Full review of Adern Mojo
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:31 pm
There was a time where my excitement words would be for Celmo’s GAM, but that was until today...
GAM was a great achievement for its time, yes it was! It gave me so many good moments and lots and lots of hot takes for what I’m grateful. I was happy with it because I had found a way to play my guitar with some motivation for the first time. I remember back in the early 1990s that the few first attempts to build good amps before Celmo’s GAM for our platform where really awful. The noise of them all was unbearable and the luck of responsiveness was absolute. The sound had no dynamics at all. All they did was to produce a flat mass of bulky, thick distortion, and then others would be no more than a “volume knob” with a nice fake amp interface... In other words: Not a bit of musicality was possible! And they were expensive… Then came all the vst range of virtual amps, some quite interesting, but sounding pretty plastic, let say still too digital. You would guess easily in a production that this or that guitar was processed with some clinical vst plug, but at no effect despite all their spectacular interfaces, unfortunately they still would sound cold. Mojo has such a warmness that separates itself from all these cold and plastic vst amps quite a few miles ahead…
Yes, these attempt times are all over with Mojo!
Mojo is the achievement of a new standard. It is a superior step toward professional, pure, ULTRA DYNAMIC guitar playing in Pulsar. I can see it stepping into the best studios around the world to be part of any professional production without any problems. What I’m going to say is insane, but Mojo sounds quite like the Cornford MK II 50 cabinet, I can´t believe it! Here you have a link in case you don’t know this top of the sort baby:
http://www.master-guitar.com/cornford.htm
When I was up to try Alfonso’s new effort called “Mojo”, I was expecting a good amp of course, but when I tried it I was speechless, it overwhelmed my ears with delight drawing amazement and an uninterrupted green in my face through all the process. I played it for about two hours. Then I came back to play with it again even if I had no time to do it, and then back again, and again, and again.
I realized that Mojo had what I call a “bread quality” to it. What I mean by that? Well, bread is something you are going to eat always, and it goes with everything. It has this “innocuous”, gentle character for which it is so much appreciated internationally by all the cultures of the world. You can eat salted or sweet with it, or take it alone with a cup of coffee, or with some hot chili and a glass of red wine, or make a pizza if you like, well… with everything goes to reach perfection; it is the most versatile food in the world. Mojo is just like that. It is always in the table to go with anything you want to prepare. That is why Mojo and bread will always be there, on the table, ready to go with any meal. Mojo has this special long life quality, the more you use it, the more you like it. Its sound texture is so smooth, so warm and musical, just like the Cornford MK kind of cabinets as I said. It houses anything you want to play: mellow, sweet, aggressive, bluesy, hot, jazzy, experimental, well… anything. Playing the guitar with it is extremely addictive and inspiring. The interface is very well thought and gives you a great array of possibilities and precision control over the sound, very, very good interface and layout indeed.
I didn’t want to answer Alfonso too quickly. In fact, I took about 12 days to write this review because I felt this plug-in had something of much deepness and possibilities than I would have expected at first, I wanted to study it in depth with time and play a lot before talking to him, and then also build some demos as a conclusion. This plug-in deservers it!
My conclusion… well, what can I say you guys…
Well done! Mojo is an amazing work, fantastic sounding, extremely inspiring. The superb dynamics of it is only found in the Cornford MK kind of amps. Adern people, this truly is a high congratulation if you know what the Cornford MK range of cabinets are! How did you achieve this? Have you hired Harry Potter or something?
Trying to get into the technical side of things it is just too complex for me, and at the end of the day I’m a musician, not a programmer freak. So I will instate make a summary of it all in a single phrase that for me and any musician alike means everything:
The Mojo Amp is an extremely, awfully, exceptionally, exceedingly, dreadfully, extraordinarily musical amp for your guitar! Get it!
To show you this FIRST-CLASS amp which is Mojo and its sound potential, I have done 4 little demos. The songs will show you to some extent, how versatile and ultra dynamic the sound is. If you play guitar, I recommend to download the demo and try it for yourself.
You will find 8 demos in total even if I said they are only 4, that because I wanted to do what I would do in a real production. I always compare the original with the processed before choosing where to go exactly. So the purpose of giving you two demos is to show what you can do when having a superb unprocessed source-sound. I first record the guitar without any effects only using Mojo, and then add the effects in a second instance, if needed. So, the first one is always unprocessed and the second has some effects.
Please, pay attention to the guitar in the songs and see how ALIVE the sound can be, it is amazing!
I would recommend this extraordinary plug-in addition to anybody having a guitar and a Pulsar. It really is an important contribution to your music possibilities, particularly if you are a recording artist like me that play a lot of guitar in your productions. You will find yourself recording guitars with all the freedom of having a great means for it, even if you are without a Cornford MK II 50 at your back, but nevertheless, sounding like it!
Mojomaxpower 1:
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-1.mp3
Mojomaxpower 1b:
It has a little delay and then a chorus in the first guitar and first solo. Then it has some echo, an overdrive, and a moving filter in the second quite percussive solo.
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-1b.mp3
Mojomaxpower 2
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-2.mp3
Mojomaxpower 2b:
It has some extra drive, chorus and a little delay
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-2b.mp3
Mojomaxpower 3
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-3.mp3
Mojomaxpower 3b
Some drive, little delay and chorus
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-3b.mp3
Mojomaxpower 4:
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-4.mp3
Mojomaxpower 4b:
Driver, chorus, little delay
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-4b.mp3
Néstor
Cheers *** Cheers
GAM was a great achievement for its time, yes it was! It gave me so many good moments and lots and lots of hot takes for what I’m grateful. I was happy with it because I had found a way to play my guitar with some motivation for the first time. I remember back in the early 1990s that the few first attempts to build good amps before Celmo’s GAM for our platform where really awful. The noise of them all was unbearable and the luck of responsiveness was absolute. The sound had no dynamics at all. All they did was to produce a flat mass of bulky, thick distortion, and then others would be no more than a “volume knob” with a nice fake amp interface... In other words: Not a bit of musicality was possible! And they were expensive… Then came all the vst range of virtual amps, some quite interesting, but sounding pretty plastic, let say still too digital. You would guess easily in a production that this or that guitar was processed with some clinical vst plug, but at no effect despite all their spectacular interfaces, unfortunately they still would sound cold. Mojo has such a warmness that separates itself from all these cold and plastic vst amps quite a few miles ahead…
Yes, these attempt times are all over with Mojo!
Mojo is the achievement of a new standard. It is a superior step toward professional, pure, ULTRA DYNAMIC guitar playing in Pulsar. I can see it stepping into the best studios around the world to be part of any professional production without any problems. What I’m going to say is insane, but Mojo sounds quite like the Cornford MK II 50 cabinet, I can´t believe it! Here you have a link in case you don’t know this top of the sort baby:
http://www.master-guitar.com/cornford.htm
When I was up to try Alfonso’s new effort called “Mojo”, I was expecting a good amp of course, but when I tried it I was speechless, it overwhelmed my ears with delight drawing amazement and an uninterrupted green in my face through all the process. I played it for about two hours. Then I came back to play with it again even if I had no time to do it, and then back again, and again, and again.
I realized that Mojo had what I call a “bread quality” to it. What I mean by that? Well, bread is something you are going to eat always, and it goes with everything. It has this “innocuous”, gentle character for which it is so much appreciated internationally by all the cultures of the world. You can eat salted or sweet with it, or take it alone with a cup of coffee, or with some hot chili and a glass of red wine, or make a pizza if you like, well… with everything goes to reach perfection; it is the most versatile food in the world. Mojo is just like that. It is always in the table to go with anything you want to prepare. That is why Mojo and bread will always be there, on the table, ready to go with any meal. Mojo has this special long life quality, the more you use it, the more you like it. Its sound texture is so smooth, so warm and musical, just like the Cornford MK kind of cabinets as I said. It houses anything you want to play: mellow, sweet, aggressive, bluesy, hot, jazzy, experimental, well… anything. Playing the guitar with it is extremely addictive and inspiring. The interface is very well thought and gives you a great array of possibilities and precision control over the sound, very, very good interface and layout indeed.
I didn’t want to answer Alfonso too quickly. In fact, I took about 12 days to write this review because I felt this plug-in had something of much deepness and possibilities than I would have expected at first, I wanted to study it in depth with time and play a lot before talking to him, and then also build some demos as a conclusion. This plug-in deservers it!
My conclusion… well, what can I say you guys…
Well done! Mojo is an amazing work, fantastic sounding, extremely inspiring. The superb dynamics of it is only found in the Cornford MK kind of amps. Adern people, this truly is a high congratulation if you know what the Cornford MK range of cabinets are! How did you achieve this? Have you hired Harry Potter or something?
Trying to get into the technical side of things it is just too complex for me, and at the end of the day I’m a musician, not a programmer freak. So I will instate make a summary of it all in a single phrase that for me and any musician alike means everything:
The Mojo Amp is an extremely, awfully, exceptionally, exceedingly, dreadfully, extraordinarily musical amp for your guitar! Get it!
To show you this FIRST-CLASS amp which is Mojo and its sound potential, I have done 4 little demos. The songs will show you to some extent, how versatile and ultra dynamic the sound is. If you play guitar, I recommend to download the demo and try it for yourself.
You will find 8 demos in total even if I said they are only 4, that because I wanted to do what I would do in a real production. I always compare the original with the processed before choosing where to go exactly. So the purpose of giving you two demos is to show what you can do when having a superb unprocessed source-sound. I first record the guitar without any effects only using Mojo, and then add the effects in a second instance, if needed. So, the first one is always unprocessed and the second has some effects.
Please, pay attention to the guitar in the songs and see how ALIVE the sound can be, it is amazing!
I would recommend this extraordinary plug-in addition to anybody having a guitar and a Pulsar. It really is an important contribution to your music possibilities, particularly if you are a recording artist like me that play a lot of guitar in your productions. You will find yourself recording guitars with all the freedom of having a great means for it, even if you are without a Cornford MK II 50 at your back, but nevertheless, sounding like it!
Mojomaxpower 1:
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-1.mp3
Mojomaxpower 1b:
It has a little delay and then a chorus in the first guitar and first solo. Then it has some echo, an overdrive, and a moving filter in the second quite percussive solo.
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-1b.mp3
Mojomaxpower 2
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-2.mp3
Mojomaxpower 2b:
It has some extra drive, chorus and a little delay
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-2b.mp3
Mojomaxpower 3
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-3.mp3
Mojomaxpower 3b
Some drive, little delay and chorus
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-3b.mp3
Mojomaxpower 4:
Only Mojo amp
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-4.mp3
Mojomaxpower 4b:
Driver, chorus, little delay
http://www.musicaliz.com/Mojo/Mojomaxpower-4b.mp3
Néstor
Cheers *** Cheers