Korg AX1000G

The Ax1000G is fairly easy to use, but there are some design changes
that I would like to see that would make things much easier. It's ok
for sitting around the house or in the studio. But changes on stage
are somewhat cumberome.

I use a 1989 Strat 57 reissue through a (major mod'd) Fender Bassman.
The unit is quiet, with the possible exception of the Acoustic patch.
I play in a cover band out of Atlanta, we are all ex-pros. don't practice. We take requests (stump the band kinda thing) so I need a
quick access. I am moderately satified with that aspect.

I seems roadworthy, at least it's metal. We'll see. I always
carry a backup, which will be the G-3.

I've been playing all my life ( 40 plus) In my family, most are all entertainers. I play in a cover band out of Atlanta, we are all ex-pros. don't practice. We take requests (stump the band kinda thing) so I need a quick access. I am moderately satified with that aspect. However,I wish you could view the patch you are going to. I had to use the G-3 with a A/B box in order to carry the sound while I change the settings on the Korg. The manual sucks. Maybe they could have written a "crash" course for those who would complain about " too technical", then maybe a little more detailed further on in the same manual. The
loop function does not work as described in the manual.
In order to change some of the patches, I found it easier to
find all of the "original settings" then move from there. This also is
hard to do on stage. I would not expect to walk right on stage and
play this thing, but if you wire it in to your current setup and
work with it seems to be the way to go. If they would incorporate
an A/B setting( or maybe a 2nd display for whats in cue), I'd be a happy guy.

This thing is great for practicing or trying to find a particular
sound.Does it sound just like a expensive tube amp? No. Can it
change the sound enough to make a decent replication. Yes. It
actualy sounds good in front of a tube amp.

If you want something to direct record with you may want to look at
one of the other processers. If you want something that is an excelent
practice tool that has about everything you need, this thing is for
you. I can't find any down sides,not perfect but very good.

Not too bad, but some combinations need to be found via the manual. The patch selection pedals were too close together for me. But the bank down combination was not a real issue. Knobs are better for tweaking.

I'm using either a Peavey Cropper Classic or USA Tele in to a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe tube amp. The only drive setting I half liked was the Brit Stack. No cabinet emulations were any good thru the amp and any clear ones seemed to suck the life out of the tone of the amp. This pedal, even bypassed i.e. with no preamp/cabinet/fx on still took something away from the guitar tone which didn't impress me. I spent a lot of hours trying to get a good sound thru the amp and giged it once (with even more messing) but so much life seemed to go from the amp that I've gone back to pedals.

Through the headphones though, the pedal was great. But I wanted it for live work and it didn't cut it for me.

It's metal but the volume/wah pedal didn't seem that solid (compared to a Dunlop). Didn't have it long enough to comment otherwise. Should be OK if you look after it. The plastic cover over the LCD was thin and flimsy (like thick cling-film) and was scratched out of the box.

Din't deal with them.

I'd spent a lot of time looking in to a an all-in-one unit and the Korg appeared to fit the bill. I'm very disappointed that it didn't work out which is a shame. Just sounded too digital and lifeless thru a tube amp. I still think, it's a good product, just not right for me.

Very easy to use: only read the manual because I wanted somthing to read :)
Editing patches is a sinch.

I use this with a Jackson ATX and/or a Peavy Predator. I don't like the sounds on it at all, apart from the 'Tallica' clean sound, which is amazing. In fact, this is the only effect I use on it except the delay (I use my boss metalzone pedal and the amp's reverb/chorus.

No reliablility problems so far: wouldn't gig without a backup though, just in case.

Not used it

I only bought this so I didn't have to spend so long setting up my ice box chorus/metalzone distortion and cry baby. Unfortunatly, the wah is awful (I have a #30 cheap plastic wah pedal that sounds 10 times better), the chorus isn't anything special and the distortion is ok if you're not picky but I like heavy distorion with lots of drive. I wish that I'd saved a bit longer and bought the Boss GT3.

This thing is full of "good" sounds, but not many I consider "great", but it is better then most of the other floor processers I have tried.
It has a usable manual included, amazing. I got this thing to use as a practice aid & recording tool, but have not used it to record with yet. Very simple to use, as it is all "knob" based, easy to edit. Hell, if I can figure it out in a few minutes you surely can. I don't like many (non really) of the factory presets, and I have to question buying a effects unit with programs like "corn, bizkit & dyme". Oh, its EASY to use. Not having a real on-off switch bothers me too, it automaticly comes on when you plug it in. I'm just old school I guess.

I use several axes and amps, but mostly play through a Gibson E2 Explorer or a Fender Strat with EMGs (all single) into a Rivera 55-12 or a Rivera M60 combo. This thing is a very good headphone amp, but it doesn't get loud enough (using the phones) for me, but I'm going deaf to I guess. The reverbs and delay are well.....digital. The wah to me is almost unusable, I won't be parting with my Vox wah anytime soon, at least for this one, or any other digital wah I've heard so far. The distortion is merely OK on most counts. I like my amp distortion and will use a dedicated pedal of my choice if I need more gain. Korg's "REMS" has come a long way compared to the way like units sounded even 5 years ago. In the drive-amp & cabinet block you have 11 choices (for each) to choose from. Then you can adjust the drive, level, treble, mids, and bass AND adjust (for the cabinet) the air, level & presence.
This is where your distorion or acoustic (or other basic tones) comes from. I use the above mentioned for headphones only, as I have a REAL amp's tone I like much better. When switching cabinet sounds you WILL notice a difference (REALLY!!!) between, say a 1-8 and 1-12 tweed or a much bigger difference between a 4-10 tweed or 4-12 modern. The modularion block has Classic & Stero chorus, Classic Flanger, Mod delay, black & Orange phaser, textrem, pitch shifter, filtron,, auto wah and octave. Out of the ones listed, I like the filtron and auto wah best. The rest of the mod effects sound passable with headphones, but are lacking (to my ears) when run into the loop of my Rivera. I don't like the tremolo at all on this one, but then again I don't like "digital" trem on anything really. The pedal block gives you 11 more choices (volume, vox, traveler, talk, chorus-flanger. univibe, pitch bend, ring mod, hold, tap and sample & play delay. I have no comment on the ring mod as I don't use them and never have liked them. Remember some of the pedal effects WILL NOT work with the mod effects.
Now, this is the reason I got this in the first place. I wanted a sampler with decent delays, and this does the job just fine, thank you. Its not gonna make you get rid of your old EH unit, but it works pretty good. The sample and play part is cool, it will let you record 8 seconds and play it back however you see fit, including backwards, this is way more fun then it sounds. The U-vibe is sort of cool, but you won't be using it if you have a real one, same for the wah. The Vox wah DOES NOT sound like a Vox wah to me, surprise (yeah, I got a real one). The ambience block is the other reason I got this thing, and you have 11 choices here as well. The tape echo doesn't sound like a tape echo to me, but it's far better then other floor processers I have heard, it really and truely is. I'm a sort of delay and wah freak. The reverb is passable, but again its not exactly a long pan Hammond. Some of you guys love the digital verb, I do not. Same with delays, I like ANALOG delays, but I also like LONG delays and well, digital works OK for that. So really, I got this to use for the delays, sampler, tuner, metronome, filtron, and thats about it. Well, that's about the only effects I will run into my amp with this thing. The rest of them, again sound cool into headphones.

I don't gig anymore (old and married) but if I did, you have to be numb not to use a backup regardless. I have used other Korg gear with missed results, but so far so good. Don't worry, you guys will be the second to know IF I ever have any problems with it.

We'll see if the time ever comes that I need it.

I play metal and roots rock for the most part. It works OK for that and may even be KILLER for the new rock and metal tones, but I don't play that shit at all. If it were stolen I'd look for something else with more sampleing time, as thats what I really use it for. I've been playing for 18 years or so now. I love the IDEA of this thing, a all in one box, but I have picky ears, and know what I like to hear. This thing DOES help me create, I'll give it that. With a new baby coming, I'd say I'll be using this thing alot more too. It's kinda cool as I can do a loop and play over it by myself. It also has a nice tuner, the metronome comes in handy, and the delays are passable. I wanted a practice "toy" and this works fine for that respect, but it just doesn't have the sound I like (overall) to use with my Rivera M60.
Again, I'm old and set in my ways, I like certain distortions, delays, wah's, ect...
You know what? Try it and see if you think its the best thing since sliced bread or not.

very easy to use, but is a little difficult press 2 switches

the best sound, have the better effects, the metal dist is espectacular from KIll eM ALL to limp biskit sounds (if you like limp bizkit) the wah has a great sound, the us hi gain distortion is very bad but is replaced for the metal dist (espectacular dist).
The cabinet,modulation and ambience are great but in the pedal section, the ring mod i really a joy but pedals are good.
This korg is better than the rp7, rp2000, gt3, zoom 8080 in sound quality

a good relibility, but is a little difficult press two stwitches, but has a very good sound on stage, better than the rp200

Korg is great

BUY it
is better than the digitech, zoom, boss in sound quality, is easy to use and is cheaper
KORG AX1000G KICK ASS
a very good buy

you'd have to be really slow not to get a good sound out of this unit right from out of the box...it has knobs which eliminates hours of making patches like with most of processors

i use an epiphone les paul standard through an ibanez ts7 tubescreamer into the korg and finally into my Crate GFX-212....it can get pretty noisy but it has a noise reduction system that you can use(but you lose alot tone at low volume if you have it above 8) i play mostly punk with some silverchair thrown in there and i can easily get any distortion sound i want plus the presets are made after many guitar heroes or bands(etc. dime, korn, zepplin, lizzy, bizkit), what's also cool about this thing is that most of the distortions(minus us high gain) are based on stompboxes not amp distortions so you don't have to go out and buy a big muff, boss metal zone etc. they're already there...the modulation effects sound great i love the phaser and flanger...the pitch bend sound likes shit but i don't use it during any songs so no skin off my ass :-)

it has a metal housing so it should last for quite some time...i would gig this baby without a backup without any fear

never dealt with them

i've been playing for over 2 years and once again i play mostly PUNK with some silverchair thrown in there and this thing suits me more then perfectly so if you're going after many different distortions go for it....if this were stolen i'd cry like alittle baby then probably steal another one(i'm not made of money people)....this processor is incredibly good and if it wouldn't have been for the Digitech RP2000 being out there in the same year it would've gotten alot more attention

This thing is usable right out of the box (like we all do). Great pre-sets that are very tweekable with KNOBS. It's very easy to find where you want to be to change the settings. Very discriptive in their lables.The pre-sets are a good reference to create your custom pre-sets and the manual specifies what effects are where in the chain (saves some time. Good manual, but it was hard to get to the sample play feature without playing around (I used a Digitech delay for years- I expected the same functionality)

The amp selections can be extreem, but the speaker selection compliments things nicely. Lots of colors to work with. You could just change the speaker setting by song and leave the amp pick the same. The thing is dead quiet, if that where you want to be. Very transparent NR (although, changing the parameters are very limited). A lot of room to play with the levels of individual efects as you mix them together. Live, it's great to be able to bend over tweek a knob and know where you'll be. Very predictable, but scary if you don't practice what happens when you experiment. Pre-sets are geared more towards scooped out and gained tones, but there is so much room to tweek that you could live in pre-set land 90% of the time and still not feel guilty about it.
Great chorus, flange, wah and delys/echo. The Leslie thing just should of been scapped. It's terrible. A ton of room to work with the delays. Playing with the EQ on the feedback delays is very cool. I wish that the pedal had delay time functions. The pedal is excellent. More of a VOX Wah type, which is not bad, but very touhing on the wah and modulation efects like the, can be very obnoxious LFO (a la Shaft on Viagra).

I've only had it for about 4 months. Very sturdy metal housing. Nice firm feel to the knobs and expression pedal.
Too soon to tell, but I fel good.

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I'm a self taught very unique, but appreciated player that does aggressive and accoustic minded stuff. A deadnirvanayoungbobcure thing. I've been at it for a while. I play a Carvin DC135 T. (You've got to look at the Carvins- sorry) through either an old Rickenbacher solid state 100 W combo or a Peavy Classic 30. I used a Sans Amp GT2 before this adition (and I haven't looked back-as much as I loved that thing).
I've sampled the Zoom and BOSS comp and this one beats them easily.
Unfortunately, you can't combine individual modualtion effects. These effects are so fat it would be unreal to be able to mix and match.
Hey, I rely on good old HC for a great deal of my education. I hope I've influenced you in a positive way which I feel is "Buy the damn thing!" Best under $500 thing I ever bought.

At the risk of sounding like every other reviewer on this page, I have to say that this pedal is extremely easy to use. Because the parameter controls are knob-based, I can actually make changes onstage in real time. Anyone who's used multi-effect pedals in a performance environment before knows what a hassle it can be to try to tweak parameter buttons on the fly while looking at a little screen.
Unlike some others, though, I did use the manual, mainly to figure out how to access the tuner and set up tap delays.
I found it very easy to get a great sound out of this box.

I play a 69 tele with Lindy Fralin Pickups and a Fishman Powerbridge. When I bought this pedal, I ran it stereo through two Roland JC120's, which is, I think, the ultimate setup with this pedal. Unfortunately, those amps were stolen, and I couldn't afford to replace them. Now I run the pickups through the Korg and into (in stereo) an Ampeg Superjet reissue and a Roland Blues Cube. Both are 50-watt amps, so I have plenty of volume. I go for a clean sound out of the amps, and let the pedal provide the distortion. I run the Peizo straight into the PA. When I combine the acoustic sound from the Fishman with a slightly distorted sound from the amps, I have the largest, most awesome guitar sound known to man!
I have to admit that when I bought this pedal, I was a little disappointed in the sound quality. After playing with it for awhile, I realized that it was just the presets themselves that sucked. The unit is capable of great sound--it just doesn't come programmed that way from the factory. The thing I like best about the sound of this pedal is its versatility. Other multipedals I've used gave my guitar variations on the same sound. This one has enough different stuff in it to give you lots of completley different sounds. I've also had the experience of playing with other guitarists who owned multi-pedals (can you say "digitech?"). I noticed that most of them sounded like their amps were stuck in a cave somewhere. This pedal sounds more "in your face." Most every effect sounds great, though I rarely use the univibe or the traveller wah. Also, I wish I could modify the eq range on the regular wah.
Other drawbacks: because of the way the sounds are arranged, I can't always use the combinations I'd like. For instance, you can't compress a distorted sound, or chorus a sound with wah. I also wish the phase shifter sounds were a bit more extreme. These are minor complaints, though.

I've been using it several nights per week, with no problems yet. It seems pretty sturdy.

Never needed it.

I'm not a player who uses a lot of reverb or extreme distortion. I'm not interested in doing an 80's style high-tech "Lukather" thing, or even a Vai/Satriani "shredder" thing, though I do enjoy those kinds of music (Holdsworth is my favorite player). I play in two bands. One, based in New Orleans, is soul/R&B/blues band, with a sweaty, 60's vibe. When I joined the band, I needed some retro-sounding effects. I was already using a Marshall Guvnor and an old Tube screamer. I pondered buying a Crybaby, a Phase 90 and a Dyna-comp, then I stumbled across the review of the Korg in Guitar Player and decided save some money and make my stage setup simpler. This pedal was the answer on both counts.
My other band is a Top 40 dance band that plays just about everything danceable, mostly classic rock and 70's soul. Most of our business consists of big conventions, Mardi Gras Balls, and weddings. I play bass in this band, and I tried the Korg on bass at a few gigs. It worked pretty well, though I stopped using it because the only effect I use more than once a night is an envelope follower, and my Bassballs pedal sounds better for that effect. The chorus sounded good on bass, but it doesn't make that much difference--in an eight-person horn band, bass chorus doesn't exactly stand out.
One interesting note--the guitar player in my dance band is a real gear-head. He was playing his modified strat through one of those expensive Mesa Boogie pedals and a whole batch of other things--chorus, wah, compressor, octaver, etc. into a Rivera amp. He was always griping about how complicated his setup was, and how different his tone sounded from room to room. I loaned him the Korg overnight, and he bought one the next day. Now, he just plays the Korg pedal through a Fender Twin, and it sounds, I kid you not, better than his old rig!
If this pedal were stolen, I would certainly buy it again.

The Korg AX1000-G was very easy to use once I was shown briefly by the
effect guru at Guitar Center. It took me minutes to be able to control the various functions of the preset patches and began editing my own patches within minutes. I tried the other processors within a $100 above and below mine but they were too vague and not as easily understandable.

I play with a custom 76 Gibson S-1 which has a humbucker/single coil configuation and go through a fender M-90 chorus amp. The settings with a lot of distortion are more noisy but I believe it could be my amp since the thing is soo loud evan at low settings. Nevertheless, the effects are outstanding! I used to play through a cry baby and and tube screamer but this Korg can do the same job better and with more variety. And after much time trying to find that ever desired Texas blues tone (ala SRV) I think I can get away with it using the AX1000-G. By the way, when I use my Seagull 12 string on the acoustic setting with some chorus and a little tweaking, the icey cool sounds that are coming out keep blowing my mind. I'm starting to get more desire to creat music and less time trying to find good sound. The Korg is taking the work out of "sounding great". Now if only I could play like Clapton.

The AX1000-G is made out of metal and is tight all the way around. I dont think too much could go wrong unless you dropped it wrong, but I guess anything could break like that. I would still bring some back up pedals just in case of a freak accident. I dont think the AX1000-G would give you problems in any other circumstance.

The manual doesn't give you a number to reach Korg for questions or support. I don't know if this is intentional but it bothered me to have to return to the store to get some info. when just learning the machine. Other than that I can't say too much.

Ive been playing for 9years now and my style of playing is blues baby all the way. I write my music this way and look to guys like SRV, Clapton, BB-King, and Santana for influence. Since I play in a praise and worship band at my church, I try to offer the best I can and this processor just added to the sound about 60%. I use the Gibson S-1 for the more faster and bluesier music and a Seagull 12 string cedar top as well as Jumbo Fender spruce top for the more subtle and gentler music. I love the Ice cool sounds generated by the chorus and phaser in this processor. The only thing I didn't like about this processor is the way it gives you a series of preset patchess on pedals 1-4. You can't mix and match the way you can seperate stomp boxes so you have to edit or copy from the manual the settings in the order you want using the 40 user patches. You end up with the same patches twice only in different places which seems to me to be a bit wasteful but at least you have 40 editable patches to work with. Also the preset patch settings don't seem to sound exactly the same once they have been copied. I have to tweek a little to get the exact same sound of the preset patch if I want it. Other than that I don't have any other gripe. I did compare it with The Digitech RP something or another but it was a bit harder to use and it didn't give as much versitility, and the DOD was plastic and looked cheap. I chose this product because it seemed to give me more for my money soundwise and quality wise. This definately helps me make my music sound better, but of course your playing always determines what you sound like in the end. I would replace this processeor again if it were lost but if Korg could top it at around the same price I would consider. <><
Blacbird

The Korg AX1000-G was very easy to use once I was shown briefly by the
effect guru at Guitar Center. It took me minutes to be able to control the various functions of the preset patches and began editing my own patches within minutes. I tried the other processors within a $100 above and below mine but they were too vague and not as easily understandable.

I play with a custom 76 Gibson S-1 which has a humbucker/single coil configuation and go through a fender M-90 chorus amp. The settings with a lot of distortion are more noisy but I believe it could be my amp since the thing is soo loud evan at low settings. Nevertheless, the effects are outstanding! I used to play through a cry baby and and tube screamer but this Korg can do the same job better and with more variety. And after much time trying to find that ever desired Texas blues tone (ala SRV) I think I can get away with it using the AX1000-G. By the way, when I use my Seagull 12 string on the acoustic setting with some chorus and a little tweaking, the icey cool sounds that are coming out keep blowing my mind. I'm starting to get more desire to creat music and less time trying to find good sound. The Korg is taking the work out of "sounding great". Now if only I could play like Clapton.

The AX1000-G is made out of metal and is tight all the way around. I dont think too much could go wrong unless you dropped it wrong, but I guess anything could break like that. I would still bring some back up pedals just in case of a freak accident. I dont think the AX1000-G would give you problems in any other circumstance.

The manual doesn't give you a number to reach Korg for questions or support. I don't know if this is intentional but it bothered me to have to return to the store to get some info. when just learning the machine. Other than that I can't say too much.

Ive been playing for 9years now and my style of playing is blues baby all the way. I write my music this way and look to guys like SRV, Clapton, BB-King, and Santana for influence. Since I play in a praise and worship band at my church, I try to offer the best I can and this processor just added to the sound about 60%. I use the Gibson S-1 for the more faster and bluesier music and a Seagull 12 string cedar top as well as Jumbo Fender spruce top for the more subtle and gentler music. I love the Ice cool sounds generated by the chorus and phaser in this processor. The only thing I didn't like about this processor is the way it gives you a series of preset patchess on pedals 1-4. You can't mix and match the way you can seperate stomp boxes so you have to edit or copy from the manual the settings in the order you want using the 40 user patches. You end up with the same patches twice only in different places which seems to me to be a bit wasteful but at least you have 40 editable patches to work with. Also the preset patch settings don't seem to sound exactly the same once thet gave been copied. I have to tweek a little to get the exact same sound of the preset patch if I want it. Other than that I don't have any other gripe. I did compare it with The Digitech RP something or another but it was a bit harder to use and it didn't give as much versitility, and the DOD was plastic and looked cheap. I chose this product because it seemed to give me more for my money soundwise and quality wise. This definately helps me make my music sound better, but of course your playing always determines what you sound like in the end. I would replace this processeor again if it were lost but if Korg could top it at around the same price I would consider. <><

This thing is the easiest multi i've ever seen! you can figure it out in a minute without looking at the manual! it's knob based so
editing patches is really quich and easy. it has 80 patches, 40 user and 40 presets. it also has a great chromatic tuner in it. i was amazed how easy it was to get a really great sound out of this thing. five minutes after i got it i already had a few nice patches of my own. i used to own a zoom gfx-707 and i sat with that thing for hours and couldn't get a good sound out of it.

i use the korg with a les paul custom and a peavey amp and it sounds amazing! there is a really vast selection of great distortions. there is a problem that bugs me a lot... if you create a clean patch you can't control its volume! so i need all my other patches to be fairly quiet (low volume) so that they will sound good compared to the clean patch. if it sounds confusing, sorry...
the acoustic simulator is the only noisy effect... it's a shame cause it sounds real. the other effects are just great! there are a lot of cool stuff you can assign to the expression pedal... to make a long story short, this is a really wicked little device.

i've only gigged with it once since i got it... Unfortunatly i decided to wear my wider shoes and i had some trouble changing effects on stage since the 1,2,3,4 buttons are not so far apart.
i never had this problem at rehearsals though. as far as backup goes, i don't think i'll ever use a backup with this thing - it's made of metal and i believe it'll last long.

never dealt with them...

I just love the sounds that come out of this pedal! i think the most noticeable feature of this multieffects pedal is its ease of use.
it's just amazing how easy and quick it is to get a great sound out of it! another thing i really like is that it doesn't have all these fancy gimmicks and features you're never gonna use. it has exactly what you need, no more, no less. if i ever lost it i would undoubtedly buy it again, and again and again.

No problems in using this. It is certainly a lot easier than the
AX30/300G ever was.

I was trying this through headphones at a shop, and didn't get to
try it through an amp. Everything was ok apart from the overdrives
which don't have an good, extended "in-between" sound. I have an
Award-Session JD10 preamp, and that knocks the spots off it for that
bluesy edge-of-breakup sound. My Marshall Guv'nor also has something
that the Korg does not. Maybe I needed to tweak more with the parameters, but I felt the mild overdrives let it down. The more extreme overdrives sounded fine, but then that seems easier to achieve. I also tried the AX1G through a Vox Cambridge 15 Watt amp,
and despite the options of the AX1G being poorer, it sounded better
when coming through an amp than the AX1000G did through headphones,
so perhaps the AX1000G will do well for live work, but needs extra
help for direct recording. Even the AX30G seems better for mild overdrive on the AX30G's DST2 setting, I felt. I didn't really notice much difference in sound quality between the AX1G and the AX1000G except that the AX1000G has a lower noise floor.

I was using my Brandoni Telecaster for the test (Kent Armstrong
pickups).

Pluses: Good range of modulations
Minuses: Overdrives lacked something through headphones and I am not
sure it would work direct.
No flexibility in effects order (unlike AX30G)

It's the easiest to use multi fx unit I've used...period...knobs=good,..menus & buttons=bad

I really like almost every sound it puts out...the acoutic simulator is great,..good heavy distortions...warm and authentically tubey...I don't think I'll throw my jcm 800 out yet,..but for direct recording,..excellent...sometimes a certain note will stand out..like a standing wave,..but I've noticed that with pretty much all signal processors...

so far so good..metal chassis is good..foot pedal feels sturdy...we'll see if it stands the test of time.....

For the price this is the best bang for the buck...I like some of the pod's sounds too,..but you have to pay 200 more bux to have the pedal for that,..so this wins the value award...

Yeah, a once over of the manual then reading again over specific
sections would get you familiar with the unit.

Well, I was under the impression that this unit was capable of being run inline into a normal guitar amp as opposed to a Pod or RP whatever
that really need to just use a power amp. I've tried it with my TSL 100 both in line and in the loop. I tried to use this in two respects;
first, strictly as an effects unit(delays.verbs,ect.) and secondly with the amp/and/or cab sims + effects. In the loop it sounded terrible and in line it sounded terrible. Strictly using just its effects I thought they were cheap sounding. This Marshall has lots of gain, which is a reason I got it. Why would I want to stick a digital distortion in front of it? I'm getting to my point. I can absolutely forget about using this unit with an amp in which I also want to have the pure sound of that amp also available. Why? Because it seems that this unit totally sucks the lifeforce out of that amp be it in line or in the effects loop. So even if I want to use just the effects and have the pure amp tone availabe it won't work. It simply murders the gain and tone of my amps. HOWEVER, and which is why I didn't give it a low rating, is that if you intend to use the unit as a COMPLETELY SELF CONTAINED tone processing environment, I think it works very well. When practicing its great because I can really get some really over the top distortions and harmonics with this thing. It needs to be paired up with just a power amp section or a clean sounding amp. Working as a unit, the effects sound good and lose much of their cheap sounding quality.
So in essence, I just view it as another tone making device along with everything else. I'm going to try running this thru an a/b/a+b box and into another amp set as clean as possible ( I currently don't own a power amp) just to widen the tonal palette.

Seems sturdy enough. Solid state, what could go wrong? Either it works or it doesn't.

I never really liked having to use distortion pedals. I'm of the mind that the amp has got to be able to deliver the sound, pure and simple. So in that way, I don't like the idea of spending so much $$$ on a couple of new Marshall heads and not use the tone that God (and Marshall) bestowed them with. So sticking something like the AX1000G in the signal path renders them useless.However, if someone could show me how to get this thing NOT to suck an amps tone, then I'm all ears.

I only tried this thing out for about half an hour in the Guitar center and it was sick is hell!!!!!!!!!! It was so easy to use without a book or anything. Not to the point where you can start controling everything but easy enoungh so you know what your doing. What I really like is how I instantly caught on the levels and limitation (few) of this thing. The pedal is also good. Not too stiff and hard *cough*RP2000*cough*. I only had one problem though. I hit hard as hell on pedals and I have a big foot. Sometimes I activated the pedal on/off sswitch and didn't know it because my big foot was covering it. I also wish the scree was bigger and was backlit so I can play at night without the lights to bother everyone.
It also takes some time to get used to the Dleays.

The sound quility was great. I was playing it with a RG Custom to a Fender Delux (I think). Sometimes it can get quiet on effects like the Pitch Bender, but then I just turn up the guitar and amp. I was suprised that I didn't get feedback at lout volumes. It had some cool effects I never used like the Uni-Vibe and the Traveler. The way all the effects sound helped bring out loads of creativity (usually little is involved in what I play) in me. In minutes I was making funky bass lines with the Tube Overdrive and the Wah. I had people heads knockin' in that store. There were a few limits in versitility so I gave Sound a 9

I'm happy I came across this because I probably would have eded up buying 6 or seven stomp boxes. I still wanna get an dunlop 535Q and a sustainer. I need to fool with the pitch bender to see if I want a Whammy Reissue. Everything else is perfect for me since I'm a little new to effects. I wont be gigging with this for 2 reasons

1. I just wanna be great. I'm not looking for any fame from playing.
2. I'm only 14. I couldn't even get into clubs.

I used it at Guitar Center.

I play all styles of music. It depends on the sound I think of. I've been playing for a year and this is one of the best effects processors I have ever used. Some limit but nothing big.

Very simple to operate. If you've ever owned a multi-effects unit before, this one will undoubtedly be simpler. Tweaking is intuitive, once you take the 2-3 required minutes to learn the layout of the knobs. Yes, knobs a/k/a analog a/k/a EASY!

For those of you considering other units, I own a POD and a Boss GT-5. I like this unit better than either of those. I also own a Marshall Slash head, a Marshall 900 SLX and a Marshall dual mono block power amp with a JMP pre-amp. I have a modified Fender Prosonic with a true master volume installed in the external speaker output, and a pair of Jensen reissues inside, along with a Fender Deluxe Reverb. I know what tube amps sound like. I bought this thing to play late at night so my wife and kid can hear themselves. I am very satisfied with the sounds. I don't notice any noise problems, and the effects are very good and basic. I do not care for far out effects. Chorus, tremelo, reverb, phaser, and the like are what I need. The echo effects are great, and those alone are worth the price of the box. I was not concerned about price when I bought this thing; I bought it because it sounded so good and was very, very tweakable. I have never found any present on any unit to be adequate, as they all require some fine-tuning. Same with this unit, but if you can spare a fun-filled hour or two, you'll get the hang of all the subtleties. I play rock, and I'm not into super high gain (even though I own an SLX). This means I like a true, tube-like crunch which the Boss really cannot get without sounding too thin. The POD sounds dull, and through headphones lacks any stereo separation to the point where the sound sounds like its on tip of your head and not coming into each ear. The Korg sounds great through phones, although my experience with it through the front end of an amp is quite limited. I would highly, highly reccommend this unit to anyone who understands that you might need to spend an hour with it to learn how to adjust it to bring out the sounds you want. I would choose it over either the POD or the GT-5, but again, I'm a headphones/direct user, so guys wanting to go into the front end of an amp MIGHT feel differently.

I play at home, so other than inidicating that it works when I turn it on, I can't comment. It feels sturdy, but I am very gentle with my stuff anyhow.

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See sound quality for my opinin. Again, however, I'd reiterate that I know what tubes sound like, and although nothing except tubes will ever sound exactly like tubes, this unit, (at least through my headphones) comes frighteningly close.

This thing is very easy to use. It has knobs. Period. You can see what you're putting in your sound in the front panel. And you can put a three-year-old child to use it and he will get a good sound out of it.

I'm using an Ibanez RG270 and a VS100R from Marshall. This thing is very quiet. Is not noisy. The effects are powerful, but for my taste the distortion has a little lack of definition.
The clean sound of this thing IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL that I've ever heard. The chorus and delay are fantastic. But the Pitch Bending sounds quite digital. Also the Octaver.

It is metal with knobs. Very strange combination, but always reliable. I would use it in a gig without backup.

I've never deal with KORG

This is a very good buy and is very cheap for what it is. I've been playing for 2 1/2 years. i just love this thing, though I've only had it for one week. It helps me make music.

It was very easy to use, and a lot of the presets I used the very first day I got it for Worship band. I found the 40 user patches easy to set with one problem, but it is not significant. When you call up a patch, unless you write down the settings even after you perform the write function, you cannot refer back to the dial position settingslike those written out in the Manuel for the presets. The manual is very good, but the system as a whole is set up to be very easy to program- you could do ok without the manual.I just wish the Korg had been a little more descriptive in the various models included.

I am using the AX1000 with a Tex Mex Strat with a LR Baggs Acoustic bridge system, through a Crate Acoustic Amp- which is like playing through a small PA. This pedal is great. I am intrigued by the acoustic simulations I can get to full on stack distortion. Especially like the Vox simulations with the various cabinet sounds. The cab sims can be set to work with a guitar amp to a PA, and they do add for me a fairly realistic sound of the tone I am seeking, and thats just part of it. Some of the effects are very cool. The univibe was a minor disappointment, but the delay stuff is loads of fun, more than makes up for as I said minor disappointment.

It appears road worthy and dependable. Nice metal case, can recalibrate the pedal if needed. Comes with a power supply with a hook to keep it from being pulled out. Only quibble here is that the unit is fully powered up when turned on, no on / off switch, and I'm getting used to that.

My first Korg pedel.

I play contempory Praise music in Church, alot of the music we do rocks from blues to slow songs requiring acoustic textures. So I need tones from AC-DC to ZZ Top, to Andrew Legg, the Eagles,Byrds, and U2. It is really fun to be playing with the Korg. People cannot figure out where the big amp sound is coming from, or the 12 string or light acoustic- my guitar is fairly chimmy through any amp but there is a real enhancement without paying mega bucks. To be honest, it is the poor man's Lexicon, but then I do not have 1500 for the Lexicon and another 400 for its controller either. I had an ME-30 but it just did not sound very good in compraison to the Korg. The Korg does a lot of sounds very well, and is very easy to use unlike the Boss. I had my choice of the Korg over a Digi Tech, and choose this because the sound was as good, easy to program, has an echo plus and a multihead echo delay (with tape junk sound noise)that is alot of fun,tap delay, anfd a 8 second looper to boot- and all this in a package that is cheaper. I can play Neil Young grunge to Eagles and the Byrds and Tom Petty with the ease of a button- now if they only would quit telling me to turn down.

A floorboard with five footswitches, one expr. pedal, several buttons and eight knobs. The footswitches switch patches or effects on/off, the knobs edit parameters (unfortunately, no endless knobs and no "switch-to-parameter" option), the buttons are used for writing pateches etc. The effects don't have many parameters each, so programming this thing is dead easy. For bank down switching, you have to press two buttons simultaneously, for bypass/mute you have to hold one button long (0.5/1 s). The exp. pedal has an integrated switch which has a quite stiff operational characteristic.

The unit contains a drive/amp simulator, a cabinet simulator, a modulation section, a ambience section, a pedal section and a denoiser: drive/amp - cool for wild heavy sounds, the compressor algorithm is quite crappy. cabinet sim: I don't see any logic behind this block. mod: there's a set of vintage-style phasers, flangers and filters, all of which sound warm and very usable. Again, too few parameters. The pitch shifter is about one generation behind its time (my Boss SE-50 had better algorithms). ambience: the delays have - again - too few parameters - there are vintage-style echos (inc. a multihead echo, which unfortunately feeds back from the first head, so this becomes unusable with a feedback >0). There are a few ultra-primitive reverbs and echo/reverb combinations. pedal: apart from controlling master volume, it can control several mod or delay effects, in this case, the respective section becomes inoperative. Effects: Wah (some cool, some not so cool), Chorus/flanger, Tremolo/Panning, Pitchshift, hold delay, tap temp delay, loop delay (8 sec.). Again, too few parameters, plus the pedal can control only one pre-defined parameter. Cool: the loop contents remain intact when switching patches. Denoiser: ultra-primitive. I wouldn't use it on any but the lowest setting - this is more of a bad noise gate than a denoiser.

No experience, but it looks quite sturdy.

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I use this thing as a dedicated effect/"preamp" for my Tune Gap6 bass guitar, going directly into a Behringer MX2642A console. The main weakness of the AX1000G is its inflexibility: there are 0-2 decent variations you can get out of every effect algorithm, cross-combine them in any order you might like, and you'll see that the 40 user patches are more than you'll ever need. On the other hand, the thing is easy to operate, got a good display, some of the effects (vintage or other) are quite cool, it's got a good chromatic tuner, and it's not too expensive...

extremely easy to use, just turn the knob and your there. the toe switch under the expression pedal is a little hard to press. but thats no major draw back concidering i dont really use the sampler in performance.

i use a gibson sg through a crate gfx-212, and with the proper patches
programmed into this pedal is better than anything. period. any sound you want is yours with this pedal, even totally out there ones. and it's so clear, the overdrive really adds to the clean sound of this pedal, and the stereo chorus is the best i'v ever heard.
the delays and reverbs are very versitile and each one has the original unique sound of its type. spring reverb sounds like it should and hall reverb can sound like a hall or you can use some delay with it to make it sound like your playing in a cave.

it's great, all metal and the expression pedal is adjusted nice and tight for great standing play.

don't know, never had a problem with it.

i play metal, classic rock, classical style, and blues. this pedal is the best for all of them. i wouldn't trade it for any other.

you could get a 3-year old kid to get a good sound out of the pedal. there are not multi-page menus, but easy-to-use nobs. all you do is turn the nobs and it changes the sound. as simple as that. mine didnt come with a manual (nothings perfect)but i contacted the shop where i got it and they sent it to me free-of-charge.

the setup i have is Washburn EC-36 through (sometimes)Jim Dunlop CryBaby WahWah through Korg AX1000G through Fender amp. Its practically silent though some of the effects dont sound perfect (but still pretty damn good). With a couple of seconds tweeking those nobs, you can get almost a perfect sound

it's made of metal, it's Korg, and it's practically indestructable. i heavily depend on it (fender amps have a terrible distortion sound). When i gig i never use a backup, never have done and probably will never need to.

i only dealt once with the company, and that was to get the manual. i got it within 4-5 days after asking them for it.

i play a mix between all sorts.
jazz-
blues(BB King)-
roots reggae (toots and the maytals)(BobMarley and the Wailers)-
ska(Goldfinger)(Ruda Salska)-
hard rock (Guns n Roses).

this pedals covers everything metioned above. you can get an almost perfect sound with all of them. If it was stolen, i would definitly replace it. What i hate about it is the pedal. i cant get a good feeling for it, even though i have had it for about 6 months. i find it just doesnt have the right feel.

I tried two other models- the Boss ME-30 (too old) and the Digitech RP2000 (too expensive). this outclasses both of them, either by quality (the Boss) or the value-for-money (the Digitech).
This pedal motivated me to get off my ass and get a band together, which is a good thing!!

Really easy to use, it took me about 15 minutes to figure it out and start editing my own patches, after an hour of playing with it i could get the type of sounds that i like.

Great Clean Sound, i use an Ibanez JS100 guitar and a Peavey Classic 2*12 Amplifier , the best sounds come from the distortion and chorus effects wich sound really great and the delay and wha sound pretty decent , i play Van Halen Music, Metallica, Ozzy, Eric Clapton, Santana ,Pink Floyd, mostly Rock and Blues and this processor its just perfect for that.

The metal case seems to be just right for any king of gig.

Never had to deal with it

I would really recomend this for someone who is trying to use it for live performing specially if you play classic Rock, Hard Rock or Metal type of Music , Dont expect to get a lot of weird sound out of it. Compared with RP2000 and GT-5 the sound quality is 100% better on this product and a lot much easier to use and edit. If you want to get a lot of great sounds for a reasonable price this is the gear for you.

I find this very easy to use. Editing patches is a snap with the analog pots, instead of the buttons that most manufacturers use these days.
A few gripes, though... - everytime I'd use one of the presets, it says "VOLUME" in the little LCD screen, and I'd have to give the compression or ambience knob a few turns before i could turn any of the other pedals off (i.e. Modulation, Amp type), but for some reason, the ambience pedal is the only one that turns off in this mode. Very queer. Another gripe...when i turn the compression pedal off, and turn it back on, it goes to that "VOLUME" mode that pisses me off so much. That's about it. No need for a manual for this thing.

SO GOOD!!!! I play an Epi Standard Les Paul with '57 classic pickups (great guitar, but everyone knows epi p/us suck baws) or a Powerhouse strat (awesome guitar) through a BOSS SD-1(eh...ok pedal, now that i have the KORG)which i just use for more grainy/feedback type sustain and a Crybaby 535q(amaaazzzing wah pedal), into a *vintage* marshall plexi half stack($500 dollars, major steal). Sounds great through these, except for a few things(again, sorry). The pitch shifter/whammy effects aren't that great. It sucks that they had to put a delay option on those, it was useless, so now everytime i pick a note, it has this weird "blip" sound before the full note sounds. Plan on getting the Digitech whammy reissue. The uni-vibe effect is...peculiar, i've been reading reviews about how a pedal-controlled uni-vibe would cost a fortune, so i guess it was on the upside. The Filtron is a fun effect to play around, you can get some great "disco-era" sounds with it if you set everything on ten(LOW VOLUME...my ears were ringing after doing that on high...the sound gets really really high pitched). Great sound quality on everything else though.

Metal casing beats plastic anyday(are you listening ZOOM???). Sturdy sturdy casing(dropped a fender champion 110 on this thing, and nothing at all. I would gigged only with single effects once, but this thing is now part of my permanent setup, never leaves its place.

never needed it

DEFINITELY GOOD MATCH FOR ANY MUSICAL STYLE - from beatles to zep to rage, this rules over anything else(never tried the new Digitech RP2000, tho, got to)

I'm a complete newbie when it comes to the world of effects- I didn't have aclue what the difference was between between a flanger or phaser or what one was for that reason, so the Korg looked a bit daunting when arrayed before me. However, despite what others have written about the lightweight manual, it was fine and explained everything sufficiently to know what you were up to yet leaving room for experimenting. The patches and presets are clearly stated and laid out, the pedal is easy to calibrate and the footswitches are sturdy and far apart enough for practical use.

I am using this with a single Mightymite humbucker pickup Tanglewood Trig through a crappy old Peavy practice amp, but hey this thinr absolutely screams through them. Once you have sorted the noise reduction and master volume setting, i got some really tasty sounds out of the unit. You have to put some effort into fine tuning, particularly with the amp setting, but it really blossoms when you spend a little time with it- mellow tones on the acoustic simulator and some nasty fuzz and distortion, not to mention a versastile effects pedal and pretty good autowah.

Top unit, all metal, very reliable, am using it next week and am confident not to need backup.

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As a beginner, this unit had everything I wanted and more. I dont think you can beat it for the price- I was contemplating a Zoom 707 but for the extra pounds you get a hell of a lot more. I still havent really begun to use this baby to it's full potential with the phase trainer options etc, but for my soft rock style and home recrding, this unit is perfect- Highly recomendable.