It really seems to compress the sound and if you set the gain high, each pick of a string explodes-just like a good compressor should do. 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.
#GNX4 SUPERMODELS FREE#
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.
#GNX4 SUPERMODELS SOFTWARE#
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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