I'm not sure why I'm watching this video. I'm on my way to pick up my new Plethora x5! Thank you Lee for turning me onto this product. I hope your Amplitube customers enjoy these new products. Happy New Year to you, Pete and the rest of the Andertons family.
I got the X-Vibe from IK Multimedia. I haven't been able to shoot the video for it yet but I've gotten to get familiar with it and it's VERY impressive to say the least! IK Multimedia is onto something amazing with these!
I got me the the x-space today, and I could say it’s the best of all of them, even if the rest of your pedals aren’t the top ones, this pedal gives a lot of Ambient to your sounds, specially if you play gospel and worship at church
Used Amplitube for years until I got my first HX Stomp. So going off that, these pedals probably won't be flying off the shelves because of competition. But, really cool to see a plugin focused company getting their hands into the world of physical guitar pedals!
Exactly. The timing and price point don’t really make much sense for these pedals to have high demand. Unless for those who don’t do a good job researching options.
@@brunorocha3718 I'm thinking, if i was to cost up 4 or 5 of these pedals, I'm not that far off or even above the cost of some of the multi FX processors. I upgraded to a Helix last month, Kempers aren't all that much more, neither is the Helix LT or Rack. It's a very small % of the market that would consider and purchase these Amplitube pedals.
@@SydDante These are meant to be used as separate pedals on your pedalboard so if you need a great modulation pedal, for example, pick up X-VIBE and you'll have a lot of options for modulation from one pedal but it isn't meant to put the full AmpliTube on your pedalboard. For a single pedal that does so much, each of these X-GEAR pedals are competitively priced. Of course if you want all four to replace pedals on your board, that's great - and we do have a discount for buying all four - but these are single pedals for a reason. Perhaps someday we'll put the full AmpliTube 5 at your feet/hands/fingers/etc though... :)
@@ikmultimedia Considering I loved using AmpliTube as a plugin, i'd love to see a multi fx unit! I totally get the use case for these, might not be for me but i'm sure there's someone out there that would be head over heels for one of these. If these exist already, i can smell a multi fx unit in the works, i'll keep an eye out for IKMM on the scene ;)
I love my X-Space pedal. It’s amazingly versatile. You didn’t demo the “X-Mode” (hold down the middle foot switch) but it’s pure magic IMO. I’ll finish up an ambient/spacey/ethereal thing, hold down that switch, and it just soars. I’ve got the software version of the X-Drive as well, also quite nice. Anyone that thinks one can simply plug in a guitar and sound like a god without dialing in their tone is a fool. That’s true of even the most basic analog pedal or amp as well. There’s knobs on there for a reason. Use them. My gear these days are my Line 6 Helix and/or my IK Multimedia AmpliTube 5 Max. I haven’t fired up any up my “real” amps for a few years. Given the collection & versatility of those, I thought my pedal days were over. The X-Space changed that. With the virtual version being north of $100, the hardware version (which includes the software version) was a no brainer for me. And I can use the pedal with my Helix as well. Win win. Now, if IK Multimedia would combine the features of the excellent AXE I/O with a controller like the Stomp I/O into one unit…I’d be in sonic heaven.
Thanks for doing such a good job in reviewing these. I’ve been using AmpliTube for years and was keen to see a decent review of these coz i am seriously thinking of getting some as budget permits. Greetings from NZ
This video menage to be way too short and way too long at the same time. Still love you guys ❤️ pretty fantastic stuff you presented today. Happy new year and best wishes!
I've been watching gear demos since the dawn of gear videos I feel like Pete is coming after Andy Martin's "Pedal Demo G.O.A.T." title. Aside from the X-drive (and to be fair I just don't like digital drives) he made all those pedals sound choice and is surprisingly good at adapting his playing to pull the best out of the gear.
I don't work for IK, but I also believe that they also act as an audio interface and come with the respective Amplitude 5 plug-ins included. Is that right?
The Preset knob could be used for quick changes if you need to jump several banks and you want to position yourself in between songs. Also, the X-GEAR pedals also offer MIDI ports and and an External Pedal input. Both can be used for some nice customization for how your pedals switch presets, especially in a live situation. Edit* I wanted to also mention the Temporary modes which might be useful in your situation. If you press and hold say pedal "A" while using the preset on pedal "B", you can temporarily use that sound until you let go. Along with the X-MODE it's a really interesting way to add some flavor in the middle of a riff or part of a song without going too far. 🤘
I suspect these pedals are identical on the inside, with different front panel stickers and firmware. The could even have the same white display with a colored film for the color!
@@ikmultimedia Interesting. From a production perspective one would think it most efficient to work that way. But I appreciate the displays, they do look glorious!
I'm hooked on Valhalla so eventually I'll need a hardware solution. If I ever plan a show. But I dig these each offering tons of effects on each. Strymon Night sky or Bigsky is my main goal. And a decent clean amp.
If you could download 16 custom plugins of your choice : fuzz face, elec mistress, echoplex etc into one pedal I’d go for that but not this. Reminds me of the Zoom 905(?) Stand-alone pedals back in the day which I don’t think lasted long.
I remember using Amplitube years ago and they were streets ahead of Guitar Rig in terms of tone. I also remember Revalver being streets ahead both of them when it came to clean/crunch tones. I was never impressed with Guitar Rigs sounds
Amplitube 5 is miles ahead of Amplitube 4 and much, much better than Revalver which Peavey sold to new owners a year ago and has lain dormant ever since. Guitar Rig... meh!
@@KiwiExpressCream My impressions were probably from 10 years ago, it's been so long that I forgot the exact versions, I know it was before Peavey bought revalver from ?Alien labs? or something, I had no idea it had changed owners again. There was something else with Revalver, as I mentioned in my first post, the Cleans and Crunch tones were so impressive compared to anything that was available at the time. I don't know how NI got it so wrong. Maybe it's the underlying technology but it always sounds off to me.
I have a suspicion that if someone were to open up these pedals you would find that the circuitry in each was exactly the same with the main difference between them being in terms of software (probably on a ROM chip). Standardising digital effects like that would be a good way of economising the manufacturing costs through the range.
These are a good idea overall but at the same time, I do think there is still a lot of value in really just going to music shops and experimenting with different standalone pedals and putting together a pedalboard that is very specific to your needs and doesn't have a lot of functionality you don't even really care about. Having used similar multi-effect solutions, it is hard for me to look at this and not think that after some time of use, one would really just pick a couple of different effect types that they like per pedal and never, ever touch anything else. In that situation, it might have made more sense to just track down the actual pedals themselves so that you can have much more immediate, fine control over each at any given moment. There is obviously a market for this stuff but I think that there are going to be guitarists that don't really benefit from the multi-effect pedal concept.
These are meant to be single pedals, but they happen to also have a lot of options on board (like the 16 different algorithms and all of the options for controlling them) so I can understand how you can get a "multifx" vibe from them. Think of X-GEAR pedals as taking a single slot for let's say a distortion or overdrive pedal but with the ability to do many different types of distortion or overdrive. Each pedal is essentially a chameleon providing any flavor of either overdrive/distortion, reverb, delay, or modulation.
I'm not sure they make sense as standalone items, maybe more aimed at people who use IKAT at home as their main rig, have built their sound using that app and then need to put those virtual sounds in road-ready cases. I use IK stereo chorus, hall verb and the Uni-vibe all the time and they sound amazing, and then with my own stompbox ODs in front - are they planning an all in one 'multi-fx' type release? That would make more sense I feel.
These are meant to be a standalone pedal providing an array of either reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive options right on your pedalboard. Except you don't have only one type of reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive you have any flavor you like. They are not multifx pedals, but they provide a huge range of tone options in each of those areas: reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive.
Im pretty happy with the drive sounds I get from amplitube in my daw, but the drive pedal shown here is disapointing. However, the modulation and delay sounded pretty sweet in stereo through decent headphones!
Multi FX pedals are fun to experiment with however, I prefer separate pedals for each Effect. It could just be me however, I feel you get a lot more out of a Stand alone pedal. It just seems that a dedicated pedal gives you a better tone and effect than a pedal that focuses on several different effects all in one unit... but then again, maybe it's just me.
I think the fact that standalone pedals are still substantially more popular than multi-fx proves that it's not just you lol. I see the value in both though
These are standalone pedals. You just get 16 algorithm options for each (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive) with a massive amount of control and tone shaping for each of those algorithms.
From the xvibe perspective, you can carry just the xvibe and have 16 different modulation pedals in 1 instead of carrying say 5 different ones on your board. On top of that program a preset for each song, save it while having a bright LED display show the name for dark stages. You get free plugins (there's a rebate right now for additional plugins) with tweak-ability in the software. Firmware Updates can be provided via USB and it has expression pedal and midi versatility. Not sure about your uses but for me, cover bands guitarist should be head over heels for the xvibe. A typical cover band guitarist will need about 5 different modulations depending on genres, and this delivers in my opinion. Prior attempts (like the old line 6 pedals) at all in ones always had that "you know it's digital" sound, but based on iks plugins, I expect 5 star quality. I plan on ordering one today, if it's crap I'll return it, if it's great then I'll reduce my board footprint.
To me, it doesn’t make sense that these guys get into the highly competitive physical pedal market. However they seem well positioned to make a hybrid product: a physical set of pedals that connect via usb to your computer and allow you to turn the knobs and switch them on and off like a normal pedal, but the processing occurs in your computer. This would have many advantages: 1) playing around with a virtual pedal board is far less natural than turning physical knobs and switches 2) you’d use the much more impressive computing power of your main computer, not rely on a dinky processor in each digital pedal. For anyone running apple silicon it simply makes no sense to be buying digital boxes that can’t match the processing power in their laptop. 3) it minimizes the number of times a signal gets converted from analog to digital and back to analog. I’d rather have a great interface do the analog to digital conversion once and then work with digital from then on. 4) you could swap what each pedal does - if you wanted a chorus pedal on your board, just change what the box controls. 5) you could also have always on pedals that only operate on your laptop, no need to have a physical box for those 6) you could save the entire pedal board and it’s settings. You could even have a physical switch that enabled you to toggle between those presets - this would change all the settings on your computer and what each physical pedal controls and what it’s initial settings are. It also means you could change pedal order between presets because the entire processing path is digital. 7) since these would really just be usb midi controllers, they could be bus powered, or would only need one very simple power supply.
You can connect the X-GEAR pedals to your computer via USB. Also, they can be controlled via MIDI which gives you a huge amount of options for using them live. They are each meant as a single pedal on your board but with a lot more power than a typical single pedal would give you.
@@ikmultimedia All this is true, but the reason these pedals cost so much is that you are selling me a new CPU and digital interface with each pedal. Your comparative advantage is in making awesome software. Arturia should be a role model for you. They make incredible virtual synths and then also sell amazing midi controllers that let people physically interact with them in a natural way. The controllers make the software way way more useful and creative. That’s what I think you ought to be doing. That’s a wide open market for guitar effects. And once people have the physical midi-controller pedals they would be hankering to buy more and more amps and pedals from you.
Regarding the audio experience while listening with the smartphone I can attest that on my older iPhone 7+ the stereo ability was not great. But my new 13 Pro Max is amazing. No headphones needed to get the full stereo experience and in general the audio experience is far better than older iPhones.
Interesting. But I don’t think it makes sense to pay £ 259 for each when you have the option of Helix Stomp offering everything and much, much more for £ 419… 🤷🏻♂️
By that logic no pedal makes sense cos x company offers way more in another format for another price. Everyone has their needs and preferences, this caters to the person who isnt looking for a full rig solution in one pedal and also doesnt want a pedal to do 1000 things when you only need 20 of those.
@@adriansoul7223 Right, these are single-purpose (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive) pedals that happen to offer many options in their respective area of expertise. For the price of a "single tone" pedal you get 16 algorithms and an insane amount of control over each. Plus if you want to get a bit more wild you can use the MIDI functionality to control these and create a pedalboard that is as complex (or simple) as you like!
A full set of these is over a thousand pound! Good as they are i am sure they could put all of them into one and bring the price down. Better value can be found elswhere.
There's a discount if you need all four, but each pedal is intended as a single pedal for your board so you can choose which you like/need (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive) and they are priced competitively especially for all that they do. There's a wide range of powerful tones and options for each pedal, well worth the price.
Amplitube is the greatest thing ive ever stole ,without it id never have a great choice of amps and different kinds of tones.i wouldve had just one amp for the last 7 years, especially since ive been in university for the last 5.5 years and still have 1.5 to go
These are a little late to the game , will have to try the Distortion, for a price of £220 seems pretty good . Whats up with Peter he looks like he's proper pissed off , I wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking of leaving, as Captain Lee seems to be covering all the bases with new players, Acoustic and Effects wise. Yeah Lee all BMW owners say that they don't want to be that guy , definitely something going on between these two.
Can you copy a amplitube rig and put it on a pedal .. if not they they are missing a trick . I'd rather have a pedal that can do that before I'd buy any multi fx unit from them
Thanks for the idea! :) If it helps in your situation, the X-GEAR pedals come with AmpliTube 5 SE and a virtual version of each pedal. These can be used together with the X-GEAR Librarian to create, edit, and organize presets on either platform and transfer them quickly for any kind of use.
Captain: I can't, you have to edit this out, but there's a new one of those coming in the new year. Pete: Oh is there? Captain: Or you don't, maybe just don't edit, just have me whispering something and then you go "oh is there?"
It's really sad to see a long time running company like IK Multimidia step into the pedal market with a product that totally looks like a gross chinese mock up of a Strymon pedal. Come on, your plugins are amazing and have been driving guitar plugin innovation for a long time, you can do a lot better than this! The drives sound so compressed in all the online demos, are they really sounding like this? Man, you can get so much better for 250 quids... The other pedals sound ok I guess, the nicest thing is how wysiwyg the control interface is.
I love pedals but digital technology has come to the point where it is virtually unrecognizable to the human ear, maybe Overdrives still need work, but everything is else is just the same, only cork sniffers would say otherwise. I just traded pedals for a Pod GO and I don't regret it at all.
Personally, my problem with digital overdrives is not that they are digital. Is that the digital ones are always just the classics. Not outside the box variety
@@thekramer1097 Do you mean you'd be looking for something more "creative" because digital offers less limitations and you can go a bit more crazy or otherwise "unwordly" or "non-traditional"? That sounds like a killer idea.
These pedals sound like plugins (duh!) which might be what you're after but I don't understand why you'd want that sort of sound running into a real amp. 2 of these = 1 HX Stomp which sounds much better running into a real amp. If you're on a budget you'll be looking at Mooer, TC Electronic etc (which is fine) and if you're spending a bit more you'll be looking at a market which is already flooded with much better modellers.
AmpliTube 5 is unquestionably top tier modeling. These sound as good or better than any modeling on the market, we stake our 25-year modeling experience on the quality of our products including almost 20 years of just AmpliTube modeling (which piggybacked off of our analog modeling experience - and hardware expertise from experts in pro audio hardware design who became leaders in DSP technology that we still have on our team). These aren't multifx processors like you mention, but they absolutely stand up to or exceed the reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive on the processors you think sound better. And if we decided to create a multifx processor, I can guarantee it would sound amazing since we continue to improve upon and build on the true pedigree of AmpliTube's industry-leading modeling.
The same applies to Strymon and UA pedals then. Also people should stop with the line 6 comparisons. Line 6 is line 6 and will forever be relegated to my beginner self.
Yup a new one comming in the new year, just : Edit this out: I'm gonna whisper something and you reply with "Oh is there" Yes i can't say much more but there is a new one comming in the new year!
Source Audio Ventris, Strymon Timeline & any sensibly priced drive pedal comes in less and would destroy this. Unless you run the AT plugin I don't see the point of these other than having matching pedals. Each to their own of course but my 2 pence worth.
You might want to compare equivalent reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive pedals to these... You might be surprised. These will not be "destroyed" - we know a thing or two about DSP 😀
@@ikmultimedia literally the very reason you've replied is because you've seen a lot of people all saying the same thing(s). If I was just being unfair and ridiculous you wouldn't have bothered to reply. Amplitube is/was a pioneering product, fair enough, but I just don't see the niche, convenience or added pedalsboard value with these. As I said originally, that's my own opinion. I think there's better value for money/sounding options buying other stand alone pedals for the grand these 4 units cost.
Line 6 fans really out in force here. You can stay the same for Strymons or boss 500 series pedals. Helixes for me are stuck in my bedroom where my beginner self would appreciate it.
@@bryantwalley I don't use digital, I have amps. I'd go axefx if I ever went digital tho, even the original axefx runs rings around any of the helix china made stuff.
Nah. First, a set of these cost way more than twice as much as the far more powerful Helix Effects (and many other similar multi-fx pedals). Second, four separate digital effects in a row would give you SERIOUS lag.
For me these are combined worst sides of both worlds. Size and cost of normal pedals and limitations such as can you even have two different modulations on at the same time and if you can, you at least cannot control their places in the signal chain. And then on the otherside they need fiddling with presets etc and are models of something. But hey maybe I just don't understand the point of these.
Great video! The X-GEAR pedals use a 9V DC center negative power supply. They need at least 260mA.
HOW TO USE MIDI ON THEM? I HAVE ALL FOUR AND I CANT FIND ANY TUTORIALS
@@RyanGunns Świetne pytanie, właśnie mam taki sam problem.
I'm not sure why I'm watching this video. I'm on my way to pick up my new Plethora x5! Thank you Lee for turning me onto this product. I hope your Amplitube customers enjoy these new products. Happy New Year to you, Pete and the rest of the Andertons family.
The Plethora is sweet. Been using one for a while, now.
I got the X-Vibe from IK Multimedia. I haven't been able to shoot the video for it yet but I've gotten to get familiar with it and it's VERY impressive to say the least! IK Multimedia is onto something amazing with these!
Thank you! Glad you enjoy your X-VIBE pedal!
I just got the x vibe and very quickly its sounding awesome @ikmultimedia
Thanks for all the content over the year and Christmas. I don’t watch much tv just RUclips guitar demos 😂 happy new year to you all
I got me the the x-space today, and I could say it’s the best of all of them, even if the rest of your pedals aren’t the top ones, this pedal gives a lot of Ambient to your sounds, specially if you play gospel and worship at church
The intro was the ultimate headphone test (also a coordination one)
Used Amplitube for years until I got my first HX Stomp. So going off that, these pedals probably won't be flying off the shelves because of competition. But, really cool to see a plugin focused company getting their hands into the world of physical guitar pedals!
Exactly. The timing and price point don’t really make much sense for these pedals to have high demand. Unless for those who don’t do a good job researching options.
@@brunorocha3718 I'm thinking, if i was to cost up 4 or 5 of these pedals, I'm not that far off or even above the cost of some of the multi FX processors. I upgraded to a Helix last month, Kempers aren't all that much more, neither is the Helix LT or Rack. It's a very small % of the market that would consider and purchase these Amplitube pedals.
Line 6 themselves started off as a plugin company, I think!
@@SydDante These are meant to be used as separate pedals on your pedalboard so if you need a great modulation pedal, for example, pick up X-VIBE and you'll have a lot of options for modulation from one pedal but it isn't meant to put the full AmpliTube on your pedalboard. For a single pedal that does so much, each of these X-GEAR pedals are competitively priced. Of course if you want all four to replace pedals on your board, that's great - and we do have a discount for buying all four - but these are single pedals for a reason. Perhaps someday we'll put the full AmpliTube 5 at your feet/hands/fingers/etc though... :)
@@ikmultimedia Considering I loved using AmpliTube as a plugin, i'd love to see a multi fx unit! I totally get the use case for these, might not be for me but i'm sure there's someone out there that would be head over heels for one of these. If these exist already, i can smell a multi fx unit in the works, i'll keep an eye out for IKMM on the scene ;)
The vibe is otherworldly amazing
I love my X-Space pedal. It’s amazingly versatile. You didn’t demo the “X-Mode” (hold down the middle foot switch) but it’s pure magic IMO. I’ll finish up an ambient/spacey/ethereal thing, hold down that switch, and it just soars. I’ve got the software version of the X-Drive as well, also quite nice. Anyone that thinks one can simply plug in a guitar and sound like a god without dialing in their tone is a fool. That’s true of even the most basic analog pedal or amp as well. There’s knobs on there for a reason. Use them.
My gear these days are my Line 6 Helix and/or my IK Multimedia AmpliTube 5 Max. I haven’t fired up any up my “real” amps for a few years. Given the collection & versatility of those, I thought my pedal days were over. The X-Space changed that. With the virtual version being north of $100, the hardware version (which includes the software version) was a no brainer for me. And I can use the pedal with my Helix as well. Win win. Now, if IK Multimedia would combine the features of the excellent AXE I/O with a controller like the Stomp I/O into one unit…I’d be in sonic heaven.
Thanks for doing such a good job in reviewing these. I’ve been using AmpliTube for years and was keen to see a decent review of these coz i am seriously thinking of getting some as budget permits. Greetings from NZ
Captain likes the simplicity of each pedal.
This video menage to be way too short and way too long at the same time. Still love you guys ❤️ pretty fantastic stuff you presented today. Happy new year and best wishes!
Monarch / Cat / Orange - What's hilarious is right behind them are Victory, Bad Cat, and Orange amps ... In. That. Order. 😆
I've been watching gear demos since the dawn of gear videos I feel like Pete is coming after Andy Martin's "Pedal Demo G.O.A.T." title. Aside from the X-drive (and to be fair I just don't like digital drives) he made all those pedals sound choice and is surprisingly good at adapting his playing to pull the best out of the gear.
Really tasty playing Mr. D.P.☮️
Captain: this was a product you needed Digital John for. Have either you or Danish Pete used AmpliTube?
Who else thinks that Danish Pete should do a TrueFire or a online lesson course? I think that would be awesome.
He does on the andertons plus service
I don't work for IK, but I also believe that they also act as an audio interface and come with the respective Amplitude 5 plug-ins included. Is that right?
Cool but also switching presets live would be annoying if you have to keep pressing both buttons till you get to the preset you want.
The Preset knob could be used for quick changes if you need to jump several banks and you want to position yourself in between songs. Also, the X-GEAR pedals also offer MIDI ports and and an External Pedal input. Both can be used for some nice customization for how your pedals switch presets, especially in a live situation. Edit* I wanted to also mention the Temporary modes which might be useful in your situation. If you press and hold say pedal "A" while using the preset on pedal "B", you can temporarily use that sound until you let go. Along with the X-MODE it's a really interesting way to add some flavor in the middle of a riff or part of a song without going too far. 🤘
@@ikmultimedia Ohhh, didn't know that, cool!
Sorry… can’t stop staring at that G&L! So pretty!
Pleasantly surprised with these new pedals surfacing from once software-only companies like IK Multimedia! :D
I suspect these pedals are identical on the inside, with different front panel stickers and firmware. The could even have the same white display with a colored film for the color!
They are not identical. You can also tell by the I/O that they differ (stereo I/O, etc). The display is also not the same with some film over it.
@@ikmultimedia Interesting. From a production perspective one would think it most efficient to work that way. But I appreciate the displays, they do look glorious!
I'm hooked on Valhalla so eventually I'll need a hardware solution. If I ever plan a show. But I dig these each offering tons of effects on each. Strymon Night sky or Bigsky is my main goal. And a decent clean amp.
Love these pedals on AmpliTube 5. May have to bite the bullet for the actual physical pedals, but are they as good as the Strymon pedals?
No
8:17 You can hear a sound gap between presets, this alone makes them unusable for me. And just shocking considering the price of these units.
New to all of this. Why get these for $1200 plus vs Line 6, Headrush orBoss thats cheaper, more compact and just as many if not more effects?
What's with the bandages on the tele?
If you could download 16 custom plugins of your choice : fuzz face, elec mistress, echoplex etc into one pedal I’d go for that but not this. Reminds me of the Zoom 905(?) Stand-alone pedals back in the day which I don’t think lasted long.
"Mistake" sounds like my Travis Bean :-)
so there are new line 6 pedals coming out in 2022?
I remember using Amplitube years ago and they were streets ahead of Guitar Rig in terms of tone. I also remember Revalver being streets ahead both of them when it came to clean/crunch tones. I was never impressed with Guitar Rigs sounds
Amplitube 5 is miles ahead of Amplitube 4 and much, much better than Revalver which Peavey sold to new owners a year ago and has lain dormant ever since. Guitar Rig... meh!
@@KiwiExpressCream My impressions were probably from 10 years ago, it's been so long that I forgot the exact versions, I know it was before Peavey bought revalver from ?Alien labs? or something, I had no idea it had changed owners again. There was something else with Revalver, as I mentioned in my first post, the Cleans and Crunch tones were so impressive compared to anything that was available at the time. I don't know how NI got it so wrong. Maybe it's the underlying technology but it always sounds off to me.
4:24 i would think RAT, which rhymes with CAT? 😅🤷♂️
Aah good. Man Colours ...... on The Strat!!
I have a suspicion that if someone were to open up these pedals you would find that the circuitry in each was exactly the same with the main difference between them being in terms of software (probably on a ROM chip). Standardising digital effects like that would be a good way of economising the manufacturing costs through the range.
Good point dude. Didn’t even occur to me.
I suspect you are correct sir.
Would make you think that they could very easily make a X-MAX unit like Eventide H9 Max with every effect available in a single housing.
These are a good idea overall but at the same time, I do think there is still a lot of value in really just going to music shops and experimenting with different standalone pedals and putting together a pedalboard that is very specific to your needs and doesn't have a lot of functionality you don't even really care about.
Having used similar multi-effect solutions, it is hard for me to look at this and not think that after some time of use, one would really just pick a couple of different effect types that they like per pedal and never, ever touch anything else. In that situation, it might have made more sense to just track down the actual pedals themselves so that you can have much more immediate, fine control over each at any given moment.
There is obviously a market for this stuff but I think that there are going to be guitarists that don't really benefit from the multi-effect pedal concept.
These are meant to be single pedals, but they happen to also have a lot of options on board (like the 16 different algorithms and all of the options for controlling them) so I can understand how you can get a "multifx" vibe from them. Think of X-GEAR pedals as taking a single slot for let's say a distortion or overdrive pedal but with the ability to do many different types of distortion or overdrive. Each pedal is essentially a chameleon providing any flavor of either overdrive/distortion, reverb, delay, or modulation.
Impressive Pedals with extraordinar Quality Power and Price ratio
Holy mother that X-Drive sounded insane!!!
Thank you! We're proud of these pedals.
12:15 The vh90 patch needed some distortion to that F.U.C.K/Balance tone.
Have the digital versions of them, I like the blue pedals shimmer reverb effects prettt good tbh
Thank you! I love that shimmer too.
I'm not sure they make sense as standalone items, maybe more aimed at people who use IKAT at home as their main rig, have built their sound using that app and then need to put those virtual sounds in road-ready cases. I use IK stereo chorus, hall verb and the Uni-vibe all the time and they sound amazing, and then with my own stompbox ODs in front - are they planning an all in one 'multi-fx' type release? That would make more sense I feel.
These are meant to be a standalone pedal providing an array of either reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive options right on your pedalboard. Except you don't have only one type of reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive you have any flavor you like. They are not multifx pedals, but they provide a huge range of tone options in each of those areas: reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive.
Hmm not sure about that earring Pete! Take it off!!! 😀
I wanna know what cap whispered to Pete lol
me too :)
Well that was nifty.
Just a race for which company can sell more to musicians in 2022! I don't need or desire these pedals!
Please please please review the new Quilter Mach 3!
Great sounding pedals
Great demo, but the company are called IK Multimedia. AmpliTube is the product line.
Thank you. 😀
My question is! Are these going to be competition or a substitute for Strymon pedals???
I bet no way, it's just completely different sound equality. Just compare tape delay with Strymon or EHX
Im pretty happy with the drive sounds I get from amplitube in my daw, but the drive pedal shown here is disapointing. However, the modulation and delay sounded pretty sweet in stereo through decent headphones!
IK Multimedia is the company name not AmpliTube Lee.
Multi FX pedals are fun to experiment with however, I prefer separate pedals for each Effect. It could just be me however, I feel you get a lot more out of a Stand alone pedal. It just seems that a dedicated pedal gives you a better tone and effect than a pedal that focuses on several different effects all in one unit... but then again, maybe it's just me.
I think the fact that standalone pedals are still substantially more popular than multi-fx proves that it's not just you lol. I see the value in both though
These are standalone pedals. You just get 16 algorithm options for each (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive) with a massive amount of control and tone shaping for each of those algorithms.
From the xvibe perspective, you can carry just the xvibe and have 16 different modulation pedals in 1 instead of carrying say 5 different ones on your board. On top of that program a preset for each song, save it while having a bright LED display show the name for dark stages. You get free plugins (there's a rebate right now for additional plugins) with tweak-ability in the software. Firmware Updates can be provided via USB and it has expression pedal and midi versatility.
Not sure about your uses but for me, cover bands guitarist should be head over heels for the xvibe. A typical cover band guitarist will need about 5 different modulations depending on genres, and this delivers in my opinion. Prior attempts (like the old line 6 pedals) at all in ones always had that "you know it's digital" sound, but based on iks plugins, I expect 5 star quality.
I plan on ordering one today, if it's crap I'll return it, if it's great then I'll reduce my board footprint.
To me, it doesn’t make sense that these guys get into the highly competitive physical pedal market. However they seem well positioned to make a hybrid product: a physical set of pedals that connect via usb to your computer and allow you to turn the knobs and switch them on and off like a normal pedal, but the processing occurs in your computer. This would have many advantages:
1) playing around with a virtual pedal board is far less natural than turning physical knobs and switches
2) you’d use the much more impressive computing power of your main computer, not rely on a dinky processor in each digital pedal. For anyone running apple silicon it simply makes no sense to be buying digital boxes that can’t match the processing power in their laptop.
3) it minimizes the number of times a signal gets converted from analog to digital and back to analog. I’d rather have a great interface do the analog to digital conversion once and then work with digital from then on.
4) you could swap what each pedal does - if you wanted a chorus pedal on your board, just change what the box controls.
5) you could also have always on pedals that only operate on your laptop, no need to have a physical box for those
6) you could save the entire pedal board and it’s settings. You could even have a physical switch that enabled you to toggle between those presets - this would change all the settings on your computer and what each physical pedal controls and what it’s initial settings are. It also means you could change pedal order between presets because the entire processing path is digital.
7) since these would really just be usb midi controllers, they could be bus powered, or would only need one very simple power supply.
You can connect the X-GEAR pedals to your computer via USB. Also, they can be controlled via MIDI which gives you a huge amount of options for using them live. They are each meant as a single pedal on your board but with a lot more power than a typical single pedal would give you.
@@ikmultimedia All this is true, but the reason these pedals cost so much is that you are selling me a new CPU and digital interface with each pedal. Your comparative advantage is in making awesome software. Arturia should be a role model for you. They make incredible virtual synths and then also sell amazing midi controllers that let people physically interact with them in a natural way. The controllers make the software way way more useful and creative. That’s what I think you ought to be doing. That’s a wide open market for guitar effects. And once people have the physical midi-controller pedals they would be hankering to buy more and more amps and pedals from you.
£1000 for those our or about £800 for a headrush? Maybe you can get digital John to compare them?
So. Is there a new Line 6 DL 4 coming out?
Regarding the audio experience while listening with the smartphone I can attest that on my older iPhone 7+ the stereo ability was not great. But my new 13 Pro Max is amazing. No headphones needed to get the full stereo experience and in general the audio experience is far better than older iPhones.
Interesting. But I don’t think it makes sense to pay £ 259 for each when you have the option of Helix Stomp offering everything and much, much more for £ 419… 🤷🏻♂️
By that logic no pedal makes sense cos x company offers way more in another format for another price. Everyone has their needs and preferences, this caters to the person who isnt looking for a full rig solution in one pedal and also doesnt want a pedal to do 1000 things when you only need 20 of those.
@@adriansoul7223 Right, these are single-purpose (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive) pedals that happen to offer many options in their respective area of expertise. For the price of a "single tone" pedal you get 16 algorithms and an insane amount of control over each. Plus if you want to get a bit more wild you can use the MIDI functionality to control these and create a pedalboard that is as complex (or simple) as you like!
But it's line 6. 🤷♂️🤢
These things SCREAM Line 6 "4" series pedals, right down to the colors.
They scream AmpliTube-quality/pedigree tone, though, so you might want to give them a go as AmpliTube 5 provides incredible tone.
A full set of these is over a thousand pound!
Good as they are i am sure they could put all of them into one
and bring the price down.
Better value can be found elswhere.
There's a discount if you need all four, but each pedal is intended as a single pedal for your board so you can choose which you like/need (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive) and they are priced competitively especially for all that they do. There's a wide range of powerful tones and options for each pedal, well worth the price.
You can say the same for a stymon or a ua pedalboard.
Amplitube is the greatest thing ive ever stole ,without it id never have a great choice of amps and different kinds of tones.i wouldve had just one amp for the last 7 years, especially since ive been in university for the last 5.5 years and still have 1.5 to go
same here lol and it sounds really good too
I think Mich and Dani to have a look
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These are a little late to the game , will have to try the Distortion, for a price of £220 seems pretty good .
Whats up with Peter he looks like he's proper pissed off , I wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking of leaving, as Captain Lee seems to be covering all the bases with new players, Acoustic and Effects wise. Yeah Lee all BMW owners say that they don't want to be that guy , definitely something going on between these two.
I'm not sure if these are gonna sell... at all?
Considering we're having a hard time keeping up with demand, unfortunately we might not be reaching out to you for a place on our team soon, sorry 😉
🤓🧐😊 yup 👍
Can you copy a amplitube rig and put it on a pedal .. if not they they are missing a trick . I'd rather have a pedal that can do that before I'd buy any multi fx unit from them
Thanks for the idea! :) If it helps in your situation, the X-GEAR pedals come with AmpliTube 5 SE and a virtual version of each pedal. These can be used together with the X-GEAR Librarian to create, edit, and organize presets on either platform and transfer them quickly for any kind of use.
Patch changes are quiet and fast! X-Space is probably going on my list.
Captain: I can't, you have to edit this out, but there's a new one of those coming in the new year.
Pete: Oh is there?
Captain: Or you don't, maybe just don't edit, just have me whispering something and then you go "oh is there?"
Hi. You are very good guitar players. Please play east music, or 70's indian music
I’d buy if they put amplitube Hendrix in a pedal.
X-VIBE has some incredible Hendrix tones in it. But your request is also noted 😀
love you lot
So a new Line-6 DL4 in the new year?
I thought they all sounded pretty good, but maybe it's that ASAT Special that's responsible...
It would be cool to have an amp pedal
...tonex?
It's really sad to see a long time running company like IK Multimidia step into the pedal market with a product that totally looks like a gross chinese mock up of a Strymon pedal. Come on, your plugins are amazing and have been driving guitar plugin innovation for a long time, you can do a lot better than this! The drives sound so compressed in all the online demos, are they really sounding like this? Man, you can get so much better for 250 quids... The other pedals sound ok I guess, the nicest thing is how wysiwyg the control interface is.
Was that a whisper of a new DL4?!
beanbags are just boneless sofa's
Good shit
Just waiting for someone tech savvy to record & play back the reverse secret squirrel...
Geez. Talk about overload. That’s way too many. Who needs this thing. 🤦♂️
They are single pedals so you might only want or need one (reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive).
@@ikmultimedia - I have a delay pedal with three knobs and it can make all the delays. I’m good.
I love pedals but digital technology has come to the point where it is virtually unrecognizable to the human ear, maybe Overdrives still need work, but everything is else is just the same, only cork sniffers would say otherwise. I just traded pedals for a Pod GO and I don't regret it at all.
Personally, my problem with digital overdrives is not that they are digital. Is that the digital ones are always just the classics. Not outside the box variety
@@thekramer1097 Do you mean you'd be looking for something more "creative" because digital offers less limitations and you can go a bit more crazy or otherwise "unwordly" or "non-traditional"? That sounds like a killer idea.
These pedals sound like plugins (duh!) which might be what you're after but I don't understand why you'd want that sort of sound running into a real amp. 2 of these = 1 HX Stomp which sounds much better running into a real amp. If you're on a budget you'll be looking at Mooer, TC Electronic etc (which is fine) and if you're spending a bit more you'll be looking at a market which is already flooded with much better modellers.
AmpliTube 5 is unquestionably top tier modeling. These sound as good or better than any modeling on the market, we stake our 25-year modeling experience on the quality of our products including almost 20 years of just AmpliTube modeling (which piggybacked off of our analog modeling experience - and hardware expertise from experts in pro audio hardware design who became leaders in DSP technology that we still have on our team). These aren't multifx processors like you mention, but they absolutely stand up to or exceed the reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive on the processors you think sound better. And if we decided to create a multifx processor, I can guarantee it would sound amazing since we continue to improve upon and build on the true pedigree of AmpliTube's industry-leading modeling.
The same applies to Strymon and UA pedals then. Also people should stop with the line 6 comparisons. Line 6 is line 6 and will forever be relegated to my beginner self.
Yup a new one comming in the new year, just : Edit this out:
I'm gonna whisper something and you reply with "Oh is there" Yes i can't say much more but there is a new one comming in the new year!
Source Audio Ventris, Strymon Timeline & any sensibly priced drive pedal comes in less and would destroy this. Unless you run the AT plugin I don't see the point of these other than having matching pedals. Each to their own of course but my 2 pence worth.
totally agree. or just get a used hx stomp or pod go for more functionality and arguably better effects (not to mention amp sims)
You might want to compare equivalent reverb, modulation, delay, or distortion/overdrive pedals to these... You might be surprised. These will not be "destroyed" - we know a thing or two about DSP 😀
@@ikmultimedia literally the very reason you've replied is because you've seen a lot of people all saying the same thing(s). If I was just being unfair and ridiculous you wouldn't have bothered to reply. Amplitube is/was a pioneering product, fair enough, but I just don't see the niche, convenience or added pedalsboard value with these. As I said originally, that's my own opinion. I think there's better value for money/sounding options buying other stand alone pedals for the grand these 4 units cost.
Seem like a lot of extra work just to avoid getting a Helix LT or for a little extra a used Helix.
Line 6 fans really out in force here. You can stay the same for Strymons or boss 500 series pedals. Helixes for me are stuck in my bedroom where my beginner self would appreciate it.
@@0megalul309 lol. Enjoy your extra work.
@@bryantwalley I don't use digital, I have amps. I'd go axefx if I ever went digital tho, even the original axefx runs rings around any of the helix china made stuff.
Nah. First, a set of these cost way more than twice as much as the far more powerful Helix Effects (and many other similar multi-fx pedals).
Second, four separate digital effects in a row would give you SERIOUS lag.
Yes you’d get delay from digital pedals maybe in 1995, it’s come a long way since then
@@sammaddison2085 I tried just two HX Effects in series and it was noticeable. For a laugh I added a Helix LT and it was VERY noticeable.
The 2 in the middle were ok , reverb is reverb , didn’t like the drive one , buy a way huge STO, great drive pedal for £100
For me these are combined worst sides of both worlds. Size and cost of normal pedals and limitations such as can you even have two different modulations on at the same time and if you can, you at least cannot control their places in the signal chain.
And then on the otherside they need fiddling with presets etc and are models of something.
But hey maybe I just don't understand the point of these.
Kind of like the digitech rp stuff
Cat = Rat :)
They sound crappy and wayyy too many useless options for me but I'm a dinosaur 🦕🦕, long live the valve
Great sounds but way too complicated to use.
I'm tryna invent 16 different amps in a plectrum. Pls gofund me.
What does “affordable” really mean? Is it just used to appease the poor people?
Just get an HX Effects.
Hx effects makes for a good present I'd give to a beginner guitarist like most line 6 products that fail in 4 years.
No need for these pedals. I just plug into my amp and play. I use very little gain just for solos. Very simple very easy. I like it that way.