCREEEEEEEEEEE when used with the "death-gain"...)
one trem/panner (panner if in stereo...)
and two more (...I honestly can't tell if one or both are vibrato or a rotary emulation...that is how weak these two mods are)
all these above LFO mods have a smooth/sine mod-shape (except that the trem-panner has a uniquely trapezoidal shape), and all LFO mods have the same speed range, which covers the ranges of "nice-n-slow" range to "fast-enough-for-cool-people-but-not-fast-enough-for-people-who-think-a-flanger/phaser-can-be-made-into-a-ring-mod-Korn-ASSSHOLE" range...)
then there remain two more in the MOD department...

and Envelope Filter (auto-wah,...where settings below noon set sensitivity to sweep down, and those above noon sweep up...sure it's no mu-tron, but it's damn flexible for ONE KNOB programming...), ...lastly, a
a pitch shifter (non-intelligent, where pitched sound is fixed at a mix-in slighly weaker than the dry signal...smooth knob sets the interval...just it to octave up or octave down and be happy that you sometimes hear octave resonance and digital chirping...this pitcher sounds just as "fakey" as a whammy, but with disadvantagesous mixing...it would've been more fun it they just hard-wired it to 100%wet).

AMBIENCE -
1-7 are echo, set at fixed rates (from slapback to about half a second), where the smooth knob gives you blend in (...not feedback...thus these echos will get 2 to 3 audible repeats, tops...and that just sucks...but then again, so does STEVE VAI...).
#8 is a ping-pong (...fixed at a rather fast, and still not too many repeats, but hey, it's included...).
9 and 10 are reverbs, where smooth knob mixes in the wet (...the first verb is just a terrible "roomy" tone, but the second is the sickest most clangly fluttery "hall" emulation I've ever heard, which will EASILY generate feedback and hum...but this wierd "too-hot" verb can actually be harnessed to make some of the most interesting squeals I've ever heard)

LEVEL/NR...use the clickly knob to set the cutoff sensitivity of a post-FX gate (to stop your stupid VAI-drive from hissing away while your "sccreeeee" flanger swooshes about

big fat metal body...metal switches, metal screws...metal jack housings...small, sturdy knobs...
lots of micro components and chips, everything soldered directly to the board (jacks and switches)...plastic battery case...

this could just as well be almost a decade old...
..but I've been banging it around my room and stomping on it with combat boots while stumbling around with a microphone (...I sing remember?) for some time now...

...you be the judge...

N/a....on this product...

korg rocks though in general..
kudos to them for making smart grooveboxes and synths...
poo-ey on them for trying to make something as lame as the pandora
(...just a handheld DTCMAL unit that can't be a stompbox...).

I play hateful music...
no no, not in the way that you think. we don't play ibanez guitars, use metal zone pedals, or have long hair or tattoos of women, nor do we write songs about pain,relationships, and or our massive drug habit...
so far, we've been using drum machines and live drums and FM-radio guitars to convince people that we're actually smart, and as such, they should want to be our friends....but our songs are also about how people are stupid, and why nobody should be our friends....so thus people think I'm a "punk rock visionary"...

I've been playing longer than you have...but I just recently started running my poop-microphone through this box (indestructable, small, and very sharp at the corners...all around good for fighting with...)

I compared this to other products, but the other products suffered from one or more of the following severe deficiencies:
having a screen
being made of plastic
being too big to fit in my jacket pocket
breaking under the strain of my rigorous gesturing...

I wish I had another...I want to run one "please stop" sound right into another...

this product doesn't really help me make music...but it certainly helps me make my music ...INTERESTING...

I purchaced this unit brand new at Guitar Center. And with out a doubt, this is the most confusing and dificult to use effects device ever made and the manual that comes with it is nearly useless. I have used many effects devices during my time and I speak from personal experience.

Out of the many sounds this box can make, few are any good at all.
Out of a total of 11 banks, 6 are PERMANENTLY preset with some really spaced out and strange settings leaving you with only 5 useable banks. Each effect that it produces is "Just o.k." with some being downright awful. Of the 5 Modes, only the Modulation and Ambiance modes are passable. Everything else is really sub-standard.

I've heard that these are VERY unreliable, but this thing is so unuseable that I NEVER use it so reliability really does'nt matter on this unit. Also,if your batteries are even slightly low, the unit will not operate correctly. You must get an adapter.

Never dealt with them and since I dont like thier product, I probably never will.

I was very excited when I went to buy this unit and was expecting to have a lot of fun with it. But since day one, this thing has dissapointed me. I do'nt like this unit and I would not reccomend it to anyone for any application. It's really just a toy that can only make a few "neat" sounds. I really dont feel that I got what I paid for. This is a perfect example of putting too many things in too small a package, with too few controls and ending up with a near useless piece of equipment.

Ultra-easy, I bought this at a local pawn shop for 35$, so of course it didn't have the box or the manual or anything. But after sitting and playing with it for about 5 minutes I had it all figured out, except for how to save, All I can manage to do is make the program light blink to no result. Either my unit is broken or there's some different method to save, somebody please add a little footnote to their reveiw helping me out. Thanks...

All the stereo sounds on this box are amazing. They're deep and warm, bringing to mind late 60's acid blues. Beautiful crunchy blues tones with subtle echo could keep me occupied for hours. The tremelo function paired with overdrive sounds just like Jeff Beck's Flashing Lights. Personally I would never use this unit for anything other than some drive settings, tremelo and delay/reverb. All those are amazing in tonality, being individually equalized and contoured. Sadly the modulation effects (except for the tremelo) are adequate at best. Being a blues player I think the chorus settings lack a world of depth, they're too mechanical and tinny sounding. And as for the stupid phase and flange effects, they make me want to cry. They sound like something off a casio keyboard, there's truly nothing musical about them. Maybe you'd like them if you're one of those "sound effects" players who have banks of crap for every show, but if you actually care about your playing as a musician avoid those presets.

I haven't really owned it long enough to know, the metal constructio is reassuring however.

It's horrible, I don't have the manual, so I figured maybe I could see it online on the company website, Korg won't even admit they made the 411. So PLEASE HELP!!! someone add a footnote or something telling me how to save!

Running it into a GK stack (runs torroids, not tubes) with wah always on (for that vintage 60's EQ sound) I get sweet tones using this pedal. Even though I'm using a bottom of the line Washburn with worn strings right now, It may as well be a 70's Ibanez blues guitar. If the chorus was deeper this pedal would honestly be the only thing I needed (asides from wah of course, auto wah is what's causing society's decline, I refuse to give in to the machine when it comes to wah)

this thing is totally rock on man, i would recomend it to anyone

it is sweet with marshels, all the effects rule the planet

hell yeah

never dealt with them

i like lots of music like anything that is in the minor mode im down with, one thing i like about this pedal is its abliltity to transform itself from a pretty echoeing sound to hard rock with suych smoothness i would reckomnend this peice to everyone becasue it is so down to earch

If I haven't used it in a while, the functions come back to me pretty quick , but it can be a bit of a puzzle at first. With a unit like this (when you've got so much stuffed into a small package) you've got to know what all the flashes mean, etc.

My rating is based on the way I use this pedal, not on every single feature available (though I will comment on a few features I don't use).

I use this pedal ONLY for chorus and phase, and for this alone, this pedal is superb. From this perspective, it's nice to not only have a chorus/phase multi-pedal, but to also have an EQ section, noise reduction, etc. very cool. I use it with a custom Strat into a variety of amps, but primarily a Line6 Flextone or an off-name 120 watt tube head.

HOWEVER, (this is the part of the pedal I DON'T use) I would have to agree with most of the reviews here that state that the overdrives and distortions in this box are pretty weak/lacking/NOISY. I would only use them if every other source for these kinds of sounds all broke at once and I'm sitting at a gig where I NEED distortion... it's definitely tweakable, though, so decent sounds are there, just hiding.

One other comment... I only use this pedal with an adapter, because it has a different tonal character when using batteries (and who wants to go through a bunch of AA's, four to be exact? I always thought it was weird that this pedal uses those instead of 9-volts). It is more stable/better sounding with an adapter.

well, I had a shop check it out, because it pops when you switch it on/off, but not always with the same intensity. It's as if some sort of capacitor were sitting in there charging up randomly, ready to discharge when you turn it on or off. But, the shop said it's alright and the pedal's working as it should...kinf of a bummer. But it's pretty solid, well constructed and has a nice heavy feel.

only dealt with them second-hand when the shop I sent it to tried to fix it. When they asked if I wanted this pedal or a newer one back, I went with the newer one (AX1G), but ended up buying this pedal again (the 411fx). I thought it was pretty cool for Korg to send me a brand new multi-FX pedal that cost more than the one that broke.

At the time I purchased this pedal, I was specifically in the market for a multi-FX modulation pedal (has both chorus and phase/flange). I looked long and hard at the TC Electronics chorus pedal, but it simply cost way too much, and BOSS didn't have anything exaclty up my alley. I am very happy with this pedal (for how I use it) and would buy another if it were lost/stolen, but I don't think they're even available anymore. It's also nice to know that if I was even in a real bind and needed to tweak out some distortion/OD effects, it's available.

This pedal has good and bad qualities. One of the things I like about this pedal is that it is easy to get a Satriani sound out of it. On the distortion stage of it, hook it up to distortion 5 and mess around with the equalizer to get that bluesy, shred sound. Then, give it an echo of any kind that you are happy with, but set a little more than half way. The bad thing about it is the hi/lo switch. On the low, it causes a lot of feedback that isn't too pleasant. On the high, i tcauses more feedback, but you can hear your sound better. Don't use guitars with humbuckers. They still hum and you can't hear what you are doing. The manual is very informative. It's a trusty manual for three different languages. I support the foreigners in our country. What if you were in Germany and had a pedal you didn't know how to use and they had no English translations? You wouldn't get anywhere with that. This was my first pedal I got for Christmas when I was 14. It opened many doors to my imagination in music creation. I am 17 now and plan on purchasing my 7th pedal. I didn't know how to work with this pedal when I first got it, so I read the instructions. I recommend this pedal to anyone looking for some good blues sounds.

I can depend on this pedal only for blues gigs. Other than that, if I ran out of my other resources, I would not recommend this as a backup.

I've never had a problem with this. It's sturdy and has a good metal chassis.

I play a lot of styles. Blues are the root of my solos and a lot of what I do.

Yes! It may seem difficult to learn how to program this baby but hang in there. The "learning experience" will turn out some awesome sounds from this little box.

The manual is or isn't very helpfull. Depends on how much you understand and your past experiences with "programable" boxes. I got fed up with it within an hour or so. Kept going back to it and expermenting. Much later, I can tune in just about anything I want.

I play "Strats," "Kramers," "Washburn," "Westbury," and "Acoustic" guitars through this pedal. Single pickups running around 6-7.5ohms sound good. So do my "Humbuckers!"

Unlike some of the other reviewers, I am pretty satisfied with nearly all settings after I tweek each one in to my liking.

NOISE! After making your last adjustment, turn the third knob from left, all the way to "TEN" then back to the "OFF" position, then to the "TEN" again! Your "noise" should drop completley out! If you are using a Strat or single coils, use the 2 or 5 position (hum canciling).

What kind of amp do I use? Any choice of twelve! I have seven "Tubers" and five "Trannys!" I always run two amps in stereo or split them and go single by using a homemade A/B or both switchbox.

411 FX...Always to my 65 Q-Tube amp using a clean, very light chorus, with a touch of delay. I also play my "Washburn" Spirit, solid body, acouistic, through this setting which is the most lush, beautifull sound you will ever hear. Try using this pedal in "TRUE STEREO!" That means two amps. The rotarys, flangers, delays, and echos can make you melt!

Once again...Q Tube 65 for my clean only side and my 1960 "Omega" tube amp set up with the Zoom 2100 for other effects when needed. I have been using this setup for the last three years and the sound is just amazing.

Mine takes a "crash" when using batteries. Go to Radio Shack with a $20 bill and get the METAL HI rechargable AA batteries. Comes with the charger. You can play yer ass off for two or three days with these in before it takes a crap. Mine's not noisey on batteries. Not as much electrical noise as when using adapter.

I sometimes find that using the Adapter (9 volt) sets you up for interference from motors, some light fixtures, and TV or monitor noise so then I will use the batteries and have no problems.

It has been reliable for the three years or so that I have owned it.

Don't usually bother with repairs or replacements. If I spend my money on someones product and I am not happy or it does not work properly, why should I expect the replacement to work?

Pay damn near every style for 35 years.
I can live with this product.
EXPERIMENT with this pedal! It is worth the bucks you paid for it after you figure it out.

Thanks for reading or cussing my review!

A Great pedal if you are starting out.. Easy to program, Manuel in several different languages so it's easy to read, plus, it includes a parameter table so you know what dials create which effects.

Currently using a Squier Strat and Epiphone Les PAul with a Crate amp. I get some feedback or fuzz with the distortion through the Strat but every other effect is fine and the Les Paul is very quiet when you click on the distortion. The sounds of musicians are pretty accurate. You can adjust the depth of the effects so you'll eventually get the right sound you want. Personally, I go for the sounds of Deftones, Machinehead, Biohazard, etc.

Vey dependable. Personally, I would gig w/o a backup (Considering I have not had a first gig yet but you get my drift)

Never had to molest the folks at Korg

For the style of music I play, it is a good pedal because I can get some pretty heavy distortion out of it. However, the one effects I'm not too crazy about is the Auto Wah. After all, nothing beats the sound of an authentic wah-wah pedal (which I also have) This is one peadl that if it were lost or stolen, I would get another. One thing I wish it had was a record/playback feature but seeing as it's not a floor processor, that is not going to happen anytime soon.

If you can read English you can use it...
for the many parameters in such a small space -
I'll give it at leat a 9.

Again, this box has so many features yet they are all cramped into this little tuny space -so I didn't expect a "lexicon" sound but I was surprized that the sound was realy cool and in real stereo.

As Far as "Noise" - there is a noise cut on the last parameter, use it and you will have no Noise.
also, check your input signal b4 you blame this box.

so far so good on my unit .
but I don't abuse my tools.
It does eat batteries qyickly.

never tried them.

Here is the secret:
many musicians gave it a 10 and some gave it 4 ???
How can that be ? you ask.
well,
I decided to check it out for the "flaws" that were written here and
I came up empty handed.
My unit is 100% great.
maby the bad units are just broken ?

I love the Comp/Dist, modulation and the delays/reverb, the EQ and the Noise surpressor and I also used it on old analog keyboard that have no sound.

The most importent thig is this:

USE IT IN STEREO !
Wow, what a difference when you use the stereo out.
It is a real Stereo and you'll get the L-R ping-Pong effect.
when I switched back to mono, at least 50% of the sound was gone...

Now, you can get everything in one box to be perfect,
but if you want all in one -this box will do it for real cheap !

So, I'll give it a 10 for the amount of greatness and the Real Stereo
sound puring out of this little box...

This pedal very easy to use (BUT SO WHAT ! It should be easy to use!)once you get through the "one photo copied instruction page" I was expecting a little bit more for $120.00. but it doesn't take long to do quick changes after decyphering the instructions.

I have had this pedal for over 2 years and use it with a strat and a Fender hotrod deville 2x12 and I would have to say the overall sound is NOT THAT GOOD. There is a lot of noise on the overdrive functions and you can always hear the noise gate coming in and out. The adjustments for the individual sounds are very limited, such as vibrato depth, the auto wah is a useless as well as several of the other of the sounds it generates. The chorus sounds OK and the reverbs are pretty good. The overdrives suck. The vibro setting from the factory sounds pretty good. Overall I was disapointed with this thing.

I had a little bit of a problem finding a wall wart for this sucker and finally found one on an ATT answering machine that was headed for the trash. Batteries do not last but 2 or 3 hours per set if you are playing alot. After a year the bypass foot switch began to stop activating the bypass circuitry and it seems to have a mind of its own, somtimes it works, sometimes it don't. Also after leaving the pedal in effects mode for a while and then switching to the bypass produces a very unpleasant and rather loud POP!!!! not what you want to have at a gig.

I have looked for Korg info on the net and found little, and the local music stores are no help. I think Korg owners are on there own!!!and SOL.....

Most people who buy a new pedal for $120.00 will tell you only the best things about the toy they just got, but not me!!!!I bought this thing just to have fun with,and I have not had as much fun with it as I hoped. I have been playing for 25 years,I mainly bought this for the chorus, but find that I only use the room reverb now and wish I had went for the TC Electronics chorus instead. Another thing that stinks about this pedal is that there are two sets of factory presets, 6 on each level, that cannot be reprogramed, and all but 3 of the 12 suck. If you make the mistake of stomping the right foot switch to the dirty side you get assaulted by some pretty wicked metal drive with massive amounts of noise, this is the thing I dislike most about this box. So...FORGET ABOUT THIS P.O.S. and save up for a high quality device that sounds good. Mine is going on E-Bay ASAP. Don't bother

Very very Easy.......

I don't know english... -_-;;;

distortion ..... good...but noise!
overdrive ... not bad
fuzz ... not bad
chorus .... wow! good...but very thin.. not depth nob ...
echo .... hmmm... normal...
delay .... hmmm... good...
autoway ... suck...
flanger .... normal..
phaser ... good...


totally....Good pedal...

hmmm...

I don't know..

I play... alternative rock..Grunge...Brit pop...etc
this effctor is very useful...

For some reason I found editing very easy on this thing. I've learned how to do it fast and I have everything memorized. But then again I've had it for a year and a half. It beat the crap out of anything by Zoom. I had a zoom for about 2 days.

My Setup > Very, very modified Fender Strat 40th Anniversary with Hot Rails > Vox wah > ToneWorks Real Tube Distortion pedal > Korg 411fx > Alesis Midiverb > Marshall JCM 900 50 watt head.
Before the addition of the marshall I was playing through Solid state heads and combos and so the 411fx was very useful for eq, distortion with compression, etc. I think the flanger is pretty good like someone else here said and I also thought the tremelo was pretty killer if you don't mind it very bright. I also use an Alesis ADAT XT20 for recording and found that when I was too dang lazy to set up my whole rig that the Korg 411fx made a great recording processor. I found that it was quiet enough to record with the patches could be edited quickly for another take and the it was great for just quick little sweetening notes with tremelo or a little delay or what not. Bad effects . . . the chorus sucks and I don't even like chorus but I know you can do better than that. and the reverbs are terrible ? alot of hiss and noise.

It was reliable for me after I bought it and one of the switches broke and I had to send it off for a replacement switch that took 8 weeks to put it. I think they had to take the slow boat to china to get the switch. It's been reliable ever since.

As I just said, repairs take fooooorever!

I've been playing 5 years and I think that if you are just starting out and want to play with alot of effects for not much money or you have a really crappy amp then this thing may really make you happy. I have to say one more time please get this instead of a Zoom 505 . . . please . . .

Edititing is easy, but you have to tweak it just right. The manual need not have so many languages.

I use a '98 Gibson Les Paul Standard through a Marshall Valvestate half stack. The red patch sounds great on the clean channel of the amp. It is awefully noisy, though. The chorus and flanger work well, but the echo is just not right. The distortion is psycho!

I could not depend on this thing to work right, and I would definitely carry a backup.

ok this thing is VERY noisy on almost all the patches, editing sucks,manual reads like ancient sanscrit. Looks real nice and shiny like it would last forever but....

Ok here's where this thing shines... the flanger in this thing was so damn good that I still think about buying it again every once in awhile. Unfortunately thats the only good thing about it. I used it ONLY at my house to practice with since my good stuff is all at my drummers house. I was using a marshall jcm800 50 watt headthrough the low gain jack. It had a pretty neat death metal distortion on one of the presets, but when you werent playing it was super noisy. MOST of the effects on this thing were horrible, but MAN!!!! that flanger was sick!!! I still cant find another flanger that I liked as much as that one. Its hard to describe really, instead of the normal swoosh it was like a "scccccrrrrreeeeeeeeoooooooooooo" type deal. Chorus was good. Just not as good as that damn flanger! 10 for the flanger. 1 for the rest of the effect. I guess that equals out to a 5?

heeeeeellllllll no!! I went through seriously....3 of these things in 5 months. And I wasnt the only one. The store that I shop at had gotten a few other returns on the same unit. It would just flash the right led and stop working all together. quite a shame actually. I'm usually pretty loyal to things that I like (ie the flanger in this piece of junk) but you have to draw the line somewhere.

Screw the company. The store just kept replacing em till I gave up and traded for store credit.

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