Korg AX1500G

Easy is the word. Manual is very user friendly. (you don't need 3 paragraphs to tell me to turn this knob or hit that button) Editing is quick & easy. (complicated programming is a deal killer for me) With this pedal that is not a problem.

I use a tele with hums & a Marshall combo. Play classic to hard rock (hendrix, stones, ac/dc, vh, zep & so on) I get what i need out of this pedal. (dist & mod effects) The wah is not to my liking. (i prefer my Crybaby) The metronome should be replaced with some simple drum patterns. The buttons are too close together. (or maybe i have big feet)

I've had mine for 2yrs and haven't had any problems. You'd be crazy not to have some kind of backup if you are gigging. (things happen)

Haven't had to as of yet.

I've been playing for 20yrs. (give or take) Had everything from boxes to rack stuff. Bang for the buck, this thing hits a homerun. If something happened to it, i would buy it again.

Well, as said before, the manual is very basic, you need to spend some time trying different sounds by yourself, with the manual only as a "start". Editing patches is quite easy. Step down function (pressing two buttons with the foot) - what were they thinking ???
Otherwise quite OK.

I use Epihone LP Standard, Epiphone LP Classic, Epiphone SG Tony Iommi, Ibanez S470 and a Fender Strat into a JJLabs (swedish brand) solid state 100W amp with 4x12" spkr. Works well, not too much noise.
Tring to get the effects to sound like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Metallica and also a lot of blues stuff.
Comes quite close I think, but has so far not saved any of them.
Dist/OD very good sounds. Speaker sim - I stopped using it, maybe useful in the studio ?
Almost all other effects sounds pretty good (phaser, flanger, tremolo, univibe, octaver, pitchbender, etc. etc. Echo/delay/reverb is also quite good. Wah-wha/talker, well, not the best !
Using a Dunlop Crybaby together with it instead of the KORGS wha-wha. Mostly use the pedal as volyme instead.


Someone who want to share sounds, please send me an email: olof64u@hotmail.com

Seems very hard to break, even if I only used it at home so far.
Don't think I would need a backup at a gig !

Haven't used it !

Play metal/hardrock, rock and blues. Have benn playing for about a year this time, played a lot when I was a teenager, but took a "20-year-break"

If it were stolen or lost I would buy thenew AX3000G or maybe starting collecting single effects.

Compared it to BOSS ME-50 and a ZOOM multi. Liked the KORGAX1500G better.

Someone who want to share sounds, please send me an email: olof64u@hotmail.com

getting to know the ax1500g is a breeze. been using the most basic zoom1010 for more than 8yrs and the ax1500g is almost easier to use. editing is as easy as turning a knob and a few touches. i love the split channel concept - 2fx in one bank.

i think it'd go well with any guitar -spend about an hour on it and you'd probably know and get the sound you want. the distortion seems powerful and doesn't fade like the zooms. i absolutely adore the pitch bend which gives me the joesat sound in cool#9 and the loop thing which steve vai did in g3, i'm going to have fun in that. the ring mod looks pretty cool but i've yet to exploit it.

it's expensive so i hope it doesn't break easily. my zoom1010 looks weak but it endured me endless gigs, rain, shine etc and it still works fine. have replaced switches but it's still class a.

perfect pitch's and yamaha's crews in phils are very friendly - unlike audiophiles in pioneer branch. don't think i'd have problems with after sales.

i think it's freakin expensive but worth the price - altho i wish it is a bit cheaper.

LCD display on these things is always too small to accurately display all the information it needs to- oh well, if you're looking at it too much, you're not playing hard enough.

After an hour or so I got to grips fully with the interface, and I'm usually pretty poor at tech-y things!

Manuals are generally very helpful. I never read them; this one was no different.

I use an Italia Modena into a Laney TF-700.

The sound quality is basically good, although with some tweeeeeeking of the presets (or starting them from scratch) you can get some excellent noises out of this pedal.

The amp modelling is pretty standard, but as other people have said the reverb/delay/phaser effects are particularly cool. I've managed to get some absolutely VAST and atmospheric sounds out of this pedal; a very good impression of my Wilkinson Copycat is possible if the correct settings are dialled-in.

I have used this pedal for about 5 years; gigs nearly every week. I've NEVER used a backup, and it's still going strong! I wouldn't however take this as a glowing recommendation, more of an example of my attitude to gigging (and financial situation).

I've dropped this pedal out of a moving van and it's still not given up yet!

The cheapo rubber dials do like to come off a lot recently, and the expression pedal is completely slack now, but it's had a fair amount of abuse over the last few years, so I don't judge it too harshly.

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I play in an Indie band and I mainly use this unit for delay-type-sounds and the reverb-on-reverb-on-reverb effects that it does so well. I've been playing for about6/7 years so I've been through a fair few effects pedals. This one is a proper workhorse of a multi-effects unit. Rugged enough for gigging, but refined enough to take to the studio too.

It's only fault is the tiny screen (pet hate) and the general tackiness of the unit, which make people think you've got a cheap piece of rubbish at your feet... which is good, because no one's (yet) tried to steal it!

The manual only gives you a start. You need to spend time tweaking her to get the sound you want. Once you know your way around, I must admit, edtiting patches has never been this easy. I'm able to tweak or edit patches in the middle of my performance in matter of seconds!

The distortions are good, I personally prefer Brit and US gain though though the metal disto sounds a little digital and trebly...so does the acoustic simulator. I trip on the phasers, choruses sounds a little lean. I havent used other effects much yet.. so can't comment on them.

good variety in the delay and ambience section....

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

You might want to...the nobs on my piece sometimes seem to come off the holders!

nope, never got in touch with them...though Id like to order for an adoptor cause I lost the original at a gig early this year:-(

I play classic & progressive rock when giging with my bang and gospel music with a church choir on sundays. The unit pretty almost suffices but I could do with a better seperate acoustic simulator unit and a warmer metal distrotion pedal....

been playing for about a decade now.I was using and still am use zoom505- pretty impressive for a little fellow like him!

If I lost my korg I would keep my options open for upgradable and internet compatible processors...probably the line6.

For as many features as it has, it is very easy to use if using the preprogrammed effects. If you want to program it, read the manual and experiment. You'll get some awesome effects! I'm giving it a 9because the manual could use some improvement.

I'm using this with an Epiphone Les Paul Classic and a Behringer GX210 amp. I used it some with an Ibanez GRX40 before I converted to a 2-humbucker axe, and it had heavy on some of the high-gain settings when using single-coils. While the Wah is weak, it is exceptional in most settings. STONE and BEETLE are great for immulating (you guessed it!) I use the TWEED and BRIT settings for alot of my playing, but I also use many of the other settings, including BECKOLA (where the pedal works great!)

It is solid aluminum and will take a beating. The 9v AC adapter is the weakspot, but it is no different from any other adapter for effects pedals.

I dunno! Haven't had to use it!

I've been playing off and on for about 30 years, and mostly play in Church Praise bands with some gigging. Since I can't afford high-end Marshall stacks, this combo is ideal for me. I see complaints about the chromatic tuner, but I personally love it for its ease of use. If mine got stolen I'd replace it immediately (if it was in stock!) I chose it mostly after researching online by looking at the pictures, manual, writeups, and soundclips of numerous pedals. I decided this was the best for the price, and I haven't regretted it once!

my dad just bought it in the US on the internet brand new and sent it and arrived here in the Philippines last week. at first site, the knobs and everything looks confusing. thanks for my Korg AX10G(I actually bought AX10G first before I got the AX1500G), it helped me a lot recognizing some procedures......back to AX1500, editing is so easy even without the manual. the paper used in the manual is so ordinary.....

damn! it's so freakin' heavy dude! i could make a lot of sound especially when i used heavy distortion to sound like Metallica and Pantera then shift to a clean tone or acoustic, damn, it's just awesome. I'm just using a Yamaha F20 and this thing make my amp like the bigger amps. I love the Octoman! i named it Sabbath coz it sounded like the Black Sabbath....To sound like Metallica distortion is to choose metal dist for drive amp, 4x12mdrn for cabinet , no modulation and talk "i" for pedal, just mix and play with the depth, level, etc. you'll surely have a metallica sound. for old school metallica, just put up the mid knob.....everything on this thing is just great.

it's kinda heavy but sturdy....i would surely use it on a gig without a back up....i think i can depend on it.....it's still just a week with me

One of the Best I've used! Gotta go......

The manual really isn't that great but who needs it? If anything the inadequacy of the manual encourages you to get hands-on and the fact that you can't accidentally overwrite the presets is also encouraging to someone who's never owned a multi-effects unit before. When you get to grips with it you'll find that actually everything you need to know is either written on the case, or displayed on the LCD display. It won't be long before you're fiddling knobs like a pro.

Before I bought this Korg I had a Fender Strat going through a big muff pi, a delux memory man (both E-H pedals) and a crybaby wah (although not in that order!) When having to eati and pay rent came between me and my guitar playing, all those pedals went. Later on when I had a bit of cash again, I decided to go with the Korg, largely for it being a LOT cheaper than replacing my old single effect pedals but mainly because of the amp modelling. I use it though any amp I can find now, which is great because it means I don't have to lug my Marshall combo around everytime I want to take my tone to another venue. I was hugely surprised to discover that I can get very close indeed to the U2 sound I had with my old set up, despite the fact that the delay can't quite be set to the right speed (who cares, it's close enough and who wants to sound EXACTLY like the album versions when live??) When I play through headphones or my PC's soundcard, there is a bit of noise but I can't hold this against the Korg. Going through any good quality amp (providing you don't have the levels on the actual patch set up stupidly!!) there is no noise whatsoever.... Unless you want it there!

I haven't really had it long enough to comment. It seems sturdy but those plastic dials at the top (besides being ugly little buggers) are 5 accidents waiting to happen.

Haven't had to deal with them yet, fortunately.

I play in a church band so I need the whole range, crunchy overdrives, lead tones, mellow modulation effects LOTS AND LOTS OF DELAY, reverb and ambient sounds. This pedal delivers it all. Even the really heavy stuff that I sometimes use. Being able to easily switch between settings that would have taken a lot of fiddling with knobs with my old analog setup is so liberating that I find myself looking for something to do in the seconds between songs! The only thing I would ever replace this pedal with is a Line 6 pod XT live but those are about 5 times more expensive. I'll admit that the XT live knocks the stuffing out of my little Korg but then at 500 quid it bloody well should!

Very easy to edit programs. Play with the corresponding knobs/buttons, press write, select the block you want to save to, press write again. Nothing complicated about it whatsoever.

Sound quality on this thing is great. It's nothing compared to analog effects, but it's impressively close. The wah could be much better. It changes more on one half of the movement than the other. It would be much better, also, if there were more stereo effects on it. Past Toneworks models have had a variety of different types of stereo effects (like a stereo trem), but this one seems to be limited to stereo ambience and stereo chorus.
Amp cab simulators are excellent, too. So much so that I never use an amp, and just plug directly into the sound system (or into my track recorder, if I'm recording.)

Completely reliable. I've never had a problem with it at all, and I've never needed a backup.

I play several styles of music, and this processor has been suitable for all of them. I've managed to get a variety of sounds, from low-end ambient sounds to nice crunchy 80's-style distortion to blues and funk. One thing I don't like is that you can't specify the order of the effects. If I want a delay or echo *before* distortion, I'll have to have something connected between my guitar and the processor. Other than that, I'm quite pleased with it.

Have had this unit and played with it for about 4 hours. The manual is of no help. Still haven't saved a new effect or bank. Terminology not explained. I have had a lot of effects, drum machines etc... this is rated about a 2 out of a 10 in user friendliness. The sounds are great. To create and organize a range of useable effects to utilize in a "jam" has, so far, been way too difficult with the sub par manual. Extremely frustrating to create or modify, edit, change and store desired effects with the provided information. Paid $199 New U.S. Manual may have originated in a different language and has been translated poorly. Manual is 23 pages should have been double that being a lot more explanatory. I have over 20 years of experience with this sort of stuff and this product needs at least 12 hours of messing with to figure out, hopefully. I am hoping that they haven't made it so cumbersome to navigate because they're hiding something, like not being able to save modified effects.

Effects are great...
Used Ovation and Strat thru headphones and thru Peavy Backstage

Brand New...It better last!