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Originally Posted by Adwex
Wow, I'm surprised to hear anyone say that. I had an SGX 2000, that I upgraded to the "Express" version. After a while, I hated it. I gave it away to a friend of mine recently. The only thing I liked about it is that it has eq. knobs on the front panel so it was easy to make quick adjustments. Other than that, I hated the way it sounded. I still have the matching pedalboard. What a bad design that was...the 2 expression pedals were on the left side, and you need 3 cables, midi in, midi out, and power. I had to get the upgrade chip for that too because with the original version, the expression pedals made a horrible "zipper" sound, so bad that it was unusable. The new chip fixed that. I got the pair used for $600 back in '94, bought the upgrade chip for each at $100 each, for a total of $800, and as I said before, I gave it away last year. I also hated the stupid pink painted design on the front panel that made it hard to read. Later they changed it to all black.
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There is a knack to getting a good sound out of them, basically use them as a pre-amp only, forget all the other effects and only use the tube overdrive setting just enough to give a mild crunch, maybe a little compression or tweaks with the graphic eq. then put this into a jcm800 with preamp on 5 ish and you start to get the jcm800 fully cranked sound at a fraction of the level.
also using the stereo out you can feed another amp fender HRD ect, for a different sound. I totally agree the pedal board is poorly designed I removed the crap pedals and fitted a cry baby wah carl martin HD+Boost and an amp switcher. this then allows me to bypass the art sgx 2000 straight into my silver jubilee for my lead sound, then when I switch the jube to rhythm I switch in the sgx for some crunch. it works for me . personally I was fed up trying to get a good lead sound from my 2203 as it needs to be insanelly loud for the natural distortion so I think a pre-amp works but even better is the Silver jubilee 2553 it is an awsome sounding amp .