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.

I don't really understand the trouble people have using this unit. It's easier than controlling my tv I can tell you. All the changes are done with simple turning of pots. To me it explains itself. I'm used to multieffects where you scroll through hidden menues. No such thing here.

Here I have one of my biggest complaints. All sounds lack treble. Even though all my patches have the highs turned to 10 it's still muddy. The other guitarist in my band uses a Line6 pod and sounds way clearer than me. Otherwise the sounds are very good for the price. As said by others, it sucks that you can't combine more effects. Usually you end up with an amp and a modulation effect. I have solved this by using my old Boss ME6 multieffectsunit chained after the AX100G. The ME6 provides the highs and the delays/reverbs. The AX100G provides the amps and the modulationeffects. At the price you get a lot to choose from. I mostly use the pitchshifter and the tremolo. Be careful not to use extreme settings(one octave and more) on the pitcheffects. They rarely are in tune, and you end up with an unwanted(unmusical) vibrato. Look at this product as a first possibility to try out a lot of effects. Then by a real unit that have the effects you like and do them properly. At beginnerlevel the AX100G fullfils your every need. The amps are the best. I tried out several cheap multieffects(such as the zoom 505II), and the AX100G by far the best. It even handles semidistorted sounds really nice. Light tube-breakup is easy to recreate.

My AX100G broke up at the first gig I used it. The ampswitch went nuts and started to switch amps in the middle of songs. This was because I must have accidently hit it pcking it down or something. The trick is to choose the "fat dist" amp. Thereby the switch is straight and steady. The problem occured a few times after the gig, but it has worked nicely otherwise. I have not had any problems with the pedals at all. They do the job nicely. The unit is lightweight and you pin it to the ground if you want it to stay put.

I have had nothing to do with KORG. Their homepage gives you no information at all. It seems that the Pandora-units are more i focus there sadly.

I play rock/pop. I like the fact that you can choose distortion-clones as well as amp-clones. All equipment these days seem so amp-oriented. The dist-boxes gives you a unique and cool sound. Not just Angus Young-marshall or Linkin Park-mesa. It's like a buffe where you get to try different sounds out. It does none of them perfect, but hey it's almost a giveaway for the price. By the AX100G to learn which effects you like, and then by a real multieffect that has these. I for one learned that i couldn't live without the pitcheffects and simulated distortionboxes for example. I'm glad I didn't by a amp-simulator, because they often lack both these effects.

It takes me time to figure out whats good in this gadget, but i find this thing a mean machine...clean,chorus,wahs,metal,british are very good except for the stupid ring sound,maj,min etc...etc... & other useless effects...

Im using a Japan fender Squier/Hohner Les Paul Style and tried it on yamaha pacifica guitars...tried it on Crate, marshall,& peal amps, Distortion/gains/volume/shifting effects are good but fucking breaks loose of the stupid power adaptor, change 3 times already & no power on/off.

Dependability? seems ok...can get used to it,but always bring extra power supply...and ensure the quality of the cable for the distortion effects...

If you've got an ordinary amp, its nice to use this AX100 enhance your harmony & prize range still affordable... Mga Ponga, jamming na uli... sofs...

I also own a Zoom 505 II,which I used to think adequate .It's not.This unit is.The Korg is both easier and more difficult to use as the amp model,"eq" and levels are adjustable on the fly,but, *within* a [eg] chorus or delay patch you have to use the same eq pots to trim out the time and delay THEN save the patch again THEN return your eq to standard position...THEN [for preference] select "off" your newly editted patch and return to it to see how it really sounds. YES,Without the [huge] manual you'll be playing and editing within Days. Reading the manual will close this to a couple of hours,to allow you to get good sounds.

Long and short of it =the Vintage,Blues,Carlos,Treble,Filter,Wah and a couple of other patches make this unit worth the #100 I paid,after editing. {cant add up] 7-14 usable effects- how much would you pay for 7 Boss pedals??

The cabinet sims are V good.all round sound quality is good and with suitable tweaks make the 490 [standard] Gibson bark somewhat more like PAFS and Epiphone and Strat copy pickups get nearer what they try and resemble. It even manages to make a really [REALLY] cheap strat copy sound adequate.

The whole thing with this unit is the word adequate.

Note that manufacturer are coming out with cheap multi fx units all the time and DSP is getting better year in. Korg is even treading on it's own toes with many new models so I can't give this a top rating.

5 months no real trouble. Mains adapter jack a little sloppy.

Much better than a Zoom 505II. Expression pedal and a few good effects. You can get these for #80 here. Sampling switch needs a fucking elephant [or possibly two elephants fucking] to climb onto the end of the pedal to switch it on.

So I gave up on the [too short] sample loop in the end. It's capable of making the Gibson sound huge and other cheap guitars sound ok. You get used to it and can throw the manual aside [not away,aside] after a day or two. Yes, I'm a DUMBASS,both in a Fender Forum way and in a stewpeed way..

It is fantastic Value,but,9/10 because there are other units which *may* give YOU the edge in what YOU want to decide to sound like.Worth getting.

Other gear I have,currently,Cheapo strat copy,Modified Pacifica,Gibson "The Paul II",Epiphone Special,Fender Gemini II, Small Vox and Marshall amps,Zoom 505II, Home built "quarter screamer" pedals and amplification malarkey,soldering iron,"leftover" parts and spares..etc.

I've been playing 20+ years recently at Semi-pro level. Mostly i play becaus I love the sound of a good guitar, this pedal can help in that aim.

This unit is pretty easy to use but the manual could have been a bit better.

If people are having trouble with the loop and sample it's because what you need to do is push the expression pedal right the way to the top and then press it down, like you would on a wah pedal (this functionality is also in the wah and is quite useful).

Good for a patient beginners pedal, though at the beginner level you'd probably be better off with a cheaper multiFX without an expression pedal.

I've used this pedal with a Fender Strat, a Stagg Les Paul Custom, an Ibanez RG570 and a Washburn acoustic electric guitar, playing through a Crate GX120 and an 80W guitar amp which I can't identify and its sound is pretty mediocre.

The noise filter is ok although it does mean you get much less sustain when you play.

At the higher notes the sound begins to sound very weak and digitised but it's got a few brilliant effects for playing lower down the neck. You can get some fairly nice clean effects on it so it's pretty good for pop songs but it's not particularly suited to anything with solos, like Metallica.

There's a definate gap when you switch effects which is beginning to really get on my nerves, especially if you need an almost instant effect change.

You can't chain very many effects together, here's what you've got:

-Drive (2 per effect, as I've said before the overdrive channels are a bit weak at the high notes)
-Mod: Autowah, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Various "intelligent" pitch effects, Tremolo, Pan, Slow attack
-Pedal: Wah, Volume, Tremolo, Pan, Delay, Echo, Phaser (speed), Flanger (speed), Chorus (depth), Pitch bender (pretty weak), "Filter" (a low pass filter, doesn't sound particularly good), "Feedback" (sounds awful, but if you're having problems with the sustain it might be worth a try), Loop and Sample
-Amb: Delay, a few reverb effects which are OK...
-Cab: Various cabinet simulators which I can't really comment on, they don't seem to be anything special

So 4 or 5 effects maximum really and a lot of combinations can't be made.

The presets are quite varied in quality - some of them are really good to use as the basis for your effects but others are just completely useless and I could never see anybody in their right mind using them :)

Good tuner.

In conclusion the sound is good for the beginner but the more experienced played will want to get either a much better multiFX or just seperate effects.

One thing this pedal is is reliable. I've been using it for over a year now and I pretty much depend on it at the moment, though I'll be shopping for a new one soon. You can probably use it without backup, provided you use the power source (which I'm pretty sure was included), since batteries aren't particularly reliable, are they?

One problem I do occaisionally get is the names for some of my effects change randomly, but the actual effects don't seem to suffer.

I contacted customer support about the loop/sample problem because I had it. They responded pretty quickly but didn't really know what to do about it, suggesting they take the pedal in to have a look at it. I get the impression this is a problem hey've probably heard of a lot but don't really understand. The manual should've explained it better :)

I chose not to send it off to them since I had a gig to play at in the near future and discovered later that I was the one with the problem and not the pedal.

Overall good response time but fairly limited help.

I play mostly rock intermixed with some funk and classical, fairly similar to Metallica's less heavy songs and some of Brian Adam's songs. It's probably a better match for people who want to play simpler music like Foo Fighters or Nirvana, since this pedal can't really handle anything too fancy.

I've been playing for about 4 years now and I've made a few bad buys in my time, including a Boss SD-1 which sounded NOTHING LIKE it did on the website, and the overdrive channel on the Crate GX-120 sounds awful, so I'd be at a loss without this pedal though I do intend to upgrade.

If it got stolen or lost I wouldn't buy it again, I'd just be pretty peeved that I didn't at least get the chance to try and sell it.

I chose this pedal (without trying it) because it was the cheapest one with an expression pedal, though you'll only really use the pedal for the wah or possibly the phaser, so don't get it just for that reason!

I don't really want to labour the point about the sound quality towards the high notes or the silence when changing effects but they really do let this pedal down.

As I've said before it's good for beginners but you should definately try before you buy! This applies to everything of course.

Good value for money, but you'd be better off spending more.

The sound is amazing! The editing patches are easy to use, but I found that the instruction manual was a little difficult to understand being that this was my first effects board. The loop function still won't run for me, it seems that the manual does not go deep enough into instructions on how to run the loop and sample effects, which is very disappointing considering that was one of the main reasons I purchased the unit.

I'm playing with a fender strat and marshall amp, and I have to say, other than the difficult loop function, the effects are great! The flanger and delay effect sound just like some 311 songs I enjoy playing. The feedback and fuzz effects aren't very appealing, but for the price you are paying, I think it's worth it.

It seems to be really well constructed, but I definetly would not use it on stage due to the fact that I can't even figure out how to get the loop function to work. The manual is like reading Chinese.

I've tried getting in touch with the korg company to ask for some advice and technical support on the loop effect, but it seems too hard just to find a number or a support website that will help me with any questions about the product. Very disappointing!!

I play rock, blues, and heavy metal. I think that the AX100G is a pretty good match for what I play, since I've only been playing for about a year or so. I would never buy it again, simply because there are hardly any Korg dealers in my area, and the Korg company is worthless when it comes to technical support or questions about the product. I hate that the loop function does not work when I follow the instructions in the manual. I wish that it was a little easier to use considering I am a beginnner on the effect boards. But, it is a pretty good practice unit without the loop and sample functions I guess. But it still stings when I want to loop a great riff and come over the top with a nice chord progression when I can't cause' the instruction manual obviously doesn't take me through all of the steps correctly.

Easy to use out of the box. But to get the full potential from it you need a couple of hours to read the manual. Being that it is a multi-effects pedal there is alot to lean about. Has a foot pedal and three foot switches and a one of the best guitar tuners built in.

I play two guitars, a 19760Les Paul Custom with split coil pickups and a 20030American series Fender Fat Strat HSS Hot Rodded Series. The amp is a 1979 Mesa Boogie Mark IIa. I run it through the clean channel so I get the most combnations of sounds. The preset programs are alright but where this pedal shines is when you program in your own. I have set up the sounds of a Marshall stack, SRV Blues, Jimi Hendricks and some really nice clean sounds using chourus and the reverb settings. Through a high quality pure tube amp it REALLY SOUNDS GOOD!!. I also have a Create GFX-15 practice amp and it is not bad. But if your are using a cheap or crappy amp or a crappy guitar it can only do so much. I have a digital home recording studio and I use it straight throught the mixer and it sounds good too! Other distrotion effects that I have tried this way are noisy and the distortion is bright,harsh and breaks up. This one doesn't. Also has a output control so you can plug headphones into it a use it that way. If you don't have a amp plug it into a PA and play that way. Of course it doesn't sound as good but not bad.

I had it a year with no problems.

I have been playing for over thirty years. I play a lot of different types of rock music and I get the sounds I need from it. I love the all the different amp types it has and how you can tweek them to suit your tastes. Works great directly into a mixer. My biggest complaint is it needs a on and off switch. I don't like having to unplug the guitar cord every time I have to turn it off.

The interface is quite well designed and intuitive. Most parameters are adjustable via real knobs. Good displays (two). I've marked it down to 7/10 because of the bloody awful footpedal. The FULL range of movement is less than one inch vertically at the top of the pedal which makes fine control almost impossible - FAR too coarse. Also as the unit is quite lightweight you have to be careful not to be 'heavy footed' with the pedal as you can easily rock the whole unit off the floor. Design fault:- The small switch under the footpedal tip (for starting recording etc) is set too low and you really have to either stand on it (and I mean STAND) or fix it yourself by glueing something extra lite a small square of plastic to the top of the switch. I have read lots of messages from people who have problems with the sample / recording functions that are purely down to this switch.

As someone who almost always plays clean sounds (a rarity it would seem these days), I find the only effects that get any use are the chorus (which isn't that good to be honest, a bit thin and weak and not really tweakable into anything better), the phaser - marginally better but the adjustments again let it down; you can hear the peaks of the phase sweeps more clearly than the rest of it, resulting in an almost 'pulsing' sound : _____/\__________/\___ rather than a nice progressive sweep. Flanger is ok, but nothing amazing. Reverbs are pretty good if limited in choice. I don't feel qualified to comment on the distortions as I don't use them, except to say that out of the 10 amp models available, a meagre two are provided for those of us who don't want to thrash and scream - and one of those is 'acoustic' ! So, for my particular purposes it was a poor choice of pedal. It's pretty quiet, switching is naturally silent, bypass doesn't seem to affect the tone. In terms of *useful* tones you can get from it, I'd say it takes a lot of tweaking and even then you get a feeling of 'close, but no cigar'. Some of the effects are a waste of space and do tend to add weight to my suspicion that a lot of the development was led by the marketing department - '12 million effects, 400 amp models, flashing lights !' and as a result there's a lot of junk in there to wade through (and dismiss) in order to get some good *useable* tones. I mean - who in their right mind thought ring modulation was a good tone shaping tool for a guitarist ??!!!!

Despite the plastic construction, it seems fairly bomb-proof. I've had a large drunk guy stumble and land on it, bang smack in the middle with his boot AND spilling beer on it and it doesn't show any signs of injury. It's not let me down so far (18 months). I do gig with it without a backup and I'm happy to do so.

Never dealt with them so I can't comment.

I play quite a bit of Jazz & Blues and after owning it for 18 months I'm seriously thinking of selling it. I'm sure it would sound marvellous if you are into metal and heavy distortion (and I get the feeling the designers had this type of music in mind over us oldies !), but for my use, it doesn't cut the mustard. Don't get me wrong, it's not horrible, there's a lot of stuff in there to play with, but it *is* biased toward distortion and weird fx rather than warm, fat quality tones. I need a small selection of GOOD tones that I can use live, not a hundred different types of distortions and alien noises to impress my mates with in the bedroom. In short, it's digital, and sounds it. I've played with it for hours and got some amazingly weird and wonderful noises from it, but very few are useful for a live environment and none of them give me a really good tone to inspire my practice sessions.

This is my first Multi Effect Pedal and I'm surprise that within 1 hour of usage, fiddling and reading the manual, I'm able to program and modify the thing. It couldn't get simplier. If you wanna change the ambience effect, just press the AMB button and use the 5 knobs to adjust according. the functions of the 5 buttons are clearly labelled on the board. And the values of the adjustment, such as depth and rate, are clearly shown on the electronic screen.

I'm currently using a PRS guitar with a marshall AVT20 at home. In church I use the Peavey Bandit 112 or the Fender Stage 100. Considering the money that I spent, the sounds that the unit produced are very good. I spent quite some time shopping for multi effect pedal, and I finally choose this unit. At first I was about to buy the Zooom GFX5, but it's a bit too noisy and the clean sound is not that good. I think AX100G really shine at the clean sound. Distortion wise, not bad, but for those used to using stompboxes, this may not be up to your standard, but they still sound good and very usable. Both the clean and distortion sound a bit digital, so I'm giving it a 9.

I read a lot of reviews on Harmony Central and it seem to me that a lot of reviewers will give a low Reliabilty if the unit is made of metal. I'm not sure what they do on stage, but I'm sure this unit, even though quite a lot of parts are plastic, are going to last for me. I'm not sure what they did to their pedals. Jump hard on it? Set it on fire. Throw it off the stage? I just catch no balls. :)

Oh, I bought it from a local(Singapore) shop and the name was Peace Centre. The guy was David and oh, he's a snob. He is very unhelpful, even though he tried out the sound for me to listen, but when I try it, he refuse to help me, guide me or expalin the thing to me.

In a nutshell, I think for a unit in this price range, it is great! I use many good quality stompboxes, and I must say that AX100G sound is not very far away from some and it's more convenient than using stompboxes on stage, cause with one or two steps, you are on a different sound with a different setting.

I give this product a 5 in this area because when you first take it out of the box it doesnt sound to pretty... you gotta tweak the knobs so it fits your instrument.

i gotta give it a 10 because of the distortion programs... i sat for about 2 hours trying to find the right sound and i did. i play a les paul standard and i think that all the distortion/overdrive programs are really good, you people who think otherwise are just very impatient... you need to find this babie's golden sound. On the metal distortion program i get sounds like tool. on brit stack and us hi-gain i can get such good sound! you guys just need to mess around with it until it learns to accept you.

im not sure... its made of plastic but it sure is fun for home use!

not needed (so far)

i give it a 9 because everything is really good but they could have done better on the comp line and the acoustic line

I think this pedal is very intuitive, so I give Korg a big thumbs up for design....However....

I play metal, and use Jackson soloists loaded with Duncan destroyers...but I cant for the life of me get a decent heavy crunch out of this pedal. I have tried everything and am dissapointed on this level.

easier to use than other multi effects pedals and the like, definately easier to use that that GT6 from Boss. If you read the manual its is pretty easy.

the amp styles do no tsound at all like it boasts, the brit stack setting sounds like a peavy starter amp. the only good one i used was the metal one and the tube one.

My output jack has broken twice already, and ive had it for two years. finally I said to hell with it and i eventually got myself a Line 6 POD Pro. but i had to spend 45 dollars to get the new output jack. if you are rough on it, it will break and be very annoying. and less than 3 weeks after i got it sand got into the board on it and the buttons were stuck in th down position. Now I am steering far away from delicate multi effects pedals, be cause you step in a pile of shit and then you get it on your pedal and all hell breaks loose.

i called korg to get the new peice and they gave me the run around. Call here, call there, oh thats our parts department. FUCK!!! i finally go tthe peice after 3 weeks with a broken pedal.

stay away from this thing. go with the GT6, it is harder to learn, but its all metal casing will protect it for the crap that you step in and gainst any accidental drops of it

I'm not the most experience guitarist and i haven't used any other fx pedals but i worked out how to use this within an hour and i didn't even use the manual.

Could be slightly better but it does everything i want it too and sounds good at the same time!

Very reliable. Even though it's plastic i can't see it breaking without a sledgehammer involved. I have a few effects that have changed their name by themselves somehow but if you have half a brain cell between your ears you should be able to work out whats what if the same happens to you.

Not had to deal with them.

I bought this used off ebay and the only slight problem i have had is the display going slightly wrong (As i said before). But still for the price, this is an ideal pedal for anyone on a tight budget or just a beginner! if you are thinking of buying this GO FOR IT! you will not regret it at all.

I also own a Digitech RP100 (which is for sale) and the Korg works as easy as the RP. Without the manual you'll be playing and editing within 2 hours. Reading the manual will shorten it by one hour.

I use the Korg with my Squier Strat (MIJ mid 80's) and my Epi LP with Seymour Duncan pups. My amp is a Laney LC15 all tube amp.
The presets on the AX100G all sound horrible with one or two exceptions. It takes some tweaking before they sound good.

The amp simulations are acceptable. On the RP100 they did sound a little bit better (default) and brighter, but the Korg does produce some wonderfull sounds. It takes more tweaking to make the amps sound convincing but in the end they sound more realistic than on the RP (not too digital).

The cabinet sims are excellent! On the RP they sounded muffled but the Korg it makes the sound come alive.

Most of the effects are good too. Chorus, flanger etc sound very good and so do most of the reverbs. The delay however sounds like crap.
The wah really surprised me! I did not expect it to sound as good as it does because on the RP it sounded very bad. It responds good to the pedal. One thing I miss is a way to delete the unnecessary effects like Ringmodulation... who would ever use that?

So far I've tried to get the sounds of three of my favorite guitarists (SRV, Santana and Gary Moore). SRV was quite difficult to get right. This patch still misses some brightness and will need some more tweaking. Gary Moore was easier and sounds very good. The Carlos Santana sound I got with the amp sim set to heavy metal and turning the gain way down. This gave me the perfect "Samba Pa Ti" sound that I was unable to get on my RP100. This is propably the closest I will ever get with my gear trying to emulate any guitar hero and brings a smile to my face every time I select this patch.

Is the AX100G noisy? Only on high gain sounds but that is kinda normal on any device. Real amps tend to produce noise on those settings too. The noise reduction on this device is acceptable, not brilliant.

Although it is made of plastic it is quite strong. I don't think it will last if you do a lot of gigging but I don't do gigs...
I use it as a practicing tool in my living room and for that it is strong enough.

never dealt with em...

I bought this to replace my RP100 that I bought for headset practicing. Although it sounded good enough for me I bought the Korg. The RP100 does not have a CD input and I like to play along with CD's. For this the AX100G is a very good tool. It does have a lot more features than the RP100 and it sounds as good as and sometimes better.

If stolen or lost I think I'll buy it again if I could find another used one.

The AX100 has really nice sound and some awesome effects I hadn't heard elsewhere. I didn't have to read the whole manual to operate unit which is a blessing as I think I suffer from ADD. Just press the button by the effect type and tweak using the knobs, hit write once check location and hit write once more and it's stored. Much easier than that Digitank junk Mayan code.

Tom Anderson Classic gtr, AX100 and a real '57 twead Fender Deluxe are my rigs other components. I have some favorite simple classic FX, but I'll step out with some more ellaborate FX too like the intelligent pitch shifter, feed-backer, filter and slow attack.
I play in a funk/ nu-metal/ rock/ jazz group with keys, bass, drums & sax. Material and influences from Tower of Power, J. Brown, STP, Steely Dan And Whitesnake.
The distortions, compression, phase shifter, chorus/ flng, delays and reverbs are amazing compared to Digitech's RP series.
Gain structure and noise reduction are easy to understand and use on this unit, I've never had any noise generated by the proccessor.
2 programable drive and EQ setting per program... neat.

It has refused to die, so far.
In the past I've bought $200-ish proccessors and destroyed them on stage after 14 or so months, this 1 will be 3 yrs old this year.

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I don't want to play dry all night, I gotta have sounds, the AX100 is a really fine sounding little box.
I have incorperated some of this boxes tricks (feed-backer & intlgnt ptch shft) so I'd have to buy another unit if it is stolen.
The cable router is brilliant, this keeps my cable free from the exp pedal, also an LED display next to the exp shows the current exp pdl's position. Phrase looper is handy even if it is just 6 or 8 seconds, backward gtr is cool.
I compared to Digitech which I've owned before, Digitech's RP series besides lacking the AX100's features, lacked "TONE" brittle and hard, though it did have a metal chasis. Roland / Boss had the ME-30 or 33 at the time, it just didn't seem as easy or sound any better for more $.
The rhythm patterns sound better than the competitors.

you've gotta pay attention to the manual when you try to understand all the capabilities of this device! that means slowly and systematically read from page 1 to the end with the device in hand (under foot)...it's reasonably complicated and challenging to figure out, but gratifying when you do know all the features

there are obviously alot of sounds here...primarily i bought this to use for the sound effects in a shakespeare play (worked nicely for that, especially the ring modulator with the pedal)...this device is similiar to the digitech rp100 in most of its features except that it seems like the rp100 overall has more treble response (clarity, presence?) and a few more and better rock drum patterns, but then doesn't have the feedbacker, backwards guitar sound, or the 8 ro 16 second endless loop sound sampling capability which you can play over (if you use these features)...the feedbacker is kind of cool, but i doubt whether you'll use this much after you satisfy your curiosity upon hearing it (there's a slight delay before a hit note sustains and then begins feedbacking)...as a beginning intro to the world of guitar effects, you probably can't go wrong with one of these, but in short time you'll find that you really prefer to only use one or two effects anyway, hence the natural evolution (devolution?) to a few, choice stompboxes

only had it a short time...i don't think it's gig-worthy though...plastic constuction looks and feels reasonably durable playing in your bedroom with your shoes off, but not for stage use...pedals are too small anyway

a nice little multi-effects device that is a good gift or intro to the world of guitar effects processor sounds, it's got them all...check out the korg website for a nice video demonstration...remember this is plastic, not metal...and the built-in expression pedal is definitely too small for serious gigging, let alone bedroom use...the unit is not heavy or stable enough for that small pedal, the unit tends to tip when you use the small pedal...for the life of me i don't know why they bother building a too-small pedal into a unit like this...offering it as a plug-in like on the rp-100 is a better way