I can get some good tones out of it, but many of the presets are harsh, noisy, and just downright SUCK. The owner's manual is a little helpful, but it seems to spend so much of its pages telling me how good the unit is, and not enough telling me to actually get some good sounds out of it!! There is always a HUGE jump in volume between some of the presets, no matter how I set one of the expression pedals to control the volume. Is there any way to EQ this out, or is it inherent to the unit? The high-gain settings are not only noisy, which I expected, but ear-searingly harsh, as well. It's a pain to go from a clean tone to dirty on the same setting, only to have to roll the highs off on the unit's EQ controls. This seems like it defeats the purpose of having a preset tone in the first place.Īcting on advice I got from over at the Carvin forum I'm running the unit into the RETURN of my amp's effect loop, but I've also run it straight into the front of the amp, which doesn't produce a remarkably different sound. Since I bought the unit primarily as a multi-effect unit, rather than an amp/cab modeller, I'm going to try running it in the loop w/ the cab/amp settings off. I was told that the Tonelab's strong point IS the cab/amp modelling, that the effects settings are a bit weak.

If so then maybe I bought the wrong unit.īeing used to individual pedals the Tonelab is more complicated than I like. If I can find some good tones I can live with I'll keep it. If not then, despite my 15 year old son's howling objections, I may sell/trade it off. I really like the built-in tuner, as well as most of the modulation, reverb, and delay settings. Ignoring the presets and dialing in individual cab/amp settings, and then adding the effects has given me some cool sounds.

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