Korg AX1000G

This pedal is extremely easy to use.You just have to fiddle around with the effects,get a good sound which sounds okay to your ears,add the effcts accordingly,and after 20 minutes or so, you can get a fabulous patch.Editing patches are very easy.However, there are 2 limitations.One is that the bank down switch is a combination of the bank up & 4th patch switch,which means that by pressing both together,you can get to previous banks.There are 40 user patches and 10 user banks,which is just about enough.People who want more should not go for this pedal.The other limitation is that you cannot use modulation & pedal modulation together,which is very annoying.

I use a Fender 57 Relic strat and a Samick amp.The distortion and delay are kick-ass!Giving some time to edit the patches,any damn distortion tone and delay tone can sound awesome and absolutely pro-level.This is where the pdeal scores way above Digitech.However,thge distortion can be damn noisy if you don't know how to set the noise reduction.Once it's done,you can sound like a king.The amp simulator is grrreat!!! You can get the closest sound to any guitarist you like.The Flanger is good,Phaser is good,Filter is awesome,but the chorus,wah and talker are PATHETIC!I would suggest install a Vox wah,a DOD chorus with this thing and it rocks!!

It is indeed very reliable but not at all suited for hot & humid conditions.The switches might fuck up once in a while due to dust or moisture accumulation.In that case,cover the switches,I mean ALL the switches with cellophane paper and wrap it tightly,insulating it from weather conditions.As far as rigidity is concerned,it's built like a tank,with solid metal body and very good backlit LCD and powerful LED.But no,I won't use it without a backup.

Never had any experience.

This is a tremendous value for money investment.I play in a psychedelic rock band called INSOMNIA and as a guitarist playing psychedelic music,it is an exceptional pedal. Barring the limitations,it is an excellent buy and definitely scores way above Digitech and Boss ME 30.

it is very easy to use and you shouldn't need the manual to much

for those who like it noiseless this box is for you, but then this unit doesn't give you any sound either. Digital distorsion sucks and there is only two or three types that are even usable. The compressor sucks too. The cab simulator is ok but i could only use two of them. The modulation effects are pretty good especialy the phaser and tremolo. The wah sounds muddy compared to the cry baby.
the pitch and talk sucks. reveerb and delay are quite good.

yes you can depend on it but you will need a backup of analog stomboxes when your band starts jumping on it.

if i where Korg support i wouldn't answer the phone...

This unit is only good for mod and delay effects but you can buy them in stompboxes and you will get much better effects all though a little noiser.

*This is a fairly complex pedal. It is easy to get a good sound out of it because the user has control over every aspect of each effect.
*Editing patches is a little confusing the first time you enter the first effect- the instruction manual will walk you through this. After you made your first patch, you know how to do it and it is easy.
*The manual is excellent. It is easy to follow and does not get more complicated than it needs to.

*I have used this system on an Epiphone Studio 10 (10 watt amp). I have friends who have made my little amp sound like a vintage tube amp with no problems.
*I also use this pedal on a keyboard amp (fender 80 watt) and directly plug the pedal into my computer. The effects sound excellent on these systems as well. I sometimes put microphone and my keyboard through the pedal- flawless sounds

I have not had a problem yet and I would certainly take this to a gig without a backup...

I'd bring a backup guitar and amp, but I trust this pedel

No problems with the pedel so no idea

I play rock, bluegrass, techno, classical, blues, funk and anything if I'm jamming with someone else. Been playing for 7 years. This and my tele- I can play anything. I would get another one if anything happened to it. The value of this pedal is incredible... this is basically a combination of over $1000 worth of effects built into one reasonably easy to use (sturdy) casing. Some people think this is a difficult pedal to use, some can't get a good sound out of it- I would probably explain that by a lack of experience. In the right hands, this pedal can do anything.

Everything is laid out for you to use, and the manual is actually very helpful, unlike most other pedals/processors. Editing a new patch is cake, and will sound good, as long as you don't put too many things into one particular patch.

Obviously, there is no true bypass, but when put on "bypass", this is about as close to transparent as you can get. I'm currently using this with my Aria Pro II LP copy in the effects loop of a Marshall VS265 Valvestate Combo, along side an Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo. I originally owned a Digitech RP2000, sold it because I hated it, and bought this for $150 less than the selling price of the Digitech. I must say that this is a better investment. Most of the "normal" effects (i.e. chorus, reverb, delay, echo) sound nice, and, like every other processor on the market, the distortion is lame as hell. I like the noise gate feature, love the U-Vibe (Uni-vibe for those of you who have every used one) as it is fantastic, the tremolo is decent, the ring modulator is ok, and the phaser is EXTRAORDINARY. But, the wah is even more lame than the distortions, the compressor sucks, and the pitch shifter is the worst I have ever played. The amp models would seem to be very useful to record direct, until you realize that this sounds like puke recording direct. For the record, out of every patch I've made and kept, none of them use the Drive-Amp, Cabinet, or Pedal functions on this pedal, meaning that approx. 60% of this pedal is useless to me. But, the other 40% is definitely well worth what I paid for it. Oh yeah, if you put this (or any other overdrive/distortion) pedal in your effects loop, and trying to use any of the distortion effects, you will end up overdriving the power amp and not the pre-amp, making for some very interesting feedback.

It's in a metal chassis, so that's no problem. But, before I could try absolutely everything with the expression pedal, something broke in it, making it so it has no resistance, meaning it is very floppy and wobbly. That, and 3 of the 5 adjustment knobs broke off, all this within the first year. No worries, small things have happened before to a lot of my gear, and most of it is fixable/replaceable. Of course, you will just have to read down below.......

All I have to say is....WOW. These people seriously have a big problem talking to people. I called the service line about getting the pedal fixed when it broke, and the guy i talked to was seriously the most rude and pompous person I have ever spoken to. These people make Ibanez look like really wonderful, knowledgable folks. Basically, after this pedal broke under totally normal usage (I own many many different pieces of gear, and treat them all with care), I called them to see about replacing the part. I told the guy that the expression pedal broke, and wondered how much it would cost to repair. He asked me if I had been abusing the pedal, because electronics do not take too much abuse. I told him no, and explained what happened. So, this guys like, "you must be abusing the pedal, i've heard a lot of kids call up and say their pedal is broke, and this is because they beat the hell out of it and don't know what they are doing." Now, I'm only 20, and it was about a year ago when I called, but I've been playing guitar for about 12 years now, so I'm not a newbie to the game. I also play 6 other instruments with high proficiency, so I know how to take care of instruments and gear, and this ass accuses me of being irresponsible and abusing my stuff, only for him to say that usage such as I must have been inflicting on the processor is NOT covered under warrenty, and a replacement pedal would run me $100, plus shipping!!!!! Basically, I swore at him, and went out to buy a Morley Wah, since the korg Wah sucks anyway. Bottom line, if you own a Korg (or a Marshall, for that matter, since Korg "takes care" of both), pretend these people don't exist, because they won't help you if you need them to anyway. I wish I could give this category like a -200, just to show you how bad they really are. But, since this is a 1 to 10 scale, I'll just have to settle for the lowest score I can give.

If this was stolen from me, I would suck it up, be bummed out for like 2 days, save my hard earned college tuition loan money, and buy a few nice effects pedals that this processor gave me, like a Uni-Vibe, an Ibanez PH7 Phaser(the best phaser under $100 ever), one of those new Danelectro Reverbs (VERY nice pedal), and an Ibanez PM7 Phase Modulator (quite unknown, quite underrated). I wish they would have made some more of the effects useable (the pitch shifter, talker, and Mu-Tron simulator come to mind), and/or expanded the CPU to accommodate ordering the effects and being able to use the modulation and pedal effects simultaneously. Maybe ditching the Drive-Amp and Cabinet effects for this could keep the pedal in the same price range. Oh yeah, and make the sampling feature useable. Does anyone actually use this? I know how to use it, but it's pretty lame, and I play some music that could really use a decent looper. Bottom line, I don't regret buying it, because it has helped me with both gigging and (non-direct) recording, but ya gotta trim some fat to make a good steak, right? At least it's better than a Zoom.

Extremely easy to use, manual is decent, simple layout.

I have had this unit for over 2 years and it has taken a lot of work to get decent sounds out of it. The distortions aren't usable to me after 2 or 3 and a lot of them are pretty useless. The modulation effects are ok...i can get good tones out of them but they are not incredible. The delay and reverb aren't that good, but with some serious tweaking i have made some good sounds. I have played live it a couple dozen times and although it has done well, it just struggles at high volumes. Overall it has been a joy practicing with this thing at home and low volumes. I used it direct to the P.A. tonight and it worked out ok, it took some major tweaking and some various techniques to get the tone less brittle, but it worked out well. It's a cool piece of gear, it would just be better if all the sounds were more pro-like. I don't really want to get any rack gear and i would like a floor unit to control everything, but there isn't anything that is suitable for my style, which is a very eric johnson type of clean, dense chord work, and leads that are dissonant and spacy but without the heavy distortion, joe satriani-esque on his less heavy distortion. This unit is good for practicing, it has definately inspired me numerous times, and has been a blessing.

Never had any problems, couple of quirky knob changes that make it skip around effects but other than that, i have used this without a back up for over 2 years sucessfully.

i have been playing for about 10 years and have an interesting style which necessitates different sounds than your average run of the mill rock guitarist. So i would say this unit has worked out for me well, but might not be so suitable for a metalhead. I have used this to record a bunch of material direct to my computer, all of which have turned amazing! I can dig it.

I did a pretty cool little mod to the ax1000g. instead of fumbling around with the expression pedal to trigger recording when using the sample and play feature. i created an individual stomp box to control the recording functions. i mounted a 5 pin jack on the rear panel, made a matching five pin control cable and put together a two pedal switch with one pedal for record, and one for play back. write me if you need more details.

haimeh@hotmail.com

It took a while before i could get the sounds i wanted. But after a week or so i was rocking!!

I am currently playing a LTD Explorer with EMG 81 and 89 in the neck through a Carlsboro Stingary 120w combo. I really like the Distortions because i can get just about any sound that i want! even all of Metallicas! its the cheapest rigg that ive ever had and got such good sounds! As for the Wah its sucks!! But the phaser is really good! ive had problems with the volumes on distortions and modulation sounds! The distorions is allot louder than the other effects! so a bit of tweaking is in place! i mostly play Metal/Hardrock so its the perfect unit for me! Ive had a couple of Boss units but their Distortions suck! Ill give it 10 because of the good Distortions but dont be fooled the other effects are all very good!

Ive never had problems yet! hoping i wont!
i never bring a backup because i trust this Metal-cased beast!

Never had to contact them!

Like i said i play Metal mostly!
Ive been playing for 7 Years. I also have an Mesa/boogie V-Tvin Killer Preamp! and some Stompboxes!
If it was stolen id propably would buy a Triaxis! if i can afford one! or maybe the 1500G
When i bought it i tried a couple of Digitech and Boss. But neither the sounds or the pricing was close to this one!
This thing definetly helps me make music. With better sounds and functions you get inspired!

Anyone out there who would like to exchange patches Write to me!

its very easy to use . u dont need the fuckin manual. patches are a breeze to edit.presets are shit .manual is easy to navigate. not up gradable.

just a kramer guitar thru an old eko amp.not really noisy. but if u use too much o the NR, it compromises on tone quality.efeects are great but the pedalwah needs improvement .satriani vahalen pettruci its all possible even nuno man. got to sit with it though uknow......like spend some time.

i would use it without a backup. very dependable.....but watch out for those knobs man.....too much abuse and they snap difiicult to get the part.

takes a lot of time to get spare knobs if urs ever goes,infact i still havent got my spare knob for the drive-amp section which got fucked nearly 3 months ago.i paid the money and all ......no response from the company yet.

i play alot of hard rock and alternative besides satch and vai.i ve been playin for nearly 10 years now overall. the sample and play is pretty helpfull for gettin the old noggiin thinking. metronome too isnt bad.heres my mil address if u guys want to mail me on any info about the pro...i mean they say there are 8 simultaneous effects but i cant figure that one out .please help if possible. jeof_79pereira@rediffmail.com.

Damn easy to use.The footswitches are quite sensitive,& the wah-wah is fucking good.The best part are the knobs!!The thing that guitarists want,so u can easily edit patches on stage.

I use a Fender 57 relic strat,plugged in with a Samick cube 40 & this baby.Kick ass!!Damn good & rich sound quality.Gives you the upper edge on distortion tones.Delay,dist,flager,etc. all are really up to the mark.The chorus,however,is not at all satisfying.You can get the sound of David Gilmour,Joe Satriani,but it's not that good when it comes to 70's classic sounds or even Blues sounds.

Yes,I would use it without a backup,coz if anything happens,the adaptor blows 1st,leaving the microchip unharmed.It's been gigged,& it always kicks ass.

Those Japanese people are so fuckin fast,u just can't catch em!!

I am an Indian,my name is Bodhi(guitarrock20012001@yahoo.co.in).I am a dead carcus rocker,& I think it's a massive investment.Go for it if u can't afford the GT3.It's made out of solid metal,it's got LCD display.Overall I think it is a very good pedal.

Here's a patch I made for my lead guitar sound.

DRIVE---Metal(Drive-8.5,level-adjust accordingly,Bass-7.3,Mid-4.0,Treble-2.7)

CABINET-4*10 modern.
MODULATION-off
PEDAL-Volume
AMBIENCE-Multi head echo,echo-1,time--I don't remember but there's a 3-quarter second gap between the sounds,Feedback-5.3.
For more depth of the sound,keep it on the middle & neck pickup,the guitar.

N.R.SENSOR--5.6(PLENTY OF FEEDBACK!!!)

This unit is one of the easiest processors to work with. It is very useable right out of the box and with a quick look at the manual your set.
The patches are very easy to alter, and the knobs make it much easier to adjust in a hurry.

I play and american standard and a Epi LP through a 75 fender Pro Reverb w/ 2 12AX7's. The classic distortion, tube OD and the US- high gain are very high quality, and sound great on the amp. I also tested the processor through a PA and the modeling held up pretty well, although it seemed very dry. The metal is ok. The fuzz and the marshall need some work. As well as the Fat distortion. The acoustic is horrible if you want an accoustic sound, GET A ACCOUSTIC GUITAR!

The cabs are great and make the amps sound much better. You have a wide variety from classic vox's to modern 4-12's and the air control allows for exact tweeking of that sound you want.

The Modulations are execellent! with rich choruses and deep flangers and phasers, the mods are make up for what it lacks in amps, and is worth getting just for them. The auto wah is a novel but simple pathetic idea and the octave down right blows. but the phasers are just incredible!
The pedal is ok, good for volume, and the wah is kinda ok, but not to much is great. Although the pedal has a very realistic feel and has some resistance to it.

Some of the reverb needs to be warmer but the delays and echos are very good.

About 4 month ago my studio flooded and the ax was compleatl;y submerged for about 4 hours, STILL PLUGED IN AND ON! i opened it up and it dried out and still works fine. I had to replace my "indestructable" boss compressor though.

Never have had to deal w/ them.

I play mainly classic and alternitive rock and some old jazz. this unit is great for its abillity to suit many different types of music styles and can cover from beatles to zeppelin to bush and do it very well.
to make it better, it should be able to do multiple effects at once, and if you put a real tube in the pre amp your set.
As ive said before, this unit is very easy to use and will survive nuclear war. its a great processor to start out with or to add on to a pedal board.You can probly get it on ebay for like 150 and for that price it's a invalueble piece of equipment in your inventory.

This is a really easy unit to work with. It's straightforward to get your sound via the setting switches and controlling each setting is a breeze with the dials. The unit comes loaded with the obligatory metronome and tuner, but adds a welcome phrase trainer and sample with a built in loop. Banking down through effects is nasty as it requires big shoes and much foot-accuracy as you need to simultaneously tap two pedals for it to work. NOT good if you're playing a gig, and you screw up (which is easily done). One thing this unit lacks, and badly needs is seamless patch change. Note to Korg: Sound dropouts are BAD!

I use a USA Strat and a Les Paul. The amp simulations are quite poor here, if Korg had spent as much time fine tuning their revolutionary REMS system as they did patting themselves on the back about it, we'd have some awesome sounds. The displays are clearly marked out with the name so f each effect, but sadly the Acoustic Simulator is dreadful, and just sounds like a clean electric slightly compressed. The Compressor is far too tight, and the Fat Dist sucks. The Metal Distortion delivers the goods, but the Seattle fuzz sounds like no fuzz unit I ever heard. The vox is nothing to write home about either, although the US Hi Gain is slightly better and offers a rather good crunch for rhythm and riffery. The Marshall is ok, but not awe-inspiring by any means.

The cab simulation is a good idea, it allows you to customise your amp setup to your heart's content. There is undeniably marked changes in the sound and tone when the different cabs are selected. The 'Air' control is a great idea, but for me not quite responsive enough. There is definitely an advantage to having the Cabs here.

Ambience is where this unit comes into its own. The phasers, flangers, trems etc are all fabulous. They sound great, they're controlled easily and loads of fun. This is definetely the strong point of this unit. The fx are of a high standard, and are perhaps deserving of the price alone.

The pedals are ok too, there's you're bog standard volume, vox wah (it's a matter of taste with the wah on the Korg, but I eventually got a great wah out of this. It varies depending on which amp sim you use it with, and a bit of reverb brings out the best here) and your Filtron, which is a kind of spaced-out seventies effect - nice for funk. Then there is is the uni-vibe effect, which is lovely but would've benefitted from a higher speed setting to get the Leslie Speaker-type sound. The talker is a novelty, and not totally practical but as good as the other talkers on the market.

Dealys are exceptional, allowing total manipulation of time and effect. If ambience is your thing, the Korg is for you. The reverbs aren't as warm as they ought to be, but the delays and echoes are excellent.

I haven't had a single problem with mine, it's really great. You could drive a tank over it and it wouldn't blink. Probably. Don't, though. I'd gig with this puppy without any fears, its very well assembled and the components are all good.

Never dealt with these people.

This will serve you for a variety of styles. If you're a blues player, ve it a miss. If you're a rock player or a shredder, this is a handy purchase. Or if you're just looking to acquire some fx, I'd point you here. Buy a good distortion pedal though, because the on-board ones aren't great. If Korg can't come up with better amp simulation, they could chop that section off and relaunch this cheaper as purely an modulation/ambience unit. If they threw in a drum machine, they'd make a fortune. While this unit is great, should it go missing I'd be tempted to peek at its rivals to see what they offer in terms of effects because I know they offer better overdrives than this beast. The sample loop is way too short, it barely lets you record a enough chords to solo over, and again there is a definite seam when the sample ends and it throws your solo to hell. It should be seamless, Korg! Apart from that, I'd have to say it's worth a look - others may well find the distortions are good. I think hey should knock a fraction off the price though.

It took me several months to learn to use it. And it takes a long time to learn how to make own good effects. The manual had everything I needed to know. I give it a 7 because I am still learning new things about It all the time.

Whit head phones the sound is really good. Whit my amp I sometimes need to adjust something. The wav have a bug on my ax because sometimes it can stop working. Otherwise the sounds are weary good.

I sure can but i wouldnt trust on the wah pedal.

ok.

This pedal has helped me a lot whit my playing.

This pedal is so much easier to use than any other multi-fx pedals out there. this is its major plus. I was able to take it out of the box, plug in my Ibanez AX120 and just go. I didn't even read the owners manual.

Sound quality....thats another story altogether. The volume changes from effect to effect are horrid when playing live. When using an acoustic, mine is an Ovation Celeb Deluxe, you pretty much can leave, the compressor and chorus on most of the time. When playing electric on the other hand, the pedal gives no sustain whatsoever. The distortions on the pedal are horrible, unless you play through the perfect guitar and prfect amp. Which i do not have.

You better believe you can depend on this, rugged roadworthy, steel casing. I have dropped it numerous time, besides a couple nicks and dings but works as perfectly(i use that word lightly) as the day i got it.

never dealt with korg.

i play church music, rock, creed, pod. This pedal does a good job of pleasing a novice, for the very affordable price. However, i am no longer a novice and i crave more, but it helped me get started and exposed me to many different amp sounds and effects (56 to be exact). Tweakability is fun, knobs are great, LCD is bright. But i crave more, i am looking at the boss gt-5 right now.

This unit is very easy to use. I personally prefer the discrete knobs for quick editing versus the LCD with arrows-only approach used by many more expensive units. The manual is fairly clear on how to do things, but the unit is simple enough I was able to figure most things out just by fiddling with it for awhile.

My setup is simplistic: I plug my guitar into the Korg effects/preamp unit, and I plug the output of the unit into the power-amp in jack of a Fender Deluxe 85 amp (one 12-inch speaker), thus bypassing the Fender's pre-amp section.

The unit is fairly quiet. You need the noise reduction on for compression, but that's pretty normal.

The effects are generally quite good for a unit in this price range. I've read complaints about the wah, but I think the wah is not bad at all. I have a real 1960's vintage Cry Baby wah peddle that the Korg does not immitate perfectly, but the Korg wah is competent. Also the vowel sound is quite cool and effective. Other effects such as chorus and reverb are not outstanding but very competent.

I am unhappy with two aspects of the effects. One is that the natural tone of my guitars is lost, even if I try to make a "vanilla" patch that doesn't do distortion, chorus, etc. I can tweak things a little and get some of it back, but I'd like the whole tone back. I can use BYPASS for this, but then I lose the basic effects I want like reverb. The second problem is, I think, a bigger one: the compression causes the attack on notes to make a "popping" sound. It's quite noticeable. It's an effect I might like in some cases, but you can't get rid of it without turning off compression. I have an ancient DigiTech RP-1 that I was hoping to replace with this unit, but the RP-1 does not have these problems. It is basically a better unit in spite of its age and quirks IMHO.

I don't normally try to get sounds of my favorite artists, but just playing around I could get somewhat of a 1960's Clapton sound with my Gibson ES-347. Later strat Clapton sounds, using my American Strat, were actually more difficult since the full tone of the Strat is lost a bit in the effects.

I haven't had the unit long so reliability is hard to judge. However, it is a solid metal case and appears to be quite rugged.

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I play jazz, blues, hip pop, folk, contemporary country, a lot of stuff. I don't play any acid or death metal. I do use heavy dist/comp once in awhile for effect. The Korg AX1000G is OK for some of this. The jazz/blues suffers a little with the unit.

the unit is fairly simple.
it has 5 big buttons, an expression pedal, 5 'analog feeling' knobs (for tweaking the settings), 5 selector knobs, five buttons, an lcd with 8 buttons.
when you figure it out, editing patches is pretty simple.
you dont need to read the manual first i don't think, but after you've messed around with the presets for a while (a day), you'll get bored and want to shove this thing to its limits - this is when you read the manual.

i said it was easy to use.
i didn't say you could get a good sound out easily.
the distortions are pretty bad... infact dismal, and they are very good on the boss gt-3 (a friend has one).
the only thing that really saves it is its ambient (echo) effects.
these are very good, and sh*t in the boss gt-3's mouth.
the pedal and mod. effects are not bad - but they lack 'that something' which makes the standalone effects worth buying.
they lack soul and warmth i think.
a bit weak is the word i'm looking for here.

after a years experimentation with this, i have discovered some pretty good sounds, but the good sounds limit you to working with about a 1/4 of the board's effects.

my setup is a parker fly p-38 into the effects into a peavey bandit 112. the bandit isn't particularly good, because it has alot of background hiss and i have spent quite alot of time trying to get rid of it. but the second channel (with slight overdrive settings) helps to give the effects a little warmth.

it's hard to get the sounds of my favourite artists becuase people like jonny greenwood use complex settings, which i dont even think are possible on this.
it's also quite hard to find a good lead sound.

the amp models never really leaped out at me as being particularly brilliant - and i don't think they provide the tonal differences that the real amps would do.

also - the parameters on this don't go up (or down) in 0.1 (out of 10), they go up and down in 0.3 and 0.4, and this can be quite annoying when you're being really fussy, and you can clearly hear the difference between (for example) 7.3 and 7.7.
just thought i'd throw that in

strangely, i managed to use it on my keyboard (piece of 80's crap) and get a pretty mellow choir like sound (like in the back ground of alot of radiohead songs) - although it is a bit weak.

if i could afford it, i wouldn't depend on it - but as i'm a poor man, and can't afford back ups, i have to.

the knobs are a little shoddy. the drive tweak knob cracked down the side within a month, and kept falling off.
the 1st big button became a bit sticky too - but i thinks thats because my bother spilled beer on it (he never told me he did - but you have to assume these things).

apart from that it's made out of some pretty solid feeling metal that would be hard to dent without a hammer.

nothing really worth phoning about.

since i dabble in a bit of metal from time to time, distortions are essential - and i'm not particularly pleased with this.
i also dabble in a bit of ambient psychadelia sort of stuff and the echos do kick lots of ass, which is probably why i still own this.
i've been playing for about a year and a half now, and got this for christmas (11 months ago).
at the time i was very pleased with it, as i was pretty much still a novice - and if you're just starting out, you'll be very pleased with it too.
it's just... you grow out of it - you find that stand alones are capable of alot more, especially sonic experimentation.
you also have the fun (or bore - which ever way you look at it) of finding out the different orders to put the pedals to find which ones work better etc.
you have alot more freedom to get rid of and buy pedals that suit your fancy and if you dont like ring modulators - tough! because korg used up a space for it - and you can't replace it with anything else.
what i'm trying to say is - when you buy your multi effects - unless you want to shell out more money, you don't have much choice as to what goes into it.
think of it as a sample booklet of carpet.
you have small pieces of carpet to take back home and decide which carpet you want in each room in your house - to see what it would look like.
it's only when you get the carpet fitted (you buy stand alones) that you realise what it really looks like (what the sound actually is).
... a nice analogy there i thought...

if it were stolen, i wouldn't buy another, i'd buy stand alones, but i'd certainly be annoyed that i lost my amazingly great delay settings.

design wise, it should have a foot controllable on/off switch (so you don't have to bend down to take the power lead out). it should also have a bank down switch, because it's straining to twist your foot, with the ball of your foot on the bank up switch and press the 4th big button with your heel, and do that numerous times until you get to your desired setting - it's either that or bend down and do it with your hands.
also you can't really use it with shoes on, especially if you have boots or wide soled shoes on, because you end up pressing lots of buttons at a time.
if it were upto me, i'd have the buttons a bit further spaced apart, with the metal switches a la Yamaha DG stomp.

at first, this little gizmo helped me practice and make music, but now it's slightly constrictive, becuase it doesn't go to extremes in terms of the parameters, and once you get passed the stage of learning what you have to do and learning how to create your own thing, it's not particularly amazing.

although, it is a VERY good unit if you're a beginner, and will keep you ALOT more interested in guitar than your normal clean amp setting.
this will also give you endless hours of playing random stuff and faffing with the mods, pedals, and delays - which is especially good if you're a beginner, because it means you can make sounds which aren't normal, and this will boost you eagerness to learn the damn thing (this is if you're anything like me).

myself, i have grown out of this, but would thrust this upon a beginner, because i got so much enjoyment out of it, and really will make you play guitar alot more, improve your technique and your eagerness to learn!!!!!


p.s. if i wrote this 8 months ago, it would get straight 10's!!!

Firstly, I bought it because it of the knobs because I was sick of using buttons. It was easy to use in the shops. And lots of fun. The manual is good but I didn't use it for the first two months- just kept myself busy with all the basic features.

I use an Epiphone Coronet and and Ibanez CT Strat an Australian Scorpion 2 channel 1000w amp. I play light, meloncholy grunge/rock. Like I said, I bought it because I was sick of knobs but it didn't take me long to get sick of the fuzziness and the weakness of the distoted sounds. And that's what I got it for basically. I used to have a Zoom 2020 and I bought this so I could get some decent sounds and our other guitarist plays a Boss DS-1 stomp box (that's all!) with a Washburn G-II and that sounds much better. All other effects are fine. I just bought an old ME-5 to replace it. Anyone interested??? lol

I've gigged with it about 10 times. I'm sure it's fine but once it started buzzing and humming loudly beefore a gig and I wasn't going to be able to use it. Fortunately it came good just inm time.

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I'm not going to keep- the distrotion sounds are just too weak. I'll be happy with the Boss ME-5.

I was able to quickly learn how to use this unit without reading the manual. Most of the settings and controls are right in front of you so it is extremely east to make changes. If fact this was the determing factor in deciding to purchase the Korg AX1000G.

None of the multiple effect units I tried are great when it comes to sound quality, the Korg is no exception. Unfortunately digital effects while enhancing the capabilities of your amp also have a detrimental effect on sound quality. Some of the distortion presets are noisy especially when used with a single pick-up. As in all the digital effect units I tested some presets are better than others and some tweaking is required to improve sound quality. For the most part all of the effects (Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Flanger, etc ...) worked reasonable well.

For the most part the unit appears solid with the exception of the display - it is not very well protected.

Never dealt with Korg.

I looked at the Yamaha DG Stomp, Digitech RP100,200,300 and Zoom products. They all sound slightly different however I would be hard pressed to say one of these units sounds better than the others. The reason I selected the Korg was ease of use, price and I wanted a unit that had a useable acoustic simulator. The features I liked the most were the acoustic simulator and the "Individual" mode. The individual mode allows you to select and tweak individual effects. Also having a pedal that you can assign to control volume or one of the effects is a bonus. One thing I wish this unit had was a power switch.

It's pretty easy to use, even without a manual. Still you'll need to read the manual to figure out some things (e.g. saving patches, using phrase trainer etc.). Making your own patches ain't hard at all, just experiment a bit.

I'm using the Washburn Paul Stanley Signature Guitar and a pretty old 60W 2-channel guitar amp. Some of the factory settings are pretty noisy (especially Corn & Dyme), but I used the Noise Supressor function when making my own patches and the result is pretty cool. The distortions are surprisingly good, maybe except Tube Overdrive (sounds a bit fake to me...it's only my opinion though). All the other effects (flanger, chorus, echo, reverb, phaser, octaver, wah etc.) are pretty cool, too. I can get all the sounds I want (I play 80's rock and heavy metal - bands like Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Megadeth, Joe Satriani etc.).

I haven't used it live yet, but I've got a couple of gigs coming up with my highschool band and yes, I would use it without a backup. It's made of metal and I like it. I hope that the expression pedal wount let be down.

Never dealt with them.

I play mostly rock and heavy metal, sometimes even blues and this unit is a pretty good match. I've been playing for like 2 years and the main thing I need is a good distortion sound. Don't go buying ZOOM effects, 'cause these Multi-FX units really suck. I would never buy an effects box made of plastic.
So, if you don't have much money and you want a good Multi-effects unit, get Korg AX1000G.

Very easy to use and a lot of fun. Don't really need the manual at all to get it working well. Going down in patches is a bit tricky though.

Sounds great, with the only exception that it doesn't add sustain to the notes very much (which I think I've read in other reviews).

Two weeks after I bought it the red 7 segment display starting acting up and I took it in to the store for repair. They sent it out for repair and after 8 to 10 weeks they ended up giving me my money back as it looked like it was never going to come back. Makes me feel like multi-effects boxes are disposable items after the warrany is up. Took the money and bought an amp instead as at least they are repairable.

See reliability for my story on this one. When I hear that Korg (who never repaired my AX1000G distribute Marshall and Vox in Canada I kind of cringe that my new AVT50 never breaks down.

I don't own it any more as they gave me the option of cash/new unit after they took so long and did not return the original unit and hey, after that long a repair time, I took that cash.

I found it to be a lot of fun and sounded great.

It is really easy to get a great sound quickly, with almost no experience. Like childsplay to edit effects and move patches. The manual is not very helpful, but the processor does have an 'individual' mode where you can tinker and save really easily. With effects like KoRn and Guns and roses and Led Zeppelin already programmed its really quick to start!

I've tried a Laney TF320 and a really old amp with this unit, and it is great on the Laney and ok on the old one. It can be noisy if you want, but silent if you don't! All the effects seem to sound good as far as I have played. I ahve a Fender Squier Affinity that I use and it's perfect. As this was second hand it had some cool effects that I like, Green Day, Offspring, KoRn Guns n Roses and Blink 182, really great sounding.

I can edpend fully on this, it has a power supply with it and has a backlit display for high visibility. I would use this at a gig on it's own and be happy.

Haven't had to contact the customer support!

GREAT! I would reccomend if you can't afford the Boss GT-3. A fair match, with less effect banks, but the same features and live editing!

The unit is reasy to use period. I had never seen a multi effect so simple to use. You will get your sound in just a few knows turned.

I use a cheap guitar (soon yamaha rgx420s) with Korg AX1000g and an original crybaby.
The unit is outstanding but not perfect. I think sound quality is the most important part of the review...so i'm just gonna straight things out here. The Drive...well everything here is good and usable if u know how to tweak it. The cabiner ... well good if you want it to sound like a famous amp or expensive amp.The modulation.. well some work for me and some are unuasable / useless for live playing , the chorus flanger, delay , phaser , tremolo are verygood, the pitch is and filtron is not bad but THE WAH IS VERY WEAK. The pedal... everythis is good exept the wah. The ambience is good if u want some color in your sound.one important thing, some effect like mod and pedal cant be used at the same time.The noise supresor is good but don't use it above 80 because it will extremely reduce your sound quality.Notice that i use the word extremely.

Well... a few month after i bought it the unit start to get stain especially the edges part. The knobs can be accidently turned on stages by guitar cables and that is dissaster. The progran switches is very small , weak and too close to each other especially to the bank switch. i think it was designed for thumbs not for shoes, thats make it very difficult so hit the switch on dark stage.The LCD is good for dark stage but very bad in daylight because u can't read the LCD while standing.Another major flaw is it doesn't have an on/ off switch so you have to pull the adaptor to turn it off and that is annoying . The tuner is nice in bypass or mute.

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Buy a crybaby and it rocks. All impoortant effects in one unit at an affordable price. All you have to do is turn the understand the knobs functions and know how to turn them. Probably the biggest flaw in this unit is it doesn't have a down bank swithch seperately so u have to use your hands to bank down and that is not good "on stage".

The unit is reasy to use period. I had never seen a multi effect so simple to use. You will get your sound in just a few knows turned.

use a cheap guitar (soon yamaha rgx420s) with Korg AX1000g and an original crybaby.
The unit is outstanding but not perfect. I think sound quality is the most important part of the review...so i'm just gonna straight things out here. The Drive...well everything here is good and usable if u know how to tweak it. The cabiner ... well good if you want it to sound like a famous amp or expensive amp.The modulation.. well some work for me and some are unuasable / useless for live playing , the chorus flanger, delay , phaser , tremolo are verygood, the pitch is and filtron is not bad but THE WAH IS VERY WEAK. The pedal... everythis is good exept the wah. The ambience is good if u want some color in your sound.one important thing, some effect like mod and pedal cant be used at the same time.The noise supresor is good but don't use it above 80 because it will extremely reduce your sound quality.Notice that i use the word extremely.

Well... a few month after i bought it the unit start to get stain especially the edges part. The knobs can be accidently turned on stages by guitar cables and that is dissaster. The progran switches is very small , weak and too close to each other especially to the bank switch. i think it was designed for thumbs not for shoes, thats make it very difficult so hit the switch on dark stage.The LCD is weak and can be easely scrached,good for dark stage but very bad in daylight because u can't read the LCD while standing.Another major flaw is it doesn't have an on/ off switch so you have to pull the adaptor to turn it off and that is annoying . The tuner is nice in bypass or mute.

Can't be rached... the website is not very helpfull.

Buy a crybaby and it rocks. All impoortant effects in one unit at an affordable price. All you have to do is turn the understand the knobs functions and know how to turn them. Probably the biggest flaw in this unit is it doesn't have a down bank swithch seperately so u have to use your hands to bank down and that is not good "on stage".

I've got a fair experience of guitar pedals, so I knew what to expect anyway, but found this much easier to master than most - I mean, the settings are right there before you eyes, on seperate knobs! I used to own a BOSS GT3, which (can be) horribly complicated, so it was a joy to get nice sounds from a couple of twiddled knobs.

This pedal sounds excellent. I have come 'down' from a BOSS GT-3 and I honestly find it nicer to listen to the Korg! it's quite hard to make a terrible sound on it because it's so self explanatory and simple to use. The distortions are nice, not harsh at all, and the presets are OK; they give you an idea of what can be done, and the names of the patches (Z*P*L*N, voodoo, bizkit), give you an idea of what theyre supposed to be emulating!! :)

I have gone from Radiohead to Joy Division to The Smiths to the Manic Street Preachers on this unit, and it can be very accurate with the right settings...

I use it with a Mexican Fender Strat mainly, with the worst amp ever. And it still sounds lovely.

I have had it a few days, so I don't know yet. However my mates had one for a year or so (half the reason I got one!), and his has been gigged and its still fine.

I got it pretty cheap, so understandably the fact I think it's a great pedal is a real bonus!! I'd have paid double for it, I really think it sounds fantastic, and it's nice and simple to use.

I think a pedal like the BOSS GT-3, which might sound better in certain respects, and has a lot more features, was wasted on me really, when something this cheap and this easy to use can bring me much more joy!!

This unit is pretty easy to get good sounds out of it.Even some of the factory presets are good!Editing is simple,I realy like turning a knob instaed of tring to find my way to what paramiter I want to adjust.For example if you want to change the expression pedal from volume to wah all you do is press the pedal switch,then turn the knob above to vox wah and your done.you dont have to go unlink the expression pedal from on thing and then asign it to another.Also the exp pedal can turn on/off effects with a firm press down on the pedal.even has a LED to let you know when its on or off.manual is good also.The display is back lit so you can see what the name of the patch is on a dark stage.You can rename your patches move them to where you want to,you know all the usual stuff.

I run this into a Crate half stack going right from guitar to the unit to the input of the head with ibanez guitars,Two Jems and a RG350.I set bass /mids/treb to 1/2 and turn the rev off on the amp.The unit is pretty quiet.If you do have noise the NR works realy well.The chorus flang delay phaser rev are all GOOD!Ring mod and pitch are ok and the talk is better than others I have heard.I play Rock Metel & some harder blues stuff with my band and this sounds like it will cut through well on stage.Im still tring to find time to get a good patch for the love of god by Mr Vai but I know its there.

Made out of metal and the switches seem solid no problems so far.

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I play alot of rock metel glam and some blues and it matches very well.Been playing for 22 years and I still cant stay out of a music store for more than a week at a time so I have played with everything ouy there and for the money this unit rocks!Almost bought a boss Gt3 and the korg sounds just as good to me and was $160 cheaper.I would buy this again if it came up missing.I use a line6 flextone II XL on stage and us this unit with my half stack ot home.I like the tone and effects on this unit and would play out with it if something happen to my Flextone.Better than the others I have tried over the years and it has that punch to get through a live mix.Everything in the store sounds pretty cool at first but wait till you get it on satge and the whole game changes!Its a Good unit go check one out.

This unit is the best out there. You can always get tight sounds out of this tone monster. Editing patches is a synch. Even if you don't read the manual!!!! The manual is pretty much a nut shell. THIs thing rocks!!!

I'm using a Jackson with two single coils and a humbucker, and a Fender Strat through a Fender Princeton Chorus. THe unit is never noisy with my guitars. Only probably sometimes on distortion if you have a cheap guitar like the Squire ripoffs. Overall, you can get any sound you want from Korn to Steve Vai or P.O.D. to Satriani. Everything's here. And the distortions kick ass!!! They're warm and can get really heavy if you have the right amp to go with it. It beats the ^#%#&$ out of Digitech's models and other brands. All the effects are definitely worth playing. The is okay. Way better than other multi effect boxes I heard from. THis is a best BUY!!!

It's metal. Enough said.

Never had to deal with 'em. My unit works everytime I turn it on.

2 words. Get It. Buy It. Play It. Enjoy it. Show off. DOn't waste your time looking elsewhere. This is the unit 4 u.