boloulu Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Anyone out there tried the pedal from Antares to see if it exceeds the quality or versatility of the JTV programmed with similar selections? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clay-man Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Some of the electrics sound good. The tuning system, hate to say, is probably superior to the Variax since it's, well, Antares and they're probably the best pitch shifting company on the market right now. The Acoustics sound meh though. I blame that on the mag pickups and the electric strings. Not enough top end. That said, the Variax still has one of the best pitch shifting systems for a guitar, and I haven't heard any pitch shift pedal come close to sounding as realistic in alt tuning as the Variax. The Electrics on the Variax are amazing, and the only true gripe I still have is the palm muting being a bit more bassy and lacking treble of a real guitar, but the palm muting improvements have seriously helped with it a long way. My JTV sounds miles better than my 600. I like some of the features the Auto Tuner has, but ultimately, for playability, Variax wins. I want to treat the modeling like it's just another guitar, and I love having the model and pickup selector be on the guitar, not a floor board. ATG is better than the Roland stuff, but I probably wouldn't take it over a Variax. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snhirsch Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Please don't judge the ATG-1 acoustic sound by that demo. In real life it's far superior to anything you can get from a Variax or Roland GR-55/GP-10, an opinion shared by many folks who, like myself, own all of them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clay-man Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Please don't judge the ATG-1 acoustic sound by that demo. In real life it's far superior to anything you can get from a Variax or Roland GR-55/GP-10, an opinion shared by many folks who, like myself, own all of them. Well, to be honest, they sound awful in the demo, but there's been demos where I feel like they sound different then actually having it in your hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevekc Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clay-man Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 The one I posted uses GK magnetic pickups, the one you posted uses piezos. Kind of proves my point that piezos have a better frequency range. That also means that the quality of the product will vary on what pickups you use for the 13 pin system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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