HID Lighting Wild Tech Kaleido HID Kaleidoscopic Effect

Advantages: Great variety of effects, and easy to operate.
Disadvantages: There's now a Zoom 707 II!

...be assigned to a great many effects for some truly inspirational creations (I have one that turns single harmonics into wild, multi-layered whale songs!) and used with the wah you get a reasonably impressive noise (though the basic wah effect can easily be improved on - the internet patch sites help with this). My favourite effect is without doubt "Van Halen" which the makers have wisely protected from deletion by placing it in the non-user bank. It is a truly incredible sound - full-bodied, rich as the blood a stallion and rock to the core. If you use this effect on recordings, levels maxed, plug it straight into your computer (no amp) and the noise is simply incredible - it will drive you into a frenzy if you let it get to you. Playing with my old epiphone on this effect I got better pinched harmonics, than with my Jackson in a Marshall amp... Read review

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Advantages: Great sound quality and overall usefulness
Disadvantages: Few user un-friendly parts

...No, I'm not professing my adoration for some leather-clad woman from The Matrix, neither am I becoming overly religious; I love my Korg Trinity Pro. Imagine the scene: "Dad, I think I need something a little more up market if I am to succeed in my musical ventures." I was 16, just after my GCSEs had made my dad proud for an altogether brief moment. "I think I need a synthesiser." So, we went to Brighton, to a music shop, the name of which escapes me, but I recall it was run by a man called Matt Hi-tech (his real name, I'm lead to believe) who'd just been on a week-long course to learn all about Korg Trinity synths. I browsed through a black and white jungle of keyboards, synths vocoders, sequencers and samplers, LEDs flashing, LCDs displaying some rather pretentious voice names and I came across the beast. Its brushed aluminium... Read review

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...The Boss ME-30 Guitar Multiple Effects Pedal is a nice bit of kit. I bought mine second hand and have had it for a little over a year now. It features 3 banks of 9 effects - which gives you access to 27 pre-set effects and 27 that you can program yourself - which is really useful for gig situations. The expression pedal is smooth, a definite advantage over some of the cheaper multi-effects pedals on the market. It has a liquid crystal type display, and my only criticism is that this can be a bit hard to read when standing or in poor light. It also has a built in tuner, and phrase trainer.... Read review

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