Korg AX300G

well, what can I say, upgrading from a Pandora PX2 was easy as the effects are set up in the same way. Like always the manual is a bit hit and miss, with enough to get you started.

I use a Westfield Guitar with a tappable Symour Duncan Hotrails at the bridge position plug the guitar in to a Crybaby Wah then in to a Marshall VS102r with the AX300g in the effects loop, editing the souds to get a good one is not great but once you have one you like its very easy to get lots of sounds you like. Using the delay and distortions its easy to get any Pink FLoyd sounds. or using the EQ to scoop a sound, great for solos

Used it weekly for a year now no problems and its been used and abused, and still works fine.

Never contacted them

I play anything from pink floyd to acoustic style and this unit handles it all. If it got nicked I'd proably buy something else though, but I'm an effects junky. Getting rid of soon, but only coz its not rackmountable. If the unit was in rack form it would definatly go in!

Overall once you get the hang of the thing it is easy to use. The manual helps a little bit, but like all other effects processors the real learning comes from expirimentation. Editing patches is a little more complicated but once you get the hang of that, no problem.

I am playing this through an Ibanex RG7620 7 string guitar, and since I play mostly at home through a little crate practice amp, the sound quality is a little poor. But I have played it through better and it was great. There is a broad range of effects you can create with this unit, from loud noisy distortion to very nice and soft. It works great with the type of music I play (Industrial Gothic: Nine Inch Nails, Electric Hellfire Club, Type O Negative, etc.). My only real complaint is the chorus effect is a little weak (ok really weak)... but everything else is great!

I plan on using this for serious gigging (if I dont replace it with the 1000G) and I know it will do me no harm. So far gigging has gone great (for the less serious stuff) and I dont think this will fail me. I spilled milk on this thing one time and my preasure pedal didnt work for like a week. But the preasure pedal made a miraculous return and I am still using it today. This thing never quits, I have owned it for probably about two years now.

Never dealt with them. But I am a Customer Support Representitive for a company right now, and have dealt with companies. It would never suprise me at all if these guys were as bad as everyone else. But since I havent dealt with them I have no opinion

I compared this with other products before I bought it (some DOD, Boss pedals) and this was my favorite. I wish it had sample and play (the 1000G does) and more memory for storing programs. It has lasted me two years and I would replace it (with the 1000G) if it were to die on me. But I dont think it will, and it has given me what I wanted out of it. I definately would recommend this pedal to anyone.

This unit is faairly easy to use, although getting to some of the effects takes a little time. The editing is easy and quick. The manual should have more examples of how to mimic different effects.

I use this unit with a Mesa Boogie Studio 22+ amp. I also use a Vox wah, as I don't really like the wah sounds or teh control with the pressure pad.
The vintage and tube distortions sound good, but do not seem to have much variety. When used with a tube amp, the solid-state distortion sounds are good. I have liked some of the patches on-line, like the Cranked Vox patch and the Jangle patch.
The chorus is mediocre, although good chorus sounds can be had from the modulation delay. A lot of the pre-set sounds are unusable and many have very piercing treble, most of them need to be tweaked for a good sound.

I have experienced some problems with this unit in live performances. When I stepped on pedal 3 or 4, the unit would produce very loud static and would have to be turned off. This turned out to be a poorly-soldered IC. Once this was fixed, the problem appeared to go away. I purchased the unit new, but the service guy thought that the IC was not factory-installed.

I play Christian rock and worship music in a church band. The unit can be used for a wide variety of styles. The best sounds are some of the clean and light crunch sounds. For heavier distortion, the amp distortion or a pedal usually sounds better. If this unit were stolen or lost, I probably would retreat back to separate pedals for a while, although the new AX1000G looks attractive, with its modeling of vintage effects. It's east to get spoiled with the programmability of the unit. I thought that this unit sounded better than the DOD and Boss pedal boards at the time I bought it.
The unit would be improved with a real-time contoller other than the pressure switch, which is of marginal value.

This is a great sounding unit and no matter what anyone says, I think that the editing is simple. Sure, there are plenty of things to look at and change, but that's where the manual comes in. The first thing I did, was look at the manual. Although the manual wasn't that great at first, but I got the hang of it later. One of the best things to do is to sit the unit down and try and create a patch. This is usually the part which gets you familiar with the unit. The 300G is defintely something of a wonder for such a cheap price and the pressure pedal makes the unit all the better. When I got to try this feature by handling the wah, flanging, phasing etc. It just opens up so many other ideas. Always explore a unit like you're trying to find out how the unit works best for you.

I've been using this FX unit with my computer, but I have used it with an amp! I used a Marshall, but I don't know what it was as it wasn't mine. The guitars I've been using are:

1. Fender Squire Strat
2. Hohner Revelation RTX

The noise is nothing to worry about with this unit as the on-board noise reduction does a great job at taking away some of the noise. Most of the FX are pretty good, but some are a bit weak. The distortion is a little trebly and the chorus is a little strange. I've been able to get quite close to some of my favourite artists like Brian May or Johnny Greenwood on this unit. The patches that I've made have made me pretty happy with this unit and hopefully I'll put them up on my website soon (http://www.musicstuff.swinternet.co.uk).

I think that the plastic on these units are always overlooked and trashed as being too flimsy or bad news. I don't think that's true with this unit and I've only found that with ZOOM units. I have no problem with relying on this at a gig. Don't know if I'd gig without a backup though.

I've never had to deal with the company, but my big brother has, he said that they were really helpful.

For the sort of stuff that I play (Rock/Alternative) it's really good. I can get a lot of nice distortions with some really nice ambient FX. I've been playing guitar for 2 years now and out of all the units I've played this has made me the happiest. Sure, I haven't played around with units like POD or a Boss GT-3, but I know what I like. The next unit will probably be a Boss unit or the POD, but this has done well for me in the last year. If it were stolen or lost 6 months ago, I would've bought a new one without doubt. But now that there are more units out there, I'd probably buy something different. The only thing that I wish it had, would have to be a few more editing features in the amp/distortion pages. But for the amount of time that I've had this unit running, I've come up with a lot of things that have really helped my music progress. If anyone wants help or just wants to know general info on the AX300G, email me. Or if you want to know a little more about the patches for the AX300G then stroll over to my website at http://www.musicstuff.swinternet.co.uk).

Man...if you're a beginner guitarist...editing this is gonna be hell for ya...i'd advise beginners to just practice with their guitar and amp..or maybe with a pedal or 2....leave the effects pedal for the later part of your life...like till u know the difference between Overdrive and Distortion : )
dun get me wrong...i gave it a 6 coz it's slightly hard to edit...but this pedal has so many editing capabilities ...u'r able to get many many diff kinds of sounds....whether they're good...or crap, it's up to you.

Very quiet. Much quieter and superior to other pedals in the range such as zoom. but i think zoom has improved. anyway...editing possiblities are endless...u can adjust effects placements...u have so much control over the effects that it's easy to make crappy sounding stuff...
distortions and overdrives are pretty okay...not too bad....u have a lot to choose...just edit a little and u can get a good dist.tone...but some of them are pretty trebly...
modulation effects are good...chorus is a little sterile though..
delays and reverbs are great...which is the only thing i miss from this pedal(i sold it)....they are really good!

It's plastic...i wouldnt stomp on it too hard. Pressure control takes some time to work with too.

dunno

It's a great pedal. if u know u'r stuff...and u know the little details of every effecs and u like to program stuff and weird techno noises....this is very reasonable.
if u want to plug and play....then u will have a BIG problem with it. i Did. not a plug and play decvice.

Pretty easy to use, although changing some of the parameters are an absolute pain in the arse. You are also quite limited as to what sounds you can use in conjunction with others

I had mine hooked up to either my Gibson Explorer or Jackson Strat through a Marshall Valvestate. I think the sounds are appalling for the money I paid for it. I have only managed to get a few decent distortion sounds from it. It has too many "weird" sounds, not for a serious guitarist.

Can't really depend on it at all

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I would never buy another Korg processor after this one. I have just bought a Boss GT-3 and found it shits all over the Korg in many ways. You are too restricted with the sounds you get from the Korg, and it isn't for a serious guitarist. The sooner the better I get rid of it!

If you'r not a dummy, it is easy to use. Manual is almoust useless. Still it's good to read the manual.

EFFECST ARE GREAT! specialy the distortion. adjustment is easy. there is few good patches in the net.

No doubt's. i can depend on it

I did get some money of the price (whitch was nice)

This thing is very useful. oneday I will get pedal, then there will not be any better. I recomend

You'll need to look at the manual a couple of times but once you get the hang of it it's pretty easy.

This unit sounds great once you've solved the two problems iv'e found with this unit as well as just about with all the rest of them:
1) The distortions just don't sound right(not to mention that the distortion does NOT responde well to the volume knob on your guitar). To solve this problem I simply stuck my favorite distotion pedal(MXR distortion+) between my guitar and the AX300G. This way I get my favorite distortion sound, plus, when using delay, for example, you can go fron clean to distortion and back again, without cutting the delay. If you think of it, just by adding a distortion pedal, you can just about double the number of patches...
2) when you sit down at home and try to plan the output lebel for, let say, four or six patches you'll use on the gig, you might think you got a good balance... When you get to the gig, all of a sudden you'll realize that one patch is too quite while another just blows everybody away. In addition, sometimes you'd like to change the volume, and as I've mentioned, the unit doesn't respond well to your guitr's volume knob, especially if you got the noise gate on. Trying to reprogram patches in the middle of a song is just usless. To solve this problem, I simply put a volume pedal between the AX300G and the amp. Everything sounds right and at the right volume.
With regards to the unit itelf, the reverbs and delays are just fine. I love in particular the modulation delay, I find it a very elegant substitution to chorus+delay.

No problems at all. The first day I got it, I wrapped a bunch of electrical tape on the electrical wire where it joins the body of the adaptor, that's where it'll tend to break - I do this with every adaptor I got. Otherwise, I throw this in my gig bag with a bunch of other stuff, leave in the car thorough extreme weather conditions, I use the expression pedal extensively, and never had a problem. I never use backups, when you play 250+ gigs a year, you try to find every possible way to minimize on weight... It looks like it's been through a war but it just keeps working great.

never came up.

I'm a freelance guitarist. I own many different types of high end gear and guitars, which I certainly love using. But when I play a wedding, party or a bar (times when I need to play rock, blues, funk etc.), this is what I take. I use a start plus with a variety of solid state amps. When I play a gig, my first goal is to try and serve the music. If a particular device delivers some basic requierments such as decent reverb, delay etc. plus pretty low noise levels, that's good enough. This unit has it. I also like the fact that it's small, has a nice backlit display and a muted tuner. What more can you ask, especially at this price (probably around $200)?

The ease of use out of the box is not easy. The manual, for someone not familiar with this type of processor, was tough to comprehend. The manual does not say enough about the features to make them easily understandable to a beginner. Once that curve is over, however, the unit is great. There is almost infinite variability to the sound, and editing becomes easy after a few hours of messing with it. I have not upgraded to the optional expression pedal due to price.

I mainly use a Peavey Tele copy with Carvin pickups and a Silverfaced Fender Champ. I have noise, but the guitar/amp combo is responsible for much of it. The effects are very strong, especially the distortions and overdrives. I have to knock off a lot of treble with the Peavey, but with other guitars it is more even. I like the warm tones, Creedence tones, and generally bluesey sounding stuff. The presets suck for this. That was the tough part, having to learn editing off of the bat, I think.

The wall wart is a pain, as is the short cable, but reliability seems OK. Having to constantly turn the big knob for almost everything is scary, though. I think this will be the first thing to die.

Never needed any support. I think their website should contain additional patches, but the private sites have good ones.

For all types of music, this unit should work well but expect to write your own patches or do a lot of editing unless you want extreme sounds. The thing definitely helps me make music, getting close enough to almost anyone's sound for a decent fake job. You do need to live with the built in pedal unless you have bucks, because the optional pedals are expensive, and I have never seen one used or at a pawn shop. On a replacement, I would A/B other units if I could.

I just want to let you know that I've done a program that lets you store AX300G and AX30G patches on your computer . You can also print the patches you like . The program runs under windows and is available at this URL : http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~nalevrid/ax