Korg AX1G Guitar Multieffects

This is the pedal for quality tone!!! For around 100$ you get a very reasonable little unit worthy of the KORG label! Compared to any of the ZOOM's for less than 200$ and the Digitech RP3, sound wise (this is after all why you're buying it!) its tops!
Easy to use!!! I only read through the manual about a week before I bought it, I havn't used the manual since, its a sinch! F88k'n "KORG for dummies"! You'll have patches a million before the first week is up. There are also some good presets: Funky (reminds me of the KIDS duo Robbie & Kylie), chorus (the chorus on this thing is great), aqua (you feel like you're in a fish bowl), redhouse (infamous), edge (good if you're into U2 guitars)!

My setup is a beat up Ibanez RX20 (slightly modyfied), which actually has a rather presentable sound, especially with the neck pickup! When giggin I usually plug straight into the mixer, otherwise I use a 10R Park (by Marshal, muahhahahahaha) bullshit practice amp and a VOX V847 wah wah (real squeelly f88ker, needs greese). The noise reduction actually works & most patches are relatively quiet after some foolin around! Just keep the level between 18 - 23!!!
Asskickin effects are: Compressor- excellent, Chorus-excellent, Octave-excellent Just for these three its worth the money!!
Not -so -bad effects: Overdrive- its Ok, it does sound like an overdriven amp, so it qualifies, the LineOverdrive is actually a superb drive effect, the phaser effects are really quite good if you can achieve stereo sound! Flangers 'r OK ( I really do not like this effect to start with)! The random effect is cool!!! Pitch shifters do what they're suposed to! The wah is only a wah if you readjust the settings for the expression pedal from MIN to MAX, but it will not replace the VOX I use, so buy a wah wah and you're set, maybe a good distortion if you don't like these, cause I don't really - three distortions to choose fron I go with the DIST2 sounds good for single string riffs, appart from that distortion is pretty sucky, but what the hay, you can't have everything for a 100 bucks, now can ya! Fuzz sucks, there's a preset Hendrix patch, well poor Jimi(may he rest in peace, all the respect, I lov 'im)twiching in his grave is that what "I sounded like"???? F88k nooooooo, you want a Hendrix sound use LineOverdrive instead you'll get there eventually. Autowahs dont really wah, do they? Fixed wah sound like a fixed wah.
Can't tell you about the sample & play feature, cause I havn't used it yet when I do I'll let ya know.
Ambience: Delays 'r good, though you cant adjust feedback boohoo! Reverbs are good, but don't use reverb in large amounts if you're playing with other people, you kill the guitar sound! Filter Echo and Ring can be used to make some weird sounds!
Overall sounds great like a true multieffects should, KORG rule the guitar world, does sound odd though doesn't it, ohhhh! TUNER is awesome, now you can stay in tune for most of the time YEAH!

I am trustworthy, but its made of plastic, you never know!
I have used it on a gig works fine, compared to the RP3 I would say superior!

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I play radiohead meets Massive attack meets Jeff buckley meets Chris Cornell meet Kim Thayl meets Dave Novarro meets Bad boy Hendrix (GOT THE PICTURE?????????)I like weird sounds , lots of dynamics, little or no distortion, a lot of wah wah wah wah wa hwah w3ha hwh ah wh a! WAH! All kinds of delays, I usually borow a second delay & use two at once YEA!
I've been playing for 12 years!
If it were lost I'd cry three days straigh, drink large quantities of tequila 'n BUY A NEW ONE
For the price WOW! But if you can afford it and you want to make music get a wah wah som ecool distortion Ibanez or Boss, and save up for the ax1500g, that is what I'll be buying, if I can ever afford it, KORG I love you!

Editing is easy, although it takes a lot of button-pushing. I hate buttons, but bought this one 'cause it got good reviews, & it was cheap. Manual is OK, but your better off learning by doing. Foot buttons are too close together. I try to click the right one, but the Expression pedal gets in the way. I often mistakingly turn on the tuner by pressing both buttons while over-compensating to the left. Digital readout is about 3/4" under the surface, without a back-light. Impossible to read. Although, there is a well-lit numerical readout next to it showing the patch & bank number, so you have to remember those numbers...

Les Paul through a Peavey Express 112. Like it's brother, the higher-priced AX100G, Flanger & Chorus are a bit weak. I added a bit of OD to bring it out a bit. Sound quality is relative to what the user want's to get out of it. It's all opinion. I'm still trying to get a real good sound out of it, but I did get some OK stuff. Has a lot of useless patches (Aqua, Ringer). Bender SUCKS. You have to bring to top of the expression pedal TOWARD you to do a Whammy Bar dive. I Hate that!!

Seems dependable...

I play Classic/hard rock/ & metal. This is OK. I just bought the Korg AX100G, and it is sooo much better. I liked the AX1G until I got the AX100G. The AX1G is a decent, inexpensive multi-effects processor. It's good if your looking to experiment with lots of effects.

AX1G is easy to use, if you have a manual. I have bought a new unit with a manual, but without an AC adapter. But that was not a problem - I have got an AC adapter for 15 DM (7,5 US$) in the big supermarket nearby. There are 30 slots in the memory, they are all filled in with default presets, and you can change all of them as you wish. And you can play also while you edit the sound - that means that you can modulate sound during the recording.

Guitars used with it: Fender/Squire Stratocaster, Bass - Yamaha RBX Series. Some effects can be rather noisy, but most of the effects sound great. Nice DELAY/FLANGE/CHORUS effects. Also good effects for distortion, overloading, etc.
I have tryed to copy an early Black Sabbath's sound and the sound of early The Cure. It wasn't exactly the same, but very close.

This effects processor is one of my favorites. Using in the gig is not a probelm, as long as you do not change the sound too often during the song. But I will recommend a big heavy unit that has more pedals for the gig.

Never had any technic problems with it.

I play alternative & experimenal music, post punk, early new wave, and record samples to use in the electronic music. The output sound is not very clean, but the effects are great. I play with AX1G since 2,5 years and the best thing in it for me is a good opportunity to create the own unique sounds. I use innovative guitar playing technics, and this unit is a "must" for me. I have tryed to use it with keyboards and microphones - sound is rather dirty and noisy but at the same time with EXCELLENT effects! Very good for the experiments. It helps me to make music a lot.

One more good feature - tuner for guitars. It tells you the note and if you play too low or too high.

I do not really dislike anything in it, but the pedals do not seem strong enough for me. I have always fear to press the pedals with the whole power of the foot - that is normal with the other processors. And the access to the effects from the memory is a little funny - this unit has 3 lamps (orange, green, red) and there are 10 effects for each colour (0-9). You switch them with the 2 small pedals (left for previous effect and right for the next).

Overall rating: very good, a "must have" for me. But I also search for some other effects processors now to use in a combination with AX1G. Maybe I will buy another KORG :)

easy, but pots would have been better so you could change quickly

i use a epiphone sg and a 15w peavy trans tube, the sound is ok, but i just can reach jimmy pages sound, the wah wah pedal is SHIT. Can be noisy when using compression, but that happens with most comp peadals

its made of plastic, that has both good and bad points. The expression pedal is getting lose so i have to tighten the screw, but its not working like it did when i bought it. (1 year ago)

haven't uesd it

It would have been better with a good wah wah, metal case and pedal, but it was cheap

Well i frankly would prefer pots to dial in ur tone. But it is definitely easy to figure out.

Artists: Metallica, iron maiden, judas priest, black sabbath, Deep Purple, Malmsteen, joe satriani, steve vai, Pink Floyd
Alan Parsons project ,Simon and garfunklel, Dire Straits,Eric clapton , richard clyderman (yep no guitar here but its agreat way to build ur ears since a piano is usually in true pitch)
Some french bands like jean jacque goldman, Florent pagny
, classical pieces from beethoven, mozart, vivaldi.



I have a Jackson soloist SSH kentarmstrong pickups through the AX1g into a marshall g-10 10 watts amp at home.

I used to like very heavy sounds but now i am mellowing a bit. To my ear the majority of the effects are thoroughly useless. The noise gate a mucks up the highs in my guitar (yes i know that's how a noise gate works but still..) and cuts the transparency and sustain. Add to the fact, that the bypass mode actually filters ur tone well..

On a positive note the LINE DS distortion suits me just fine. That's all i use right now, switching off evry other effect. I tweaked my guitar's intonation to perfection(in tune all over the neck and yes it can be done without buzz feinten or the earvana if the manufacturer of ur guitar got his basics right and intonated all strings properly at the SAME interval, like some older fenders and Aria Pro guitars) and adusted the pickup heights so that the guitars natural eq clean through the amp suited me (soft creamy with very soulful highs on bends, but enough sustain to even fret tap on clean). Single coils usually lose highs when the distortion is increased, but the Line DS is a little more trebly than DIST1 or DIST2 so what i get is just right for my ears, and it cleans up alot more easily than the other two when i turn the volume down.

My g-10 volume is turned all the way to 10, and everything else is turned down to 0(gain, contour). That way i get as much as an uncoloured amp setting as possible. And VERY IMPORTANT the input switch is set to H. (This is the switch next to the input socket) EVEN THOUGH MY PICKUPS AREN'T HIGH OUTPUT why? the switch if pushed towards
L actually acts like a preamp boost. So what it does is actually fatten up ur tone. This makes the entire thing muddy and any subtleties in tone are lost. If u want to get as transparent a tone as possible then push this switch at H.

If u think ur guitar feels hard toplay at this setting then ur guitar isn't setup properly or ur amp sucks major (trust me i found out the hard way). This setting will give u as close a tone or feel as directly plugged into a amp i.e as close as the ax1g can get to that tone that is.

Even the LINE OD effect seems pretty nice. On my g-10 when it is cranked up to 30 it sounds mellow and transparent though for the best tone u gotta go through a fender tube one of the smaller amps with the 6L6 tube. But the price this does fairly well.

NOW MOST important , this pedal is at best an addition to ur sound. What guitar or amp u have makes a great difference on how this sounds. Plus it is pretty noisy if the volume is cranked up on a bigger amp.

Most jacksons(for the matter most floyd rose guitars appear to be intonated a little sharp ). Even mine was in the beginning. Now some effects pedals can claim to give u infinite sustain, but to my ears they are atmost artificial and very shallow. I have tweaked a 4000 rupees (that's around 100$) worth PMG guitar, such that it can sustain almost endlessly on its own and too improved its feel to no end (harmonics just leap of it now). Even a cheap guitar can be made to sustain if it is setup properly as long some basic things like nut and fret placement has been done right, and the wood is fairly good.(if u make it out of plywood forget it!!)

So don't blame the ax1g if ur guitar doens't sustain. Since both my processor and amp(its solid state after all and has no eq either) are so limited in options it kind of brought the defects of my guitar glaringly to the forefront, so i could easily detect and fix them. Now if i plug my guitar in m

It's made out of plastic.I have had it for a couple of years now, and the left foot pedal conked. I had it replaced. the samller switches are alos slowly giving way.

Never dealt with them directly in india, though there is a shop that is supposed to do authorised korg service but they said they arren't authorised to do internal repairs?! what are they for to jus clean it up?

Here is the deal. All i want is tone where i can finger pick comforatbly in clean and even in heavy distortion a guitar that responds to touch. Well i have got it quite comfortably with this processor(even in full dist and voluem i can finger pick and the guitar responds to the attack of ur picks from mellow sweetness to a sizzling heat though its more due to the guitar and amp rather than anything else. But it definitely is better than the zoom 505.

Well i din't choose this, my uncle bought it for me. At that time i was an ignoramus and wanted a Boss Gt-5. But now that my ears are pretty good i can see that nothing can match the tone of a tube amp cranked up to 10. So I am quite willing to settle for a cheap digital processor that sounds ok than buyoing an expensive digital processor liek the gt-6 that also sounds to my ears just ok. Especially now that i am leaning more toward clean tones rather than distortion.

If this were lost or stolen , I might just take the plunge and buy myself a tonebone tube pedal(classic or british i'm undecided). It seems more oriented to my needs. I really don't need much variety, and i am not hunting for someone elses tone, so it make smore sense. A harmoniser ,a crybaby, an doh ok maybe BOSS CE-1 (if i can find one:) would also be on the shopping list, but that's it.

Why i am mentioning setting up ur guitar here is that most ppl here atleast get the ax1g caus ehtewy can't afford a more expensive one, which means its very likely they would have got a cheap guitar which doesn't sound all that great. The following can drastically improve ur tone or worsen it depending onm how ur guitar already is and how good ur ears are so use it at ur own risk. The tip about tjhe nickel is here at www.billlawrence.com.

With regards to setting up ur guitar, a general setting is like this on the higher E string, put a nickel (i put a 5 ruppee coin works for me:) between the string and bridge pickup and adjusted the height till the string touched the coin. Then on the lower E, i lowered the pickup down it almost touched the cap. On the neck pickup i raised both ends till they had the same output as the bridge(i checked by playing the 24th fret on either string for both pickups alternatively). Then adjust the middle pickup the way u want( This is what determines how much body ur guitar has i keep mine similar to the bridge but with the lower E end a bit lower, the higher u go the more woodier ur tone becomes).

My action is like around 6mm from 12th fret on lower E (fromthe frretboard not the fret,and around 3mm from the higher E, and it gives me a nice round tone not too thin nor too thick clean , a little fatter than mark knophler something like the opeing of shine on u crazy diamond by floyd(that's default tone plugged clean) .But the action is purely a personal thing, I usually set it around apoint where the top string doesn't buzz. and the higher
E feels nice and full up higher and not tight and tinny. But this is also dependent on the following

VERY IMPORTANT: THE GUITAR HAS TO BE INTONATED TO PERFECTION (i.e harmonic on 12rth fret equal to open string equal to fretted note equal to fretted note on 24th fret equal to harmonic on 24th equal to open (whew!). Don't squeeze the string on the fret too hard it will sound sharp if u do that. Flat makes the strings bassy(even if one string is a little flat and especially the G and the D, woe betide if u got them wrong.ur guitar becomes unplayable.)sharp makes it harsh and unpleasant.
(also what happens is at the 24th and 12th fret u'll hear discrepancies in volume with either pickup i.e when inonated flat, the neck pickup will sound louder at the 24th than the bridge while the bridge will sound equal or louder at the 12th) May be the otherway round not sure now but that was the case on my guitar u will not be able to get the same volume for both pickups on all parts of the fretboard(used singly). But this gets corrected when it is intonated. and the feel

If you can use this thing, you are an idiot, editing effects is the only thing that is dificult but anyway is in the manual.

I use a Jackson DR-3 and a Marshal 30w amp, the distortion is fairly good, the chorus, flanger and eq are great, the wah is crap

Is made of thin plastic, be careful.

good

Its very versatile, you can play anything with this thing, but if you`re a metalhead you`ll probably dislike the distortion, get a MT-2

It's pretty easy to use.The manual explains how to do everything easy enough for anyone to understand it.

I'm using this with a SansAmp psa-1,Marshall power amp,and Marshall 1960B cabinet.The guitar is a Les Paul Studio.I'm not much into effects,I just got this for shits and giggles.This is a very fun unit to play with,it's got a lot of stuff in it.All the distortions sound like complete shit,but I got it for clean reverbs,delays,choruses etc.All the effects are great.I put a soft chorus on my distortion from the psa-1,beautiful.For the price,it's well worth it.

Only had it for a couple of weeks.

Don't know.

It's a really cool unit.It'll definitely tie you over until you can afford mac daddy effects.

Very easy...

I play Kramer 620 > Korg AX1g > Trace Elliot Brat 15w, for pleasure only. But,I play about 15 years and I know a little about tone.Many people say that AX1 has good distortin, even compare this with boss Metal zone or DS1. I dont understeand these people. Distorsions are extremly bad,weak,artificual and no sustain.Usual thing about every multi efx under 200$.Equalizer is bad too, no way to get mid scoop tone.Modulations and ambient are good only on low setings, on high become noisy ond bad.Only tuner is always good.Rating is: for amp 2, for headphone 5 , but value for money 9.

I think this is for home use only, because it is plastic box.

LIke every multi efx this is a toy.I will trade this,processor and solid state Trace Elliot, for for rael tone machine,all tube little amp like Laney LC15.
Rating is 2 over all, and 9 for money.

A retarded monkey could work this thing, easy to use. Manual is simple. Editing patches is easy.

Good sound. I use a Les Paul Special through an old Silvertone 100W amp. With this pedal I can make my guitar sing. All effects are good but there is a bit of noise on the distotion setting and the noise reduction doesn't work all that great. If you use it through an Effects loop, the noise goes away.

I'd say it's reliable but I'm careful with my stuff. It's only made of plastic though. I use it without a Backup because I don't have another pedal, but I don't think I need one.

Don't need 'em.

I play blooz and classic rock, this pedal is perfect for my style of playing. I've been playing for 5 years, in a band for one. I bought it so I could have SOME effects and this was the most for the money. I'm very pleased with the sound of this pedal. If I could I'd buy three more just in case it were stolen I wouldn't have to go any time without it. They're pretty inexpensive, so money isn't a problem. Great pedal!

Didn't even have to open the manual! Manual, you could use for fire starter, because its so easy to use. Only thing is some things take a little screwin' around to get to work.

Nice flanger pedal. Nice wah pedal. Nice drone effect pedal. NIce everything. I'm using it with a cheap peavey practice amp and its great. I have a Squier Strat, but a very nice Yamaha FG-470SA acc/elec guitar and they both sound AWESOME through the AX1G. Plenty of patches for great bands, like a pink floyd patch, metallica patch. Distorion is better than the gain knob on my amp! Chorus is great. Drone effect is awesome for Sitar like stuff, like in "10 years gone". Just buy it, its THE Best-Bang-For-Your-Buck deal around.

Only had it a few days, but besides what other people say about battery usage, its reliable and so far I have had no problems at all.
Also, I bought it for $75 new because I got it off ebay. Nice deal, I saved myself $30.

Great for classic rock, blues, alternative rock, just a great pedal.

NOTE::: You probably don't want this pedal if you are professional, because you are probably rich enough to buy 300 small pedals and you can pay some German midget named "Hans" to run out on stage and hook each one up for you.

Or just don't complain, look at the positive side, and see that you got 68 more effects for the same price of a 1 effect pedal.