The compressor functions as well as any I have tried, something I cannot say for the myriad of stompbox compressor models of the POD XT Live. The WAH and pickup selector settings are very useful, though to be honest, I don't use them much. (Note: there are a few great POD XTL effects.) Unless I am missing something, and perhaps I am, the GNX4 categorically kicks the POD XT Live's butt in this regard. I am very disappointed with the POD XT Live and its supposedly great 80 effects. This is where the GNX4 beats most other modelers. The GNX4 approach of multiple use buttons is fine if you're sitting at home and have some free time, but is a drag when you want to quickly select an amp and cabinet. Turn a dial to select an amp with separate controls for EQ. I prefer the much simpler approach of the VAMP or VOX Tonelab. I often use these as starting points, especially EQ- wise. Luckily, Guitar One magazine provides a variety of GNX4 settings each issue. The GNX4 offers cabinet (?) EQ, something I have not mastered. I also find it a bit tedious to setup an amp. They miss the warmth, thickness, and sustain of a good clean tube amp. Though you can get a clean sound, the clean and blues-type amps just are not quite right. Where it lacks IMHO is in more subtle amps and applications. As with most modelers, if you like the heavy-metal rectified, high-gain sound, the GNX4 does pretty well. A few users have complained about this and that regarding the sound quality live-chances are, they just have not explored the various setup options (Speaker Compensation, EQ, and so forth).Īfter owning the GNX4 for almost a year, and comparing it to other amp modelers I own or have tried, I would say the GNX4 amp modeling is middle of the road (see SuperModels below).
With some tweaking and correct connections (to amps and so forth), the GNX4 sounds great. The GNX4 combines dozens of effects with an eight-track digital recorder, USB and MIDI interface, drum machine, and some pretty trick computer software (Pro Tracks Plus from Cakewalk). The Digitech GNX4 is much more than a multi-effects processor-it is a Guitar "Workstation". After months of searching and testing I decided on the Digitech GNX4 and the Korg PX4. It was pretty cool.įor years I have wanted a multi-effects processor that would give all the sounds I crave. It did away with all of the mess of cables, batteries (it had a 110vac power supply).a bit a head of its time. The idea was to combine all of the popular effects of the time (fuzz/distortion, compressor, chorus, flanger, phase-shifter, pre-amp, and a mixer) into one cabinet. It looked like a mixer or Moog synthesizer of the era, walnut hardwood sides, aluminum face. In 1979 I built a multiple effects "box".
Digitech GNX4 Multiple Effects Processor / Guitar Workstation Digitech GNX4 Multiple Effects Processor / Guitar Workstation
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