Who Likes Digital Modelling?

[Danny1969]

Not keen on the Line 6 amps or Pods but the Vox stuff is very good. The Valvetronic amps, and the Tonelabs have a small valve power amp in them, and this seems to make all the difference. I'm now using a Tonelab for gigging and recording. Plug it into a Valve power amp and 2 X 12" and it sounds excellent. No batteries, no patch leads, No need for a tuner, It's all built in. If anyone does try out any unit such as a Pod or Vox, make sure it's not plugged into a normal guitar amp! To get the best sound you need to plug em into a power amp (Pref Valve) and a speaker cab, pref in stereo.

[Professor SourTone]

I would have thought something like a Hiwatt 50 or 100, possibly a slave, would be ideal. Hiwatts are really musical amps, and work great with effects.

[thing]

It's OK. I use a GT-6 for recording at home and for teaching through a little Kidd 10 watt thing. Very convenient and convincing sounds to disc without the hassle of micing up. However playing live, there is nothing that beats standing in front of a properly wound up valve amp.

[zugg island convict]

Personally I use stomp box's and my amp, I think the parameters are better to mess around with rather than being limited to few paramaters, which when playing live stomp box's are more versatile, in my opinion. However digital modelling can be quite good but also quite bad depending on which company you use. I used to have a korg ax1500, it was good due to the amount of effects and quality of sound but the paramaters were lacking which made me switch. This was quite a while ago, but if I llok for new ways of doing things then I do look at all options before buying but usually I find stomp box's and real amps better.
Well I think I have said enough of crap that really makes no sense :roll:

[Professor SourTone]

If you work mainly with effects, or an effects/preamp, this would be an amp you could take anywhere. It's a slave version, but that means it will go for less money, and your preamp supplies the colour. VERY cool amps - poor man's Hiwatt.



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[duotone]

Have a pod xt and a vox valvetronix amp so had to vote yes.

When I can warrant spending a ball of money on a tube amp I will, Laney maybe...?

[DynamiteKid]

I think that - much like a medieval witch hunter - I find that modelling just gives me the heebie jeebies.

It's just so synthetic, and I don't like it. If I wanted the sound of a Les through a Marshall, I'd buy a Les and a Marshall, not a Tele and a Line 6.

[strummer]

Currently playing with (and preparing to review) the Digitech GNX3000... the "wow" factor is shooting off the scale
adrian

When / where can I find your review?

What's the Learn-a-lick thing do? & Jam-a-long?

Does the recorder allow recording of other than guitar (Bass / vocals etc..)?


This this sounds like everything I need in one box.

Thanks for your help.
Strummer

[Cernunnos]

Modeling makes life easier, certainly, but do I want to use it given the choice... er no.

[imported_adrianclark]

When / where can I find your review?

Not sure... Guitarist 275 or 276, I'd guess.

What's the Learn-a-lick thing do? & Jam-a-long?

These are pretty much the same as the functions that have been on Digitech units for a while now. Learn-a-lick is a phrase sampler, which allows you to record short snippets and then slow them down (using your feet to play/stop etc). Jam-along is just an input for connecting a CD player or whatever. They're minor details, though... the main selling point of the GNX3000 is the quality of the sounds.

Does the recorder allow recording of other than guitar (Bass / vocals etc..)?

Anything you want. The GNX3000 has bass amp models, so you could easily use it for bass. It has a mic preamp (with phantom power) so you can record vocals or acoustic guitar. It'll carry (I think I'm remembering this correctly) 6 channels of simultaneous audio down the USB cable, so you could record quite a few sources at once. Beyond that, it all depends on the capabilities of your PC.

If that aspect of the GNX3000 interests you, check out the GNX4 as well... it does mp3 looping and has a better drum machine & sample player, too.

That's enough free Digitech marketing for now :wink: Journalistic impartiality aside, though, they are clever buggers.


adrian