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Alesis GuitarFX 24-Bit Multi-FX Guitar Processor

Full-featured DSP toolbox with incredible-sounding distortion, amplifier modeling, modulation effects, delays and reverbs.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           8 out of 10
Features:
           8 out of 10
Quality:
           7 out of 10
Value:
           8 out of 10
I Want It:
           7 out of 10
Sound:
           8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           9 out of 10
Support:
           7 out of 10
 
 

"Damn Good Little DSP Unit"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          7 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 8/28/2007
Style of Music: Rock
Musical Experience: Guitarist for 28 years
Location: Los Angeles

 

 
Feature:
It has very good presets. I use the presets, and I get a good sound.

Quality:
It's plastic, but it's also $69. What do you expect for $69? Do you expect it to be built of Titanium or even steel or alunimum for $69, for God's sake? Don't slam your boot down on it, and it won't break. I use it at home, and use Boss pedals when I play shows. It won't break at shows if you are wearing deck shoes and don't have a stomp like godzilla.

Value:
Everyone wants the best there is in the world, and then say "I'll give you 5 bucks for it." People make me sick.

Desirability:
I like the blue color. At least it's not some sickening silver or something hideous. I think it's sexy, with lots of sex appeal.

Sound:
It sounds fine to me. It sounds like the DSP processor that it IS. I read some of the other reviews here, and I don't follow what they're saying. It sounds comparable to Boss and other units that utilize DSP. These people expect it to sound like archaic equipment manufactured in 1969, but if they want that type of scene they should save and buy an original Fuzz Face or whatever. It gets a good MODERN (Emphasizing MODERN) sound for electric guitar, period. I think the chorus and overdrive sound fantastic myself.

Ease of Use:
It uses presets, as stated. There is not much to using presets. You choose a preset, and go with it. It's not the type of thing you program. You select a preset, and work with it.

Overall:
I like it myself. I don't know why Alesis stopped making it.

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"Ok, but no Distortion"

Overall:
          4 out of 10
Features:
          7 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          5 out of 10
Sound:
          5 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 3/30/2005
Style of Music: Heavy Rock/Metal
Musical Experience: Hobbyist and in a band
Location: Bloomington, IL, USA

 

 
Quality:
Seems reliable enough to be at a live gig.

Value:
It's set at a good price but the factory presets suck

Sound:
It has good effects but really lame distortion. It's not a pedal if you want the heavier distortion that modern metal bands are using.

Overall:
The pedal needs better distortion settings. It also has a crap load of hiss with the Noise Reductin On, on some effects. It is easy to create your own effects and simple to use. The facory presets all suck though.

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"Save your money--don't buy this."

Overall:
          1 out of 10
Features:
          4 out of 10
Quality:
          1 out of 10
Value:
          1 out of 10
I Want It:
          1 out of 10
Sound:
          4 out of 10
Support:
          1 out of 10
User: a customer from stjoelive.com
Submitted: 7/2/2005
Style of Music: Psychedelic Country Gospel
Musical Experience: serious hobbyist
Location: Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

 
Feature:
While this claims to have eighty editable presets, the manufacturer's hype is misleading, if not fraudulently deceptive. See additional comments under "Ease of Use" and "Support".

Quality:
As far as the quality of the physical housing, it is superb. But a piece of petrified dung encased in crystal would still be basically a POS and that's what this unit is.

Value:
This isn't worth the price. Other manufacturers have products in the same price range which are superior in performance, ease of use, and customer support.

Desirability:
I would want another one of these like I'd want some loathesome highly communicable disease.

Sound:
Sounds are average compared to comparably priced units by other manufacturers.

Support:
Customer support from Alesis is a joke. When I e-mailed my questions about changing the settings, the response I got was to instruct me to place a long-distance call to a number which is not toll-free and I was then told I would have an average 20-minute wait before a human being would be available to take my call.

Overall:
I plan to replace this in a few months. Then I plan to take this out back and use this instead of a 2 x 4 to practice hammering nails straight.

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"A mediocre pedal at a mediocre price."

Overall:
          1 out of 10
Features:
          4 out of 10
Quality:
          6 out of 10
Value:
          5 out of 10
I Want It:
          5 out of 10
Sound:
          5 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          5 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 2/22/2006
Style of Music: Everything but rap
Musical Experience: 30 years as a professional musician/songwriter/sound engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ

 

 
Feature:
The tuner does not work well, and the factory presets are poor at best. It does work well for acoustic sounds.

Quality:
Plastic is still plastic.

Value:
This is a good pedal for a beginner.

Desirability:
It is aesthetically pleasing, but I not only don't want it, I have already sold it.

Sound:
Average for a multi-purpose box.

Ease of Use:
All of these all-in-one pedals program essentially the same. I still don't understand the point in having so many available banks without having enough difference in effects to utilize them.

Support:
No experience.

Overall:
I got rid of this product two days after purchasing it.

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"Don't get it unless you want to program everything yourself."

Overall:
          1 out of 10
Features:
          4 out of 10
Quality:
          3 out of 10
Value:
          1 out of 10
I Want It:
          1 out of 10
Sound:
          7 out of 10
Support:
          2 out of 10
User: a customer from msn.com
Submitted: 4/17/2004
Style of Music: variety
Location: Greensboro, NC

 

 
zZounds has verified that this customer bought this product from us.
Value:
who needs something with 80 factory programs you can't use?

Sound:
good sounding effects

Support:
yeah, they replied to say, yup, that's how it is. Thanks a lot.

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Alesis GuitarFX Customer Review

Overall:
          1 out of 10
Features:
          1 out of 10
Quality:
          1 out of 10
Value:
          1 out of 10
I Want It:
          1 out of 10
Sound:
          1 out of 10
Support:
          1 out of 10
Submitted: 9/14/2005
Style of Music: Hard rock, Rock Lead soloing
Musical Experience: 5 years of guitar playing behind me
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

 

 
Feature:
Rubbish - none of them works properly. Lots of hissing, noises. Low quality outcome.

Quality:
I am sorry I bought. It sucks. Get an analogue modelling distortion pedal. It would be much better!!!

Value:
No value. I am trying to get rid of it right now.

Desirability:
Bullshit. Don't buy it this crap is disastrous

Sound:
Low quality crap. Don't buy it!!!

Support:
I don't care about their support. "Award winning technologies" What a disaster.

Overall:
I am so sorry I bought it. Low quality sound, features

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