DigiTech GNX2

Pretty darn easy. If your into gizmos, then this one will be a snap for ya. Do yourself a favor and download the editor software. It makes the set up more than easy.

I started off running it through my Mesa 50 Cal. and then mic-ing it to the board, later on after tweaking it I found running the stereo outputs to the board direct seems to work the best for me. The only problem with this is that you will loose the natural feedback (the kind you want) from the amp to the guitar. I have numerous guitars running through it, all with phenomenal success. The sustain you can get out of this unit is incredible, and if you're into the vintage Marshal sounds, well with a bit of tweaking, this is the unit for you.

I've had it for a good 5 months now, and have been beating on it since day one. No troubles as of yet, and I do not anticipate any either.

Don't know. Havn't needed them

Definite thumbs up on this unit. I'm a bit biased in my opinion though as I have owned a GNX1 for quite some time prior to this one. The big plus over the GNX1 unit is the ability to bank up and down without having to "hold" the bank button down.

On the surface it is very easy to use.Manual absolutly nessesary for deep editing and if you ever reset to the factory default settings you need to know that the expression pedal has to be reset manually.(I almost lost it when I reset the unit and all of a sudden 70% of the presets had no sound;;} You know how us guitar players are ,push the buttons and read the manual later.

I use the GNX2 as a live and a recording unit. I chose this unit over the GNX1 because of the spdif output, which works great with my home studio. The amp morphing capibilities are great and the unit is virtually noise free thanks to the didital out; My live setup varies depending on where I'm playing;I use my Line 6 Flextone setup when I play somewhere that I can go direct.The GNX2 dos'nt sound very good in front of my flextone but neither does any other multi-effect pedal that I've tried.That said ,when I play where I have no mix or have to mic my setup I use the GNX2. That setup is an Ibanez JS100 a Fender DeVille (a tube driven 4/10 combo)and the GNX2. The GNX2 sounds very good throug this setup.The noise gate makes the unit very quiet.Best effects are pitch shift ,whammy,and rotary speaker.All the effects are average or above compared to other units I've owned(Boss GT-3,Zoom FX8,Digitech rp7, Art sgx2000,Boss me30).You can switch effects seamlessly, and the amp models are almost as good as my Line6 models( the GNX2 rectifier actually sounds better than my Line6).I like being able to use the unit in effects mode less the amp models and use the preamp tone of my Fender on songs that need that big clean punchy sound.Also the Wah effects are extremely good, as you can change the filter and range settings;

The unit seems very rugged.

One of the best I've ever delt with.

I've been playing for 20 plus years.I currently play in a christian rock band calle "RAIN".I also play praise music at local churches.My sound has to be very versitile ranging from country to rock/metal to jazzy clean.The GNX2 seems capible of getting all of these tones and then some.

I found it pretty easy, generally speaking, to get fairly
immediate results (which of course, I wanted when i first got
the unit!). Some minor things took me a while to figure out,
e.g. the volume automatically going back to the preset when in
I.P.S mode...slightly frustrating.
The factory patches were pretty average...but having said that,
about 30% of them were useful for building other sounds on.
The manual was really easy to follow, maybe could've even been a
bit more descriptive (esp. for the effects).

Well i've been used to lower-end effects like those cheap Zooms
that are availible, so to me the quality is awesome. Like they
say, it is studio quality, but to my mind it would be at the
lower end of the spectrum. Still, you get what you pay for.
Anyway i'm using a Fender Princeton Chorus amp, and a Ibanez
RG570 with a Vai Evolution pickup in the bridge.
I find I can get pretty near to whoever I want to, be it
Megadeth or Stevie Ray Vauhgn. Close, but not exact...but
then, there are SO many variables, eg guitar, amp, pickups,
leads etc...it almost always going to sound different.
And as long as you have a good quality sound live, not many
people are going to care.
I think on the whole the effect are many and good...but
maybe the clean sounds could've been better.

I don't think anything will go wrong with my unit for a while...
I mean, it's digital, right? Its not like it's packed with
tubes. and the construction is attactive, and super chunky.
I was very impressed with it in this area. I would use it
on a gig without a backup, and in the rare event of something
going wrong, just use my amps clean and distorted channels.

Never dealt with the company. Which is a good thing,
right!?

I play mainly rock and metal so it's great...seems like more
of a rock-based unit than say, jazz or whatever. I've been
playing 7+ years, but we all know the time is irrelivant, right.
If it got lost or stolen, i would buy something else, but only
because I think that it would be fun to use something else...
definately not because the unit sucks or anything.
I think I like the distortions the best...you can squeal an artificial
harmonic and it ring out WELL, not like the cheaper units. The fact
that a talk-box is built in is pretty special too, I reckon.
And the Learn-a-Lick feature...invaluble for solos. An awesome
learning tool. Good wah, too. I would say overall, that I'm
very happy with my purchase, and I'm happier with it every week.
I don't see me buying another unit for at least 3 years.

It is not easy to get the sound you are looking for out of it. You get some decent sounds from factory, but these sounds won't fit any guitar, so you will have to work a little bit with them. Editing pathes is natural, but not easy. I am used to the way the digitech effects respond because I have had a GSP 21 and a RP14d, but in this unit, the effects are more complex and therefore you really have to spend a lot of time editing. For me the manual just told me how to asign the target system setup, something that has to be considered if you want to get the best sound. Now, this is an amp modeler, it is not all the amps and stompboxes, so for me it is foolish to expect that this thing will sound exactly as the model, or have you seen a ferrari rweplica that sounds like a ferrari, and looks like a ferrari?, you will always see the difference. But ofcourse instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars you will be spending perhaps twenty thousand dollars. But it any case, I can see that the guy who made a past review has not played live in a big auditorium were you have to microphone your amp and therefore does not know how the sound comes out from a miked amp. The RP14d did it, and the GNX2 does it in a closer and way lot better way. But again, after some work.

I am using an Ibanez S series the amplification method varies. The only setting that is a little bit noisy is the acoustic simulator. Ofcourse if you do not edit correctly you will get a noisy patch. For me all the effects sound great, but again it depends on the time you spend with them, and for what you want them. Well, for now I have been focusing on creating general purpose sounds, because I do not have the time to get all the sounds I want, in time I will.

Until now, I do, ant it seems to be more reliable than the RP14D that has an overheating problem. If I sell my RP14d then I will have to use it without a backup.

I have never dealt with digitech, because they only give service to the US.

I play latin rock, seventies and eighties heavy metal, not this actual garbage (excepting two a few groups that are doing decent stuff). I play also alternative rock, progressive rock, some blues and jazz. I think that digitech is what gets closer to my style, and with the adition of harder distortions now I have all.

At first the board is intimadating but when you look through the manual it becomes a sinch. The Librarian editor software makes it even easier to use.

Wow This thing can really Crank. The pathches that are already on this thing are junk (No surprise there) But the user pathces are good. I'm running a Kirk Hammet ESP KH-3 into a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier. SWEET!
Inbetween is a Crybaby 535Q and of course GNX-2. All the effects sound phenomenal. Some of the amp warpings don't sound exactly right, but with some tweakin they can be a shreakin. I play Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Van Halen, Satriani, Hendrix, SRV, Eric Johnson, and many others. Oh yeah, that talker effect and YaYa kick ass.

Ive been playing for 21 Years and can spot junk easily. When I was on stage for some venues I had other Multieffects processors fail in the middle of my performance.DAMN DAMN DAMN
This thing is made of metal and will last long enough for me.

Ive dealt with them numerous times in the past and they are always very supportive and helpful. One time I called support and I ended up taking only 3 minutes to get my answer. Try that with someone else.

I play everything across the board from Heavy Thrash Metal Pantera to Clean Blues of B.B. King. It is all good. Been playing for 21 years and have loved every minute of it. Sorry If I forgot to say somethin because I just got it and I want to play it right now. Any ordinary person might give this a 10 but I will excede that and go to Spinal Taps 11. Oh yeah Its That Damn Good!!!

Ok.. So I've been on a mission the last three months, trying out every pedal board I could get my hands on. I must admit that I had high hopes for this unit. I picked up a Zoom GFX-8 recently, and have grown quite fond of it. What I really look for in any multi effects unit are the distortions and how well the distorted sounds integrate with the rest of the effects. Once you get to know it, the GNX2 seemed pretty easy to use.

So I take it out of the box and set it up on my desktop and get ready to have some fun (I put aside the whole day to do this). As usual, the presets are all shit, so I go into tweak mode to see what I can dig up. I head right for the distortions. The stompbox modeling is a joke! None of these models sound like what they?re modeled after. Ok, so I can live with that, let's see if we can get some decent distortion sounds... Uggg...This section is basically useless, all the models sound alike, which was not a sound that I was into. I think mainly the stompbox section sounded muddy and sucked any tone away. Bummer... The amp models sounded ok though, the distortions actually sounded better in this section. I was actually able to get a halfway decent sound. Cool... I think I have been spoiled by the Zoom's great distortion section. Pretty hard to beat! I did manage to get some nice clean sounds though and the effects sound good as well. Another bothersome bit, the pedal on this thing was stiff and jerky, not smooth at all, which makes it hard to do anything with it. I was also looking forward to all the weird effects like the talker, once again I was let down, a waste of time. As well as the rhythm trainer, a joke of a drum machine.. The YaYa is kinda cool and the pitch effects are good as well. The Whammy effect seemed cool, but with the state of the effects pedal, who knows... The morphing function seems to be just a mixer between two presets and will take some time to get a decent morphed sound... I guess for $500, I was expecting it to sound alot better than this! I have to give it up to the Zoom GFX-8, for $250 this thing sounds great! I guess if the GNX2 was priced at $250, I might not have sent it back...

They did answer a question sent by email in the same day...cool..

Ugggg. Definitely not satisfied, and it's way overpriced. Sorry Digitech

well for me...... bit funky at first i used to be just a guitar>amp setup kinda guy so the hole consept of making patches was new to me

but the manual helped

im glad i got this one because knobs are so much easier to use than buttons

this is kinda strange ive never liked solidstate amps or digital stuff im a tube person
but dammit this is amazing
the effects are awsome the modles arent 100% on but u can warp with em so its all good
the acoustic is a bit noisy not really though
the eric johnson patch is right on *thats wat sold me*

errr i dont really know yet physicaly it seems strong but im not sure about giging with digital equpiment yet ill have to get back to u on that

im the biggest chemialian player u will find Hardcore->Blues->Funk->techno->soft rock
this really helps me get some sweet tones
if it was stolen i might have to break some knee caps