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.
I've always loved the aqua effect 8:33. Unfortunately mine is broken years ago and I haven't found any other pedal that does that, the only one that get closer is the tararira by banana effects.
@@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.
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 ❤️
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
My first peddle was an Electo Harmonix big muff.Years later the owner would be my mom's neighbor in La.And he gave me about twenty various peddles which I distributed through our my La/ Hollywood friends
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
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
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.
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.
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 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 👊🙏💝
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!!
Yes there is a way to save! I believe the last page of the editing is labeled “WRITE” and you can confirm saving that way. I can’t remember the full process off the top of my head
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.
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
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....
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 Yo aún uso el mío. Si activas el afinador pulsando los dos pedales durante +- 3 segundos se activa el modo silencioso de afinación. ;) ;)
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.
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.
I had one, I really liked it. Everyone was always telling me it wasn't cool.
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.
I have one and still use it
I've always loved the aqua effect 8:33. Unfortunately mine is broken years ago and I haven't found any other pedal that does that, the only one that get closer is the tararira by banana effects.
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 😜
That sure is one cool first pedal! Thank you Sean.
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!
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
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!
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 ❤️
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.
My first peddle was an Electo Harmonix big muff.Years later the owner would be my mom's neighbor in La.And he gave me about twenty various peddles which I distributed through our my La/ Hollywood friends
I had one of these. The filter sample/hold is great
I’m gonna have to explore that!
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
That was my first pedal too! It was up to the task for me 10 years ago.
I really liked the zombie preset. 😅
I bought one in 99' when they first came out. I still have it.
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 👊🙏💝
My first pedal was a Korg ToneWorks G1 multi effect distortion pedal. I still have it and it’s still awesome. 😂
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!!
Suoni bene Zio. Bravo
Not my first but I played in a cover band with this thing and it was all I needed.
This is AMAZING. I was wondering if there is any way to permanently save the edits? I lose them whenever i switch effects.
Yes there is a way to save! I believe the last page of the editing is labeled “WRITE” and you can confirm saving that way. I can’t remember the full process off the top of my head
Low gain
Middle gain
Middle frequency control
High gain
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!
I've got the same pedal! just got it today lmao
Do you just have it in your pedalboard?
it's a really good pedal... i also still have one... found it 10 years ago at a salvation army... 10$
nice personal demo
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
I have one of those, but the screen and the expression pedal doesn't work
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
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.
Korg Toneworks PX1 Pandora
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
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. ;) ;)
@@SeanPierceJohnson Keep pressed at the same time a few seconds UP and DOWN and you will tune with sound muted
Is this ax1g better than a Korg Ax3g? which one would you choose?
Never played the Ax3g
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.
Check the voltage of your power supply, this pedal is nine volt
SPJ!
UNFCKNBLVBL!
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
. . a bit too long (self-loving) playing for each preset . . sorry just one man meaning