On 2005-07-02, Dave gave this Alesis Guitar Effects a 1


Purchase: Purchased from Musician's Friend for $69.00(US) Replacement for aging DOD Acoustic1 multiFX board.
Pros: Visually attractive. Unfortunately, that's about the only nice thing I have to say about this unit. A piece of petrified dung encased in crystal is still a POS.
Cons: Where to begin? First, the factory presets are substandard. Many of them just sound like a bunch of hissing snakes. Although the advertising hype says all the settings are user editable. storing the user edits is impossible using the instructions provided in the owner's manual--which was probably written by Chinese slave labor with no real knowledge of English. I then attempted to use the procedures based on 8 years of owning a DOD multiFX unit. Those didn't work either. The customer service at Alesis has been unresponsive to questions about this issue.
Quality: The construction of the unit is sound, but as I observed above, encasing a piece of dung in crystal still makes the core content a POS.

Summary: Avoid this unit. Purchase something else.