Equipment Review
Product Reviewed:
Audio Centron TFX-1SP or Crate SM1-SP
Made by: Crate / Audio Centron
Cost: $100
Submitted by Edward Dijk
Rating: 
Features:
Small Digital Signal Processor designed for inexpensive signal processing with little weight or space issues. Contains: Vocal/Plate/Reverse reverbs along with chorus&reverb, chorus&delay, 3 chorus settings, 2 flange settings, and a few delay settings.
Technical Specifications:
What I liked:
Small Inexpensive
What I didn't:
OK, here's why I'm writing this review: even though this unit is inexpensive, DO NOT buy one. Here's why: 1) noisy - this unit has little pops and crackles in it like a 4th of July fireworks display. Odds are its so cheap because the workmanship bites. 2) Wall AC adaptor: you knew this was coming. A unit with such a small footprint obviously will have an external power supply. 3) range of effects: even though the unit boasts all the features of a full blown multieffects processor, you do in this case "get what you pay for". If you're OK with stock reverbs and don't want much configurability, then this is OK; but I want a little more control over the sound and this unit didn't allow that. 4) very digitally sounding: from my mixer and via the headphone output of my guitar preamp, this unit sounds like digital HELL. nothing sounds "real". Only when I pumped my guitar preamp into my 4x12 and tube power amp did I get an even remotely warm tone from the amp with the processor. My overall opinion: YUK!
User Tips:
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