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Owning a PS-02, PXR4 and BR532
November 5 2001 at 9:05 PM | Chris Hurley
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| As of this afternoon, I own all three of the smartmedia multitracks (at least briefly. It looks as if all but one will be going back).
A couple of minor comments:
Despite looking really professional and sporting a very useful jog control, the preamp on the BR-532 sounds like CRAP. If you engage the 'preamp' portion of any patch, a faint buzz can be heard when you play. Its sort of like a sizzle. Its not the same as noise, if you turn off the noise gate you get a regular sort of hiss. The guitar effects are uninspiring as can be. I think this unit has lots of nice features, but coming from Boss, I'd expect a decent guitar input, which it lacks.
The PXR-4 is so non-intuitive as to be ridiculous. I had to break out the manual just to see how to get guitar effects out of the thing. Its nice and compact, being only slightly larger than the PS-02, but its a sunafabitch to use.
Of the two, I'm going to try and spend a little time with the PXR4 to see if there are any decent tones in it. From what I heard so far, they are rather poor.
I rather regret that my PS-02 sold on ebay this afternoon. I'm out about $80 or so in shipping and losses on the entire episode and it turns out I had the right one to begin with.
Enjoy your PS-02!
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Huggy Bear
| | Your loss our gain | November 8 2001, 9:20 AM |
Thanks for the review and the info. Too bad you sold your PS-02, but it's obviously nice for us PS-02 users to hear that we have "the right one". At this point I'm so comfortable using the PS-02 it would take a lot for me to switch to another unit, especially when they all seem to cost more than the Zoom.
Again, thanks for this info
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Chris Hurley
| | my loss | November 9 2001, 9:19 AM |
Well, I've got another PS02 on the way, so I'll be back in the fold soon. 
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Monk
| | bah.... you sniped me... | November 9 2001, 12:32 PM |
one second before it ended you beat me to the PS-02. I'm heading over to Sam Ash to pick on up today for 269. 
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Chris Hurley
| | Sniping | November 10 2001, 3:00 PM |
Heh! I was waiting towards the end of the auction and I got a damned phone call. When I realized that I'd forgotten about the auction, I went to the page and it had 30 seconds left! In ultra-panic mode, I put my bid down and hit submit. I was the high bidder with 2 seconds.
Hopefully its in good shape. He said he bought it in June and has the receipt.
I didn't know you could get new ones for $269 or I'd probably have done that.
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record
| | sam ash | November 10 2001, 3:12 PM |
i bought mine back in June for $279
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hraven
| | comparison | November 12 2001, 5:07 PM |
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Chris Hurley
| | New PS02... whew! | November 14 2001, 6:11 PM |
I just got a second PS-02 today (after foolishly selling the first one) and it sounds just as good as I remember it. This is the best of the bunch, folks!
When these things drop to $150 or so, they will be a 'must have' accessory for every guitar case.
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