Vox ToneLab EX - Recording Directly - Does it sound any good?

[@deathproof5501]

1: Great Shirt 2: Great vid and sound quality, loving your content and consistency brother, been reccomending you to any musician friends looking for such videos. Keep up the good work man

[@metalprognosis]

Thanks Deathproof! Really appreciate your support. I have lots more gear I want to do videos on, plus a bunch more coming in the mail! I'll be busy for a while creating content for everyone! I also have a couple more coming up soon using the Vox Tonelab again in different situations, which will be interesting to get your thoughts on once published.

[@deathproof5501]

@@metalprognosis awesome man, happy to hear all that. The tonelabs seem cool especially considering the jump they take mixing in analogue components, which i think is a strongsuit personally. I cant wait to hear more of it \m/

[@WannaB321]

I have the Vox ToneLab ST, it's smaller than the EX. It has 11 cabinet models. I essentially use it as a headphone amp. I don't use the amp sounds much, but I use the cabinet sim and the effects, which are stereo and sound good to me.

[@metalprognosis]

The stereos effects are very rad and you can get pretty creative with them. Especially if you are using it live at a smaller venue, you can go direct front of house and stereo it for the audience \w/

[@a2zonlineunboxing873]

Graet demo❤️. Pls give us some lead tone settings. Thnx in advance🙏. ❤frm India

[@metalprognosis]

Thank you for checking out my channel, I have done a couple of videos with lead patches.

[@StratsRUs]

I have had this boxed away for awhile.I remember it being surprisingly good.I will see how the USB connects to my Mac and see if Logic still accepts it.Thanks

[@metalprognosis]

It's a fun unit! You'll have a blast with it!

[@StratsRUs]

​@metalprognosis Thanks.I have found it to be a very loveable unit and is the only one I held onto.I have the Boss and Helix too now but the Tonelab really has its own thing going for far less money.

[@metalprognosis]

@@StratsRUs it served me well for countless number of gigs.

[@vladdyvansavage8760]

got this beast from the Swop shop recently for $200. Been digging the Tonelabs ST for a few years, it's great for live performance straight into an amp or a p.a but the expression pedal gone kaput, which was unusual considering this unit is built like a tank, regardless of that its been fantastic for recording. Even Bass sounds pretty damn good through it.

[@metalprognosis]

Even without the pedal is still a rad unit.

[@vladdyvansavage8760]

yeah man! I really dig it, some nice tones there for any style, love the effects. Got an MG Nux 30 modeller as well, its impressive too but not as user friendly for recording at first. However very metal & shred friendly. Like anything there's a learning curve and lots of tweaking of levels involved. @@metalprognosis

[@metalprognosis]

@@vladdyvansavage8760 I agree, the nux is awesome but takes a bit of tweeking. I used it mostly for inear rehearsals for my old band, it worked amazing for that.

[@ShterionUrumov]

Thank you! You obviously know your staff 🙂 Great video. Have you happened to compare it with the new Boss GT 1000 ? Just curious... I am a new subscriber. Best wishes from Berlin!

[@metalprognosis]

I haven't used one personally. I'm not sure it has a cab emulator GT 1000... So you couldn't record it directly like the Vox... I looked up the specs and couldn't see anything on cab simulators on it... Thanks for the sub!

[@johanneschristopherstahle3395]

If you still own the ToneLab SE, you should definitely do a video about that as well. It does not have as many amps to choose from, but the Double Rect + SLO 100 do sound quite decent for heavy metal. Maybe the DSL would be an option, too. The effects of the SE are far superior to the ones of the EX. The modulations sound far richer and you can tweak them quite a bit. The delays on the SE have options to dial in the tone of the repeats and to use ducking, so they can be set way louder without messing up your sound. The same applies to the reverbs as well. I usually use a reverb at low volume with a short decay to give my patches a little bit more live, like if you'd have an amp recorded in a room instead of having it dead dry. BTW if you use the little Control knop on the top left of the unit, you can switch between three different amps for each position of the amp dial of the EX + you could switch to the stand alone pedal option and use one of the 11 pedals mentioned in [ these ] instead of the amp sims. Those would be the Fuzz pedals or the Tube DX.

[@metalprognosis]

Unfortunately I sold my other unit many years ago. Well before I dreamed of having a KZbin channel. It would be really cool if I could try one now as I've learn so much about them compared to when I own one.

[@hoanghoangie7557]

great review, im considering to buy this soon, can i ask you what chord/ song you were playing?

[@metalprognosis]

Hopefully you can pick one up cheap. This song is in C minor if I'm not mistaken. :) The guitar is tuned to Drop c.

[@hoanghoangie7557]

@@metalprognosis i just found out my dad had one in his garage recently, what a coincidence, hes sending me it soon and thanks for the reply.

[@metalprognosis]

@@hoanghoangie7557 that's awesome! You'll have a blast with it!

[@hoanghoangie7557]

@@metalprognosis thanks bro!!!

[@hoanghoangie7557]

@@metalprognosis ill be looking forward to use it soon, when i get it ill keep in touch.

[@vladkopompa60]

Hi are the speakers in it loud ???

[@metalprognosis]

Na, they aren't loud at all. They can be handy if you are moving patches and rearranging things, I wouldn't rely on them in any way when sharing your tone.

[@vladkopompa60]

@@metalprognosis thanks for reply.But When you play gig … you can hearing What you play ? One more question … Can you set up nice clean tone on it ? Thanks

[@metalprognosis]

@@vladkopompa60 no, the speakers are only active when your out put isn't plugged in, or you have it plugged in the usb for editing your patches on computer. Yes it has a lot of good clean options, a lot more clean options than dirty ones.

[@vladkopompa60]

@@metalprognosis Thank you very much 🎸🥃❤️

[@neosoulclass4242]

Can I use this one as a interface for home recording, just plug and play with Vox and PC through usb wire? How does its sound, can you share your set up on recording? Thank

[@metalprognosis]

I wouldn't recommend that. It would cause you lots of headaches and not the best results. basic audio interfaces can be very cheap and using the cab simulators on the Vox tonelab would help get some very rad results!

[@neosoulclass4242]

@@metalprognosis Thank you a lot!

[@johanneschristopherstahle3395]

Yes, you can use the ToneLab as an audio interface. So if you just want to record your guitar, you will be fine. The cabinet sim will be recorded as well since it's part of the digital audio chain and thus not only sent to the 1/4 inch jack. If you already have a decent interface I would not recommend to use the ToneLab as your interface for recording guitar, because ASIO drivers can get pretty buggy, so I would not install a second one if I don't need to.

[@imrepalagyi2684]

Hi. I have got this preamp a few years ago as my first preamp, have only been noodling around with it and now I want to record my playing. Would you recommend to use this as a complete beginner? I am asking this because right now I can't decide if I should buy an audio interface or a midi keyboard to record. If I can record the guitar through this directly on a reasonable quality, then I would rather have other instruments aswell, I just couldn't seem to get this thing to record. Any advice, where I should start? Thank you for this video.

[@metalprognosis]

You definitely need an audio interface to be able to capture and hear back the sound, I don't trust any in house computer mic and speaker... I did a video on setup a small studio which I talk about cheap ways on how to get your sound captured. If you are only wanted to record one or two channels at a time, there are heaps of amazing cheap options to get started :) Then you can %100 use this unit to record directly into your interface if you want to.

[@imrepalagyi2684]

@@metalprognosis so the simple USB port doesn't do it on it? That's kind of sad. Thank you for your answer. :D

[@johanneschristopherstahle3395]

@@imrepalagyi2684 It does. You can use it to record to and play back from your computer. The output jack is a TRS, so you can monitor in stereo as well. But don't expect the quality to be the same as an Apollo or something like that.

[@sashabagdasarow497]

That big fuzz preset was pretty tasty

[@metalprognosis]

You can get some pretty narly sounds from it.