Digitech GNX3 Opinions?

[zyx345]

It seems this unit does a lot, 8 track recorder, modulations, drum samples. Can anyone offer an opinion on the quality of the sounds & usability of the GNX3?

Does it do a good Mesa Rectified emulation?

[charvelguy]

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Guitar One Mag features the GNx3 with tab and tone settings of top songs every month. Seems to be very versatile and would probaby do a decent Mesa Rec sound.

[HeWhoIs]

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The GNX4 is all about recording. It uses a different type of memory card that has more space on it, it has more outs for home or studio use, and programmable drum beats I believe. The GNX3 has more drum beats than I'll use and I don't really care about any of the other stuff either so I'm not bothering to upgrade.

[toejam]

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Cool, thanks! I've been thinking of picking one up to start messing around and doing some home recording. Guess the GNX3 will be fine.

[HeWhoIs]

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Glad I could help!

[HeWhoIs]

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I've had mine since they came out and I love it! It has some great tones and the eight track recorder has almost an hour of recording time with the 128mb flash card. I use it at work ( I teach guitar in a tiny closet in the back of a local music store) and it is a great tool for teaching. One of the other teachers actually uses his for gigging. Check out Pauls Guitar Solo( Suicide Solution) at www.BelieverUSA.com to hear his live tone. Its a very poorly edited version of the song. They only included like 3:30 of the almost 12 minute version of the song that they did that night.

The stock Mesa patch is ok, but if you tweak it a bit you can come alot closer to a mesa sound.

[toejam]

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Anyone know how the new GNX4 compares to the GNX3? It's like $200 more, I believe.

[finnman]

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Hey Joe,
What do you plug this thing it into? A clean Keyboard amp?? I got a Boss GT-5, that I use in my Mesa's effects loop, but I sometimes just plug into my 2 Roland KC-100 keyboard amps for stereo using the GT-5 pre-amps.
Thanks
Finn

[rattojack]

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What's the pitch shifter like? Can you do thirds? Does the shifted note sound like a real guitar or a synth?

Thanks

[HeWhoIs]

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At work I use a 15 watt Ibeenhad practice amp and at home I would use a 50 watt peavey power amp into a Marshall 1960A cab(bought a Vetta so I hardly ever use it at home now). The clip in one of my posts is a GNX3 into a Marshall 100/100 power amp into 4 Marshall 4x12s. Paul(the guy in the clip) gets a great tone for live shows.

[HeWhoIs]

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It has an intelligent pitch shifter that can do any interval in any key. It doesn't sound perfect but it's not that bad.

[villain_s_deeds]

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I wouldn't mind having a GNX3 or 4, but I still really like my RP300. Hey, it's good enough for now

[zyx345]

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Thanks for all of the replies. How are the drum machine settings on the GNX3?

[HeWhoIs]

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They get the job done but they're nothing special.

[THETRIUMPHOFSTEEL]

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Hey joe, I would assume that you have a seperate output for the drum machine/samples to your guitar signal? Is this how it works, so you can send the guitar signal to your amp and the other stuff straight to a PA? It would seem pretty useless otherwise.