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andrei_benta

GearIQ 1578 Joined May 2016 Contributed to 29 artists

Indie music listener, producer wannabe, guitar player, piano player. In love with DX7 and offset guitars (Jazzmaster/Jaguar)

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Guitars 4

This is a nice guitar, it's well crafted and sounds very good. When played without amplifier it sounds a little bit with more bass but still a good sound. It supports amplification with a built-in pre-amp which is quite good, having some controls for the bass, mid, trebble and volume. It also has a built-in tuner which works well but has some errors. It stays in tune very well, I tune it everytime I start playing and I was surprised to see that sometimes it keeps being perfectly tuned. Cons: The most relevant thing I can say bad about this guitar is that some strings cause a kind of vibration on the bridge and make it sound annoying, also the tuner is not so perfect, sometimes it can make little mistakes.

Keyboards and Synthesizers 4

Pedals 2

So, I was given this pedal as a gift and haven't used it for a long time because I did not have a proper effects chain and the pedal felt confusing at first. Lately I've been using it enough and I can say that it is a decent pedal for a beginner and for its price. Unfortunately, it's DAC is not it's best and you can hear the difference between the played part and the looped one. Also some controls still feel weird to me such as when I loop multiple layers.

Other Gear 7

VSTs and Plugins 7

It is a good plugin when you want to do really massive synths, guitars, swells stuff. At times it sounds kindof metallic because of it's algorithmic approach and if you really want to emulate a small room, another approach would be better. It has many parameters/presets but they only enhance the more synthetic/space sound, and it is ideal for sound design. I use it a lot, especially on dreamy stuff and because it is free I consider it a must have!
I use it when I want to saturate the sound and push a little overdrive. It sounds very sweet, analog and nonlinear and I used it a lot on both synths, guitar and voice. Considering it's free, It's a must!
It's a really simple to use plugin, compared to FL Chorus and it's really effective when you want to give a little spice or stereoize your sounds. Works great on synths and guitar. Since it's free, I consider it a must have tool for a pop/electro/synth producer.

Amplifiers 1

Basically I have been using this amp for more than 3 years. What I can say is that it emulates pretty decent some of the Vox's favorites (AC30, '59 brits, boutique, and so on) and as a beginner it is really useful to experience different sounds and see which one you like for further aquisitions. It has 4 modulation effects, 2 delays and 2 reverbs which get as good as they can be (the spring reverb could be more squishy) with both rythm tap setting and "amount". My main issue with this amplifier is that it amplifies the high frequencies in a very disturbing and painful way. I own a Squier Telecaster and, for a long time, I thought that the issue is my bridge pickup being cheap but since I bought an interface, the disturbing highs problem is gone. When you put it on clean, use the bridge pickup and set the gain to pretty high it just causes a very disturbing high frequencies amplification. I must note that it has a trebble and a bass knob which make a difference but you either cut the highs entirely or just make them really painful. My other issue is that switching between amp presets resets your settings to the default ones, so the knobs' position will not represent the true value for a given setting (eg: volume knob is turned down but after switching to a preset the volume sets to that default loud value and you can change it to the desired one by moving the knob a little bit). Maybe this thing is fixable and I didn't find the way to fix it. Pros: flexibile in generes (funk, pop, rock, metal, jazz, psychedelic, and so on), many settings for the price (gain,EQ,modulation,reverb,delay, volume, master), headphones out and external jack in (you can play along with music from a device but its performance as a standalone speaker is pretty poor), low E tuner (which I never used) Cons: awful high frequencies processing, confusing at first, some presets have poor eq/distorsion

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