Korg AX100G

Very easy to use.
Do not use it with cheap guitar! (china taiwan clones)
Do not use maximum gain!

It does not need upgrade. And you got enough user presets.
Very intuitive interface.

All distortion are very plastic.
Compressor is good. Chorus and phaser is ptretty.
Flanger is warm. Good wah wah.
I use it with YAMAHA EG112. Jolana PROXIMA JAZZ MASTER, Musima ETERNA DElUXE. And Also with Jolana Diamant BASS)))
I use it inline, with tube amp and with "nontube" amp)
Sound is good.
It is not noise) Do not use N.Reduction setup to 10.0!!!

Never need any upgrade. Just nedd good guitar and good Speaker!

Going to buy OLD KORG A5!

Using the unit and tweaking the sound is a childs play ... have used its kid brother AX1G ... much better than that .. .much easier to use than Zoom505 ... and also some DOD processors which i have borrowed time and again ...
The use of knobs for the controls is very good ...
and cmon for that price it is the best deal ...

For the ease of use thing ... i lost the manual the day i bought it ... no need for the manual ... mebbe except on calibration of the expressions pedal ...

I use any guitar ... yeah keep changing 'em ... but the amp remains Marshall ... however i prefer to keep the Marshal on clean tone ... n get any kinda overdrive or dist from the FX ...

Some effect are good ... esp the Acoustic, Fat Dist, Classic Overdrive, US High gain and Brit stack ... US High gain sounds pretty much like a Mesa Boogie ... Brit stack - ofcourse the Marshall ...

The Fuzz and Metal are too thin ... Fuzz doesn't sound at all like the real Fuzz which Hendrix, Blackmore and Iommi used to play ...

Metal can be tweaked to get the Pantera kinda sound (so u can simulate the Randall) ...

but dunno how ta get the Peavy or Fender sound ...

Intelligent harmonizer is a killer ... gr8 for single lead player ... the pitch transposer .. like the one in RAGE preset is shit ... the shifted pitch has a delay and distortion ...
one cannot use some FX with others ...

Wah pedal is too much expressive ... good for Hendrix and Hammet kind ... but if u try for Zakk Wylde style ... it cannot reproduce the sound

The filter FX (the one which is there in DA'FUZZ) should be made available in the modulation cat also ... since if i put it on (which is in pedal) ... i cannot use any other pedal FX like Wah or phaser :(

Till now hasn't broken down ...
However, if there is a power failure or fluctuations ... the presets which u have written tend to get corrupted ...

Absolute shit in the Republic of India ...
once due to volatage fluctuation ruined the circuit ...
it took the fuckers (dealer) 3 months to get it repaired ...

My styles are usually late 70-80's Metal/rock to todays Nu metal and grunge ... was able to emulate almost any one ... but not the Dave Gilmour ...

For the Blues and JAzz players ... ya can never get the same sound which u can by the tube amplifier ... but for the metal heads ... it is absolutely crappy concept to stick to the tubes ... gawd ... dont act like an ostrich ... stick yer head out to new things ... the solid state processors ROCK ...

Getting good sound takes a little amount of time and in the end i ended up using a couple of effects only. Editing is pretty straitforward and i could rely on the "manual" on the front in the beginning, but after a short while it becomes unnecessary too and you just turn the knobs. Actually if you want to quickly adjust things, sometimes it is a little irritating that the knob might not be in the position the effect says, so turning causes the unit to "jump" to effects. Otherwise you can very quickly tune it. FX-SEL is also a good feature i use fairly often. The manual would have needed a notch more work, but overall it was ok, since i didn't really need it and empirical exploration of the unit the first two days of so sufficed.

I use all the low price parts: Squier bullet guitar, Yamaha F20 Amp, yet i either use good headphones or occasionally a greater amp. The quality of the effects varies greatly. Playing punk music is fairly easy on this effect... however that's not my style, so it requires an effort to get Floydian sounds out of it. Distortion is average, sometimes below average, nothing to backflip at for sure. Echo and delay is quite good. Wah is good for doodling about, but if you listen to any normal wah-pedals at work, you realize how crappy it sounds. Pitch shifter is by no question the lousiest effect in the pack, makes the guitar sound like it was in a cartoon and though the pitch is shifted, the distortion to the sound makes it useless. As for the other effects, and amp modelling... well, i don't use them, because i found the worthless (or not worth the time required to adjust)

Drum patches are average, you can use them to vamp around and practice, but nothing great. Maybe not meant to either.

I can depend on the unit. That's mostly because i don't have the cash (or the cash i want to invest in this area) to buy a better unit. But actually though there are problems, i have gigged with it several times without problems and use it on a daily basis. The only problem i found is that the adapter sometimes gets disconnected even without moving the unit causing it to "black-out" and only reconnecting the plug solves it. Otherwise i push it hard, step on it... ok, never jumped or threw it... and it holds together quite good.

Never dealt with it. For the price, it is very durable.

I play psychedelic rock, Pink Floyd, i am sometimes in a jazzy mood. The unit is not really that suitable for me, because the subtlety required for this kind of music somehow gets lost in the effects. Nevertheless the short number of effects i tuned for myself makes the play interesting enough not to throw the pad in the corner.
Yet, if stolen, i wouldn't buy one again, just save the money to buy a bigger-and-better effect.
I love that it was cheap and for the price near the best effect in its category, but i hate its limitations.

Sound is good if your into progressive, church, or old school metal. BUT the sounds produce in the ax100 are very old and thin, the WAH was so thin it sounded like a crying kitten instead of a cow......
It's great for the mellow ones

WEAK! WEAK! WEAK! WEAK! Sound on stage is soooo weak!!!! (i have a ibanez with a sh-4 duncan pick-ups) My lead guitarist is way louder than me????? (his effects was a zoom)

In short, IT AINT GOT NO BALLS

dammit this fukkin sucks!!!!! Especially when your in a gig!!!! YOU NEED TO TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES AND STEP ON IT VERY GENTLY SO THAT YOU WONT GO WAAAAYYYYY OVER THE OTHER BANKS!!!! And the power supply is kinda loose, that when you step on it, it gets unplug easily, very bad (especially on gigs). And within a month upon purchase my ax100 hangs up when i switch to the bank ROCK!!! And when you use and abuse the pedal for wah and pitch octave, it always just die when youe in the middle of the song, WHAT's UP WITH THAT!!!! BUY SINGLE PEDALS AND A DIGITECH WHAMMY!!! and the digitech's rp series pedals are NOT reliable either.

I play metal, emo, nu metal, alternative. Man,it's weird cause the zoom 505 was much louder... (pity)

i went back to my heavy pain in the back single effects with a whammy, it's a pain but at least it gets the job done

I found this a bit daunting at first, since the manual describes how to use it so poorly. Fact is it is actually very simple to use, just press the white button of the 'effect' you want to use ( such as amp, mod, pedal, cabinet, noise reduction, delay/reverb etc) and use the knobs up the top to modify that effect, then press another white button and do it with another aspect. The only annoying thing about using it is that there is no on/off switch, so to turn the thing on you have to plug the jack in (i use an external power source, it chews through (cheap) batteries)

I use this with a godin SD (very nice) and a marshall md 15 CD (crap). Out of the box, it has a pretty unremarkable sound. If you spend the time to fiddle around, and go on the net to get some good patches, this actually produces some very good sounds, and you can get an excellent tone from it as well. The drive amps are mostly pretty good, with the US hi gain and the Brit Stack and Tube OD stand out. The excellent thing about this pedal is that you can get such a great variety of quality sounds if you put in the time. I once ran out of batteries and had to plug my guitar straight into the marshall, and it sounded CRAP! You get really used to having some nice sounds.

The effects are a mixed bag. The Pitch effects sound absolutely crap, and are extremely useless to me, a musically untrained person. I cannot see anyone getting a nice sound out of these. However, effects such as the filter (this is great!), tremelo, chorus, flanger, phaser, are all really good. The only bad thing about these is that sometimes you can't mix certain pedal effects with certain mods eg a wah on the pedal with a phaser as the mod. With enough tweaking you can get some extremely freaky ;) sounds out of it though. I found that some effects work better with certain amp models, but each to his/her own.

THis is plastic. It is not a stomp box, and i'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to jump on it too hard. I've had it for a year and it has been really good, except one time the memory wiped itself for no reason. I would use this at a gig just for the sounds, but yeah i wouldn't jump on it.

Never had any worries

Overall this is a versatile, useful, cheap pedal that i am extremely grateful i bought. The presets suck, but a good sound can be acheived. I got some good (and shit) patches from the user group so you might like try those. My friend has a more expensive Digitech multiple amp modeller thing and this craps all over it ;) If it was stolen, i would probably get the model up from this (an AX1500G) because nowadays i have seen it being sold for the same price i got the AX100G. I would strongly recommend this to anyone with a solid state amp and a fondness of variety.

Very easy to get pleasing results with this multi, its easy to work out. Editing is really quick and easy, the displays are good and fuctional(and YES, you can see what you're doing in the dark! great) I found the manual adequate, but no more then that, reads a bit like an afterthought, but its nice to have one though

The Korg sits between an early Yamaha Pacifica strat (modded DiMarzio, a vintage Ibanez PQ parametric EQ stompbox (my secret weapon) and a Laney all valve LC15 R, modest but great sounding little setup, The AX is a bit noisy, a bit, just dick around with the master volume and patch volumes and amp settings, its not that bad, The sounds you can ghet out of this plastic box are actually coolio . Good convincing sounds, pretty clever layout,within evry patch you have cntrol over 2 independant drive settings, pedal 2 takesthe modulation and/or reverbs and delay in and out and then you still have the very useful pedal to play with! excellent.The sound quality is very much more then good nough for such a cheap and versitile processor. You get a lot of good solid sounds, mucho realtime control with the exprerssion pedal. Keeping in mind of courese that this thing is emulating the real deal, it is not iself the real deal of course, but fo the price you pay for them now secondhand they are surely a good and handy buy

Mmmmmyessss, here we go, well....its plasic, need i say more? To be honest, it actually feels quite sturdy ,t has a metal baseplate the plastic ued seems pretty tough, the pedal feels pleasingly firm, thats ok, but the editing rotary knobs, although somwhat recessed feel wobbly and flimsy, they would NOT put up with a boot hitting them sideways fr instance, so...rotaries crap, but they work well enough, the rest is fine, just dont be an idiot with it. Tis is all sensitive gear, so treat it with care and dont do silly things. If i had a decent backup i would bring one, just in case. But the switches feel good too, the pedal is cool and sturdy...you shouldnt have too many probs with it.

bought it secondhand still under warranty so if it conks out between now and 5 month we shall find out...

I play rock and some funk and some other stuff,been an amateur for 15 years, and still love it. I wanted something versitile and good sounding and compact, this is more then good enough. If I lost it I would get another one, for sure. T sounds good enough to me, and i dont have much money, so this thing is ideal really. For 90 euros I think iI had a decent buy. I heard some Zoom multies in the past and they were terrible, but this thing seems far above that for some reason. The expression pedal is a favourite feature(you gotta love those 6 l.e.d's next to the pedal as they race up the face of the unit!), 2 drive settings in 1patch is VERY useful. Clever that. What isnt so clever is that compression is only available as an amp madel (??????) and not as an effect by itself, very strange....ALSO, an this i found a shocker...you cant use delay and reverb together, which is SHIT Mr Korg!!! It really is! I mean, come on...in this day and age...no reverb + delay together??? And it does not come with a power supply funny enough, so if you buy an AX100 secondhand dont be surprised if you dont get one with it, but its a standard 9 v jobbie, so power is no problem. I tried loading one up with fresh duracell penlights, firstly i could NOT get the batteries to sit right, and the unit refused to switch on. So, if you plan on using batteries..CHECK THIS ISSUE OUT

Fairly easy to use. It does take some getting used to. The manual is very skimpy and does nothing to explain what tone really is. The LED readout is nice, but the series of LEDs for the effects is heard to read unleas it is 6 inches from your face. It does not come with an AC adaptor.

I play a 335 Dot through a Marshall tube amp. It is somewhat noisy, but not any more than any other pedal or effects box, maybe a little quieter. Some are extremely noisy, you can hear the effect while not playing. Modulation effects are weak, especially chorus. I usually leave the "drive amp" switch off. I hate most of the sounds it tries to model. The distortion sounds are way too loud, too much bass, and have a delay or reverb added. Why? I would rather set those myself, which I did on all 40 presets. I like the jazz preset, that's about it. The rest are in serious need of EQ, which I did, plus dial out the distortion. The Santana preset is cool sounding, but it not make your Ibanez sound like a PRS. I never use the wah/volume pedal for anything, it's too small for my foot. The up/down footswitches are too far apart. Who has a foot that big? It takes forever to get back to bypass, which is not really a true bypass. I lose a lot of bass just plugging this thing in on the bypass mode. The Hi/Lo switch on the back panel functions the opposite of the way it should. Some one screwed up here. I use humbuckers and have the switch set to "H" (for high) and I lose about 30% of my sound. I set it "L" for low (single coils) and I expect a boost. Instead, it cuts put about 50% of the volume with no bass, just treble. Like I said, I dialed in all my presets using the tone/gain controls on this thing. Weird. If you want a plastic-sounding fuzz-box, this is your ticket. If you want a tube sound, buy a tube amp. The Tube OD sound does sound a lot like my tube screamer, I will admit. Other than that, I can not recognize any of the drive amp sounds. Noise gate works, but it basically is just gating it's own noise, won't help with a noisy soild-state amp. I have my own sounds and don't need to mimick others. If you want to do that, you should look elsewhere. The most useful feature I've found is the harmonizer. Basically a pitch-shifter that allows you to play harmony in a given key, very nice. You can also set it 24 steps (two octives) up or down in half-step increments. Very nice.

I would never gig with this. Shame on you if you use this to gig. Buy dedicated pedals! The output jack on mine fell off the first time I used it out of the box. It's all plastic and it's discontinued.

I tried to get the adaptor, but since it's discontinued, they don't make it anymore.

I play blues/jazz/rock/Punk-fusion-new-age/death metal/Christian contemporary-Gospel/Old school/Rap/classical/Latin/Disco/Country/Pop. I have been playing 40 years. I have owned every brand guitar and amp ever made. I have to use the AC adaptor from one of my effects pedals to use this. It kinda gets in my way, it's a pain in the ass to use. It makes a great fuzz box. I'm a tube geezer and this will not give you a tube sound. My $0.02 = save your money a buy a tube amp with a master volume control, a switchable lead channel and reverb! Crank the master volume up to saturate the power tubes, and dial in your gain, You will have a much better sound than any modeling effects or modeling amp. This thing just re-creates a few tone stacks and adds huge amounts of gain, which produces it's own noise. Modulation effects (such as chorus) are best left to dedicated pedal, but you alrwady know all this. Not bad for $99. Mine collects a lot of dust.
I only use the jazz preset and the harmonizer - that's it!

It was very easy to use. At first i thought it was going to hard to assign the effects into each prgramme, but it was very easy - there's a button for each area of effect - Drive Amp, Modulation, Cambinet, Ambience which u can assign to your programe, while ajusting the effect type and volume with the knobs. I also liked the way you could change the volumes of each programme you made, which means that when a solo comes up, you can change to a louder programme. One thing that no-one mentioned was the drum machine, which is wicked - a great practice tool (especailly with the metranome).

After reading other reviews i was expecting some of the drive amps to be poor, but in my opinion there are all amazing, from the Metal to the Classic distortion. For example i can easly replicate the sound of Iron Maiden (US High gain drive)), or Metallica (Metal drive) (with abit of tweaking or course). I was also really happy with the wah pedal, which was very good, with distorted or clean sounds, its even better than one i already owned. The only thing that was a little diopointing was the clean channel. The classic comp is really good for chorusy clean stuff, but the acoustic clean channel isn't that good (my Marshall Mg30 amp is much better).

I bourght mine second hand, and it still works like a dream.

Never needed it.

I play metal, punk, blues, old school rock, basically everything, and i would be lost without this pedal. It has everything i need and more. A great purchase.

i think it is very easy to use but i have one question how the hell do u do the looping? i dont think the manual gives a complete description of how to so if sumone could email me at mheffernan@rcn.com and give me a full description of how u do this

i use a fender 40th anniversary and the blues setting is great. the only problem i had was i thought the santana setting has too much distortion but other than that its great.(i love the distortion on it)

i only had it for a week so im not sure about the reliability

i havent dealt with customer support

i play rock and blues and i found it perfect. I have been playing for a year and i dont own any other gear. If this was stolen i would buy another one. I love the distortion and wah on it. I wish i could use the looping and i wish the lopping was longer.

very easy

rank 2nd place after didgitech for sound considering those (2 or 3-stomps and one expression(wah ) pedals).but it needs a compressor-sustainer with it .

dependable , didnt fail me in three gigs.u may still need a compressor sustainer with it.

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this thing gets u good distortion out of power chords and does great solo sounds with the sustainer , but the original sound in many effects remains heard,that is a problem in some effects like pitch shifter and flanger , and not a problem in harmonist and chorus.


I KNOW THAT EVERY UNIT HAS ITS IMPERFECTIONS , SIO ONE MUST KNOW WHTA EACXH UNIT'S IMPERFECTIONS ARE SO HEWRE ARE THE AX100G'S IMPERFECTIONS:
i noticed lots of imperfections in the ax100g, theyre driving me mad.
the mix option is crap.it ruined the pitch shifter , u cannot get the pitch shift alone without hearing the original sound.ok so thats a harmonist, then they should write on the website of ax100g that it has NO pitch shifter and that it has a harmonist , although the harmonist has defects too, its artificial notes that are modified to fit in the scale tremble(alternate between the original added note(out of the scale) and the modified added note).
the phaser and flanger sounds are added to the original sound and not the oriiginal sound altered, so that somehow sounds not right.the major imperfection is that rough inevidable transition. though i noticed it got smoother when it worked on batteries.there are more defects but thats what i remebered for now . please tell me im wrong or that there is a solution to my problem.if only the mix knob would eliminate the original sound when turned to the max, most of the problem would be solved.