Korg AX100G

When I first bought it, I found it fairly easy to get a sound out of it, but I got lost when it came to saving your own patches. I couldn't get the concept of the user programs. The booklet wasn't that helpful but I eventually understood it. Editing and tweaking patches are easy once you get the hang of it, just play around till you get the sound you're after

I use a Yamaha Pacifica EG-112 into a Crate GX-15 amp and I get a great sound out of it. It's really impressive how much it sounds like the big amps I try in the shops. I don't get any hiss or any annoying sounds through it, except when you have acoustic down as low as it goes and you can hear a faint hiss.
I play all music from Green day to Metallica, from Hendrix to Blink 182 and from Eric Clapton to Santana as well as original music and I can get amazing sounds for all of the through this unit.
Most effects work really well, but the ringman starts to piss you off after a while, and I don't like the feedback program. (There goes my Hendrix-style USA Anthem)
Other than that the sound is great

Although the plastic body doesn't look too tough looks can be decieving, I would uses this for a gig with no backup. I would run it into a power supply and have batteries in it just incase but no other backup would be needed as far as I'm concerned.

Never dealt with them, don't want to hopefully.

As I mentioned earlier I play all styles of music and it suits me perfectly. I can jam with it all day and not get tired of it. If it was stolen or lost I probably break both kneecaps of the guy who stole it then go buy a new one straight away. I'd be pissed off that I lost all my programs but you get over it.

I definately think that this pedal is great value for guitarists of all styles and experience. I compared this to a Boss GT-3 And a digitech RP-200 and the sounds produced are nowhere near as good as the ones on the AX100g.

Pretty much any morron can figure this thing out. Theres alot of things i kept forgetting about though, like depth of the cabs and the volume of the effects. Lots of tweekin fun, but even before dat some really great patches outa da box. Lots to get used to since this is my first Multi effects processor.

Im usin a Mexi Strat through a line6 Spider 212. Its not noisy at all, if it gets a lil hissy i just turn on the Noise gate. The effects take some tweaking to get what u want but u can achieve just bout any sound u want. Some of the things that suck are the Pitch mod, wah is alright not great, and the Min maj 5ths stuff that i havent been able to use (sound cool though). Acoustic sim is awesome, so is da feedbacker, chorus, filter, pitch(pedal) and the list goes on. The ring mod is so cool but so pointless its great!! The distortions kick ass. I play punk and classic/modern rock and its perfect. I can spend hours and hours playin with this thing so much fun!!oh and the drum thing is kinda satisfactory

ummmmm get the adapter, i didnt get one and in 2 band practices i got screwed over when it died. So like any self respectin Geetar player i took an adapter from a game system and now that will never happen. On a side not dont EVER DO THAT UNLESS ITS THE RIGHT TYPE. Id gig with it without a backup, its plastic, and im too poor to by a backup. But itll do fine.

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This thing rules, it saves u so much money i love it. I ve been playin for 2 yrs now and im always playin. It sounds great outa my 212 and my lil practice amp. Some of the great things about this is, ull never need a capo, u can get just bout any sound u desire. My fav thing bout this is DA'FUZZ oh GOD its crazy!! Some of the patches i dont care for. So i just write over them. If i lost it or someone broke it id pull my piece out and cap em!

This is a follow up to an earlier eval I posted. ( I have to learn to wait a little before posting out here :-) ) After tweaking for a couple of weeks I seemed to hit a wall on a couple of sounds, and also found some better than I expected. Overall, though, tweaking setting is fast, easy and fun.

I ran this into two setups, At home, it was ran into a Boss BR-8 recorder (with effects turned off) and when playing at my church it was fed into a Peavey keyboard amp. I use a Fender US Strat with Lace Pickups.

I was never able to get the sound up to par on the acoustic setting. It either sounded flat or had a hiss to to it that was really undesirable. Noise reduction ended the his when nothing was played but the his was THERE when playing.

I DID find the feedback emulator fun and very usable and will miss that feature.

I never did like the chorus effects but the rest all seemed fine. But since chorus and accoustic sounds are pretty much what I use a 50% of the time it let me down there. BUT, if you play rock, metal etc the unit will probably be great.

Amp simulations were pretty good when played into a line level device. It is really biased, though, to sound good in headphones, which it REALLY sounded good in.

The unit I had an inconsistent problem on the amp simulator knob: It would occasionally skip an amp model as you turned the knob. You could find the missing model between detents though. Not a huge problem but nonetheless a quality flaw. I buy/sell equipment alot on eBay and I know that a flaw like that will hurt it being sold used, so I sent returned it.

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I play in a church Worship Team, which covers almost all kinds of music ('cept maybe punk!). The pedal worked well there, with the exceptions listed above. I like the pedal, but since I returned it, I guess I could not say I would buy one again. I would say though it is a matter of taste. The AX100G had some very attractive features and had a very different sound than a similar Boss pedal. The Korg sounded warmer and smoother than the Boss. Oddly enough I looked at the higher end Korgs and did not like the sound they made.

I wish this pedal had a little better quality and while I'm at it, a longer travel expression pedal wouldn't hurt too!

The manual is good. The preset patches are pretty good but with some tweaking they can be very good. Editing patches is quick and easy. Great idea to have an "Orginal setting" light that comes on when you are tweaking a setting and come upon what it was set at before. That way you know how much to raise or lower. The distortions have quick and easy access to tweak all settings. I take off points because it took me awhile to realize that you have to press the pedal down really hard to start the looping. Also, there are like 3 different methods of controlling the volume for each patch (master volume, patch volume, and patch gain)! This gets a little confusing and takes a little time to get each patch the perfect volume. Lastly, if you switch the distortion volume on the fly it will jump from wherever it was set to where you turn it to and this can be a little hazardous loud jump when tweaking in the middle of a song.

I'm playing a Fender Mexican Fat Strat through a Line6 FM-4, Crybaby 95Q Wah, TU2 tuner, Korg AX100, Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive, Arion SPH-1Phaser, Visual Sound H20 Chorus/Delay into a Carvin Vintage 33 tube amp. Yes, as you can see I love pedals!! I play guitar in a gigging jamband that does a lot improv. I've been playing for 10 years and have tried many pedals and multi-fx over the years. I am very satisfied with the Korg AX100. Especially for the price. If my pedalboard disappeared I would be extremely pissed and sad but one of the first pedals I'd replace would be the AX100.

I was scared the AX100 would be noisy in my pedal chain but it is not. Effects ratings:

Noise Reduction is fantastic!

Rhythms are alright to practice with but they are fairly simple and get boring after a few minutes.

Phrase Trainer records either 8 seconds of external audio or your guitar and loops it for you to jam over. Then you can slow it down to 25% speed without changing the pitch.

Looper is great! This is why I bought this pedal. The AX100 costs as much as the cheapest looper (Akai Headrush) but the AX100 does so much more! After looping you can control the length of the loops with the pedal which makes it stutter kinda like a DJ scratching a record!

The Distortions are terrific. Someone said they are geared towards Metal. I totally disagree. I find many choices are great for blues, rock, and hard rock. I can get very good Santana sounds and Trey Anastasio sounds and good Hendrix.

The Feedbacker is awesome. Just what I always wanted. I can hold a note forever!!

The delays and reverbs are good

Ring mod and Pitch shifter are great because you can control them by the pedal and make squeeling sounds that are fun!

Those are the FX I think make the pedal great. I didn't like the flanger, phaser, slow attack, envelope, or chorus as much. That's alright though since I have some individual pedals for those fx.

Yes I can depend on it. It is hard plastic that I don't foresee breaking. I take care of my gear.

I'm currently gigging with it in my pedalboard.

I couldn't get the looper to work so I called Korg. He told me I had to push the pedal down harder and that worked. I felt stupid but oh well. They were helpful and friendly.

This is a great buy! It has such potential in the tweaking abilities. I wish you could hold the bank up button and zoom through patches like on the new pedals but oh well.

Sounds great so far, but I've only been playing around with it a couple of days. I can't say the manual's the best. Not knowing much about this kind of thing, I'm having to do things by discovering them myself, and I suspect I'm missing somethings. I wish I could find a help site made by users. Any ideas anyone?

I'm using a Strat into a Mesa SOB. It sounds great so far. A little noisy at first, but I figured out my settings.

Can't really speak to reliability. It's lasted a day though!

Again, no experience yet, and I hope I won't ever have to have any.

I play a little of everything, and I like that this helps me to do it. I can go from an acoustic sound to a really grungy sound easily. I can't compare to others since I've not used them, but I can't really imagine the others do anything any better. I'm very satisfied.

I have found this unit to work very nicely considering the price and maybe even not considering the price. Editing is easy and the manual is thin due mainly to the fact it is easy to use. I have operated it for about an hour and though the editing functions are limited it does what it is supposed to do well.

I am going to use this unit alongside (in parallel with) a Roland VG-88 to both layer sounds and to just get some new sounds. The sound quality compared to the '88 is a bit warmer, maybe too much so, but can be equalized to whatever. The main reason I picked this unit over others is that it seems to have the most viable feedback simulator. Now, granted this fback sim is pretty artificial sounding sometimes but it still seems to have what I need.

I run the unit in two modes: At home it plugs into a Boss BR-8 that goes to monitor speakers or headphones. When I play out it goes into a Peavey KB-300a keyboard amp and or PA system. I think alot of people have problems with the fact that when you buy a multi effects pedal with amp simulation that many times the best way to amplify it is with a neutral amplifier like a keyboard amp or PA system as opposed to a guitar amplifier. I feel sorry for those people who think they can buy a AX100G, feed it to a small Fender amp and have the outcome sound like 4x12 Marshall Stack. For an application like that, with a big heavy and expensive amp, go to individual stomp boxes. I've gone the route of big amps before and although nothing sounds more like a Fender Twin Amp like a Fender Twin Amp, moving the thing around will break your back.

I will say the chorus on this thing is lame and awful to me, but like I said, I'm running it in parallel with a VG-88, which has a great chorus. I may be able to tweak the chorus a little better after some more time though.

I am easy on equipment and only play at home and in church settings so I expect no problems. At one quarter the cost of my big Roland unit I expect it to be made cheaper, but I don't see problems with it.

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Extremely good for price. The accoustic sounds are passable, the distorted sounds are very good and rich. The feed back simulator is usable with some practice. I would buy another one in a heartbeat.

Not overly difficult to use, but the manual sucks, only half the amp models sound good, the wah sucks, and you can't set gain,level or eq settings on a per program basis.

Overall sound quality is lame. This unit has no way to set compression levels or disable compression so all programs sound overly compressed and more "hollow" as a result.

Made of plastic, not for gigging.

Never dealt with.

I was very disappointed with this product. Sounded great at the guitar shop, but I got it home and didn't sound as good. I exchanged this for a Digitech RP-200 and hands down the Digitech is 100% better.

When i first got this pedal I thought it was going to be a pain to use. After messing around with it, and reading the manuall it got pretty easy. There are some things that are hard to use. But overall , it's easy to use.

I am using a Crate 212 with a BC Rich Warlock (Bronze Series: yes, it's very cheap, but its very easy to play, and sounds good).
Some effects are the greatest, not as much of a liveliness, if you know what i mean.

Its hard plastic, so if you stomp on it too hard, it's gunna break. So be carefull.

No idea.

Its ok, not the best, not the worst.... Save your money, and get a better one. Thank you, i'm here til thursday!

The unit has fairly easy to understand knobs and buttons, but I found it harder to configure compared to other similar units. All in all not bad, but it could be better.

This unit has a fairly nice overall sound for it?s price range. It has a lot of really heavy metal type distortions which is cool if that is what you are looking for. The effects are pretty decent also. A couple of cool features are the bender and the feedbacker. They both sound kind of hokey unless you work with them some, but with practice can be made to sound better. I found that the thing I liked about it the most was their compressed auto wah sound. I have a GFX-8 currently and it the sound contrast between the 2 is pretty different. Once again this has a heavier sound to it. The preset patches suffer a bit from ?we use delay on all of our patches? syndrome. For the most part the patches are fair, but need a bit of tweaking?. Especially if you?re not a fan of a lot of delay/reverb. This does however along with the cabinet simulator make the sound big and wide. This unit for it?s price is a pretty good deal for a beginner and good enough for someone more advanced if you want the heavy tones. One thing I did not like is the fact that the unit did not have midi capability for saving patches. On the other hand a really nice feature is the ability to visually see where a preset tone knob originally started. If you modify the treble, bass or dist and turn the knob past the original value it shows ?orig? on the display to let you know that this is were the patch started the value for this knob. I bought the unit and returned it, but that is just because I was looking for something a bit different that what this pedal was.

This unit appears to be almost 100% plastic. It seems tough enough and could be trusted I believe in a controlled environment, but I don?t know if it would stand up to a lot of heavy bashing if that is your thing.

Never dealt with them.

It?s not a bad unit?.just not quite what I was looking for. It had pretty good effects and loads of metal distortion. For the price it?s a great beginner pedal. For those of you out there looking to sound like Clapton/Cream, or The Who this pedal is not for you. This pedal?s strong suit is not ?creamy distortion? or clean tones.

It's very easy to use... I had it yesterday and I know hot to use it at 99%. The manual is very hard to understand but after a few look you can figure out how to use it.

The sound quality is almost perfect. but for the price, let's say it's perfect! it isn't noisy and all the effects sounds great unless it's the ringman thing. I'm using a little 25 watts yamaha amp and it makes him sound great. I can get metallica and megadeth sound out of it. Really , I love the sound.

Yeah I think I can depend on it. and I would also surely use it at a gig eithout a backup.

Didn'T dealt with 'em

I play Metallica/Megadeth and it's perfect for any kind of music.
If it would get stolen, I would buy the same thing or if I would have more money, i would buy the AX1500G.
There's nothing missing on this pedal. Of course, it helps me to make music! I highly recommend it to you!