ALESIS X User Manual

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Exploring the X Guitar’s effects

The X Guitar contains an advanced, stereo effects processor. Distortion, compression,

delays, choruses, reverbs, and much more allow you to create a wide variety of popular,
vintage, and experimental electric guitar sounds.

Begin by exploring the X Guitar’s default programs. Turn the

Effect knob all the way to the

left to select

Play. Now, play your guitar and explore the programs by pressing the

Program Up and Program Down buttons or twisting the Value knob.

You’ll hear programs ranging from ultra-clean to rocking to jazzy to out-and-out nasty. If

you have the chance, be sure to plug a pair of stereo headphones directly into the X Guitar’s
output to experience these effects in stereo. Some of the effects really come alive in stereo.

Modifying the effects programs

There’s a lot more to the X Guitar’s effects than just what’s in the presets. The X Guitar has
eight separate effect modules, as shown below:

These effects are accessed using the

EFFECT knob.

Move the

EFFECT knob clockwise out of the Play position in order to edit the effects.

Once you change an effect, the

EDITED LED on the bottom right of the display will light.

From left to right, here are your options: