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I’m not trying to do anything that complicated with it. After reviewing PG’s Bias software there’s no way I’d pay the $199 for the complete upgrade. It’s too easy to get totally killer sounds (matching the individual songs) for free with ToneBridge. I’m mostly just happy that I can finally play on my computer with no latency. It’s a lot easier to play the backing tracks and have the guitar plugged into my Mac rather than have to play on my amps and screw with the computer in another room every time I want to play along.
Cheap Guitars (with some exceptions) play just about as good as expensive ones. It's your ability combined with an awesome amp that makes the difference.
Hello slash. The Jet City amp is pretty awesome. Hondo guitars were a mixed bag. The company changed hands several times and rerouted manufacturing locations repeatedly. The result was vastly differing quality among guitar models which were often produced only months apart. I picked up a Hondo Les Paul copy once (The “Slash” LP as they were often called) and the neck joint in the guitar was so badly swollen that you couldn’t restring the thing. I had to throw it out. Certain models such as my Jackson RRI knockoff (Formula I Hondo V) are just as good of quality as the original Jackson and play wonderfully. Often times with a slight replacement of hardware here and there the Hondo guitar is great. I own 4 electric and one acoustic. I originally got into Hondos when I went to a Gibson store to look at Les Pauls. I saw one that didn’t look bad and I asked about it. They guy working the counter told me that “it was a trade in and it was a piece of #### Hondo”. To my surprise the guitar felt way better in my hands and sounded just as good as the much more expensive Gibsons hanging on the wall. I love my ART SGX 2000. That thing was way ahead of its time. The drawback for some is that it has a pretty steep learning curve (think programming an 80’s VCR clock). I’ve found that I can get just about any sound I am trying to replicate out of the thing but you must become an expert at programming it. Lots of guys knock the thing for not being able to produce “Death Metal” distortion but that is not my experience. I can produce just about any amount of crunch distortion I want (though I don’t play death metal) you just have to dig deep in the manual and learn how to tweak the settings specifically the “Mix” algorithm. But that thing is 30 years old and still going strong. I wonder how many of those “plug and play” plastic stomp boxes will be still running in 30 more years. Pretty impressive that you bought your SGX 2000 new back in the day. What was that thing like $1200 bucks? I could never afford one although I always wanted one. I remember that a few years later Digitech came out with a unit that pretty much copied the SGX 2000 but had enhanced footswitch capability and was a little more user friendly.
Cheap Guitars (with some exceptions) play just about as good as expensive ones. It's your ability combined with an awesome amp that makes the difference.
Cheap Guitars (with some exceptions) play just about as good as expensive ones. It's your ability combined with an awesome amp that makes the difference.
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