New Line6 HD400 Multi Effects
My Behringer X-vamp finally mets its doomsday. Initially I know it was just the power cable that was faulty (it was really fault) but after I manage to get another replacement power adapter, the input pin couldn’t fit into the pedal and I made another trip down to the guitar shop to get the input converter.
Finally, just when I thought it should be working fine because it has power already, it failed me again =( The effects can’t seem to render any output at all. So I switched to the tuner and hope that it could detect my guitar pickups at least but no, it didn’t. Waste my time and money running to several places to get the adapter, bloodly idiot.
So after much consideration (since I have some extra moolahs on hand), I get to choose between the cheapest, cheap and the expensives. I could just get a cheap pedal like the behringer x-vamp but I didn’t like its feel. It feels cheap, plastic-ish and the effects are really, noisy instead of pleasing. I can’t do proper covers using that crap so I need something better.
So the shop I chanced upon was selling this Korg-AX3000g which is a legendary good effects but been around in the industry for 5 years and alot of online shops have discontinued this product, I reckon Korg might be releasing something newer in time to come but not sure when. I tried it and it feels good but psychologically, I just feel that I am using old tech and I shouldn’t waste money to buy old tech. Who buys pentium 4 3ghz single core when there’s quad cores? We rather pay that extra little more since its newer and doesn’t phase out in the next 2-3years.
Another effects I tried was the Zoom G7.1ut. The feel and overall was good but same thing, its pretty much old tech since it was selling back in 2006s. Again, I won’t want to pay my $3xx.00 on an old tech gadget. Zoom g9.1 looks good too but its slightly costly ($46x.00) although I can afford it, but I told myself no, try another one. I said, the one with HD.
Line6 came out with a new multi-effects with HD series; revolutionary HD modelling with 16 amps modelling and m-class effects like:
STOMPS: | ||
1. 4 Band Shift EQ 2. ’63 Spring 3. Attack Synth 4. Bass Octaver 5. Blue Comp 6. Blue Comp Treb 7. Boost Comp 8. Buzz Saw 9. Classic Distortion 10. Color Drive 11. Dimension 12. Facial Fuzz 13. Frequency Shifter 14. Fuzz Pi 15. Graphic EQ 16. Growler |
17. Heavy Distortion 18. Jet Fuzz 19. Jumbo Fuzz 20. Line 6 Distortion 21. Line 6 Drive 22. Mid Focus EQ 23. Octave Fuzz 24. Octisynth 25. Overdrive 26. Parametric EQ 27. Particle Verb 28. Pitch Glide 29. Q Filter 30. Red Comp 31. Ring Modulator 32. Rotary Drum |
33. Rotary Drum & Horn 34. Screamer 35. Slow filter 36. Smart Harmony 37. Spring 38. Studio EQ 39. Sub Octave Fuzz 40. Synth String 41. Synth-O-Matic 42. Tron Down 43. Tron Up 44. Tube Drive 45. Vetta Comp 46. Vetta Juice 47. V-Tron |
MODS: | ||
48. Analog Chorus 49. Analog Flanger 50. Barberpole Phaser 51. Bias Trem 52. Dual Phaser 53. Obi Wah |
54. Opto Trem 55. Panned Phaser 56. Panner 57. Pattern Tremolo 58. Phaser 59. Pitch Vibrato |
60. Script Phase 61. Seeker 62. Spin Cycle 63. Throbber 64. U-Vibe 65. Voice Box |
DELAYS: | ||
66. Analog Echo 67. Analog with Mod 68. Auto Volume Echo 69. Digital Delay 70. Digital Delay with Mod 71. Dynamic Delay 72. Echo Platter |
73. Echo Platter Studio 74. Lo Res Delay 75. Multi-head Delay 76. Ping Pong 77. Reverse Delay 78. Stereo Delay |
79. Sweep Echo 80. Sweep Echo Studio 81. Tape Echo 82. Tape Echo Studio 83. Tube Echo 84. Tube Echo Studio |
REVERBS: | ||
85. Cave 86. Chamber 87. Ducking |
88. Echo 89. Hall 90. Octo |
91. Plate 92. Room 93. Tile |
WAHS: | ||
94. Chrome 95. Chrome Custom |
96. Fassel 97. Throaty |
98. Vetta Wah 99. Weeper |
It has a built in looper, a USB sound card for listening and recording (the output from the soundcard is really awesome!). Although the model HD400 & HD300 only allow up to 4 simultaneous effects, it should be sufficient enough for me as a learner.
My gig bag with power adapters and my beta aivin acoustic simulation pedal.
The knobs for adjusting the amp, effects and equalisers.
The buttons on pedalboard.
I know the pictures quality are pretty low but the effects and guitar is in my dorm while my DSLR is sitting in the dry cabinet at home =/ I will definitely upload a high res photo of it. Meanwhile, let me jam and admire this state-of-the-art multi-effects.