@Craigits just a front panel switch to turn the power on/off. Like I said above, the unit is prone to locking up...stuck presets, garbled LCD characters, hum, etc.
@@LeftHandedRightHanded it's a fairly simple process. 1. Remove the top cover 2. Drill a hole thru the front panel 3. Mount switch 4. Interrupt AC line from fuse output with a switch
A.R.T! I worked there from '90 to '92. It was created by the owners and a few employees of MXR. I worked on the assembly line, shipping, customer service, demoed at a trade show, etc. I would get called into the engineering dept. to try some new stuff in development. I played an early design of the SGX preamp when it was a pile of wires on an engineers desk (the guy who holds the patent for the phase 90 pedal). Unfortunately the preamp that made it into the production unit did not have as much gain as the earlier versions I tried. The SGX Express came out after the SGX 2000...probably '92 or '93. It was a fun place to work. :-)
Made in Rochester, NY. I got mine used in 94' and ran into the front end of a Fender 65 watt solid state amp. I also got a prototype Zoom 9002 a few years earlier, I still have both.
Tempee! I remember you. I started out in assembly and worked my way into Tech. I bet my initials are on the inside of this SGX 2000. I am still very much into guitar. We should catch up.
I miss ART!!!! I have owned the DST amp (the Rules Breaker) and various other pieces of ART gear..always good stuff. I STILL absolutely LOVE my XTreme pedal..and wish I could get a schematic for it. My hope is to build a version of it ,but this time with a noise gate! And a way to bypass those noisy effects.The EQ on that was FANTASTIC and so usefull. But so much hiss..that I just couldnt use it. A noise gate post effect killed everything...and that just didnt work..I tried.
I had an sge too. So what if it wasn't pro quality. I plugged it into my practice amp as a beginner and had a blast. I got a lot of different sounds with it and learned a lot about effects and what I wanted as a sound.
I also had a SGE mach2, distortion was a bit crappy, but digital FX were cooler. there was a preset doing the train sound, and a 2 second sampler I used to do the drone D 16th notes for run like hell (-: yes, it's really 80s!
I LUSTED after this thing in the late 80s. Had to settle for a little Crate combo and then eventually a Marshall Valvestate at one point, but THIS is what I truly wanted. And now I want it all over again. Everything about this thing is magical, including that color and graphic scheme.
It sounds really cool actually. It's like you dug it when it came out, then the whole analog purist phase and then you come full circle and appreciate stuff like this for what it brings to the table and does well.
This is NOT the sound of the 80's. It's CHEESY KRAPPY sound & he is PRETENDING that is what it all was, which is not true. Here's some chorus examples from actual '80's music, not the fantasy of what you think might 'approximate' it. The Art does not do this ~> ua-cam.com/video/fZciNthNnDA/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/ysYe4M0JAy0/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/x1U1Ue_5kq8/v-deo.html #BucketBrigadeFans =)
Dude, I feel like I'm 12yo again at Bill's Music House in Baltimore, trying out their rack tower with all of the solid state goodness of 1987. Good memories
Looks like something that would be in a bowling alley or an arcade that hasn't been updated since 1987. A Fender HM Strat would be the perfect guitar to go with this.
So glad the Art SGX2000 got some love. I bought one probably 10 or so years ago and still have it in my rack. Need to plug into it and have some vintage fun.
I still have my ART SGE and it's fun to play with, I run it though an original Carvin X50B head in the effects loop with the matching 4x12 cab on the left side of a stereo set up, and the right side is a Marshall jcm800 4010 combo, they all sound great ! I've always wanted one of these bigger bad boys, been searching for years, I'd still add this to my mini rack, I love these old racks. These videos are awesome, take me back to the old days lol
At the time, this was the level of greatness to which I aspired. I ended up getting a Rockman XPR instead. Believe it or not, it sounded incredible into the front end of my Marshall.
I spent years saving for an Art SGX 2000 Express with my paper route money as a kid. Got to relive it all over drooling over the Axe FX for years as an adult. I traded the Art SGX for a Fender Twin Reverb right before the value for the FX unit tanked. Thanks for the video - I really enjoyed it. Used to have a ton of fun routing a bunch of mics into it and with headphones have fake radio shows with my friends. Good times!
What a blast from the past. I still have mine (in storage somewhere). Mine came with floorboard switcher with built-in Wah Pedal which just added to its awesomeness for me. It was like Xmas for me every day when playing through it.
The ART Multiverb SGE was my very first FX unit I ever bought back in 86.....they just looked so cool with the Miami Vice pastel logo.....they just had so many versions...Multiverb...Multiverb II....SGE....SGE Mach II....I had the giant pastel midi floor controller too,the one with the big goofy rubber foot switches.....great stuff....Ahh the rack craze...
The thing you are missing is the presets are very 1980’s, but the unit is one of the most programmable effects units I have ever seen. Every factor of every effect used is adjustable/programmable. The presets may be 80’s, but the basic components are universal. Drive, chorus, delay, etc. you just have to dive in and learn how to program the unit, and it will make just about any sound you can imagine, and then some, vintage or modern. That’s what is so criminally overlooked about these units. Presets are all very “of a time”, but the unit itself is still very usable.
When I was a teenager in the late 80s and early 90's, seemed like most local bands I went to see, the guitarists always had the Art multi-effect processors similar to this model.
Dude, I'm on the same kick. After your SPX90 video the other day, I'm hooked. Found one the next day, been loving it. Going to pick up a MIDI Verb, looking for a Sony MU-R201...you've sent me down a deep wonderful rabbit hole! thanks!!!
Someone FedEx one of this to the composers of Cobra Kai immediately. Great playing and demoing this unit. Way less hissy than I remember ART to be back then.
@@donewithmodernlife I did the same, MP1- SGE- MOSVALVE, great sounding setup. I love the MosValve, I recently found one at Guitar Center , I snatched it up to use with 11Rack.
Bought one when they came out. The whole package with the X-15 Midi controller. Used it for years into a Mesa 50/50 stereo Tube power amp. Ultimate 80's.
Incredible sounds! So much Miami VIce sounds in there. And I still think the Miami Vice sounds are the best. This machine definitely seems something I need, since I can't really afford the really expensive stuff.
I still own a DigiTech 2120 (purple artist version) I bought brand new back in 1999 for $1000 from Mars Music. Don't use it anymore but will never part with it cause it does have some one-of-a-kind sounds in it that I've used in the past and may use again one day if I feel experimental and nostalgic at the same time.
HAHA :) All kidding aside, I remember Charvel released quite a few great guitars made in Japan in the late-80s that would blow away the Inonesian JUNK Jackson is putting out today !!
I still have a rack case with an ART SGX Nitro, 1st Gen Lexicon JamMan, an ADA microcab and a single space Peavey power amp that I breakout from time to time. I was never really happy with the presets, but making your own patch created some crazy sounds.
Dude! I've had one since 1989! Even after buying better rack gear, still old like the Digitech GSP2101 (which you should totally cover), buying real good tube amps, and now having a Kemper, Axe FX3, and a Helix. For some reason I can't let go of this thing! It just brings back so many good memories. I composed a whole movie sound track on it once! Keep on rocki'n man
Had one since the mid 90's, might be time to dig it back out and try it into some cab sims. I think I still have the patch building software backed up somewhere. Building patches on LCD screens are a nightmare.
Every sound this thing does is so harsh & cheesy cheap primitive & coarse U can easily exceed it even on any free old cheap slow computer with free software = so pointless some of these rack things. S tick with tube stuff =) & I don't mean fake tube where it comes after the distortion like the Mesa Boogie 'Triaxis' or Rocktron 'Voodoo Valve' $kam =)) Some clown online I recall talking how 'intricate & detailed' the distortion on the Voodoo was, & compared 2 the Peavey Rockmaster it's a ridiculous joke.
@@rayrobinson2074 I've got the Nightbass (wich works quite well for guitar as well). Was a bit disappointed when I ran it into a cab sim. Maybe I should try using the cab sim before the digital effects next time. If you know what you are going for the editing on the unit ain't that bad. The software helps, but since I don't have my unit contantly hook up to my midi interface I do most patch editing without the software.
I had an SGE multi FX single space , it was pretty awesome with my ADA MP1 and MosValve power amp. All the is long gone now but I recently acquired another MosValve to use with my 11Rack. I miss all this cool 80s gear.
I used to go and drool at this and the massive X-15 foot controller every week in the guitar store back then... forgot about it until recently when I got an SGE for free in a rack I bought and got to relive my chorusey youth!
Wow, blast from the past. I got one of these really early (‘91 maybe? It was the first one to hit my local music store, it came in an unmarked box and my manual is actually typewritten and corner-stapled) and it was my main unit for pretty much a decade. The presets were indeed gross, lol. Always made my own; I was in a “sound-alike” cover band and this thing was great for that. Eventually I discovered if you change the “tube type” in the distortion menu to “tube clean” and cranked the drive to 100% (there was probably a compressor in front too) it was a pretty great lead tone. I might feel differently about it now 😀. PS, thanks for “Born to Be My Baby” and “I’ll Be Over You”; I loved both of those tunes 😆
I went through the rack mounted preamp phase. Had one of these, then an ADA. A carvin. The best I remember was a Rocktron Voodoo valve. I wish I could have it again.
I had one of these! I had an Ada mp1 for all preamp tones into the ART SGX for effects to a dual 30 band graphic peavey eqs to a 60/60 all tube peavey power amp to a custom 4x12
1. Some of those patches are surprisingly not awful 2."Black and Blue" for the like 3. Putting this together with zero tapping for the Subscribe!!!! Enjoyed it thanks.
I still have an ART DrX 2000 fx processor. Back in the early 90’s it was magic in my rack, along with an ADA MP1, and my Peavey classic 120/120 stereo all tube heavy af power amp. My rack weighed a ton!!!! Good times.
That was great, I still have my A.R.T. Attack Module combo amp, 100 watt, 12" Celestion and a stripped down SGX effects, and a 12ax7 preamp tube it still sounds great and is supper loud as well, never had it above 4...
I still have my ART Guitar ECC pedalboard from around ‘94 and it still works fine, looks new too. I decided to try and replace my pedal board and rack gear was too expensive back then. It is an interesting device. 🤷♂️ I wanted the ART rack gear in the 80’s but I could hardly afford a pedal so when I could buy something I started with this ART device. Other than one of their little tube channels that was all I ever got from them.
For that kind of money, that’s awesome. I kinda liked the sound. Run it into my small PA on 1 channel and Spotify on another and play 1980’s hair metal and rock all Sunday afternoon. This would be super fun. Great overview brother. Glad we finally solved the “crooked hat” thing... I have the same problem.
This is just brilliant - did every single guitar tone have lashings of chorus all over it back in the 80’s?! Sounds kind of like Joe Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien album. The Van Halen stuff sounded spot on. The price of old rack gear must be going up on eBay thanks to this channel...
I'd say it is more of a "Not of this Earth" album from 1986. This one captured the 80's on a whole different level as "Surfing with the Alien" sounds a tad bit more modern IMO. But yeah, that's early Satch tone in a rackmount unit:)
OMG U should stop pretending U R deaf. All of the sounds were very cheesy & hollow boring sounding & nothing like Van Halen or any other real music, except some of the 'synthy' stuff here & there. The chorus is really bad = so much worse than the bucket brigade stuff that is the real '80's tone =)
Hey, if nasal/ phase-compromised / badly biased "Satch timbre" is all you're after, it can serve! I had an SGX2000 from 92-94, I even recorded quite a few Satriani covers on my 4-track with it.....and then I joined a band with the lead player run through a 5150 full stack (Tim Burke, friend of my drummer brother)... sold the ART crap asap, got a Boogie and never looked back.
Holy crap! I lusted after one of these in the early 90s. There was a preset that sounded like shards of glass flying at your face. It sounded glorious with feedback... until the salesman put his call on hold, walked cross the store and violently turned the volume down. I settled for the equally colorful ART MIDI foot pedal.
I still have my SGX2000 with the X15 foot controller! It taught me so much about programming effects. Very intimidating to folks who are afraid of multiple menus, but if you stuck with it, you could make some great sounds. Lotsa really cheesy stereotype sounds, but very flexible and programmable. I ended using all custom presets instead of onboard presets, and it served me well for lots of years. Great piece of gear for those Bob Bradshaw rack sounds, plus very usable modern sounds if you weren’t afraid to dive into the programming. I covered up the neon pink with tape for a couple years, too distracting onstage. I recently went back took off the tape and cleaned it up to its original neon ugliness for fun.
I had a digitech gsp7 and used an ART midi floorboard controller. After not using it for years I sold it to fund different gear, but before selling it I got out and played it a bit. Still a fun piece of gear.
I have this unit and it is truely amazing, it is basically a Marshall-style tube preamp with an effect processor on top of it. You have to turn down the effects to taste and then into a Marshall or another suited amp. I have my own presets, andI do not use any of the built in ones because of the reasons you showed. The overdrive is what it is all about, but I personally like the effects as well.
On and off switch? You don’t turn off the 80s!!!!
I came here to say this! Hahaha! :D
If you ever owned one you'd know that most ART MFX have a tendency to lock up...this is why I installed a switch on the front panel.
@Craigits just a front panel switch to turn the power on/off. Like I said above, the unit is prone to locking up...stuck presets, garbled LCD characters, hum, etc.
@@dan_perry how did you go about installing a switch?
@@LeftHandedRightHanded it's a fairly simple process.
1. Remove the top cover
2. Drill a hole thru the front panel
3. Mount switch
4. Interrupt AC line from fuse output with a switch
A.R.T! I worked there from '90 to '92. It was created by the owners and a few employees of MXR. I worked on the assembly line, shipping, customer service, demoed at a trade show, etc. I would get called into the engineering dept. to try some new stuff in development. I played an early design of the SGX preamp when it was a pile of wires on an engineers desk (the guy who holds the patent for the phase 90 pedal). Unfortunately the preamp that made it into the production unit did not have as much gain as the earlier versions I tried. The SGX Express came out after the SGX 2000...probably '92 or '93. It was a fun place to work. :-)
Made in Rochester, NY. I got mine used in 94' and ran into the front end of a Fender 65 watt solid state amp. I also got a prototype Zoom 9002 a few years earlier, I still have both.
Incredible what all you can find on youtube.
Tempee! I remember you. I started out in assembly and worked my way into Tech. I bet my initials are on the inside of this SGX 2000. I am still very much into guitar. We should catch up.
I miss ART!!!! I have owned the DST amp (the Rules Breaker) and various other pieces of ART gear..always good stuff. I STILL absolutely LOVE my XTreme pedal..and wish I could get a schematic for it. My hope is to build a version of it ,but this time with a noise gate! And a way to bypass those noisy effects.The EQ on that was FANTASTIC and so usefull. But so much hiss..that I just couldnt use it. A noise gate post effect killed everything...and that just didnt work..I tried.
I’ve had my ART DST 80/80 for almost 20years. Still rocks but I wish I could find an owners manual for it.
when you want the guitar sounds of 80s ninja movies
Those were the best
dont let mcrocklin see it
I tried another version of this SGX Nitro and the flanger sounded really chorusy. Has some unique sounds
need complete list of said movies
This is how they did it.0
I still have one, I freaking love it. I will never grow out of the 80's!!!
Me too.... straight into mixer...brilliant
YES! I had an SGE when I was 13, it was the coolest thing ever. The lights, the pink!
It’s funny. Seriously, I was thinking the whole time...I’ll bet RJ would like this too! Haha
@@BigHairyGuitars can you make a kemper profile of it that forces the kemper screen to use a pink backlight? #nextlevelidea
I had an sge too. So what if it wasn't pro quality. I plugged it into my practice amp as a beginner and had a blast. I got a lot of different sounds with it and learned a lot about effects and what I wanted as a sound.
I also had a SGE mach2, distortion was a bit crappy, but digital FX were cooler. there was a preset doing the train sound, and a 2 second sampler I used to do the drone D 16th notes for run like hell (-: yes, it's really 80s!
@@BigHairyGuitars Neal Schon used a G-505...just sayin, I expected you to bust into "send her my love" like every 5 seconds
I LUSTED after this thing in the late 80s. Had to settle for a little Crate combo and then eventually a Marshall Valvestate at one point, but THIS is what I truly wanted. And now I want it all over again. Everything about this thing is magical, including that color and graphic scheme.
Soo many paper routes and lawns mowed to but this thing ma.
It sounds really cool actually. It's like you dug it when it came out, then the whole analog purist phase and then you come full circle and appreciate stuff like this for what it brings to the table and does well.
Forget Marshall V Mesa, Fractal V Kemper and Gibson v PRS - ART v ZOOM is the ultimate tone death match we all want to hear
I love how 80s it looks and the sounds do not disappoint.
This is NOT the sound of the 80's. It's CHEESY KRAPPY sound & he is PRETENDING that is what it all was, which is not true. Here's some chorus examples from actual '80's music, not the fantasy of what you think might 'approximate' it. The Art does not do this ~>
ua-cam.com/video/fZciNthNnDA/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/ysYe4M0JAy0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/x1U1Ue_5kq8/v-deo.html
#BucketBrigadeFans =)
Dude, I feel like I'm 12yo again at Bill's Music House in Baltimore, trying out their rack tower with all of the solid state goodness of 1987. Good memories
Sounds awesome! Everyone wanted one of these back in the 80s
As soon as I see a Michael Nielsen video notification I immediately have to be “eBay-ready” for anything 🤣😂
So awesome. My guitar teacher in the early 90’s had this in his rack and used it in the live shows.. have heard this since then. Thanks Michael!!
Love it! Makes everything sound like Ram it Down. ( Straight through the heart of this town!!)
Looks like something that would be in a bowling alley or an arcade that hasn't been updated since 1987.
A Fender HM Strat would be the perfect guitar to go with this.
So glad the Art SGX2000 got some love. I bought one probably 10 or so years ago and still have it in my rack. Need to plug into it and have some vintage fun.
I still have my ART SGE and it's fun to play with, I run it though an original Carvin X50B head in the effects loop with the matching 4x12 cab on the left side of a stereo set up, and the right side is a Marshall jcm800 4010 combo, they all sound great !
I've always wanted one of these bigger bad boys, been searching for years, I'd still add this to my mini rack, I love these old racks. These videos are awesome, take me back to the old days lol
At the time, this was the level of greatness to which I aspired. I ended up getting a Rockman XPR instead. Believe it or not, it sounded incredible into the front end of my Marshall.
I spent years saving for an Art SGX 2000 Express with my paper route money as a kid. Got to relive it all over drooling over the Axe FX for years as an adult. I traded the Art SGX for a Fender Twin Reverb right before the value for the FX unit tanked. Thanks for the video - I really enjoyed it. Used to have a ton of fun routing a bunch of mics into it and with headphones have fake radio shows with my friends. Good times!
Sound so good every preset . Massive !!!!
I'm sold ! love it !!
Never owned one and had forgotten all about it. Love when you did this stuff up, it's fun to jump into the wayback machine
What a blast from the past. I still have mine (in storage somewhere). Mine came with floorboard switcher with built-in Wah Pedal which just added to its awesomeness for me. It was like Xmas for me every day when playing through it.
Another great video. Thank you Michael! 💜
The ART Multiverb SGE was my very first FX unit I ever bought back in 86.....they just looked so cool with the Miami Vice pastel logo.....they just had so many versions...Multiverb...Multiverb II....SGE....SGE Mach II....I had the giant pastel midi floor controller too,the one with the big goofy rubber foot switches.....great stuff....Ahh the rack craze...
Thanks for this man! That was the flagship we couldn't afford back then! The step-up from the DigiTech DSP21 :D
OMG!!! I remember this one, it was a great preamp.
great trip down memory lane
The thing you are missing is the presets are very 1980’s, but the unit is one of the most programmable effects units I have ever seen. Every factor of every effect used is adjustable/programmable. The presets may be 80’s, but the basic components are universal. Drive, chorus, delay, etc. you just have to dive in and learn how to program the unit, and it will make just about any sound you can imagine, and then some, vintage or modern. That’s what is so criminally overlooked about these units. Presets are all very “of a time”, but the unit itself is still very usable.
Love these vids about this stuff....
When I was a teenager in the late 80s and early 90's, seemed like most local bands I went to see, the guitarists always had the Art multi-effect processors similar to this model.
Dude, I'm on the same kick. After your SPX90 video the other day, I'm hooked. Found one the next day, been loving it. Going to pick up a MIDI Verb, looking for a Sony MU-R201...you've sent me down a deep wonderful rabbit hole! thanks!!!
That ''Pretty Clean'' preset gives me definite Jason Becker vibes, I love it
I fell of my chair when you played Cabo Wabo!
Liked Rainmaker and Pretty Clean presets.
Someone FedEx one of this to the composers of Cobra Kai immediately. Great playing and demoing this unit. Way less hissy than I remember ART to be back then.
Wow!
I think it sounded great!
Wat a flashback, had a sgx t2 in the loop of my laney aor100 back in the day.
ART is great🎸🎸🎸🌞
Wwoww this effects processor sounds fantastic and really cool with the pedal✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
That Sounds Awesome I want one ...
Love that art chorus sound! There’s something about it that I can’t recreate. Ada mp1 chorus is probably my favorite.
Yes the chorus is great. The Flangers on ART racks have a different sound also.
I ALWAYS wanted one of these!!! I think this is the first time I've actually heard what they sound like.....
Yes! I had an ART fx unit back in the day with my MP-1, sounded awesome.
I had the same. Matched up with a crown power base one amp. I hated the ART (wasn't this model) and returned it for an Alesis Quadraverb..
Me too! I ran it all into a MosValve power amp. I thought it was awesome at the time but I’d be willing to bet it was crap.
@@donewithmodernlife I did the same, MP1- SGE- MOSVALVE, great sounding setup. I love the MosValve, I recently found one at Guitar Center , I snatched it up to use with 11Rack.
Bingo
I’m officially going on an 80’s retreat from today’s reality…feeling good😎😎
I remember the ad’ from all the USA magazines that I was buying. Great tones and playing, I especially loved OU812 riffs. Keep on retroing Michael
Thanks for the nod to Luke. I had one of these and sold it several years ago. Looking to get another one soon😂.
Bought one when they came out. The whole package with the X-15 Midi controller. Used it for years into a Mesa 50/50 stereo Tube power amp. Ultimate 80's.
Incredible sounds! So much Miami VIce sounds in there. And I still think the Miami Vice sounds are the best. This machine definitely seems something I need, since I can't really afford the really expensive stuff.
Yes! Awesomeness!! PARTY!!!
I still own a DigiTech 2120 (purple artist version) I bought brand new back in 1999 for $1000 from Mars Music. Don't use it anymore but will never part with it cause it does have some one-of-a-kind sounds in it that I've used in the past and may use again one day if I feel experimental and nostalgic at the same time.
It's on a Highway to the Danger Zone!
HAHA :) All kidding aside, I remember Charvel released quite a few great guitars made in Japan in the late-80s that would blow away the Inonesian JUNK Jackson is putting out today !!
@@1970borntorun try the yamahas rgz series if you ever found one
@@jcalzada74 Yes!! Those are EXCELLENT guitars for the money and a great value on the used market! Happy Holidays man :)
OH MAN! When I was a kid, starting out on guitar, I had this ad on my wall. God, I was such a schmuck.
I still have a rack case with an ART SGX Nitro, 1st Gen Lexicon JamMan, an ADA microcab and a single space Peavey power amp that I breakout from time to time. I was never really happy with the presets, but making your own patch created some crazy sounds.
I’ve been waiting for this lol
This will be perfect for when I cover The Transformers animated movie soundtrack
Had the pre amp and the Multiverb when I was a kid, Good times!
I remember the ad on the Guitar Player magazine. Looks son cool.
Omg this sounds insane! I'm gonna need to try and get one
My friend had one of those. I remember programming it for him.
Sounds great with the Cali!!
Speaking of Boston: I was amazed to find out that every guitar track on "Hysteria" were recorded through a Rockman headphone amp, only.
I don't know what you guys are complaining about? The add clearly states "Software updatable-never becomes obsolete". 👍
My ex guitarist had one of these waaaay back in the day. Oh man this gave me nostalgia feels! LOL!
I had one. Everything sounded the same, it drove me crazy!
I had one of those with the foot controller. Band used to play The Wall straight thru. Had fun with that thing & always wondered what happened to ART.
I’ve got one somewhere in my parents play room. It was cool back in the day.
Balance era tones are bang on
Cool video! I'll have to look in to one of these in the future...
Love that ART wow it reminds me of the drve in days lol
Dude! I've had one since 1989! Even after buying better rack gear, still old like the Digitech GSP2101 (which you should totally cover), buying real good tube amps, and now having a Kemper, Axe FX3, and a Helix. For some reason I can't let go of this thing! It just brings back so many good memories. I composed a whole movie sound track on it once! Keep on rocki'n man
Yep, I still have mine too.
Had one since the mid 90's, might be time to dig it back out and try it into some cab sims. I think I still have the patch building software backed up somewhere. Building patches on LCD screens are a nightmare.
Every sound this thing does is so harsh & cheesy cheap primitive & coarse U can easily exceed it even on any free old cheap slow computer with free software = so pointless some of these rack things. S tick with tube stuff =) & I don't mean fake tube where it comes after the distortion like the Mesa Boogie 'Triaxis' or Rocktron 'Voodoo Valve' $kam =)) Some clown online I recall talking how 'intricate & detailed' the distortion on the Voodoo was, & compared 2 the Peavey Rockmaster it's a ridiculous joke.
@@rayrobinson2074 I've got the Nightbass (wich works quite well for guitar as well). Was a bit disappointed when I ran it into a cab sim. Maybe I should try using the cab sim before the digital effects next time. If you know what you are going for the editing on the unit ain't that bad. The software helps, but since I don't have my unit contantly hook up to my midi interface I do most patch editing without the software.
Played a digitech gsp 21 with a rocktron preamp through 2 marshall jcm 800 in the 80 th. Awesome old stuff😀😀😀
I had an SGE multi FX single space , it was pretty awesome with my ADA MP1 and MosValve power amp. All the is long gone now but I recently acquired another MosValve to use with my 11Rack. I miss all this cool 80s gear.
Sounds like my guitar through my dad's stereo... back in the 80's.
Now you made me homesick for the 80s. Thank you soooo much... pff! :) (...surfing for a Digitech gsp 2100 pro)
I used to go and drool at this and the massive X-15 foot controller every week in the guitar store back then... forgot about it until recently when I got an SGE for free in a rack I bought and got to relive my chorusey youth!
I had one of those!!! Wow do i feel old. Great to know that after 30 years it's still worth 150 bucks.
In fact has some pretty cool sounds.
Wow, blast from the past. I got one of these really early (‘91 maybe? It was the first one to hit my local music store, it came in an unmarked box and my manual is actually typewritten and corner-stapled) and it was my main unit for pretty much a decade. The presets were indeed gross, lol. Always made my own; I was in a “sound-alike” cover band and this thing was great for that. Eventually I discovered if you change the “tube type” in the distortion menu to “tube clean” and cranked the drive to 100% (there was probably a compressor in front too) it was a pretty great lead tone. I might feel differently about it now 😀. PS, thanks for “Born to Be My Baby” and “I’ll Be Over You”; I loved both of those tunes 😆
This blew my tube socks off
Sounded pretty sweet. I've seen one of these for dirt cheep at a pawn shop many years ago.
I went through the rack mounted preamp phase. Had one of these, then an ADA. A carvin. The best I remember was a Rocktron Voodoo valve. I wish I could have it again.
I had one of these! I had an Ada mp1
for all preamp tones into the ART SGX for effects to a dual 30 band graphic peavey eqs to a 60/60 all tube peavey power amp to a custom 4x12
Omg I had one , got the craziest sounds out of it.
ART stuff was everywhere back in the day.....
1. Some of those patches are surprisingly not awful 2."Black and Blue" for the like 3. Putting this together with zero tapping for the Subscribe!!!! Enjoyed it thanks.
Really dope brother awesome stuff!!!
SICK DEMO!! :D
Still own mine.... IT'S FREAKING AWESOME!
I used to have that!!! No slouch at all! I also had the Art SGE Mach II and ADA Mp1! 80's tech was awesome....lol
“That’s not terrible” hahaha. Great video! Sounds like it should!
I still have an ART DrX 2000 fx processor. Back in the early 90’s it was magic in my rack, along with an ADA MP1, and my Peavey classic 120/120 stereo all tube heavy af power amp. My rack weighed a ton!!!! Good times.
That was great, I still have my A.R.T. Attack Module combo amp, 100 watt, 12" Celestion and a stripped down SGX effects, and a 12ax7 preamp tube it still sounds great and is supper loud as well, never had it above 4...
I still have my ART Guitar ECC pedalboard from around ‘94 and it still works fine, looks new too. I decided to try and replace my pedal board and rack gear was too expensive back then. It is an interesting device. 🤷♂️ I wanted the ART rack gear in the 80’s but I could hardly afford a pedal so when I could buy something I started with this ART device. Other than one of their little tube channels that was all I ever got from them.
For that kind of money, that’s awesome. I kinda liked the sound. Run it into my small PA on 1 channel and Spotify on another and play 1980’s hair metal and rock all Sunday afternoon. This would be super fun. Great overview brother. Glad we finally solved the “crooked hat” thing... I have the same problem.
This is just brilliant - did every single guitar tone have lashings of chorus all over it back in the 80’s?! Sounds kind of like Joe Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien album. The Van Halen stuff sounded spot on. The price of old rack gear must be going up on eBay thanks to this channel...
YES! Totally Surfing with the Alien tones
I'd say it is more of a "Not of this Earth" album from 1986. This one captured the 80's on a whole different level as "Surfing with the Alien" sounds a tad bit more modern IMO.
But yeah, that's early Satch tone in a rackmount unit:)
Check out "Driving at Night", that's the one that played in my head instantly.
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OMG U should stop pretending U R deaf. All of the sounds were very cheesy & hollow boring sounding & nothing like Van Halen or any other real music, except some of the 'synthy' stuff here & there. The chorus is really bad = so much worse than the bucket brigade stuff that is the real '80's tone =)
Hey, if nasal/ phase-compromised / badly biased "Satch timbre" is all you're after, it can serve!
I had an SGX2000 from 92-94, I even recorded quite a few Satriani covers on my 4-track with it.....and then I joined a band with the lead player run through a 5150 full stack (Tim Burke, friend of my drummer brother)... sold the ART crap asap, got a Boogie and never looked back.
Holy crap! I lusted after one of these in the early 90s. There was a preset that sounded like shards of glass flying at your face. It sounded glorious with feedback... until the salesman put his call on hold, walked cross the store and violently turned the volume down. I settled for the equally colorful ART MIDI foot pedal.
That thing sounds like a shit ton of fun.
I still have my SGX2000 with the X15 foot controller! It taught me so much about programming effects. Very intimidating to folks who are afraid of multiple menus, but if you stuck with it, you could make some great sounds. Lotsa really cheesy stereotype sounds, but very flexible and programmable. I ended using all custom presets instead of onboard presets, and it served me well for lots of years. Great piece of gear for those Bob Bradshaw rack sounds, plus very usable modern sounds if you weren’t afraid to dive into the programming. I covered up the neon pink with tape for a couple years, too distracting onstage. I recently went back took off the tape and cleaned it up to its original neon ugliness for fun.
I had a digitech gsp7 and used an ART midi floorboard controller. After not using it for years I sold it to fund different gear, but before selling it I got out and played it a bit. Still a fun piece of gear.
I have this unit and it is truely amazing, it is basically a Marshall-style tube preamp with an effect processor on top of it. You have to turn down the effects to taste and then into a Marshall or another suited amp. I have my own presets, andI do not use any of the built in ones because of the reasons you showed. The overdrive is what it is all about, but I personally like the effects as well.