UK-based Total Guitar magazine dubs DigiTech's new Jimi Hendrix Experience Artist Series pedal "the greatest guitar effects pedal ever made" in its Summer 2005 edition.

Since its unveiling at the Winter NAMM Conference in Anaheim, California in January, The Jimi Hendrix Experience Artist Series Pedal has been lauded by critics and fans alike for its true representation of Jimi's tone. The pedal was created with the support of Experience Hendrix using the original masters at Electric Lady Studios in association with Eddie Kramer, the original recording engineer.

Eddie Kramer, Jimi's engineer at Olympic and Electric Lady Studio, was an essential part of the Hendrix sound. Who better to help recreate those timeless tones than the man who set up the original mics and ran the mixing board adding his own magic? Working with DigiTech and the company's proprietary Production Modeling™ technology, he helped rebuild each facet of Jimi's tone, from guitar effects and amp to the vintage outboard signal processors. But it gets even better. Thanks to Eddie and the Hendrix family, we were able to use the original tapes as a reference source for our Production Modeling technology. The results of this once-in-a-lifetime project will amaze you when you hear the Jimi Hendrix Experience™ pedal.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience pedal so closely models the fine nuances of Jimi's sounds that each pedal requires TWO of DigiTech's AudioDNA™ DSP chips!

"Every sound we tried blew us away," exclaims Ed Mitchell in his review for Total Guitar. "And if you need confirmation that this pedal does everything it promises to, then the answer you're looking for is a resounding YES. And that's the kind of scream your lungs out, praise the lord-style affirmation that's usually reserved for a championship goat or life-changing Lottery win. We even had to invent a new Best Buy Sizzler rating for it - it's that hot!"

"The DigiTech Jimi Hendrix Experience is the greatest guitar pedal we have ever wrapped our clammy mitts around - no joke. Mama didn't raise no fools, and we know the real deal when we see it. Fact: one of the Holy Grails of electric guitar tone has actually been conquered in your lifetime. You - yes you, mere mortal earthling - can now sound tike the greatest electric blues guitarist who ever lived'."

The Jimi Hendrix Experience™ Artist Series Pedal is available at leading music equipment dealers nationwide. For more information about the new The Jimi Hendrix Experience™ Artist Series Pedal, please visit the DigiTech website.

TOTAL GUITAR RATING: * * * * *
PROS: Easy to use; incredible tones; you'll sound tike Jimi Hendrix!
CONS: It won't actually help you play tike Jimi Hendrix

The complete review of The Jimi Hendrix Experience effects pedal appears on Pages 137-138 in Summer 2005 edition of Total Guitar magazine.

EFFECTS PEDAL DETAILS:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience™ is the only pedal to capture the SEVEN tones that changed guitar playing forever; featuring:

• Purple Haze :: Intro and solo: Based on: Fuzz Face™ 100-Watt Marshall® Super Lead™ Amp; EMT Plate Reverb; Roger Mayer Octavia (solo)
• Little Wing :: Intro and Solo: Based on: 100-Watt Marshall® Super Lead™ Amp; Miniature Rotary Speaker (Homemade at Olympic Studios in England)
• Voodoo Child (Slight Return) :: Intro and Solo: Based on: Vox® Clyde McCoy Wah™; Brown Fender™ Bassman™, Amplifier; EMT Plate Reverb
• All Along The Watchtower :: Intro and Solo: Based on: Acoustic Guitar; 100-Watt Marshall® Super Lead™ Amplifier; EMT Plate Reverb
• Plus The Wind Cries Mary, Foxey Lady, and Star Spangled Banner (Live)/Machine Gun

CONTROLS: Gain, level, high, low, reverb, control.
INPUTS: Guitar input, footswitch input, mixer output and amplifier output, power supply input
POWER: PS0913B power supply (included)
ACCESSORIES: Gig bag and plectrum (included), option PS3X footswitch available

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