My First Pedal...20 Years Later | The Korg AX1G | Stompbox Saturday
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- What's going on friends?!? Sean Pierce Johnson and welcome to my channel and a very special "Stompbox Saturday" retrospective episode. In this video, I look back 20 years to my 14th birthday and my FIRST EFFECT PEDAL: the Korg AX1G Guitar Hyperformance Processor.
With the benefit of hindsight, we'll explore some of the features and quirks of this ancient multi-effect pedal. I'll show you some of my favorite presets, compare an old preset I created to a preset I created just recently, and answer one BIG question: was a pedal like this a GOOD choice as a first pedal???
VIDEO CHAPTERS FOR SKIPPING AHEAD -
0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Welcome to 20 Year of Pedals
1:29 - This is a Toneworks pedal?
2:02 - Other AX Pedals?
3:02 - AX1G Overview
5:07 - Stock Presets
5:21 - "C'F'H'"
6:05 - "Madman"
6:54 - "12*STR"
7:30 - "Zoso"
8:32 - "Aqua"
9:32 - "Satch"
11:09 - What's Great About This Pedal?
11:46 - Editing the Sounds Is a Pain!
13:15 - 2001 VS 2022
13:33 - SPJ DIRT 2001
14:22 - SPJ DIRT 2022
15:13 - SPJ CLEAN 2001
15:41 - SPJ CLEAN 2022
16:13 - So Was This A Good First Pedal?
18:00 - Why Do I Keep It?
19:24 - What Was Your First Pedal?
19:37 - Subscribe!
19:45 - Join My Email List
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You forgot to mention the looper function. In PEDAL function setup, there is a HOLD setting that when you hold the pedal all the way forward, it lights the indicator light, and the sound will sustain forever, and you can play over it or along with it. Have used this to have a background sound or run throughout the entire song. Thanks for the video.
forgot to mention because i actually never used it. once i got a DL4 that was my looper. i'll have to go back and explore than one a bit
It has what, 8 seconds? Good enough for lots of things.
That sure is one cool first pedal! Thank you Sean.
My first pedal, too. Found it in the basement 20 years later. I recently bought a rc500 loopstation and now linked my old korg pedal to it. Still does what it's supposed to and I'm having a lotta fun looping the weird sounds with the rc500 ❤️
Loved the video! (Now that I’ve seen more than the title-Thanks 😄!)
Awesome! This was a fun one.
@@SeanPierceJohnson After years of stuff like this and early days of DAW, it took a cheap, 3 knob analog delay pedal to teach me how important hands-on, knob-controllable effects really are for learning by doing, exactly as you say.
@@chiefbucknell took a Boss Metal zone for me 😜
My first pedal as well, I gave mine away to a kid who was learning guitar. After seeing this I'm kinda regretting that. Great video, cheers
Cool video. My first effects unit was a Digitech RP-1, that I saved all summer for. Still works, too! Great shirt.
Nice! And thanks! That was a random Hot Topic find. Had to get it. Love the 16-bit Super Nintendo-esque art
still have mine and still use, have an extra just in case, At the end of the day, it is the player and not the tool. great work!
this was my first pedal too, bought it from my friend circa 2002 when they got their new boss multi pedal. shall have to dig it out!
Just found one of these I'm going to go ahead and buy it I haven't played the guitar over 30 years was just a dabbler enjoyed your video very well done
The line ds. Distortion is great and you can hear all notes clearly.
Not my first but I played in a cover band with this thing and it was all I needed.
My first pedal was a Korg ToneWorks G1 multi effect distortion pedal. I still have it and it’s still awesome. 😂
That was my first pedal too! It was up to the task for me 10 years ago.
I had one of these. The filter sample/hold is great
I’m gonna have to explore that!
my first pedal was a Boss ME-50 muti effect type deal and it was the perfect first pedal. the controls on it were more like a pedalboard than this korg so much easier for a 16 year old to understand. it certainly sent me down a long winding road of collecting stomp boxes lol. It had a ton of percs too like super low noise, no patch cables to go bad, built in compression. i kinda regret selling it, but it went to a friend and is actually getting used which makes me happy
I remember the ME-50 well. A couple kids I knew had them.
I bought one in 99' when they first came out. I still have it.
My first pedal, too! Still got it, occasionally still use it. Recently learned that apparently it’s the pitch shifter used for the “chipmunk” vocals on the Battles song “Atlas”. I got a Korg AX1500G and 3000G recently, out of nostalgia-not a bad evolution, those other two. More tweakable, and the Korg Vox acquisition shows!
Man...the video hasn't even gone live and we already have a comment! Hope you enjoy the video when you get a chance to watch it.
Yeah man, the evolution is pretty nuts. I've been going down the rabbit hole of gear from my youth to get a sense of how far we've come. Obviously, the Line 6 stuff was tops back in 2001 and not something EVERYONE could get. But these older Toneworks pedals were a great gateway to a BUNCH of sounds. I've pretty sure some of this tech even wound up in the Vox Valvetronix modeling amps that came out around then. I don't know...just a theory.
@@SeanPierceJohnson I agree with your theory! Yeah, it seems Korg decided the Vox brand looked better on their guitar-focused products (other than Miku 😊). I recently got an HX Stomp, so I guess I’m bridging the worlds of affordably premium quality and “not bad, for the money” affordability.
nice personal demo
I have one and still use it
Suoni bene Zio. Bravo
I've got the same pedal! just got it today lmao
I still use one 20 years later...the line ds. Distortion sounds really great still..the noise reduction stays turned down though added a hush pedal.
The Korg AX1G was my first pedal too, aroud 2002 year. Now i have it again in 2022, and i'm using it in a very different way, i understand how to use those wacky dj and looper effects
Same here try the Line distorting effect.turn it down to 20 or so and that sweet spot emerges
Man I looked up this pedal here on RUclips not expecting to be able to find any videos on it because I did not remember the name of the pedal and it was the second video I came to that had this pedal review.
This was the first pedal I have had and it was the best.
I payed about 250.00$ for it but it was worth it.
It had a bunch of presets but the best thing was you could edit every preset distortion and every aspect of the effect.
Such as if you used the wha effect you had three different preset whas I think but you could edit the effect and change all areas of the effects such as the wha you could change the type of wha to a filter wha or a heavy wha or a funky one or whatever you wanted.
Then you could edit the type of distortion, the type of echo or reverb, the type of modulation, the volume and every element of any one effect.
This had an amazing sound to it for a digital effect pedal and you could do so much with it.
This was awesome to get to review after all these years and to have found it so easy really is great!!
I love watching videos of products I use to have it’s wonderful.
Thanks for the upload and Cheers!!
I use my ax5g as an expression and wah pedal, saves me a lot of money, been trying to get it to work as a whammy pedal to play audioslave.
Before I started playing guitar, this was the first pedal I saw and played, my friend had it, I remember strumming the e string while he dialed tones 😂 then I bought myself a rp50 early 2000 , i sold it, didn’t remember the ax1g sounding this good, it’s very decent, and for the time it was awesome!
Looking back at it…and with all the knowledge I’ve acquired over the years…this thing is just bonkers for the time and it’s standing amongst multi effects of the time
My first pedal was a BOSS Super Phaser that was given to me by a coworker but my second was Korg Toneworks Ampworks and I still have both of them along with a BOSS GT-1.
nice! love the Super Phaser
When I first heard your spjdirt preset @13:33 i was, like, hey! that sounds a lot like how I'd set something up!
Then I heard your *modern* spjdirt preset @14:22 and was, like, No! *THAT* sounds a lot like how I'd set things up! lol
hahah! that's awesome. yeah i was surprised out how much i changed and how much stayed the same
I jus got myself AX10G thou im still checkin it i've been playing bass now im on guitar so I'm trying effect pedal bt im more of doz nice clean chorus delays n stuff.🎼🎵🎶🎧🎸so i hope its gona work for aswell 👊🙏💝
I had a handful of Danelectro FAB pedals when I first started. The flange, echo, distortion, overdrive, and metal
some of those FAB pedals weren't bad
@@SeanPierceJohnson not at all for the price back then and how little I knew. Granted I didn't get to try them all and still haven't either
Hey Sean! Great video! Any idea what the Aqua preset is? I miss this pedal and they preset lol
Hey there! My best guess is a step filter or step phaser. I also think a reverb is present as well.
It's a fun sound!
If you don’t have a solution for silent practice and it’s just laying around it’s certainly got good enough tones for that if nothing else. Weird presets like that aqua can come in handy when looking for a sound effect for a track too. Personally, I think all gear is worth keeping around if your not hard up for money and you record your own music. A lot of these old multi effects pedals have weird effects that are actually kinda hard to find these days. Ring mods and stuff like that aren’t always the easiest to find.
I’m constantly amazed how much I had access to…just like my POD 2.0
Still rinsing the aqua preset. White Pony era Deftones filter.
Oooooo, never put that together. Now I wish I could just have THAT sound in a single pedal
En un jcm800.le utilice durante años...gracias
I literally got this as my first pedal as well... and it’s the reason I didn’t use pedals for over 10 years 😂 now I have a problem.... ask josh Scott....
That aqua setting was pretty sick though. I did find lots of uses for it
Haha! Yeah Josh basically convinced me to buy my Session Man.
I have one of those, but the screen and the expression pedal doesn't work
Hello Johnson, I'm leaving a comment in faraway South Korea.
I'm getting this pedal from someone I know and using it.
I really like it, but when I plug it in(Power, DC 9V i mean), it turns off.
It works well with just the battery, what's the problem?
I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me.
Honestly, I have no idea.
It does sound like a short of some kind OR that maybe the power supply is the wrong kind. I don’t know.
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SPJ!
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Is this ax1g better than a Korg Ax3g? which one would you choose?
Never played the Ax3g
I still have mine..i forgot how to use it. Lol haha got it back out awhile ago.
it did take me a little bit of time to remember how to do stuff. not the easiest editor in the world
I have one but a few days back it lost output. The tuner still works but no output. Any ideas anyone?
I've never used this pedal, so this is a total shot in the dark, but if I understood what he said, when you engage the tuner, it turns off the output. So my first thought would be, is the tuner still engaged? if so, disengage it and see if that brings your output back.
Lastcresort: Try factory resetting if nothing else works. You should jot down your saved patches though.
What was my first effect pedal ? It was Korg AX1G LOL
Low gain
Middle gain
Middle frequency control
High gain
Why need anything more than that?
I can think of several reasons personally. The first and most useful is that while you bypass the AX1G and activate the built in tuner it doesn’t mute your sound. That’s kind of a big deal for me. No one wants to hear loud tuning
@@SeanPierceJohnson I just turn the volume knob down some.
@@SeanPierceJohnson Yo aún uso el mío. Si activas el afinador pulsando los dos pedales durante +- 3 segundos se activa el modo silencioso de afinación. ;) ;)
. . a bit too long (self-loving) playing for each preset . . sorry just one man meaning