Korg G1 Guitar Distortion Processor

As easy to use as any distortion/overdrive/fuzz -box, but I actually had to look at the manual about how to store a patch (it was easy to find, so I guess the manual is pretty good too).

Great, although the wah is crap (as everyone else has said). 9 different distortions, of witch 3 use wah (not auto, and therefore useless).

Plastic, but seems really sturdy. No backup needed with this baby!

Never had to deal with them.

If your looking for a dist-box try this one out. The pedals are too close to each other, but that's a problem with every floor-unit anyway.

the nobs on this pedel make it very easy to fine tune your own sound.

the presets are great!!! the shred is a massive dose of death and the high gain is a zombie like scream. the wah has a little bit to work on though...it sounds awfull! just go get a crybaby and the G1.

altough made of plastic i have had no problems with it. the pedels are sturdy enough for a good stomping.

never had to deal with them

would i buy it again? OF COURSE!!! this thing is great...not only does it give me the monster tone i require, but it is easy to program and recall patchs. it sounds even better if you run it through a tube amp on clean...the tubes give it even more fire than it already has.

Piece of cake for even the fledgling musician. Manual is very helpful. Explains all the distortions, etc.

It's not too noisy. The effects are not weak at all. My favorite one on the thing is the fuzz setting. It's great. The shred distortion with a big Muff on at the same time almost produces a wah effect. Other effects include the High gain distortion, classic distortion, and tube overdrive, which has a warm feel to it. Very nice for Classic rock.

I've had mine for 4 months now. No probs as of yet. It's plastic, but if you're not too rough, it'll be alright.

Never had to deal with them as of yet.

I would definantly buy it again. It was just what I was liiking for. It's like 9 stomp boxes in one.

Korgs done a great job of making this box one of the easiest multi-effects proccessers out there! Not only are the presets great, but by putting in nobs instead of buttons, they give you incredible freedom to create your own patches. The only annoying thing is the fact that there are only 9 presets. It comes from the factory with nine already programmed in, so if you want to put in your own, you have to write over the factories.

It's easy to get a fat sound out of this pedal. The classic distortion is beautiful, but a little bit bland for my taste. Howver, kicking it into the tube overdrive mode, the sound became just perfect. By tweaking a few of the nobs, you can get anything from a twangy surf guitar style sound to a classic british overdrive. Shred distortion is perfect for metal, but high gain distortion gives you an incredible, fat, clear sound even cranked way up.
My only real complaint is the wah. Not only can you not change the wah setting without a $60 expression pedal, but the wah sound horrible. This really is just a souped up distortion box! My reccomendation is to buy a crybaby when you buy this box.

Even though it has a plastic case, I've found this unit to be nothing but reliable. The footswitches seem pretty durable, and the L.E.D.s are easy to see even in a dark playing situation.

I've never had to deal with this issue.

This is a fantastic distortion petal with an awesome delay function. Like any effect, if overused or used badly, it sound horrible, but when used in moderation, can provide a huge improvement.

To make additions to the above review: A good sound was very easy to get out of the unit. Matter of fact, I didn't move much outside the presets for the first few days. Programming is very easy. Still, the input control is really touchy. There is a thin line, it seems, between good distortion and horrible overload. There has to be a compromise made. Still, there is plenty of gain in the unit. Enough for Dimebag-heads, easily. The one odd thing I've found is the weird way the Tone setting acts on the Shred channel. If you set it at max (all the way clockwise) after your turn the unit off and back on again it Tone is set one notch back. Not overly irritating, but weird. Also, there is no knob for the noise reduction. You have to stand on the Bank pedal and toggle back and forth in the settings [1-8]. And that is for the whole unit, mind you, like most other multi-effectors. The manual was clear and concise though the ease of operation of the unit renders it rather useless. I haven't really cracked mine since the first ten minutes I owned it.

The unit is very quiet due to the noise reduction. Note that it is REDUCTION not a gate. It does take a bit of your sound away when your use it. Setting both the NR and the gain lower is better sounding than having both cranked, to me. But still, there is something to be said for those that prefer a compressed sound, too. The classic OD can be set low for clean sounds, and is very fat. The Tube OD is even fatter, with a real Retro flavor to it, (Think "Paranoid".) The HiGain OD is my personal favorite, nice harmonics and touch response. The Shred is very much what it says. It will shred your eardrums. It is very scooped and a tad bit too harsh and brittle for me, but this is a solid-state unit after all. I cannot comment on the wah since I have no expression pedal. But it is not an auto-wah, it sits in one position and really doesn't sound that great. Spend a little more for a real wah, like I did. The fuzzes are good, though a little low-gain by nature. Don't expect geranium-class fuzz, either. These are more like a Rat. The Octafuzz is fun, though, for Hendrix-heads. The delay is worth the price of this unit, for sure. It is lush, and sounds great. Of course, there are no tap-delays or adjustments down to the millisecond. This is a distortion pedal with a couple extras, after all.

Dependable. Having some problems with the AC hookup (wall-wart) connetor but that is probably from just my own use. Other than that, it is dead-on reliable.

I think I would buy this again, if an AX30G was not available. But, that's apples and oranges.

Knobs are self-explanatory, and there's only 5 for the tone, 3 for the levels.

This is a distortion unit so there is some noise with super-duper distortion/fuzz settings. It seems to be clean though, according to the specs it's 90 db S/N, 16 bit A/D, and 48 Khz sampling rate so that's pretty darn good, especially in this price range.
I picked it up because all the other distortion boxes, pre-amps, etc. didn't have the kind of sounds I wanted that the Korg provides. I'm very impressed with everything I've tried on it, from bizarre Fripp-like fuzzes through the usual tube-style distortion.

I've only had it a few days, but it seems to be a solid unit. No worse than any other floor multi-FX unit

This is my first Korg guitar product. I've been a fan of their keyboard stuff for ages having owned everything from Poly 800's through M1's and now an X5DR module. I've always known them to be very strong in the effects department as far as having great stuff 'built-in' their synths, so I suppose this experience carried over in their guitar forays?
Their customer support (on the keyboard side at least) has always been good, i.e. they'd send me literature shortly after I called.

For the money I think it's a bargain. It's like having nine distortion pedals for the cost of two. To be honest, I'm sick and tired of my rack pre-amp. I just need about 9 different distortion sounds anyway so this fits the bill nice.
Other nice touches are a line out, tuner out, and input for a volume pedal to simulate a wah.
You can easily fine tune the distortion sound you want and save it for recall, something you can't really do with a 'set once and that's it pedal', yet becomes too complicated for rack systems when you just want to tweak a knob.
I highly recommend it, and it's worth at least a listen.