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.

N/A

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

I really like this pedal. there is so much you can do with it. Editing patches is pretty simple. the manuel sux bad though, i pretty much had to figure everything out myself.

I have an Ibanez GAX70 my effects chain is, guitar==>Fender PT-10 pedal tuner==>Toneworks AX100G==>Boss DS-1==>Danelecto 'rish and chips' equalizer==>Fender Princeton Chorus. I haven't experienced any really bad hissing or humming sounds. some effects are useless, others i couldn't live without. I really like the 'Priest' distortion. The wah is very nice. good phaser, phlanger. chorus is decent, i use the one on my amp. I don't like the Acoustic Simulator. the 'vintage' setting gives a nice light distortion in my opinion. I can't get the loop/sample function to work, but apparently it can be easly fixed by the looks of the other reviews. I really like the drum patterns. my band doesn't have a steady drummer, so it works ok as a drummer.

I've had mine for about 8 months. its never broken down or anything. from what i can tell, its pretty sturdy, even though its plastic. just don't jump on it. i've stomped mine pretty good and it hasn't hurt it. I've played about 3 or 4 gigs with it and it works fine. I don't need a backup

Haven't dealt with them

I play mostly Alt. rock and melodic metal and stuff like that, I wish it had a program with more of a metallica/megadeth sound. but this pedal works very well for me. I've been playing almost 3 years. if it were lost, i think i would buy another one. my music writing has definatly got better due to the drum machine. This is a great multi-fx for the $. buy it.

The unit Is very easy to use, but that's because there arn't too much parameters, some effects don't have parameters at all like the wah pedal for example... and volume pedal.
Editing pathes is done by turning the knobs while the current paramter is activated, this will switch to manual mode and after editing you just hit the write button and everything is saved. very easy.
The manual is great, short, staight and direct, but it is not needed too much.

Good sound are hard to ge when the possibilities are great, in this device the possibilities are very few so you get the sounds it offers.

You van choose the drive amp that comes with a 3 band EQ and that's it.

I Used An Ibanez RG550 guitar through the AX100G to the Input of a crate G60XL and a marshall Valvestate I 40W.

The effect unit is a little noisy on high gains and compressor effect, noise gate reduces there sounds along with your guitar signal...
Effects are OK, but again they have a few parameters.

This units get's no artists sound...
Distortions are mostly bad, only 2 of them are good.
cab simulator is really bad.
NR is bad.
Peadal Wah is good.

I wouldn't use it in a gig because when you change patch it mutes for a sec and your sound is cut off.

No. I wouldn't use it at a gig at all, somtimes when you press the next patch button it skips a patch and goes to the second next patch.

Pedal doesn't always work!!! it's like the software is stuck and you have to reset the pedal effect. I.E. turning it off and on.

Plastic Made.

Never delt with them.

I play Rock, Blues and Andy timmons style of music.
It does all styles it's good for a beginner, so is the price.

Interesting thing, i found some kid to buy it from my, he paid me 250$.
100$ gain for me.

Next unit will be boss gt-6,3

Very Easy, editing is easy

What i use most the distortions are good, solid but i think they could be better like more metal, i wanted a more metal sound kind of Megadeth . its noisy a little ,not too much. Like i said some effects are good like the NiN distortion changed to metal.Also the Sampler is very good for metal.my amps are a peavey envoy 110 and a avt100 marshall. the Satch(satriani) effect is very good very clear and with good harmonics.
But what i play is True Metal(Iron Maiden,Helloween,Megadeth,Gamma Ray etc..)not the crap like Korn,papa roach etc....

DONT USE IT ON A GIG BECAUSE ITS PLASTIC
THE THING IS VERY SENSIBLE ,TAKE CARE OF IT YOU CAN BREAK OR SOMETHNG LIKE THAT VERY EASY.

THEYRE NOT HELPFUL BECAUSE I LIVE IN MEXICO AND THEY ARE IN THE FU... JAPAN OR KING KONG IN CHINA ..!!1

Ibeen playing electric for more than 3 years im looking forward to buy a BOSS maybe the GT-6 ,because for giging i need some real, ready to rock,unbreakable stuff. I Play Heavy Metal,Classic Rock,and crap commercial songs that i have to play with the band of my school..if i lost it well i do lost it already BECAUSE THE DAMN THING ONLY WORKED WITH THE AC POWER SUPPLY FOR A YEAR,AND NOW ONLY WORK WITH BATTERIES

The board is easy to use for the most part... but requires major tweaking to make any of the effects sound good.

I use a Marshall amp w/ an assortment of guitars.

The AX100G isn't really "noisy" or anything, it's just not clear sounding. It has a weak bite to it. I love the Nine Inch Nails distortion... it actually sounds high quality. The Jazz setting has a nice ring to it... tho most of the effects are not up to my standards.

I doubt I'd use it for a gig due to the plastic and the chance of moving a dial and screwing up the whole setup.

Never dealt with them.

I play all types of music in my 13 years of playing... and this just isn't what I was looking for. If you're a beginner or intermediate player this could be just what you're looking for. The value is very good however. In sound equipment... we all know... you have to pay for great stuff usually. This however, is a fantastic value.

Without using the Manual I managed most of the Functions within a few Hours. Very Good, ´cause it is very easy to handle! Like others mentioned before, there is a Hook with the Sample/Loop Funktion! The Pedal´s Rubber doesn´t get deep enough to touch the switch for
starting the Recording Mode. I thought about fixing it with Tape or so, but now I just put up the Pedal and use my little Finger to do this.

I gave it a 9, because of the Volume and the Acoustic and Compressor Sounds that could be much better. For working with Amps the Volume is o.k., but over Headphone the Level is simply not loud enough. And who needs such things as a damn Ring Modulator? They could have spared it and put in something better instead. Same is with the Maj, Min, 4th crap. For me it´s absolutely useles. Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Reverb, Slow Attack and Wah Effects are pretty o.k., but simply no High Class.
I also found that the Cabinet Simulator cuts a lot of Dynamic. So I don´t use it.
On the other Hand the Distortion Sounds are really great, for that I would give it a 10! It lasted a Day, but then I found the Clou getting wonderful Crunchy Sounds out of it.
My Strat started singing and I found myself playing Hours and Hours to a Drum Groove. PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO WORK WITH THIS MACHINE!!! Then you can get real good Sounds that are much more powerful than from many other Multi-FX. Don´t get fooled by the Preset Patches. They mostly sound bad, but the AX100G can do a lot more! Try these: (best Result with Strat-type Guitars, Bridge & Middle PU – Uuh, sometimes better than Sex…) And Guys, have a Look at the WAH DWN! THIS is the Key for a lot more Harmonics to create good clean and crunchy Sounds, ´cause it gains the higher Frequencies:
1.) Amp: Brit. Stack, Gain: 2.7, Treble: 5.3, Mid: 5.3, Bass: 6.0, Level: 7.0, Mod: Wah Dwn 100 (Depth: 0.0) !!! , Pedal Volume: 100, Amb: Room 2 (Value:100), Cabi: (OFF), NR: 6.3, Prog. Level: 100.
2.) If you want more Patches – feel free to contact.
One thing is also better than with many other Products: The AX100G sounds VERY good on nearley every Device – I tried it on Amps, active Computer Sound System, HiFi – it sounds perfect with all of them!
This is a Problem with Toneworks PX2, PX3 Stuff (I like these little crackers): They sound cool on Headphones or Mixer, but not on a Amp. So the AX100G is perfect for Beginners even with small Amps etc. The Drumsounds are a much better than the Pandora´s. It´s fun to play with.
By the Way: I use a Fender Stratocaster Special Edition (Tex Special Pu´s), Fender Telecaster (Vintage) and a Yamaha DG100 – 212 Amp. I´m sure you can make every kind of Guitar roaring like Hell with the AX100G.

I think it will last, if you´re a bit careful. I use the AX100G on Stage too. As a Backup the Yamaha DG100 is good enough.

Not needed yet.

I´m playing 34 Years now and in my early Years I started playing a horrible Fender Type Plywood Guitar plugged in an old Tube Radio that sometimes gave me electric Shocks, ´cause it wasn´t grounded. But I couldn´t stop playing even when facing Death…Today we have the possibility to buy well priced Equipment like the AX100G, that can do so much. How Times are changing! When you are looking for a Device that produces real good Overdrive, Distortion, Crunch and clean Sounds, this must be your choice! It can even mess with the old Zoom 5000 Hybrid Pedal, that I also got! It´s perfect for all Rock, Heavy Rock and Metal Players (specially with little Money). If lost or stolen, I would buy this one or maybe the AX1500. Go and buy it too. You´ll love it!

esay to use? well in the beginning was a torture i didnt knew how to presets my sound , but in 3 days i got all the things undr control , patch edit are really easy and the posibility to saw the names of your patches is awesome

my setup ? nobody cares... its noisy , a little , but the noise reductor makes a job good , the fx: chorus is good , flanger is good , phaser is good , delay is excelent , distortions good and bad (the tube od kick ass! , i use it for a pre amp )

strong but not enougt for a wild gig or rehearsal

no dealt with korg

great for the price , can get a lot of fun with this little box! i recomend it for the beginners of the fx guitars

This unit comes out of the box with some good patches to get you up to speed quickly. The interface is pretty easy to get used to, and I don't remember if I even looked at the manual. My only complaint about operating this device is that when you switch to a preset that has different values than what are on the dials at the moment, the slightest touch of the dial will reset those values.

For some reason, this is a big problem on nearly all processors of this type. Motorized dials would be helpful, but probably too expensive for a sub-200 unit. One review I read of a similar product suggested using continous dials, so that the dials can assume any value no matter what position they're in.

I used this pedal with my Crate GFX-65 and a stock MIM Fender Standard Strat. It doesn't really work so well with my Marshall JCM900 combo, but I didn't expect it to either. It makes a loud "crack" on startup (so turn your amp on afterwards) but once operational it's pretty quiet.

It takes tweaking, but I like almost all of the FX in this box. The "Satch" preset is great, and perfect for wailing away on Summer Song or Surfing With The Alien. The sounds are good enough to make you experiment with other sounds and styles of playing.

I would give it a 9 or 10, but it claims to be great for DI recording, and this is simply not the case. The cab models are nice, but only for making a small amp feeling a little bigger, not for making a DI recording sound authentic.

Another small gripe is the delay between switching presets. Having not used any other digital processors, I suspect that this is a fault of all digital FX, but I can't say for sure. It makes this unit ineffective for guitarists who like to switch patches or drive channels on the fly--there's a gap of silence that really kills the effect.

Another thing to note is that when it gets low on batteries, the sound gets real crappy for an hour or so before the batteries actually die.

This is my one big gripe, and the reason I am even bothering to leave a review. The unit is sturdy, and has taken a pounding, but...

The unit does not have an on/off switch!! It turns on either when it has batteries and a guitar is plugged in, or when you plug in AC current. This is a minor inconvience by itself, but at the rate which it chews batteries, it's absurd not to package an AC adapter with the processor.

I picked the best fitting plug that I could find at RadioShack, but the way the inside of the connector is made, when the plug wiggles or shifts, it resets the processor, making this thing impossible to use for more than a few minutes at a time, and that is why I really hate this unit and will not buy anything from Korg for a very long time after this. If it got stolen, I would be glad to have gotten rid of it.

Never bothered calling them.

I like lots of different style of music, but when it comes to writing and recording I generally find myself sounding punk or alternative with some bluesy/funky elements thrown in.

This thing was fine for my level of playing at the time, but as I say, the batteries/adapter situation led to my resenting the unit, and that delay in switching effects made it unusable for a number of songs I want to play. I bought this after I had playing an electric for about 1 1/2 to 2 years. I'm now at a little over three and I have really outgrown this thing.

These days, I'm just using my JCM-900 with a mike to record on to a 2nd hand portastudio, and I'm doing far better with it than the old DI method I was using with this thing.

A beginner with lots of batteries could definitely get milage out of this thing though.

Excellent, Have not read the manual yet, worked the interface out in about half an hour. Editing patches was simple after getting some presets from the internet and running them, this is all you need to do with this unit to understand how to use it. Though i will admit , i get great sounds from the factory presets and these are what i use .

Im running a Samick Artist series Les Paul. straight into the unit and then out to my PC which is equipped with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
Noise is a problem if you dont tweak every point in your music chain. But once you have your git, fx box and pooter all sorted you can happily go from a phaser to a chorus to a crunchy distored sound without having to re-tweak. This helps big time, as it would piss me off too much to have to re-tweak from effect to effect.
Ive managed to emulate most of my fav players with this box (and a bit of help from my pooter. got a ripping nirvana patch, a very accurate pantera patch, and my green day covers have never sounded so good.

if you play around with it you will get what you sound you are looking for.

Have not had any probs with this unit (except for the fact there is no goddamn power button, whats the deal here guys!). A strange feature of this unit is the battery slot, have not used this, but i guess some people would find some use for this. I would give ruggedness about a 6.5 out of 10, (dont stomp). but for the construction and material types used for this, i wouldnt doubt that it would last forever as long as you looked after the little guy .
I only gig with myself , and all my work is recorded to PC where i clean it up, add drum tracks etc etc. If i lost this bad boy i would definately buy another... its supreme for its price......

Have not needed to talk to korg. But this unit replaced a PX-3 that i recently purchased (see my review of the PX-3 on this site).

im mainly a metal man, and this does me just fine. Ive been playing off and on for about 10 years, but have only got serious in the last 2 years. If it were stolen apart from gouging out the bastards eyes out i would most certainly replace, buti would look at other korg units that are bigger and better to compare. If they were similair i would go with them.
I love all the FX, and i can just chop and change between great sounding FX. It keeps me playing for hours on end, as the style changes just keep you interested.

WHERES THE FUKKING POWER BUTTON???

id say that this unit has inspired endless amounts of creativity.

The manual is a crap you wont understand it until you work out how to use the thing making is pointless. Its great if you have the patience to use it and to experiement with it. After a while it becomes easy.

Ive been using a Squier strat and a peavey 158 rage and the pedal is ideal for practising with. The sounds are great to experiment with and the phaise trainer is amazing for recording backings and soloing over. The flanger and Chorus are weak which is what lets this pedal down. I can get a great sabbath tone by using classic distortion. The main effects i use are, Distortion, classic distortion, Static, flanger, chorus, bender, and overdrive.

I have had it over a year and nothing has gone wrong with it. DONT STAMP ON IT!!!! Im using a Proco rat now because you cant beat the sound of a rat by i would still use my AX100g for some stuff.

never had to deal with them!

I play mainly rock and blues, its great for what i do and is great for improving your playing. All round its a good pedal.

Easy is an understatement! I love that when you turn a know, it instantly goes into edit mode!! Yeahhhh!!! Manual was OK, but it's easier to learn by doing. My dog could program this thing. Great back-lit 7-digit display for on-stage use. Plus, the tuner is sooooo much better then the one on the lower-priced Korg AX1G. I also own that one, for now. Can you say eBay?

I'm using this through a '92 Les Paul Studio and a Peavey Express 112S. Love the Metal, US Hi-Gain & the Marshall, oops, "Brit Stack" settings. I did not notice the noise some guys are talkin' about. Flanger is a bit weak, as well as the Chorus, but if you want every single effect to be killer, go spend a grand on 10 seperate stomp-boxes. I for one, will not. Most effects are good to very good, but some suck. What the heck is "Ringman" supposed to emulate? I love using the "Bender", because I refuse to put a Floyd Rose on my Les Paul. The "Bender" absolutly SUCKED on the AX1G.

Only had this thing a week, & I'm still trying to get an Eddie Van Halen sound(Pre-1984). I want the EVH sound for my cover band, but I'm looking for a good hard-rock sound for my original stuff, and easily found it by noodeling around for a while. I tried in vein to get a good sound with the AX1G, to no avail. If you can help with a old VH patch, e-mail me at kng1994@yahoo.com....

COMPLAINT: The presets seem to cater to the modern "rock" crowd. C'mon, Nine Inch Nails, Kid Rock????

It's plastic, but seems solid. Although you work it with your feet, your not supposed to STAND on it!! Duhhhh!

Don't know...

I LOVE THIS THING!!I'm a 80's metalhead, & this works real well for me. Been playing 10+ years, did the stomp-box thing, & recently moved on to multi-effect processors. I also have the Korg AX1G, and this runs circles around it. Love the drives, Bender, back-lit display & the tuner. Some pre-set's are worthless(to me). Would it kill them to put an on/off switch on it? Plus, the main volume is a pain because it's on the back panel. Shame! Overall, a great pedal, at a good price. If it were stolen, I'd hunt down the low-life, tape his head to my amp, and play on 11 for an hour and a half. Then, I'd f**k his girlfriend while he's still taped to my amp.

Well let me say this.....I got it today, and I think I've got it down......took about an hour of fiddling with, but it's VERY user freindly. If you've used multi-effects before, you already have an idea. And if not, it won't take long.

The effects are crystal-clear. I especially like the cabinet simulation. Very cool. ALL KINDS of effects to choose from. If you got all the Boss single pedals, daisy-chained together, you would have about 2 grand worth of boxes in front of you. And the AX100G sounds just as good. It has some pedal modeling in it, so you do get some "Boss" sounding stuff anyway....like on the metal distortion, modeled after the Boss Metal Zone MT-2. Phaser is trippy, Flanger warps your mind, Delay is Floyd-y....what more can you ask for? How about 50 or so more crystar clean efffects!! One option turns your electric into an acoustic.....Too Cool!! In a word or two.....sounds awesome.

Only had the thing for a day, so we shall see, won't we.....Rugged li'l thing though. I Love Boss pedals, they're tanks, and fun to smack down on....but I think I'll ease up a bit with the AX100G.

Not a clue.

I think it's great. Awesome. Everything I've ever wanted, and so much more. The AX100g and I will be married in a quiet ceremony just outside of Maui.......did I just say that?

This is the easiest to use people. Toucj any dial and you are in the programming mode.....it is so easy that i can make a patch on stage b/w any 2 songs. And a GOOD patch mind you..Manual isnt good. Join the korg ax100g elite at yahoogroups and ask anyone any question you like and you'll get an answer the same day if not the next.

I use this with stranger amps and a guitar i designed and constructed myself...it reules. It rules in sound quality ...excellent noise reduction...name it you have it. The delay, flanger, and many more effects beat ANY other effects pedal in its price range. Trust me...my rhythm guitarist owns a 606.I KNOW.

Hmmmmmm.....be careful with this. Don not drop it. to not step on it tooooooo hard. It's great. No problems on stage. It rules. It has an excellent expresions pedal with a lot of up and down movement...looks sturdy.

This is a brilliant processor for every sort of music...not thart good for thrash metal though. You want van halen, black sabbath, megadeth, to iron maiden to marilyn manson to lightnin hopkinss to muddy waters to pink floyd to led zeppelin...it is brilliant!!!!

It is very easy to get a good Metallica, megadeth sound also the manual tells it all. even though it's that easy to control. the tuner is good even though i know the pitches off by heart.

I'm a speed metal, classical, acoustic guitarist and get all the sounds i need from this or even more the effects are top notch, because i'm thirteen you might think i like anything and had zoom stuff before and this ould eat it for breakfast i'll put it straight...ZOOM SUCK! i get great drum patterns and whammey dives and wahs. it has GREat effect even though there is some noise.

it is plastic but it will only break i you smash it around like a baseball bat it is reliable ven though i have not used it on stage.

I play metal, and classical and japanese. it has great combinations for metal and acoustic, if you dont like them you can make your own.

if it got lost yeah or stolen i get another one from the receipt...duh

i like the sounds, the presets. they could of had more wahs, I LOVE the a minor and A major and acompany guitar stuff.

i compared it to the Zoom (forgotten the model it had drum stuff on it) i tried it in the shop the zoom absoultely SUCKED! i tried this out and was a lot better. and was a bit more expensive but worth it.

More Wahs, and it should of had pickup simulaters.

yes it does help music with recorder so you can play over. also the drum thing helps ALOT!

best in it's price range

Well This is very easy to use i speak spanish and just and a little of english and u dont have to read the manual. This thing has it all in front of u this thing tells u where to clik and how to get any sound without reading the manual (also the manual is very good).TUNER IS GREAT!

I Play Metal and rock, sound is great fot its price, ive tried, zoom,and some boss pedals. This thing has abou 3 or 4 good Heavy Metal Distortions and some "NU-Metal" Ones too, i love the way the distortions sound some are powerful editing it, i use this trough a Peavey 110 envoy (amp sucks) but with the AX100G this thing sound amazing! Also My amo does a lot of ssssshhss that anoyying sound ,like if it were very old, but the AX100G solves the problem!!

Well its built of plastic but its still strong,if u use the wah pedal and u are fat, please dont ride and jump over the damn thing !! treat it nice and it will respond well! Ive used it about 3 times on stage it works well specially the tuner is EASY TO USE!

never deal with them

I ve Been playing for 3 years My style is Heavy-Speed Metal and rock not that Nu Metal crap.I PLay solos with this thing and they sound very good. I will cry if i lost it! :(
If it were stolen i wouldnt buy it again, Id buy the AX1500 cause its the same but built more strong.One thing i dont like its that it doesnt have a power switch i cant believe it! but its ok.
I have 2 years with it and still work great

It's easy to create your own sounds with this thing and editing couldn't be easier. The only problem I had was with the Loop/Sampler effect, but I fixed it with a sticker. The manual tells you all you need to know (well not about the little switch under the pedal).

I use guitars like my Ibanez GSA60 and a couple of Washburns and mostly headphones and a Rocktron 2x12 (and sometimes my Laney HC30R amp, but I don't like the sound of it).

It's sad that there's often too much noise in the sound because otherwise this pedal is very good. Adding the noise reduction kills the sustain and whenever there is too much noise reduction the sound is pretty crappy.

I also think that there should be more drive amps because the sounds are get a bit boring after 5 months. Some people have been complaining about the distortion and saying that it's weak. Luckily I found a way to get a relly thick, phat and cool sound:
DriveAmp: Metal, US hi-gain or brit stack
Modulation: Flanger, speed min, depth min and feedback max.
Then adjust treble, middle and bass as you wish. I prefer lots of bass, almost no middle and 5-7 treble. Some amplifiers don't like these settings tho, because there is wayyy too much bass and the amp starts to create resonance if you play it too loud (that's one reason I like to use headphones).
The clean sounds are pretty good, almost no noise except when using the acoustic drive amp.

I have used the phase trainer a couple of times. For example learning to play Korn's Falling Away From Me (well the beginning) and creating the right sound took only 10 minutes or so. I also got the sound of 3 Doors Down's Better Life. Haven't used it since.

Almost all the effects are pretty good, but there are still many that are totally useless. Filter, phaser, flanger, loop/sample and delay are at the top of my list (not in that order).

One reason why I bought the ax100g was the possibility to jam along the drum beats. Beats are quite limited but they're OK for practicing alone.

I can totally depend on it and yes I would use it on a gig without any backup.

I play many styles of music, mostly nu-metal and some funky tunes. This effect pedal is all I need. if it were stolen, I'd propably buy the V-amp II or a couple of separate effect pedals like smash-box and autowah from Ibanez. I like the easy editing and the variety of effects and I like the fact that I can use it with headphones without an amplifier.

read the manual to get the best results quickly.

fender strat/ vox and peavey amps

the only problem i have had is the loop/sampler.
i was having so much fun playing with the unit, even though
the rhythms are pretty limited, that i just thought i was
missing something from the manual when these didn't work.
on checking i found the microswitch under the toe of the expression
pedal was set too low. korg offered to adjust the pedal but i have
simply put six or seven layers of adhesive tape on the rubber pad just over the switch. it now only needs minimal pressure to work.

see above. amazing.

With some tweaking you get some nice sounds. I am messing again with the distortions, which is difficult. The editing is easy and fast due to the knobs, but you gotta take a day off (or skip a night like I did) to get all this. You are lost without a manual.

No noise if you use the noisegate. some fx are good like the delays, reverbs and the cabinet sim. Though the distortions need a lotta work. There's a lot to adjust and if you use the thing exclusively for practice and writing and you are retired, you can get like most sound that you need. Great fx? = up 2 U! I am pleased. I could never come close to my favorite's cuz they use $100.000's of equipement and I don't so I don't bother.

Yes you can depend on it... if you take off your shoes before operating it. I would never use this at a gig, cuz that's not what's this intended for.

Never dealt.

I play about everything I like. The music I don't like I don't play (wow, I got that figured out). I would not buy it again cuz I hope that it lasts 'till I can afford a GNX1 or GT6 or whatever. I consider it I good deal for what you get but I have to get this off my chest: ALL MUSIC EQUIPEMENT IS WAY TOO EXPENSIVE!!! It helps me make music, otherwise I'd have left it in the store. One more thing:
IS THERE A PATCH DATABASE AVAILABLE ON THE NET??? If you know a place e-mail me please. ZOOM and Digitech users both got a userspage... Why don't we? Oh and you can safely buy this thing, it is good but don't expect miracles for this price 'kay?

Update***READ THIS***READ THIS***READ THIS***READ THIS***READ THIS***As I mentioned before there are no newsgroups for the AX100G, NOW THERE IS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/korgAX100Gelite/ so owners please subscribe or at least check it out

Very simple layout, intuitive and quick to get around on. Editing is a breeze although depth of editing is limited but acceptable for a multiprocesser in the AX100g. The manual is probably unnecessary to anyone who has used an effects processor but the information is brief and acceptable.

The chorus effect is near useless having an ill defined sound and not much diversity, the acoustic modeler and feedback effects work to a degree. On a humbucking guitar it will take a lot of work to tweak a sound that will get somewhat like an acoustic guitar, if you have coil taps or single coil guitars you will fare better, still, it's not a very convincing acoustic sound although it does sound good. I use a sustainer equipped Fernandes Revolver Pro. The sustain and harmonic sustain of the guitar is a great feedback solution. The effect in the AX100g is not very convincing although it might be useful to others. The delays are uninspired to very good, the same with distortion and the physical modeling sections. My main dislike is the fixed structure of effects and limitation of what effects can be used. The sound is good but the Korg pedalboards are inflexible which is a major downside.

Well built, seemingly dense plstic casing although the expression pedal has minimal travel. The buttons and knobs are somewhat fragile although they held up fine. I'm not gigging right now but if I was I'd be comfortable using the AX100g without a backup.

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I play a variety of music and enjoy strange little noises. They often find their way onto recordings. To a degree the AX100g does a good job in this respect. I have a dedicated looper so I don't use that feature. Other reviewers had mixed opinions. Compared to the Boss ME-33 which was about $30 more expensive the AX100g held it's own on some timbres such as distortion. If you don't have a amp modeler and don't want to invest in one you won't be disappointed. In the end the routing of effects were a limitiation I didn't want to work with. NOTE: the AX1500g is more of everything but has the same effects routing. If you don't like how it works on the AX100g then you probably won't want to bother with it. It's too bad about Korg's decision of limitiations on their effects processors. If the AX100g was a bit more flexible it would be a favorite. Even with the issues I've noted it's worth it's price. One boutique stompbox costs more and isn't necessarily better sounding.

It's pretty easy to get a good sound out of it, because you dial in a amplifier model and the rest is just the same as a normal amplifier (gain, treble, middle, bass and level/volume). And choosing effects is just as easy. So editing is very easy. The manual is good, learns you what all the knobs mean. But the AX100G is easy to handel enough to operate it without manual.

I'm using two aria pro II 35 watt amplifiers with it. This means one on the left channel and one on the right (it has a stereo output). And I play an Epiphone les paul standard on it. FX are pretty good, also wah-wah wich is normally not so good on multiFX. FX may be not as good as a bunch of individual stomp boxes but well for the price you pay? The only comment I have is the gap (no sound for a 1/4 second or so) between switching patch,fx or amp model It's not so noisy not more than a normal amp except for the aucoustic modeling (but I never use it). It is pretty easy to get an sound of your favorite artist because of the 9 amp models. Doesn't really matter what style you're playing.

It's plastic, but still solid enough to play live (even without a backup). You shouldn't roll tanks over it nor should you jump on it. But with normal use. It does it's job well.

Never dealt with them.

I play mainly metal + rock. For about 1,5 years. But I guess the AX100G would do well for more experienced players. It's a lot cheaper than a pile of stom boxes and a ten meter high stack of amplifiers.
For me it is definatly good enough. I don't asume that I will buy any fx for the upcoming years. So if it where stolen I would buy another one.

Get a good sound is easy with plant effects. Editing patches is easy. The manuel is complete.

Ok, now i'll be subjective. I like this unit because it gives a lot of choices. I considered the RP200 first, and then this unit gave me a best impression.

Just I don't know how to use SAMPLE and LOOP but that's now a reference :).

I use my Ibanez GSA60(huh...) and my Norman B15(yeah) as guitars a and little combo amp that came with the Ibanez guitar(IBZ10). For the little time I use it, it is not so noisy. The Echo is great and you can add a lot of overdrive. The fun is also to simulate pedals like BOSS(one effect). you can change drive-amp during playing.

I can depend on it. a plastic-metal combination is ok for this.

never

I play LedZep, Pink Floyd, jazz, blues, rock'n'roll, a lot of things and it is perfect...The phrase trainer is utile to play with yourself.

Pretty easy. Lots of effects and cab sims. I like the acoustic sim, but it can be noisy if you're not careful. Very easy to program and save patches. Also easy to use the rhythm and drum tracks. Please note: when using the loop or sample functions, you really have to press hard on the expression pedal. It's not clear from the documentation.

My rig: Ibanez S540 w/ Dimarzio P/Us, Morley Bad Horsie II, Boss DriveZone, AX100G, Fender Princeton 65. The sound quality is quite good. Actually, I was surprised at how good the clean, acoustic, and compressor sounds are. I'm not totally impressed with the distorions. They are ok, but be careful when cranking up the gain. You can get some nasty feedback. Otherwise, the sound is really great. When you consider the price, it's maybe the best value and sound for the dollar.

I've been a Boss guy all my life. So, I'm a little nervous about how long it will last. However, the case looks pretty sturdy. The pedals and knobs are decent looking. I'm not too worried.

Very nice. I mentioned the LOOP and SAMPLE problem with the pedal. I contacted tech support via e-mail, and I got a response in 2 hours! That might not be typical, but it was nice to see they do check and are quick to respond.

I am very impressed that Korg was able to cram so much functionality into this thing for the money. Not being a pro and as an electrical engineer, I can appreciate simple design at a good price. If you want better, you'll spend at least $400, and you won't get that much more than you'll get with this. IMO, it's AX100G or an expensive rack-mount system. Anything in between is a waste.

The supplied patches were OK but a lot of dodgy ones floating around in there but some really useable one.

I didn't understand fully how to use it at first but as soon as I looked through the manual a bit I understood it but now that I understand how it works the patches are easy to edit.

It contains 80 patches (40 fixed and 40 programmable) and approx 63 FX. Some really dodgy but some actually quite good.

`01 Gibson LP Studio > Korg AX100G > Marshall AVT100

When it's used clean on my amp there's no background noise at all but when I bypass it and use my amp's overdrive there's an extreme amount of background noise (especially on OD2) and it really annoyed me.

Some of the FX are pretty weak especially the acoustic simulator which gives you a lot of background noise. The ring modulator and echo effect are both pretty useless but ok if you're bored. The rest of the FX are ok.

I don't think I can really depend on it too much but it seems sturdy enough. I doubt I'd gig without a back up but I'm not a big FX guy and my on stage setup is kept simple with the guitar running straight to the amp.

Never delt with them

I play anything from Classical to Metal and some of the FX suit me fine when I can't get the sound I want from my amp but whenever I plug this in I either start flipping through the FX for half an hour screwing around and then disconnect it or I use the built in metronome to improve my timing.

I've been playing almost 2 years now and if it was stolen I'd beat the bastard but I wouldn't replace it.

Things I love about it: Some pretty good distortions in there and some of the FX are high quality for a multi FX.

Things I hate about it: Some of the FX are weak and unuseable and the background noise when Used with my amps OD channels when it's on bypass is VERY annoying. I just wish that it had true bypass but when do you ever see a multi-fx unit like that?

I don't highly reccomend this effect as I rarely use it but I'm gonna try and use it a bit more but at the end of the day my amp's enough without it although I use the wah a lot. I'd try it out before you buy otherwise you might be a bit disappointed like I was.

in the case that this is one of the new multifx it is very easy to edit patches etc. because of the knobs you have the feeling as if you were working on an amp. much more easier than editing subtree menus with one or two knobs on some other pedals.
manual is ok for first steps.

it sounds really good. best multifx for that few money. if you own amp sucks buy the korg and it'll sound much better than you thought that it could.

it's made of hard plastic and a metal backsite. if you don't want to break it you won't...

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playing rock, punk and so on this pedal is great. nice sounds, expression pedal included, all the effetcs I need (delay, flanger, chorus). I'd buy it again. it's better than the zoom gfx 707. and the distortion sound smuch better than the ones on the boss me 60.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it?
*In reference to multifx, this one is easy to get a good sound out of it. I spend about less than 10mins to create one nice patch of my own taste and it really satisfying.

How about Editing patches?
*As said above

How is the manual for it (if there is one)?
*The manual is short and explains little, but enough for all of the basic functions, only thing is i still can't get the looper to work, the manual is real bad for the looper.

What setup (i.e. what guitars and amps) are you using this with?
*I use this with a Johnson 30 watt solid state practice amp and Yahama EG303 guitar.

Is it noisy? On what settings?
*With distortion and modulation effects like flanger, this can get a little noisy, but i just have to turn on the Noise Reduction and all the noise are gone. Now i make fun of my other guitarist in the band who uses a noisy Metal Zone, because i can get better distortion sound than his MT-2 and i can let go of my hands and experience no noise at all.

Are the effects weak or do they always sound great?
*As i have said ealier, i can get better distortion sounds than my friend's metal zone. Why? That's because i feel that the metal distortion on this unit is warmer than the MT-2. And i have to disagree on all those below who said the acoustic effect suck. The ACOUSTIC SIM IS REAL GOOD, all of my friends have praised that my acoustic effect is wonderful. ONE REMINDER is you have to use this unit in high volumes. I use it on normal jamming volumes where i turn my volume of my 30 watt amp 3/4 to max (note that the bass, mid and treb on your amp is also important to get a good sound). If you use it in normal bedroom volumes, then all the acoustic and chorus effect will sound bad, because the volume is too soft! This unit has a tendency that the disotortion patches are too loud and clean pathes are too soft. What i do is i turn down the volume of all those distortion patches so that it will match the volume of the clean sounds.

There's a tricky part when using the chorus. Don't expect to sound with good chorus just by turning a few knobs. You need to add some ambience effect like Delay and very important: The cab sim, i always use 4X12 cab sim with depth at 4 and instantly, the chorus effect became real amazing. I spent about 20mins just to tweak the chorus to my liking, there are so many knobs to tweak, spend your time tweaking and i assure you can get astonishing results.

I use it on a gig and it works 100% well. No problem at all. And yes, i use battries just in case myself or my other band member accidently trip the wire and i won't lose my unit.

I got a one year warranty and the shop who sold me this is quite friendly and helpful. Never dealt with Korg though.

Seriously, i'm truly amazed how good this thing sounds and at such a cheap price, what else can i say? If you are looking for a cheap and good multifx, give this a go, you won't be disappointed.