Korg AX10G

They guy in the shop hooked up a guitar and an amp, and about 5 seconds later I had my Death in Vegas (Aisha), my Marillion and my Pantera. Easy: it's harder to trip over your own shoe laces...

Running a good ol' Les Paul and a couple of Marshall amps. If you turn the noise reduction up then you won't hear the hiss except when you've just muted the whole thing.

You have to remember that many of the factory preset effects are set to a low depth - so a cursory glance might not do this little modeller justice. Check out the square wave tremolo (you must have heard Nancy Sinatra: Bang Bang) or the rotary speaker if you want to find yourself smack in the middle of a favourite song. The ambient effects seem like a bit of a cheap add-on when you read them, but apply with subtlty and you can really add an extra level to the sound, especially when you're recording.

It looks a bit dainty, but c'mon - this thing is solid state and in a gig you'll be using your pre-programmed banks so it won't matter if a knob flies off...

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I've been playing guitar for about 9 mnths, electric for about 4 weeks. This pedal is great for trying out some new sounds and getting a feel for what is available. Do *not* get the AX1000G - it's a poor shadow of the AX10G.

This is my first multi effects and damn, this thing is awesome, dude!....editing is just eaSY as 123...well, i really don't rely much on the manual. it's just boring....i like discovering things up

sound is great especially when i use heavy distortion then clean tone of acoustic with modulation or comp, it just sounds like metallica and pantera.....my amp i use is just a Yamaha F20 but it still sounds like the big ones

i already used it one time in a big event in school and no problem! things went well very good except for the hizzing sound whenever i turned it to distortion because I haven't yet discovered the NR(noise reduction) at that time....i even used it on my cd sample which i recorded on a certain software and it sounds like the real ones.

I play heavy metal music and and it fits exactly! even clean tones and acoustic simulation is near perfect...it just made my original compositions sounds better and more artistic.....i love everything it does......it's a great buy. worth it.
it's been with me for less than 2 months and no problems yet...i'm upgrading now, i just purchased my new AX1500G (eventhough this is older than AX10G) and I'm selling my AX10G now......it's small but it sounds huge and freakin' heavy \m/...hell yeah!!!

Yes it is OK, just got it today so still getting to grips with it... actually that is rubbish, anyone with hands can get used to it... editting patched is OKish, although occasionally changing off the compressor makes it blurt out feedback garbage and white noise...

Oh goodness!!! This is a rocker, real valve tone form real valves??? Vox go overboard with their pedal, this is solid state and I couldn't tell the difference! All the distortions are useable even when they don't produce a very high gain on "full whack" your guitar feedbacks like nothing on earth... and the modulations are OK, Univibe, rotating speaker, a tremolo which can be turned fully square-wave??? No probs... although the side of things is vintage and analogue, there are a few effects which are slightly more modern... "Filter" sounds like you slipped and landed on a Moog, feedback is for people who cannot make real feedback (a sort of Viagra type substitute) and "Talk" which traps your amp in a great big Jagger-esque gob!

One day and it isn't gubbed, come back in 6 months time... it took me 9 months to break a (far flimsier) Zoom 606...

Phone up to order on Saturday, get the blighter today, plug it in and start playing alongg to "The Dark Side of the Moon", unbeatable!

Good vintage/modern/retro pedal which will either become an "industry standard" or a misguided retro plaything... I hope the latter!!! keep the tones mysterious!

Very easy to use, straight forward contros. No need to read the manual really. To edit the user patches, all you have to do is set the sound you like, and press ONE button. If you do need to read the manual, it's very good. It explains eveythng in a very easy language.
On the back its got all the patches labled(what effects, what levels of effects, gain, and stuff like that.)

My setup is a HAMER SFX2, and a Marshall mg10cd. It sounds absolutely amazing! The tube amp sound is very realistic. The effects are like anologue! The tweaks always sound great, whatever they are. All effects are great(as i mentioned before). I play all rock/blues things. This baby is perfect!

Although this thing is made of plastic, it's very sturdy! I'd definately take it to a gig without a b.up. The thing is made of 5mm plastic!

No. Hope never to deal with them...

This is a very good match for the music i play(i mentioned it earlier). I've been playing ro 1 year and a half, and i'm going onto grade 5. I mentioned the gear earlier too. If it were lost my dad won't get me another one, cos he'd say that i cant look after it properly, but if it were stolen, i'd definately get the same one. I love everything about it. The expression pedal is a very good feature. The acoustic emulator is great! Very realistic! One thing i don't like: you cant really set the delay time yourself. You have to press a button a couplr o times. Its tap delay. You cant set a specific time. Now, i vever use my amp without it. It sounds soooooooooo much better with it! Amazin' little thing. I should write a song about it!!!

I'm new to amp modelling and I don't own any effects pedals but it didn't take me long to get a basic grasp of the unit. Having gone through all the factory settings I only found 2 that I actually liked (UK 80s lead and acoustic w volume pedal), I set about building my own programs and that's where the unit comes into its own for me. The manual is good enough to get the basic settings right but it's not in depth enough when it comes to setting custom delays (I still don't know how the tap button works!) and using the function button is a bit of a nightmare.

The sound is excellent in my opinion, I can't say for sure how accurate the simulations are because I haven't heard all the real amps in the flesh but they definitely give an organic valve "whoosh" and they respond to your picking as a valve amp should. My core guitar is an Ibanez Talman semi which has a fine tone as it is but when I compare the sound with the AX10G, as opposed to being plugged straight into my Marshall MG15dfx amp, the sound is so much bigger and more controllable. I do wish the unit sounded as good through my amp as it does using headphones but I know that's never going to happen. The effects sound great and there's amazing versatility, I think you could just go on forever working on new sounds.

I am a pure hobbyist, my guitar will probably never be anywhere near a stage but the unit (although plastic) seems solid enough, unless you wear cowboy boots or steel toecaps! I don't really think it's a gig weapon but for home use, it's perfect.

I've been playing for 2 years so I'm still a beginner, I play all sorts of styles but Zeppelin and Floyd are my favourites I also have a 12 string electro-acoustic which sounds amazing through the AX10g and I would certainly think seriously about buying another unit the same if I were to lose mine. I think that for the money the AX10g is just about the best value there is. In fact, in the UK since it came out, other manufacturers such as Yamaha and Zoom have had to drop their prices. Even Fender has gone into onboard effects in a big way.

If you can set the dials on a stomp box, you can use this. The manual recommends setting your patches in order - Amp, then Modulation, then Reverb/Delay(Ambience) Just like you would with any chain of effects. Editing patches is as easy as pushing a button twice! Like everyone else here, I can't see the DAMN DIALS very easily, (white print on a brushed silver dial), but big deal. If you have the knowledge to set some controls on an amp, you can figure out how to use this. Just takes a little time, that's all.

The sound quality on these effects is superb. The amp models sound really true and give you a HUGE variety of tone. It actually does give a tube type response to volume and attack on the strings. Pretty impressive. Modulating effects are really smooth and quiet. I happen to love a little phase and this gives a really rich sound. Chorus is so so....The trem effects sound good, (don't use them that much, but anyway)

Only had it a week. I take care of my shit, so I think it'll hold up. Definitely gonna gig with it.

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This unit will be very useful for me, I play Modern rock type stuff and this really gives me every effect and tone I need. For $150 this unit is DEFINITELY worth it. I actually traded in a brand new Digitech Tone Driver pedal (sounded awesome), a Cry Baby, and a DOD Stereo Chorus toward this, and I feel bad because I really don't miss them. lol

Increiblemente facil! Super easy to use. Very simple interface. The only problem is the Function button, but, once you read the manual(few pages) It becomes clear how the unit works.

I use it for practice with a Dean Avalanche MQ guitar and a Fender Frontman 25R (With reverb), I've used the unit with a Frontman Bullet amp but the reverb on the 25R lets you get more out of the AX10G because It lets me use the delay along with the reverb and let me tell you, It sounds awsome. Its not superior as my BOSS ME-33, nevertheless, when the ME-33 broke down, the AX10G did a great gob, it sounds pretty decent. You cannot do crazy sh*t like when you program the ME-33 (you can only use one effect per patch in the AX10G, as far as what I've learned about), and It doesn't sound as god as the first, but for the price I payed, I was surprised about what you can get out of this little machine...

So far so good...

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I play Pop Rock, Jazz, Ballads, Dance, etc for work, but my real passion is the heavy sh*t. You can get really cool distortions with the 70's and 80's UK's. The EQ Is usefull if you want to create nice clean sounds. Love the compressor, the wah's are + o - and when you combine the reverb of the Frontman 25R with the PP delay + 70's UK amp Dist you get a killer lead dist sound.

I'm not exactly a novice (college educated in Electronics and University in Computing) but i found this a little un-userfreindly esp the hold function button and press other buttons to get a secondary function a simple LCD menu would have been a better way round the problem.
Another gripe and a potential useableness (i made that word up :P) killer is completely unreadable dials when they are directly lit or when they are poorly lit :(

best multi-effects i've heard - i seriously rate Korg in this department (which is why i bought it), it's very near pro quality eps. when compared to the cheaper ones (Digitech/Zoom)

too new to say - no problems so far

I played around with a few before deciding on this ones Big Bro the AX1500g but got this instead as it's a) cheaper b) smaller c) mostly the same
the biggest thing i would worry about is there is no real-time delay - there are echo type effects like stereo ping-pong delay and such but no actual delay like the ones in the 1500g that delay output by upto 1s (which you either find helps you correct mistakes or not) and also there is no delay loop (to play the last thing you played in a loop) which the 1500g does upto 8s, all in all the only part missing from the 1500g is the delay effects so if you don't particularly want or need those get this instead!

Real simple setup, very easy to edit effects

I may have tried a dud, but the unit i looked at didn't sound that great. The amp sims were ok on the clean side of things - Fender / vox etc, but once i started using UK modern or recto sims my the sounds was quite muddy no matter how i tweaked it.

The effects were pretty good, on the unit i tried the 'univibe' sounded quite good.

It's made of plastic so i wouldn't go jumping on it too hard

The store i tried it from were great & very helpful, i have no doubt they would be able to back up the products they sell

I really liked the effects, however i felt the amp sims left a little to be desired (Like i said before, maybe the unit i tested wasn't up to par with some others)

After reading the manual (once is enough), I was able to do pretty much everything this thing has to offer. I guess that describes how easy this thing is to use. Tho I think it lacks some deeper manual control, I'd say it's sufficient (no way to set wet/dry mix independently of the ambience and modulations, but u'll get used to it)

The first thing came into my head when trying this thing was (DAMN, tube sound). Seriously, I never thought u could get that kind of sound outta digital box--for $160. I felt it was too good it made me laugh sometime.
But as all digital boxes do, when u plug it directly to amp's input (never tried the send-return thing, but I will), it'll produce somewhat compressed sound, not as open (tone-wise) as when u plug it directly.
About the details on each effects, I think the earlier comments are pretty clear :)

Yup, like they said, it's made of plastic. Dohhh...
But as long as u don't abuse it, I believe it'll last.

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I play anything from pop, classic disco, jazz, rock, to Metallica (insert Dream Theater somewhere lol) and so far I'm lovin' it.