Korg Pandora PX5D

Revision as of 17:28, 30 May 2008

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General Information

Weapon: Personal Multi-Effect Processor

Make: Korg

Model: PX5D

Price: $180-$230

Sounds

As you probably (hopefully) already know that Multi Effects Proccessors have more than 1 sound, In fact the Korg Pandora PX5D has 100 Preset Sound Effects and gives you another 100 channels to do with what you want. Editing these channels is just one push away! Literally!! To edit you push the korgs curson button to the right at any given time. The editor gives you 6 different effects you can edit!! Each effect you can edit the effect type and change the parameter values.

The 6 Effects

Dyna: Dynamics and Pickup Modeling There are 29 Different Dynamics and Pickup Modelings you can chose from. Here I will list them out DYNAEXC | VOX WAH | WAH UP 1 | WAH UP 2 | WAH DOWN 1 | WAH DOWN 2 | SLOWATK | AC SIM | RESO | OCTAVE | RING | RING UP | RING DOWN | CRUSHER | HUM > SGL | SGL > HUM | HF TONE | PHASEOUT | B COMP | LIMITER | B Overdrive | B Distortion | B Fuzz | PREAMP 1 | PREAMP 2 | BALANCE | LOWCUT | FRETLESS | COMP

AMP: Amp Modeling There are 15 Guitar Amps, 10 Bass Amps, 3 Guitar Synths and 3 Bass Synths. BTQ CLEAN | BTQ OD | TWD 1x12 | TWD 4x10 | BLK 2x12 | AC 15 | AC 15TB | AC 30 | AC 30 TB | UK BLUES | UK '70s | UK '80s | UK '90s | UK MDN | US HI-G | US MDN | FUZZ | OCT FUZZ| [BASS: |VALVE 1 | VALVE 2 | CLASSIC | SCOOPED | LA STUD | GOLDPNL | JAZZ | STUDIO | AC 100 | UK MAJOR| GSYNTH 1 | GSYNTH 2 | GSYNTH 3 | BSYNTH1 | BSYNTH 2 | BSYNTH 3|

CAB: Cabinet Modeling. Cabinet modeling is the effect that simulate the acoustic characteristics of an amps cabinet. There are 11 Guitar AMP Cabinets and 12 Bass AMP Cabinets Once again here is a list of all the cabinets 1 x 8 TWD | 2 x 10 BLK | 4 x 10 TWD | 1 x 12 TWD | 1 x 12 VOX | 2 x 12 BLK | 2 x 12 VOX | 4 x 12 VOX | 4 x 12 CLS | 4 x 12 MDN | 4 x 12 VIN [BASS: |LA 4 x 10 | MDN 4 x 10 | MTL 4 x 10 | CLS 8 x 10 | UK 4 x 12 | STUDIO 1 x 15 | JAZZ 1 x 15 | AC 2 x 15 | US 2 x 15 | UK 4 x 15 | LA 1 x 18 | COMBI|

MOD: Modulation and Filter Effect Modeling Now we get to the modulations, 57!!! Great Mods to choose from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | CHORUS 1 | CHORUS 2 | FLANG 1-4 | PHASER 1-3 | 12 STRING | U-VIBE 1 & 2 | TREMOLO 1-3 | AT PAN 1-2 | ROTARY 1-3 | PICH 1-4 | MAJE UP | MAJE DOWN | MINE UP | MINE DOWN | PER4TH | PER5TH | MAJ6TH | FEEDBACK 1-4 | FILTER | FILTER UP 1-2 | FILTER DOWN1-2 | TALK 1-4 | RANDOM 1-4 | DRONE 1-2 | ENVPIT | ENV ECHO | INFFL1-2 | INFFL PIT 1-2|

DLY: Delay Time The Delay Time is just how it sounds. Its a Delay modeling effect.....

REV: Reverb Modeling The Rever Modeling conists of 11 different spaciousness sound effects these include: | DRY AIR | WET AIR | ROOM 1-2 | PLATE 1-2 | HALL 1-2 | SPRING 1-2 | BRIGHT|

NR: NOISE reduction You can Increase and Decrease this value from a scale of 0.0 - 10.0 The lower you have the setting the less the noise reduction. The higher you have this value the higher the noise reduction. Pretty simple eh?

Finally you have *WRITE* which lets you name your multi effect you have just created this includes symbols numbers and the whole alphabet!

Feel

THE Korg Pandora PX5D has many different feels to it as you should be able to tell if you read the above text. All the different FX can create many different feels in the sound that will come out of your amp/headphones/speakers. You can custmoize it so it has your own personal feel or you can customize it so it has more of a Metallica feel to it or any band you want. The decision is up to you :D

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