chris_hare

Great preamp. Makes anything you plug into sound amazing. 5 stars.

This unit is incredibly flexible and has models (very accurate ones at that) from almost any amp you can imagine. Truly a swiss army knife for guitar and the next best thing to a Fractal or Helix.

Sounds line a PCM-70 in a box. Has the Lexicon algorithms and is built like a tank. Mine won't run on batteries anymore, but I use a power supply so I don't mind too much. That's the only knock on this pedal.

Mine is a 1990, made at the Hoshino factory. Great and versatile guitar. Neck pickup has a switch that changes the pickup to series/parallel/single coil. I play mine with flat wound strings and the guitar really feels like an extension of my body. I've thought about selling it for a custom shop 335, but I've never found a 335 that's better than my AS200.

The Yamaha G100 series II amps are built like tanks, and last even longer. 100 watts, solid state. The clean sound is unbeatable IMO for jazz styles. If you open it up you'll see the board is full of JRC4558 op amps, which is why the thing sounds so warm.