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mcdoofus
26-Sep-07, 12:22pm
I'm just getting started DJing - will be getting a couple of CDJ 800 MK1s and a Vestax PCV 275 mixer in a couple of weeks. At home I have a guitar effects processor lying around, its a Korg AX1G.. I was wondering if I would be able to run this through the mixer for effects? You can edit a heap of parameters like chorus, delay, flange, distortion (all the usual guitar effects) so I was wondering if this would be useful (or possible) in any way. Here's some specs:

The AX1G feature an expression pedal that lets the guitarist/bassist use his foot for direct control of the sound. The pedal can control many effects ranging from crisp cutting wah work to expressive volume swells. Use it to manipulate various parameters of bending effects to change the pitch, delay or tremolo effects, or to control the sample and play function. By pressing the pedal all the way down, you can switch on or off the effect assigned to the pedal.

Sample and Play
The sample and play function of the AX1G lets you record and play back a phrase or solo part while you continue to play. The recorded sound can be played back as is or modified using the expression pedal to create effects that have never been heard before. For one-shot playback or forward/reverse playback, you can switch the sound mode between hi-fi/lo-fi, and for loop playback you can specify the length of the loop. Since you can continue layering your guitar/bass lines while the loop plays back, a vast number of possibilities open up. For example, you can practice along or play a solo over a backing part which you have looped.

Effects with Attention
The AX1G utilizes the proprietary ToneWorks Hybrid Gain StructureŽ to create high-quality distortion and overdrive. A total of 69 types of high-quality effects, including wah, delay, ring modulator, flanger, pitch shifter, three-band equalizer, cabinet resonator, and expression pedal are provided.

The total of 71 types of high-quality effects includes a dynamic exciter unique to ToneWorks, that lets the exciter depth be controlled by your playing touch, an octave effect which adds an ultra-low note, five-band equalizer, cabinet resonator, chorus, flanger, delay, reverb and expression pedal. And up to seven types can be used simultaneously.

Powerful combinations of these effects are provided as 30 built-in effect programs. These programs can be edited by changing the combination of effects or by adjusting their parameters, and stored in memory as new programs.

richcur
26-Sep-07, 12:40pm
I'm interested in this also... got a swag of these pedals lying around from my Uni days

mcdoofus
26-Sep-07, 12:43pm
It sounds promising, the AX1G has a built in sampler to record and playback loops combined with effects... hmm... :stroke:

Gruso
26-Sep-07, 01:04pm
The less rules there are the better when it comes to experimenting with sound, so my first piece of advice would be to plug the fucker in and see what happens! The mixer has an FX loop as you're no doubt aware, so all you'll need are a couple of adaptor cables. On the send side, you'll need to convert stereo RCA to a mono 1/4" jack. On the return side it's all stereo, so a stereo 1/4" jack to stereo RCA cable is needed.

What I don't know is how well the line level form the mixer will be received by the FX unit's instrument input. The Korg does have a high/low input switch, not sure how much this will help. In any case you have control of the send signal from the mixer so with careful settings you should be able to get away with it. Someone in here should be able to provide better advice on that...

palaeo-tech
26-Sep-07, 01:04pm
If there are stereo line ins and outs on the AX1G and send/returns on your mixer then you can. Otherwise you could run a mono out from the CDJ into the effects unit and out from it into one of the channels on your mixer. Obviously it would only be good for drum loops and such then but if you have pan controls on the channel strips of your mixer then it could be alot of fun!

Funkedub
26-Sep-07, 01:13pm
plug the fucker in and see what happens!



:zabiela:



:thumb:

Blink Me
26-Sep-07, 05:43pm
plug the fucker in and see what happens!
That's what she said.

On a more serious note, there's a video on YouTube of this guy using an effects board to do stuff. Here it is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-m5ZlWziIeA

DJ D one
30-Jul-08, 01:05am
"Reaktivating" thread...any people using guitar pedals with their DJ gear???

Just looking to see if they would be a kind of filter effect pedals outhere...lol

mcdoofus
30-Jul-08, 08:49am
I never got around to trying this, but the pedal is kicking around the house somewhere, I'll give it a shot this week.

Funkedub
30-Jul-08, 09:16am
"

Just looking to see if they would be a kind of filter effect pedals outhere...lol


head down to a cash converters or any old pawn brokers ... there's bound to be a variety of old skool and newer pedals to select from at pretty bargain prices. Cashies will also cover you with a limited warranty in case you get it home and doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

If you can find and EQ with a sweepable mid then that acts as a rudimentary filter

get some patch leads and go nuts ...

archietech
30-Jul-08, 09:17am
get off your arse and plug it in mate!

Input Connections:
Guitar Input

Output Connections:
Line/Headphone Output

just need an adapter and route it back into the aux receive

DJ D one
30-Jul-08, 10:09am
Thanks Funk, will keep this in mind...
D1

DJ Fusion
30-Jul-08, 10:29am
Someone is selling an awesome wah wah pedal in the for sale section, heaps tweakable for synths and songs etc.

DJ D one
30-Jul-08, 12:24pm
^^lol you are a funny dude...ahahaha..."someone"

Garthyboy
30-Jul-08, 12:37pm
I could be totally wrong here
But aren't a lot of guitar pedals MONO?

I've a got a few bass pedals (JD Bass Wah, Zoom 501 and a Boss board) still plugged up with my bass rig - i remember some time ago plugging them into my DJ set up with no real jaw dropping results....


Shadow and Cut Chemist used a sampling pedal on their lastest The Hard Sell tour to great success though.

DSILVR
30-Jul-08, 01:09pm
All i know is Loco Dice does it and its fucken cool as

DJ Fusion
30-Jul-08, 02:20pm
^^lol you are a funny dude...ahahaha..."someone"

Thx, I do try. ;D

Funkedub
31-Jul-08, 09:54am
I could be totally wrong here
But aren't a lot of guitar pedals MONO?

I've a got a few bass pedals (JD Bass Wah, Zoom 501 and a Boss board) still plugged up with my bass rig - i remember some time ago plugging them into my DJ set up with no real jaw dropping results....




They are mono for the most part unless you get a multi-FX unit.

But there's no reason why you can mix the mono return signal with the original stereo channel and blend the 2 of them ... when the flange is flanging hard most people won't even notice it's only mono anyway :P

Spectrum
31-Jul-08, 12:12pm
But there's no reason why you can mix the mono return signal with the original stereo channel and blend the 2 of them ... when the flange is flanging hard most people won't even notice it's only mono anyway :P

Perhaps not on a flange/phase effect (which benefit from being delayed), being digital there's gonna be some latency, therefore mixing wet effects with the dry signal back at the mixer is gonna prove messy.

But then I reckon DJ effects are clunky given that the 2-ch stereo mix goes through them.

Effects in production rarely sit on the master bus, for good reason.