Ive got a long ways to go with getting my presets shaped out but Im fairly happy with my Art SGX 2000. A little extra boost added to the distortion channel and Im pretty saturated. The parameters of everything can be tweaked for preference -distortion(tube or digital or both), two eq's, delay, compressor, expander, harmonic exciter, envelope filter, noise gate, acoustic environment simulator, low pass filter, pitch transposer, flange,chorus, panner,tremolo(has a pretty good leslie sound available), reverbs, gates, taps,regen, stereo, sampler, digital contour
. Its absolutely crazy. You know the old saying "first of all you need to be smarter than the machine" ? ............ well, it aint gonna happen here ........
Got it off ebay with the massive pedal for 270 something shipped. Back in the day the two units were over $800 new. I know alot of guys bought the Alesis multiverb and were more impressed. But Im pretty sure when I get more in tune to the thing I will be set up well. Im already stereo through two amps. However, honestly at this time Im spending my time learning how to play with some form of less sloppyness. I dont even have my riff tecnique back yet. So I really havent put much time into "The Machine" for the improvisation sounds I'll need. They will no doubt be better than when I just played straight through the amps. The preset called "crunch" is far more saturated through the clean channel than I had through the distortion channels of the Randall RG80 & Carvin X100B. I have mild, run of the mill, Seymore Duncan PUs too so the guitar could always use some help... Sad part is the fingers and the mind need the most work and .... well..........
