Bought a floor unit!

Yep I did it again. I bought a Zoom G9.2tt floor unit guitar fx yesterday. My mission and objective that day was to test out studio nearfield monitor, possibly buying one, but got meself in trouble testing out the G9.2tt at Chambers Music. It is shiny, sturdy, sexy, and ofcourse sound great! So I bought it. I'll get that monitor some other time :)

First of all, I've been checking out the Zoom guitar fx series for quite a while, targeting the lower range G7.1ut but that was out of stock. So I saw a bigger, sexier G9 on the shelf....just to test out the features and sound you know....

The G9 got TWO vacuum tubes (12AX7) - 2 actual physical tube! One is pre (input) preamp, the other is post fx (output). Since it got real tube, the warmth and organic tone - which is somewhat lacking in software emulations - are apparent once i turned up the tubes' knob to get warm saturation and solid state sweetness.

The amp & cabinet simulation was great considering the price range (RM1550). I haven't tested it extensively but it sound as good (or better when combined with the real tube preamp) than Guitar Rig 2 or Amplitube 2 software emulation plugins.

It have a lot of fx modules and 5 simultaneous configuration. Obviously, you can't beat soft-emus over the shear number of unlimited modules & configuration. But the G9.2tt is more than adequate for a lot of guitarist - both in studio/rehearsal and live on stage.

What i like about it is that the layout is based on hardware amp-head (aka preamp combo/stack). The topmost area housed a row of knobs. You get the usual Gain, Level, Bass, Mid, Treble, Presence. This can be tweak live, just like real thing while busy wowing the crowd :)

On the top left, you get the usual LED + screens. But there is another row of knobs beneath for editing the EFX module. This is also tweakable live - like having stomp-boxes and fine-tuning the [parameters...or simply playing with the knobs for special fx is always fun - like tweaking Boss Digital Delay's parameters creating dreamy out of this world fx :)

Oh I forgot to mention that it have 2 pedals. One is typically a Volume pedal, the other is Expression/Mod controller. The catch is, there is another sliding (horizontally) pedal on top of Pedal2. This is like having a Vector XY controller in synths!

AND ohhh, the respond time between changing patch is 5ms!!!! no more silence in-between patch! OK i will stop writing now and get back on playing it :)