Latest User Reviews

PRETTY GOOD VINTAGE MULTI-FX

By Luca Marenco

Sound Quality 80%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 80%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 70%

Lovely old-looking rack, it has a bunch of warm-sounding, old-school reverbs which, summed with its other delays and psychoacoustic effects make a good unit even nowadays, specially if you search those old ’80/’90 warm, soft sound. I recommend it for genres like Rock, Funk, Electronic and for some cool sounding Jazz; its too hot-sounding for stuff like metal. Overall a good fx (also cheap!) to have in your rack.

EXCELLENT VINTAGE MULTI-EFFECTS

By Alexis Peña

Sound Quality 85%
Build Quality 95%
Usefullness 80%
Mojo/Funk 85%
Reliability 95%

A pesar de ser tan antiguo sigue siendo muy funcional aún hoy en día, es ideal para lograr ese color vintage en la reverb en las voces, esto acompañado con unas buenas etapas de compresión y retardo logran un sonido muy particular. En las percusiones también es bastante útil y en particular me encanta el efecto de chorus, me parece muy bien logrado y natural. En general para ser un equipo diseñado en 1985 sigue siendo un buen equipo aún, muy bien pensado.

Despite being so old, it is still very functional even today, it is ideal to achieve that vintage color in the reverb in the voices, this accompanied by good compression and delay stages they achieve a very particular sound. On percussion it is also quite useful and I particularly love the chorus effect, it seems very well done and natural to me. In general, for a team designed in 1985, it is still a good team, very well thought out.

PRETTY BLOODY GOOD!

By Steve

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 85%
Mojo/Funk 50%
Reliability 100%

Had this for about three years now, it is everything that came before it (from Yamaha) in one box. Sound is typical Yamaha ‘clean’, it is quiet and at the prices these go for these days, a bit of a bargain.

I LOVE THIS MACHINE

By Marcus

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 70%
Usefullness 80%
Mojo/Funk 50%
Reliability 80%

I own 7 Yamaha reverb processors SPX90, 90II, 900, 990, 1000, Rev5, Rev7. The SPX1000 has the most natural sounding reverb of them all, as well as being stereo in and out. Honestly if you want natural sounding reverb buy one they are a bargain.

LOOK NO FURTHER…

By Steve

Sound Quality 95%
Build Quality 95%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 50%
Reliability 95%

The Yamaha D5000 must not have sold very well when it was released back in the mid 1990s. Or perhaps it sold very well and those who bought it don’t let them go very easily? I think it may be the later. Bob Clearmountain claims the Yamaha D5000 is the greatest digital delay ever made, perhaps he is right. So if you are after a digital delay that offers pristine sound quality and low noise, and one that imparts little of itself on your signal, then look no further than the Yamaha D5000.

EXCELLENT EFFECTS PROCESSOR

By Snorky Bingo

Sound Quality 80%
Build Quality 100%
Usefullness 90%
Mojo/Funk 80%
Reliability 100%

Lots of effects and up to 5 simultaneous with some algorithms. You still see these for sale in excellent, working condition highlighting the superb build quality and reliability of these units at 30 years old. It’s a professional unit for professional applications though has been superseded by so many other modern equivalents that have been based on this original format and design. Even with its age, it still holds its own and is still a sought after vintage effects processor.

GREAT UNIT!

By Jota

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 95%
Usefullness 80%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 95%

One of the first reverb rack units that I ever used, it sounds fantastic, and it have the most useful chorus effect ever.

SUPER DELAY – WORST BUILD QUALITY

By Rene Kirchner

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 10%
Usefullness 90%
Mojo/Funk 90%
Reliability 5%

I have had a D two in the Rack und I have to admit that it was the worst unit ever from a build quality. All knobs to the right hand side had literally no contact to make adjustments once pressed. Once I turned the Alpha dial to right hand side, the Display went nuts or changed presets randomly after some runtime. Even a factory reset and some service to the knobs did not solved the issues. Once it was up and running it did the job and I liked it – but if a unit is so unreliable, it was not fun to use at all.

Review

By Arnaud Cambon

Sound Quality 80%
Build Quality 70%
Usefullness 65%
Mojo/Funk 70%
Reliability 45%

Review

By Anonymous

Sound Quality 80%
Build Quality 65%
Usefullness 85%
Mojo/Funk 60%
Reliability 100%

GOOD SOUNDING UNIT

By Rene Kirchner

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 40%
Usefullness 90%
Mojo/Funk 90%
Reliability 40%

I have had a unit for quite some years in the rack….Weak spots are: the display, the knobs and the alphadial. I guess all of this relates to the built quality which is in my eyes not too good and the reason why I sold mine. The knobs sound cheap and are in some cases not precise. Display failed to random issues…. once it worked it was great. the overall build quality is questionable – in my eyes. I really loved the Spring Reverb Emulation.

Nice

By Darryl Jones

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 95%
Mojo/Funk 80%
Reliability 100%

Many times I prefer this unit over plug-ins.

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