Korg AX1000G

This is intuitive to use- knobs or keys to change parameters. The knobs are assigned different functions depending on the effect selected and they operate just like a stomp box. It is incredibly easy to get a great sound out of it from the get-go(provided you use a good amp). For most effects, the tweaking is as difficult as a stompbox. Editing patches is really easy. The manual is adequate. This replaces a Boss ME-30 which doesn't have the sound quality this unit does(especially the distortions) no matter how hard I would tweak,I couldn't get good sounds out of it. The same can be said of the new ZOOM GFX8 which is knob based also. Although there is quite a bit more depth of programability, the sounds suck compared to the Korg. I tweaked and tweaked on the Zoom but after an hour or so of playing with the distortion parameters and cabinet types, I still couldn't come up with one that was more than passable. I couldn't believe the sounds that came out of the Korg immediately and with a few twists of the knobs, I had a perfect sound. This all took about a minute or two.
The main negative comment I can think of right now is that, when in individual mode(manual mode), you can't access the tuner, you have to go back to play mode and access the tuner from there. But this can all be done by foot, so it's not that bad; just time consuming.

I put this between a Strat or 335 and a Trace Elliot Custom Shop Bonneville(4x10, 50watt, all tube combo). It sounds great!! And it's so much easier to lug around than the stomp boxes/pedals I used as the main stay or supplement to the ME30. I could go into detail here about the effects, but since there's something like 56, I'll just say that this thing really does live up to the hype(at least as far as the modeled pedals go). I don't need/want to use my old boxes anymore and that's the first time I've said that about a multi-effector. Most of the time, individual stomp boxes sound better than their counterparts on these things but not so here. I don't know how exact a replica they are if compared side by side, but they sound great! I don't use the cabinet settings except with the Vox AC30 model. When engaged, they've seemed to me to make the distortions sound cheap and reminiscent of the lousy Boss distortions on the ME-30. The AC30 model is just a tad too dark and actually sounds better w/a cabinet model.

Downside - The Wah is really quite good for clean playing but loses some of the sweep sound when used with distortion - the more dist., the worse it gets. Instead of "WAH", it just sounds like a glitch. Also, it doesn't seem to have much high end, it sounds about like the guitar when bypassed - i.e. not enough high-end in the sweep to please me. And there's no way to tweak it. I don't know if it'll replace my Dunlop 535Q yet. There seems to be a volume drop when engaged also.
It's not a true by-pass, so it cuts just a little transparency out of the guitar sound.

Don't know yet.

This thing can cover a ton of styles, since it has a ton of stomp box models. It can handle anything I want(rock, blues, pop, experimental). This is going to replace a bunch of stomp boxes. It truly has made them obsolete for me since it sounds just as good and its so moch easier to lug around. And for the money and more, this thing is killer!

This unit is one of the easiest i've seen. IT HAS KNOBS!!! It's easy to find the effect you want without having to scroll endlessly. The preset programs are great and its VERY easy to write your own programs. However, the way to bank from one program to the next is a little tricky at first, but is easy to get used to. I took this thing out of the box and immediately had a great sound to listen to. The manual is very brief about pretty much everything, but is straightforward, and most everything is self-explanatory. Editing the effects takes some work, trying to figure out which knobs do what and so on, but the manual covers that well. Also comes with an AC adapter so you don't have to worry about batteries or anything like that.

The effects on this box are awesome. Its got some great distortions to choose from, and they all can be modified to your liking. A few distortions can be a little noisy on my amp (a fender amp), but it has a noise reduction option that takes most, if not all, of that away. I bought this unit because there were various sounds that i wanted (such as echo and flanger and distortions) and i couldnt afford separate stomp boxes. I got all the sounds i wanted out of this, AND MORE!! There are a few kinda weird effects that i know i wouldn't use, but for the most part the effects are great. The U-vibe on it sounds great too. The only drawback is that when you have a pedal effect (wah or talker) on it automatically switches off the modulation effects (the choruses and the phasers, etc.), which is somewhat limiting, but still can get great sounds--IF YOU WANT GREAT SOUNDS AND DON'T WANT TO SPEND A FORTUNE GET THIS EFFECTS BOX!!! This is a great buy...I tried out others such as digitech's RP2000 and RP7, and DOD multieffect boards and they had too much stuff i didn't need, weren't as easy to use, and didn't even sound as good, and the Korg AX1000G was cheaper too.

VERY RELIABLE. Metal outside. Looks very sturdy. Don't need a backup.

Haven't needed em.

I play alot of rock, classic rock, and some alternative type music, and the effects and distortions are a great match. This thing could match pretty much any music type in my opinion. ITS VERY VERSATILE. I've been playing 7 years and this is one of the best investments i've made. I also own a couple effects boxes and a Taylor acoustic, and and Ibanex electric, and this is a great addition to my sound. This gives me more versatility with my music, and it seems that I can do alot more with my guitar now. It has so many great features that are a joy to have. The chromatic tuner is great, and the metronome and "phrase trainer" I haven't even used yet. If this was stolen, i would definately go with this one again. I don't think anything would beat it unless you spend ALOT more.

um This unit IS pontentially easy to use. Although it takes A LOT of getting used to, the parameter settings and all that are easy to edit but all in all very hard 2 get used to. The manual is no great help either. But dont get me wrong all and all easy to use!

The sound quality bloody rocks!!! very clean nice and easy easy to compress as well! I play through a fender strat and a marshall valvestate stack and it sounds awesome!

The main reason i bought this was its reliability. STurdy, metallic stomp box, id have no quams in using it with no back up ever!!
BUILT TO LAST!

never dealt with them yet, but seems very reliable

I definatley recommend it to all intermediate to professional guitarists!!!!!!

I found this very easy to use. Easy "tweaking" function in the drive mode is handy. If you are familiar with multi-effects this one is a breeze. I did not find pushing down 2 buttons to go down a bank to be that much of a problem. I love the built-in tuner.

I use this with a Strat-style guitar w/humbucker and a Fender Princeton amp in a Variety band set-up. Drive section is great. Great chorus,phasor, & wah. I use the echoplex setting for echo and has a good tone. This has improved my sound big-time.

Made out of metal so it seems reliable.

If this were stolen I would replace it immediately. Great value,great tone.

It is extremely easy to use - there are five knobs that you simply turn to get the specific sound. All those freaky sounds that you are never gonna use anyways are cut off. Extremely easy editing - the myth about multi effect boards being hard to use is killed here. The manual is very easy to use too.

I use my stereo for this because there are some really cool stereo effects that don't sound as cool with a normal amp. I use a cheap Ibanez factury guitar, and it sounds really cool. It is not very noisy - in fact there is a noise reduction effect on it that cuts away all the noise from OD effects, although when you set it on 100 there is almost no sustain left. However, the octave pedal effect does not sound very cool - it does not have a natural tone when you octavise it.

You can certainly depend on it - I've never ever had any problems with it at all.

I've never had any problem with this.

I play all sort of music - blues, surf, rock, jazz - everything. And I can make all the sounds I want with it. I have been playing with the Korg AX1000G for a few months now, and I think it is extremely satisfying. If something should ever happen to it, get stolen or crashed, then I would certainly buy the same one again (unless another better effect board appears). It is definitely worth all the money - you gotta double up the price or triple it before you get anything better.
I love that it is so easy to use, and the sounds are extremely cool, even the OD sounds. There is also a cabinet feature that can copy all sorts of amps and stuff, and you can always modify every effect to make it suit your taste exactly.

This is not a hard thing. The manual is clear, and saving "tweaks" in memory is pretty intuitive.

The most important thing to remember is: THIS IS NOT A POD! This is the dream effects box. I use a Strat through a Fender HotRod Deluxe, and most of the time that's ALL I use. However, instead of carrying around a box of effects pedals, I can carry this little wonder around. It's got a stage tuner, tremelo, volume, wah, rotovibe, auto-wah, and many echoes, chorus, effects. It's also got several distortion boxes modelled. They all sound good. The main thing to remember is my deluxe is not gonna sound like a boogie or a marshall. In my opinion, none of the modelling boxes can do that. Nothing is gonna sound like a good guitar running through hot tubes and moving air. What makes this contraption so appealing is that it does so many things to modify my sound and gives me control over all the necessary parameters. It will do up to 8 effects at a time, which is overkill for me.

It's still pretty new, but it's built out of metal. I'm guessing it's gonna last ok. I'll let you know if it doesn't.

I bought this at guitar center, and they handle the warranty/support.

I tend to play "Texas" music, which is a strange combination blues, country, americana, and zydeco. I've been playing professionally for longer than you've been alive, and I look it. If this thing were stolen, I'd probably replace it. It does a lot of things really well. I compared it to the J-system and the Pod, and decided that for live work, this is the superior product. I do a lot of studio work, but for that I use a guitar and an amp. Let's face it, a $5000 Lexicon is gonna sound better than a $300 stomp box, no matter who made it.

This stomp box is so easy to use and having only had it a week can get any sound out of it that i want from jimi hendrix to rage against the machine and U2.
Editing patches is easy to work out without the manual.

I dont know how i have lived without the korg. the sound is so amazing and unlike the other stomps i have tried, zoom and boss this sound like its runnin on tubes!

so far so good

not needed touch wood

I couldnt believe it when i was able to get the sounds of Jimi, U2 ratm punk grunge in one tiny box

Even though the manual explains the features of the ax1000g in way too short terms, it's no big problem, as you can read your way through almost everything on the board...only except for the sampler and the programming of your own sounds, maybe. But else....I mean - it takes 10 seconds for anyone with a sight that can reach the board, to make it sound just like a single-pedal sound.....great.

A major drawback of pedalboards with many sounds included, is, that it's all digital, so it just sounds artificial no-matter what you do.
I don't know how Korg did this. But it sounds just like -or even better, than "the real thing" - single-pedal stuff, like those from Boss. At least this is the case of far the most of the sounds!

I must admit, I haven't had it for too long...check it out - it's in metal!!!! No plastic shit like Zoom's products (sorry Zoom, but you just can't build a board for stomping out of tiny plastic!). The preset pedals only need a soft touch from the tips of your fingers, so there's no big mechanism wich will grow old way too fast.....I think, this one -indeed- is built to last!

Haven't needed them so far

I mostly play the David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) kind of rock, so I need a great variety of sounds, in order to sound just like that. It works great. Wanna play some slightly distorted blues....I just turn the amp-knob to Top-distortion, and it sounds great too.
It simply can do a lot. Of course it's no 5000-sounds-effects-board.
It's only got real guitar sounds. No weird synth-sounds, and that's maybe what makes it so relatively cheap. And, personally, I dont need to sound like a symphony ochestra, when I play the guitar. I wanna sound like a guitarist.
I've compared it with the famous GT-3 - Korg just blows that off the road. The GT-3 sounds extremely digital compared to Korg.
BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT ! - AND BUY IT AGAIN WHEN SOMEONE steels it!! (Who wouldn't??)

I'll give it a 10!

I play rock in a band and also use this babe when I play Irish music a la Pogues, and when I'm alone on stage and playing "softsongs". I just love it. I was looking for a POD but the price and the sound made me in love with this babe. The acoustic sound is great, I only miss a few things, why 9 volt? And where's the MIDI? And the double pedal for back the bank is not a solution that will bring the Nobel prize.

I use this babe with my Gibson doublecut on my Selmer amp with a 4X12 Malmberg cabinet. It sounds great.

Like I said, I play folkmusic, rock, and trubador stuff. I'm not the champion on the techniques (or the english language...) but I think it's the best thing I ever had in my music career, and I played the guitar for about 15 years. In Sweden, it's a third of the POD price!! If I lose it I will run to the store and get another.

This unit was a dream come true. I plugged it in, and it worked. Then I had to start editing. At first it was hard to see what effect each knob has, but as they are analog, it is easy to get a feel for them. The manual says very little at all. Most of the stuff you need to know is right on the pedal next to each knob. If you can decipher the cryptic little icon for a metronome, that's on there too. Verdict - easy to get cool sound. Less easy to get the exact sound you want. It gets easier as you gain a feel for it, though.

I am using an Ibanez RG series guitar with a small Marshall Valvestate amp (My money ran out, and I decided to splash out on the pedal rather than the amp). This setup is pretty noisy to begin with (the amp - the guitar is one of the quietest I've heard), but on the clean channel and with the noise gate properly set I can get a perfect noisless sound. (Better than the amp the pedal is supposed to be emulating, I'll bet). One or two of the effects seem pretty lame (the filtron springs to mind). And a few settings are strange at first (like you can't mix out your original tone in the pitch shifter effect - you have to use the pedal activated one). Overall all the sounds sound very full compared to other digital effects I have heard. I succeeded within the first day to perfectly model my amp on the unit, and stuff like Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Tool (phaser effects and echo), were pretty easy to nail. One gripe is that the chorus effect is easy to set to an 'artificial' sound.

This thing feels solid, and I have stood on the expression pedal pretty hard without anything happening. I would worry about stuff spilling onto it, as there is no obvious way to open it up to let it dry.

No experiences.

I've been playing for about 5 years, mostly on the abovementioned guitar and earlier on a Fender amp. I play mostly heavily distorted stuff like Deftones, KoRn and some Limp Bizkit, but I need a clean tone now and then (intro). This pedal has what I need. I could bear to stomp on it a little more lightly to activate the sample and play feature, and would have liked to be able to go down the bank without pressing two buttons at once, but I love the sound and the flexibility.

This unit is a bit different to set up than most multi-effects pedals, but once mastered is quite easy to use.

I believe that most of the BAD reviews of these kinds of pedals is either due to a lack of understanding of what MAKES a particular sound, or a lack of patience in creating or editing sounds. You CANNOT just plug these things in, press some buttons, and expect a great sound. In my opinion, the key to GREAT sounds on this pedal are the cabinet models . . . in particular, the 'air' knob. I have used this pedal direct into the PA in a live environment and direct to hard disk recorder . . in both cases, it did a great job.

Seems very solid . .. all metal . . time will tell I guess

Haven't needed them

I play blues, pop, lite-rock . . . this thing is well suited to any task I have asked it to do. Again, take the time to LEARN how to use these pedals . .

This Thing Has AMAZING Sound I love it. It came with a manual and everything. The knobs are easy to turn. You don't even kneed to use the manual for this baby. The instructions are all onthe bord!

The sound of this unit is superb to any other unit. You can get a Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, or Limp Bizkit sound. This all from presets. This unit is only noisey if you turn on the distortion to the modern 4 x 12 cabinet setting. I use this with two Peavy Classic 112's. It's amazing. All of the effects are there. None left out!

The case is metal! Of course it is going to be dependable you fools! I would deffinetly use this in a gig. Without a backup! This thing wouldn't be destroyed by a H-Bomb! I should now.

They are the nicest people I have ever talked with over the phone. They answered all my questions in 6 minutes!

This good for my rock music. I have been very happy with all of the qualitys of this unit and its durability. If this unit was stolen I would buy two and keep one in a safe! Some people think the AX1000G is just like a RP2000 from DigiTech. Wrong! The RP2000 is a piece of shi_. It is the best thing that has happened to me. I love it man!

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I play a lot of different stuff. From contemporary rock to old time 50s and 60s stuff. My previous floor fx was a Boss ME5, so this thing had a lot to live up to (for me anyway). One thing was clear straightaway, the sound quality available has improved greatly. I've now used it on two different types of gigs and have been impressed with it. On on gig I used my Fender Strat Plus and the lead sounds just blew away what I used to do with the Boss. On the other gig I used my Gretsch Tennessee Rose. The 50s echo effects were just superb. Once again, better than the Boss. The built-in tuner I love. Most of the effects are very useable and not difficult to set up. Perhaps the parameters for the Echo and Reverb sections could be more flexible but, for a unit of the price, it's hard not to just appreciate it for what it is. I don't like the 9v power supply. I would have preferred the PS to be built-in. Just like my old Boss. Overall, I'm very impressed. For practising at home, recording or playing smallish gigs, then this is a very-hard to beat unit. For larger, Pro gigs I would prefer to use rack-mounted gear that would withstand the rigors of the road. But then we would be talking about considerable investment. I give this Korg an A rating. It would have got A+ if I didn't have to press two pedals together to bank down.

Excellant. That's about the size of it. I've had it for two days, and already I can achieve almost any sound I want. The knobs are a godsend, instead of endless buttons. The LCD display is good for the task. Editing is easy, and the Individual play mode is an excellant addition. By pressing pedal 5 for a couple of seconds, you can then turn on and off a certain patches effects, excellant if you don't want to waste another patch just for the addition of a bit of Flange.

I have an Epiphone Les Paul (Standard), through a Marshall Park G30RCD. The sound quality is very even on this half decent set up. Personally, I found it a bit hard at first to find a good overdrive, because the Cabinet emulators create a 'hollow' sound. But, this can be turned off.
I've read some of these reviews, and they say that the pedal produces hidious hissing noises on certain effects and modulations. I think they haven't discovered the excellant Noise Reduction control, which can be adjusted to remove all background noise if required.
BUT. I found a major drawback that still bugs me. If I want a pedal effect on, it automatically turns off the modulation effects. This means, I can't have a phaser mixed with a Wah effect.
I play a lot of Manic Street Preachers, and so far, I have successfully reproduced one desired effect or another (even that cool phaser bit at the beginning of Tolerate).

Its solid metal casing means even my elephant feet won't mark this baby. The pedals may be a bit on the small side, but thats only a minor niggle. I would fully gig this, as it has such a good build quality.

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This is an excallant effects pedal for mid - rock music (Manics, OCS, Oasis at a push). I don't think it has the uummph for more heavy metal music, but then again it depends on your amp. On a 4x12, it would run as slick as Christmas.
I've been playing for 5 years, and the only other effects pedal I have is a Boss Flanger. The controls on the AX1000G mirror the style of the Boss stomp boxes, and that's what first drew me to it.
Don't expect a GT5, as thats a whole different price tag. Do expect something that'll kick the ass outta your mates Zoom 505, in terms of sound, style, build, interface, U-Vibe effect etc..

Finally, a pedal board with knobs. It allows you to tweak stuff very fast. In fact, I'm getting very lazy about storing effects. The only drawback I see is to put the unit in bypass you have to hold the current patch button down for one second. This makes it a little hard to turn it off during the middle of a performance. As a workaround I make an effect in each bank that basically has no effect. The other drawback is that there is no way to combine say a wah with a flange. It's basic effects structure is Drive>Cabinet Emulator>Modulation or Wah Effect>Reverb or Delay. Even though it has a separate Pedal and Modulation Section, you can only use one at a time. A minor point with the kind of things I play.

For a pedalboard this thing is great. It doesn't have that "canned" sound that many boards do. The wah's good, delays are good, the uni-vibe is almost worth the price of the board alone. It has a Muttron effect that is very good if you're into that funky kind of stuff. Octaver has an excellent analog sound to it.

It definitely affects the dry sound. There is no true bypass. It's not noisy. Mostly it dampens the dynamic range a bit. I originally wanted to use it in the pre/power amp loop of my amp, but it really took a lot of quality off the signal. Now I run it before the input of my amp and it is almost transparent (almost). Of course I'm very picky about my clean sound.

Thank god it's not plastic. Seems very solid. I wouldn't need a backup since I don't use that many effects in performance, plus as long as you have some kind of case to transport it in I don't see any problems. I hate having wall warts on the stage, so I rigged up a 2 channel cord. I cut the ends off one channel and spliced in the power supply and connector. To my suprise it works perfectly. So my wall wart sits permanently inside my amp cabinet. The other channel goes into my guitar amp input, so I only have one cord to pull out.

I play American Roots music (folk, blues, country, rock) and this is the only pedal board I've found that can be used for that style. The effects I use are uni-vibe, tremolo, tuner and wah. That's it pretty much. But those effects sound great and were worth the price of the board. A uni-vibe with controller pedal would cost just as much, plus it's more to hook up on stage and doesn't have a built-in tuner.

There are a few things I'd change
1) a tremolo that can be adjusted with the pedal
2) a Leslie simulator (the uni-vibe effect is a simulation of a rotary speaker simulator and it doesn't sound much like a leslie, especially at higher speeds)
3) a real bypass.

I'm very pleased with my purchase. I'd buy one again.

Ive only had it one day and am already experiencing problems with the unit. I play a lot of hard rock/metal and switch from clean to distortion a lot. Well the Korg's pedal response time is NOT instantaneous and in fact I lose a note or two when switching under steady tempo. This can wreck a songs mood live and is really frustrating. I think I am going to return it. Also, the pedals are tiny so if you have big feet like me your going to be doing the pedal dance a lot. I dont like the bank down operation using two pedals either.

The Korg kicks ass in sound quality! The effects are quality and the amp modeling is sweet! This thing has beefy distortions on it and the wah sounds good too. Anything from Metallica to CCR. Too bad it chokes when switching pedals at high speed.

Dont know about reliability as Ive only had it a short time.

Dont know, haven't called them.

Overall this unit sounds really good but its just hard to use playing live due to the down time between switches and the small pedal size. I think Im going to trade it in on a POD which sounds good too.

Ive only had it one day and am already experiencing problems with the unit. I play a lot of hard rock/metal and switch from clean to distortion a lot. Well the Korg's pedal response time is NOT instantaneous and in fact I lose a note or two when switching under steady tempo. This can wreck a songs mood live and is really frustrating. I think I am going to return it. Also, the pedals are tiny so if you have big feet like me your going to be doing the pedal dance a lot. I dont like the bank down operation using two pedals either.

The Korg kicks ass in sound quality! The effects are quality and the amp modeling is sweet! This thing has beefy distortions on it and the wah sounds good too. Anything from Metallica to CCR. Too bad it chokes when switching pedals at high speed.

Dont know about reliability as Ive only had it a short time.

Dont know, haven't called them.

Overall this unit sounds really good but its just hard to use playing live due to the down time between switches and the small pedal size. I think Im going to trade it in on a POD which sounds good too.

no problem with editing, simple to use, manual was easy to understand

I have two fender guitars, one is the fatboy with trembucker on the bridge and hotrails on the neck. My other guitar is a thinline telecaster fitted with a screamin demon. basically it sounds good if you know how to adjust some of the parameters, also it depends on taste. distortion is cool, cabinets are very useful in creating your own sound, lots of combination in the modulation bank. just be creative.

reliability....hmmmmm, depends on the user, if your responsible enough it'll last that long.

so far,so good. i do hope there will be an upgrade for this product like midi stuff

i play rock, jazz, and r&b and i guess it's safe to say that this product is flexible enough to produce the sound i need. if it gets stolen, i'm not sure if i'll buy one again. you could always try other products.

I'm a Brazilian Bass Player but last year I decided to play guitar too... Well It's my first Effects processor but with my little experience to see and have fun with my guitarrist's effect processor (like Boss GT-5, Zoom 8080, Zoom 505, Digitech RP-12, etc...) I look extreme easily to play with it. The direct-edit on the switches it fabulous ! I just don't put 10 because have some problems... 1. Don't have a bank down button 2. In painel supose to appear the orig effect direct in "indiv" mode, like (for example) turn on the drive and appear the name (to know what is the Original). I have problems to Access the expression pedal for the first time, I think i'm afraid to push with power the pedal (to don't break it). And the Pitch Shifter effect, well, I cant JUST change the pitch (My guitar have a Floyd Rose and to tune in D# it's very problem...) The pitch only change and play with the Original, someone knows how I only change without play the original sound ? (example I play orig. E and the sound out D#) About the manual I think it's need more example. Talking about this, Anyone already knows what about the distorcion and gabinet it's the copy (sorry for my english :) reformulating the question: the distorcion and overdrives in ax-1000 it's a copy from famous amps like Fender, Marshall, etc... Someone made the association ? and can send to me ??!! :) (Remember, I'm a Bass Player and don't have get used to the amp's distorcion) :)

I don't try to get sounds from CD's, but I'm very satisfacted with sound, it's incredible !!

In Brazil we have all models of multi-effect and Korg AX-1000, and the price are very expensive, the Korg sell all your unit here, the music shop what I buyed mine ask for 15 units but only can send 6 because the search of all country, I payed the half of price in comparation with the another top-of-line from other manufacturers the 8080 zoom it's pricing like R$ 1400 or 1500 and GT-5's Boss like R$ 1800 to 2000 well I payed only R$760 and have more cheap in another part of country but I don't wanna wait and i'm afraid to get for mail...

Well I tried nothing, but The Manual it's very resumed and I think they can put the name of amps in manual or in the unit (Again: Can anyone send it to me ?! :)) Well I'm looking for a e-mail list about the AX-1000G but I can't find, Can anyone create one ? or knows where have a list running ? I don't send a message to see the thing about the pitch shifter (how can sound out only the sound changed).

For me, I'm a medium player, it's very satisfactory, it a lose it, i will buy another AX-1000 it's easy to play, have a phrase trainer, it's very easy to play, well, it's fantastic. I love the individual mode but I hate the bank button (the low it)
Well People, Please desconsiderate my english errors and try to respond my questions 1. The Pitch Shifter 2. The e-mail list 3. The list of amp related.
maybe (it nobody knows about the e-list) I will make one in www.onelist.com (it's where my korg AX-1B list) try to look it ok ?

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Yesterday i tried out an AX1000G, which is Korg's amp-modeling device. I thought the attack, clarity, and the effects were better than the POD, but that the sounds available via the amp models and speaker sims (about 10 each) weren't as diverse. It was nice being able to read the patch names in a LCD screen. The interface was fairly easy to use and offered a lot of options, but the method of moving downward through the patches (pressing two pedal switches at once) was not exactly the most brillant solution i have seen.

I probably would have bought it except for one serious drawback - no midi. As you only have 40 user patches and there is no way to dump them via midi you are severally limited - at least if you are anal retentive. =)

Almost as easy to use as a typical stomp-box setup; WAY easier to use than a row of the 30 or so stomps modeled in the unit would be. I gigged with it for the first time last night, and I found it to be very easy to tweek, or even edit, on the fly, especially since basic EQing is done at the amp. I love the tuner; like most reviewers here I dislike having to push 2 footswitches to bank down (too easy to miss one and bank up); unlike other reviewers I think the pedal switch is fine, though I don't use the tap-tempo feature. Overall it's a very intuitive design, probably as stomp-like as a multiFX could be.

You have to think of this unit as a stomp-box setup as opposed to a multiFX preamp. It's clearly voiced to enhance the tone of a good amp; direct-to-board or through a power amp it's pretty mediocre. I'm using it through a Torres-modified silver-faced Bassman which seems perfect: basic tone from the amp, drive and shimmer from the Korg. I'm particularly happy with the "sweet-spot" tones -- the crunch and blues tones that usually only happen at a certain (loud) volume. I'm not so fussy about the other stuff, but this definitely out-performs the DOD boxes it's replacing.

Otherwise, let's see: wah is fine for a guy like me, who uses it maybe twice a night; uni-vibe sounds just like a Uni-vibe; tremolo is a little flat, but I'm comparing it to Vortex tremolo which is the best in history; acoustic simulation gets damn good with a little EQ work.

The Guitar Player review (January '00) said not to bother trying to record with this; I disagree. Sure, it's not a studio tool, it's not even a POD, but I've gotten it to sound better than my Sansamp or my 2101. For headphone practice or demos it's just fine.

Who knows? Seems rugged, though the knobs are right out there waiting to be kicked off. Probably be OK if you can keep the singer off your side of the stage.

I'd guess that in the $250 price range this thing is the best buy in musical gear today. The complaints I've noted in other reviews (shallow programability, no midi, etc.) would be valid if the price was a hundred or two higher. But hey, it's priced like a toy.

I've been playing since the '70's, and I've had a lot of gear. I took the plunge into the multiFX morass ten years ago and discovered pronto that the last thing you need onstage is an LED menu. My present rig consists of the Korg and the Bassman, and it's not perfect. But it's simple to set up and operate under pressure, and it sounds better with any of my guitars than anything I've used, except maybe my old twin on 9.

Overall, the AX1000 is a superb tool for the serious amateur guitarist, providing inspiring tone in a compact, simple format. Good for Korg.

Very easy to operate, due to the analog pots.

Very noisy!! I had it for one day and then I turned it back to the shop. I could not get the constant hissing background noise out of this unit. The shop owner told me that it was not a faulty unit, but that is was typical of the AX1000G. Reading the other reviews I am beginning to doubt his opinion. Maybe I'll try one in another shop.
Apart from this hissing sound the effects were OK, I guess.

This is a very easy unit to use, particularly as compared to other, currently produced, multi-effects units. I didn't get a manual with mine, so I had to figure it out on my own. The process of editing patches is very straightforward and intuitive. I give it high scores, a '9' at least, in this area.

The only thing that's a bit tricky is getting the unit into alternative modes, such as the tuner mode or the sampler mode. These moves require holding down a button and waiting a certain amount of time (2-3 seconds) for the unit to switch. Also, there is no bank down button. You have to press two buttons together to go down a bank. This is a bit clumsy at first, but you soon get the hang of it. Activating the tap delay button on the expression pedal is also a clumsy move at first too. In comparison to other units, I'd give it about a '7'.

There are a few limits to its use that you should be aware of. First, you can't change the order of the effects. This limits some experimentation that you might want to try. Also, some of the pedal models take up so much processor power that it disables modulation effects. This also limits some combinations you might want to try, such as combining an octave with a univibe for example. You also can't combine effects from one category, ie, you can't have both flange and pitchshift active at the same time. If you're into such sonic experimentation, you might be better served by a Boss GT-3 or DigiTech RP2000. But if you're like me and want to just play instead of tweak effects, this unit is what you want. On flexibility, I'd give it about a '5'.

First off, the sound quality of this unit is great, but you have to know what you're getting to appreciated it. It is more of a stompbox modeler than a traditional multi-effects unit. Unlike many such devices, it responds differently to various guitars and amps instead of smoothing out differences and producing a "sonic sameness". The basic tone of your amp and guitar come through on most effect settings, particularly the amp and distortion/overdrive models. The cabinet simulations are pretty well balanced EQ tweaks. This unit is certainly geared toward live performance with an amp. Some reviews have expressed the opinion that the headphone and/or recorded tone isn't that good. I'd say that this unit does sound its best when played through a good tube amp, but that its direct tone isn't shabby at all (adding a touch of ambiance really helps here). It is much better than most units I've heard with only the Line6 POD and perhaps the Boss GT-3 being better.

The modulation effects are also quite good. I'm not a particularly big fan of chorus, flange, or phasers, but they're a lot of fun to play with from time to time. I got the most enjoyment out of the pitch shifter and octave effects, that tracked very well, and the 'Filtron' (ie MuTron) effect for a funky sound.

The pedal effects are interesting. The Vox Wah emulation is quite nice and close to the original. The talk effect is pretty neat sounding. I found the Univibe emulation a bit disappointing, but it wasn't too different than lower cost stompboxes on the market that promise the same. The ring modulator is quite wild sounding. I didn't think the pitch bend tracked as well as the other effects for some reason. It was OK, but not outstanding.

The ambiance effects are fantastic. This is one of the strong points on this unit. The tape echo emulations, the Echoplex and Roland Space Echo style emulations, do a great job of producing anything from rockabilly slapback to spacey 70's style effects. The more digital emulations are great for metal tones. The spring reverb simulation can really get that deep surf effect. You can also select combined echo/reverb settings, although I find this a little too much for my taste.

Overall, you can get great tones out of this unit. However, it won't necessarily help a marginal practice amp sound a lot better. As I said before, it shines best with a good tube amp while most other units in the same price range and lower are designed to work around a cheap amp's limitations. You'll also find that what sounds good with one amp/guitar setup may not sound the same or even good with a different one. If you switch guitars/amps a lot you might find the 40 user setting locations a bit limiting.

The case is metal and the unit seems to be very well built. Everything about it seems solid.

As I said, I didn't get a manual for the unit and I couldn't find any customer contact info on their web site, which is definitely a black mark on the company. I think it reflects badly on a company when they don't include such basic information on their site. However, bad web sites among guitar gear companies are so common that good ones are the exception rather than the rule.

The true test of a unit like this is does it replace what you were using or does it either (a) supplement the old setup or (b) do you go back to the old setup. I've had the unit a little over a month now and I haven't been tempted to go back to my old setup yet. The only thing I've carried over from my old setup is my Snarling Dogs VeryTone, which is quite useful in moderating the tone of my LP Jr. My other pedals lie unused in my practice area now.

The main reason I chose this unit was on it's price-to-features-to-tone ratio. The price was about $100 to $300+ under other devices like the POD, GT-3, etc. It has good and easy user interface so I wouldn't have to deal with a lot of tweaking and so forth. And it's tone was quite good, particularly as a pedal simulator.

I suspect that I will eventually replace this unit with new technology sometime in the future. Things like this always change. However, for now, I'm quite pleased with it. Note that my overall rating would be 8 or 9 if the Korg website was more helpful.

Most of the "knob factor" (positive) vs. "weird treadle bumper thing" (negative) has been mentioned below. Who am I to contribute? Beats the bejesus out of most similar units for live-performance tweaking, that's for damn certain.

At present, I'm a bit disappointed in Korg. I had big hopes for this box... "modeling" hype, knobs and realtime parameter control, etc etc etc... but it really fails to deliver for me. See, I love my cheesy little AX1G-- a great deal at a hundred bucks. Imagine my surprise when, upon trying out the AX1000G, I found that many of the sounds I'd hope to see expanded upon or improved were EXACTLY THE SAME as in its plastic brethren. Where's the modeling? Not in the effects, that's for damn certain... unless they were modeling the AX1G.

Actually, this isn't entirely fair. A few sounds exist here that we of the Cult of the 1G haven't had access to before. Like, for example, distortion... and real cabinet modeling... but, come on. Everyone who's been playing for more than a coupla months knows that you DON'T buy these sorts of things for their distortion patches. Out of the 11 or so distortion patches available on the 1000G, only two or three fail to make me laugh and/or retch. I suppose that's a better track record than most of its competition, but I'm still 95% more likely to use a stompbox or the amp crunch channel.

That said, I like the basic sounds found elsewhere in the box. The wah is not thick and pukey enough; "Vox Wah" is only applicable since Korg owns the Vox name these days. The worst Crybabies could kick the 1000G's ass in this regard. No parameter adjustments are provided on the wah, which is also a massive disappointment. The pitch bend and whammy are just about as cheesy and cheapo as the 1G's-- this is cute in a $100 plastic box, but NOT so in a device three times the price-- they could've done MUCH better.

Phasers, choruses, and whatnot all sound good, and the filters are pretty nice as well-- some real speaker-shredding possibilities. The tape echo is passable and flexible, and the delay is, well, delay-- they give you plenty of it, and the sample/play is eminently useful. (Still, you'd think they'd take a clue from the prices on secondhand SDD3000s and put a little more flexible modulation onboard-- what I wouldn't do for a $200 reissue of that unit.)

But where's the damn beef? Korg really screwed up when they gave this thing the same limitation as the AX1G-- you can't assign the treadle to a "modulation" patch and have the mod bank operating at the same time. What a screamin' oversight. It's the main reason why I can't bring myself to buy this unit after hours of in-store trial-- I can't believe they're so stingy with the CPU in this thing. Sure, I'm a guy who likes freaky sounds, but I would think even the average player would be massively put off by not being able to use, say, chorus and wah simultaneously. It makes it much harder to justify the purchase as a replacement for all my stompboxes, even though it does sound just as good as many of them.

The interaction between this pedal and amp should also be noted-- while I haven't played it through a picky old Fender, it seems to be more transparent to the guitar-amp interaction than other boxes of its ilk. I always felt fairly removed from my amp when playing through the 1G (or other, more expensive units from competing manufacturers); that feeling, while not entirely absent, is much less obvious with the 1000G. I've brought in a couple of my amps and my axe to the shop to verify that I'm not imagining this, and it really is much less sterile than most other multi-fx I've tried (including older Korg units).

Still, if you're a player with tons of stompboxes and are just looking for fun, I think you and your wallet might be happier checking out the AX1G. It's not really a serious purchase, and there are a LOT of similarities between the two boxes.

Looks and feels solid. I suspect the patch-select knobs may be a little short-lived.

If you're looking for a multi-effect unit, I can scarcely think of one better for the price. This isn't saying much.

Korg, come on now... you've been doing amazing things the last few years. You offered so much promise with this box, and failed to deliver. Turn your efforts now to a PROFESSIONAL box... make a monster version of the 1000G, with better effects, and give us flexible routing AND the ability to use-- gasp-- more than one of the "same type" of effect! (While you're at it, put in an SDD3000 model, wouldya?) We're counting on you.

Read the manual...got the sounds I was looking for in 15 minutes after opening the package! The easiest multi-effects unit I've used. Editing patches are a snap. Very simple design.

I use an Ibanez Talman TC420 with a small Crate practice amp. Still sounds great through a crappy amp! Very easy to control the noise on this thing. As for the effects...they are the greatest. The presets have a lot of famous "name" sounds...such as bizkit, metallica, etc. and it's very easy for you to tweak them and edit them to your liking. All of the effects sound great.

I have only played with it for about six hours. But with a sturdy all metal casing, I have no doubts about it. Planning on gigging with it in a couple of days...

Haven't dealt with them yet...and I doubt I'll ever need to...

I play a variety of music in a church band. We play everything from blues to heavy metal and this unit is great at getting every sound. If it was stolen, I'd definitely buy it again. I love everything about this thing. I've compared it with the Boss GT-3, and this unit sounds much better. The GT-3 sounds was too cheesy for me. Recommend to all.