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So I bought the interface and the app and gave it a quick run through on my lunch break. I have the full version so I have all 5 amp and cab models, 11 effects (delay, fuzz, distortion, overdrive, wah, envelope filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, octave, noise filter)
Clean - pictured as a Fender Fender panel - The best sounding 'model' of the pack. Nice round chimey tone. Tone controls nice and responsive and 'built in' tremolo.
Crunch - pictured as a Vox style panel. - Didn't spend to much time here. It's ac30ish kind of, but no seperate gain control so it's pretty much always kind of hairy sounding. I wouldn't expect to ever hit Brian May type sounds with this model.
Lead - pictured as a Marshall - Lacks gain but does have a real Marshall flavor. Slamming it with a distortion/OD dirty's it up a good deal but it doesn't get into real hi-gain territory.
Metal - pictured as a Recto - kind of meh, also lacks a bit of real gain which surprised me a bit. 6.5-10 on the gain dial just added hair and fizz. Again, you need to put a 'pedal' in front of it to get real metal tones.
Bass - I switched to it once by accident. No opinion.
The stomps are okay, nothing amazing, nothing too terrible. The distortion is probably the one I would use the most, follow by the OD. The OD is almost too honky but with dialing with the amp controls. Phase/flange/chorus are all decent and behave like you'd expect. The noise gate is pretty good with hum and hiss when the gain is jacked up. Wah is kind of hard to use unless you drag your toe or other appendage across the touchscreen 'pedal'. The octave is really not great and the fuzz is also kind of useless to me.
The microphone models (dynamic or condenser) are okay I guess, they kind of just let you change the character of the sound a little.
Basically it's a good mobile practice solution and a decent value at $60 all-in for the hardware and app. The sounds and modelling are not groundbreaking, but are decent. The interface on the ipad is really good so I do have to give them props there, but the pop-ups advertising their other products when I'm using the paid app can be a bit annoying. (It only happened once so that may be an anomaly). Soundwise I'd say it rates around pocket-pod level but I definitely prefer the interface on the iRig over the pocket pod's "Hold button a while tapping button b, then rapidly alternating c&d" interface.
Clean - pictured as a Fender Fender panel - The best sounding 'model' of the pack. Nice round chimey tone. Tone controls nice and responsive and 'built in' tremolo.
Crunch - pictured as a Vox style panel. - Didn't spend to much time here. It's ac30ish kind of, but no seperate gain control so it's pretty much always kind of hairy sounding. I wouldn't expect to ever hit Brian May type sounds with this model.
Lead - pictured as a Marshall - Lacks gain but does have a real Marshall flavor. Slamming it with a distortion/OD dirty's it up a good deal but it doesn't get into real hi-gain territory.
Metal - pictured as a Recto - kind of meh, also lacks a bit of real gain which surprised me a bit. 6.5-10 on the gain dial just added hair and fizz. Again, you need to put a 'pedal' in front of it to get real metal tones.
Bass - I switched to it once by accident. No opinion.
The stomps are okay, nothing amazing, nothing too terrible. The distortion is probably the one I would use the most, follow by the OD. The OD is almost too honky but with dialing with the amp controls. Phase/flange/chorus are all decent and behave like you'd expect. The noise gate is pretty good with hum and hiss when the gain is jacked up. Wah is kind of hard to use unless you drag your toe or other appendage across the touchscreen 'pedal'. The octave is really not great and the fuzz is also kind of useless to me.
The microphone models (dynamic or condenser) are okay I guess, they kind of just let you change the character of the sound a little.
Basically it's a good mobile practice solution and a decent value at $60 all-in for the hardware and app. The sounds and modelling are not groundbreaking, but are decent. The interface on the ipad is really good so I do have to give them props there, but the pop-ups advertising their other products when I'm using the paid app can be a bit annoying. (It only happened once so that may be an anomaly). Soundwise I'd say it rates around pocket-pod level but I definitely prefer the interface on the iRig over the pocket pod's "Hold button a while tapping button b, then rapidly alternating c&d" interface.
Yeah, I barely do anything with my PX4D except switch to US HIGH GAIN and practice. I do have my old drum machine running into the secondary input. But yeah, it's kind of a bitch to mess with the presets or make your own but I'm happy with that one. 
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