DigiTech Genesis 3

i only got the 1.0 version of the firmware so far but i will upgrade it via internet if i ever get problems, but being a computer tech i go by the general rule "If it's ok just dont mess with it!".
I think it is generally easy to use considering all it does, it's got loads of possibilities so it is a good idea to look up the user manual at first.
But nobody should need the manual just to try out the presets, plain easy.

Im using it for home studio recording with my computer.
And i practice stuff with headphones, sounds are incredible! really feels like those classic and expensive amps to me! and the effects are great too.
It costs so much less and it makes you feel you have a whole music store in your living room!
I can get this Eric Johnson lead or some Megadeth/Metalica nasty rythm sound without even having to tweak anything!
I have given it a quick try on my Peavy Musician Mark IV amp wich is a rather bad and dull sounding amp by itself, it made magic! altough i prefer the headphone sounds because even with everything at the 12 o clock position an amp will always influence the tone.
This thing is ideal for what i wanted to do, Computer studio recording.

It could be used at gigs but i dunno what i would do if i would have to switch from a clean to a nasty tone? turn the knobs with my toes?
I think this unit was mostly designed with studio/home recording in mind cause of that and the fact that it's plastic case would make me nervous to have someone walk on it by mistake.
add a way to change presets with floor switches and put the thing in a steel casing and this would be the ultimate sin!

i've had the thing for only a month, didnt need any support yet so i wouldnt know.

I play various styles and mostly original compositions, it is a very usefull and inspiring tool for me, i can close my eyes and turn the preset knobs, and try to see what this surprise sound will inspire me, or if i want to really sound like an artist i like, it wont take too much time before i tune it in.
I have been playing guitar since i was a 14 year old kid (36 now), and i have had a lot of stomp pedals and amps... this thing is like heaven sent to me!

If you read the maunal,it is not that hard to work with it.

It sounds pretty good to me at low to mid volume.Anything louder than that,I have found that the distortion sounds gets little unfocused.Maybe you need to amplify it with a very powerful amplifier with little to no distortion to preserve the definition.

Something similar has happend to my unit as some of the reviewers are experiencing,parameters changing on its own.

I did contact Digitec about this problem, but they are charging $80 to rectify what seems to me is a defective product to start with.

If I was not going through this problem,I would probably give this product a very high rating,I did get the external foot control unit(which is not midi),and with it,it can be a highly versatile effect processor.But with this kind of very serious problems,it is all most useless.However,I probably will get this thing sent to Digiech.I will try to post an update later on.

It's a complex peice of gear with lots of effects and parameters to work with and to get the best sounds out of it (which are excellent indeed) there's a wide gammit of tweaking to do. Studying the manual is a must. Not the best choice if your a live performer unless you purchase the midi foot controller, which I didn't because I'm a home studio guy. Could use more user patch storage, you only get 48 and it doesn't seem like enough with all it capabilites. You can transfer and store your patches using the software it comes with on your computer if you run out of room. The manual is good, it has several tutorials you can go through if the machine is just totally alien to you.

The sound quality is excellent. If you can afford only one effect system this a good place to start. You'll get every standard effect that you'll need for any type of music. This is something Digitech beats it's competition at, of course the trade off is there's a loss in simplicity of use. I bought it because the price was too good to pass up and I've been pleased with other Digitech products I've used. The presets aren't inspiring but that been true with all the other digital modeling processors on the market(I wish they would all get a clue!). You'll have to tweak it some to match well with your Guitar and Amp-Mixer etc. I found that the best sound were really achieved by using the Warp function, This allows you to create 2 virtual Amplifiers and blend them and this is what makes it so much better that the Pod,V-amp,Korg1500,DG-Stomp. This gives you a near endless amount of creativity because you can blend amplifiers and Cabinets over and over again, your sound can built from 6 different amps if you so desire. The effects are top notch and quiet and can be controlled by the footcontroller(unable to comment on the quality of this function).
CHORUS(excellent)
FLANGER(very good but limited without the computer software)
COMPRESSION(excellent)
PHASER(good)
TREMELO(very good)
VIBRATO(Good)
ENVELOPE FILTER(OK)
HARMONIST(very good)
WHAMMY(hard to tell without the foot controller)
PITCHSHIFTER(excellent, extremely smooth tracking and you can place it anywhere in the stereo field you like.
DELAY(very good, lots of options)
REVERB(hall,plate,church,garage,arena,spring)
NOISE GATE(good, tends to sputter sometimes)
AUTO WAH(ok)
PICKUP SELECTOR(cool idea and it works impressively)
ACOUSTIC SIMULATOR(poor)

I use it with all tube amplifiers Fender, Vox, Carvin and direct to a mixer/portastudio and multitude of guitars, it's compatable with them all. It doesn't work well with stompbox types of effects (which is disappointing, it's been the case with other modeling processors as well, it creates excess noise: unless you like noise).I like creating my own sounds and don't try to mimmick other people's sound because nobody does it better than the original. Having said that this thing will do country, metal, punk, psychedelia, funk, classic rock, be-bop/rockabilly post/punk, new wave, nu metal, jazz/fusion, pop, reggae, the only genre I would exclude is folk music.

I haven't had it long enough to tell. Some people have had problems it seems from some of the other reviews. It looks like some of the earlier models had some bugs. Hopefully these bugs have solved in the later versions.

Never Dealt with them.

This Thing's FUN, FUN, FUN and no one will take my Genesis 3 away.
I play a sort of Psychedelic/Early Punk/Orchestrated Noise kind of stuff. I've been playing and writing songs for 18 years and own quite a bit gear. I embrace vintage sounds of years past and enjoy the new modern digital technology too. I still record in the analog domain but the digital stuff gets better and better all the time and the Genesis 3 is another great advancement in the right direction. I've bought the POD( only used it a few times) Yamaha DG-Stomp(which I would also recommend if you can find one, great sounds but limited effects). I've tried KORG1500(very good as well) and the Behringer V-AMP(Ho-Hum) and the Genesis 3 is the best of these type of Digital Modeling effect processors. The most for your money, hands down. In 1986 when I started playing Guitar and I had one of these things it would of been the best thing to happen to me and my music. Young musicians of today are really lucky to have such creative tools at their disposal.

This is pretty straightforward if you understand effects and EQ. The manual is helpful but I also have a pod 2.0. and their manual is much more informative. Editing the effects and amps is pretty easy. I haven't delved too much into the cabinet tuning but like I said , if you understand eq and what you're looking for, I imagine it's not too hard. By the way, my genesis 3 is version 1.2. I think that they're up to 2.0 now.

With this unit I'm running several different guitars ( including an esp with emg 81's, a stock american series strat, a couple of modded strats with dimarzio super distortions and evolutions) directly into the gen3 into a tascam 4 track . I also purchased korg d1600 recently but haven't tried the genesis into it yet becuase it was gone for awhile ( the genesis, that is - see "reliability"). Anyway, I just use it for recording and have no plans to use it with an amp or PA. To me sound quality can be broken down into two catagories: amps and effects.
First- amps; I think all of the clean and medium gain models sound great, espcially the clean - really nice, smooth, warm and clear and that's even withouth tweaking them alot. The high gain choices I wasn't as happy with. They're ok. I had to tweak them alot and then I was only satisfied with the sound for rythym sounds, for leads I thought it was to harsh and brittle, that goes for all of the high gain moddels on there. I used to play out through a marshall jcm900 half stack with the gain cranked and for leads , I would just kick on a cheap mxr distortion pedal. I was happy with that tone and couldn't really find that in here. Although, I admit , I haven't spent endless hours with the genesis trying to achieve this. I don't have that kind of time. Consequently, I purchased a pod 2.0 and am much happier with that for high gain tones. But for the price and other feature , this thing is still a great buy.
The second area of sound quality for me would be the effects. This is why I LOVE the genesis 3. The effects are awesome sounding and there is alot of them. multiple reverbs , delays, flanges, phasers, chourus, and pitch effects amoung others including a thing called ya-ya which reminds me of Peter frampton playing through a talk box in the 70's. You can buy and expression pedal to control this effect and the famed digi whammy and also wah. I know that there are some severe snobs out there who say that the effects not professional quality but for 2 hundred bucks , they're great. I don't mean to toot my own horn here but I've been playing seriously for about 22 years and think I'm a pretty good judge of sound quality even though I'm not a tech/gear head. Even though I have the pod, the gen 3 will be an important part of my recording process because of its effects. The effects on the pod are not so great and the noise gate is almost non-existant. The noise gate and compressor on the genesis are really not good an easy to use. Again - for the price. I think that's what some of these negative review authors are forgeting about. I even use the compressor for my acoustic guitar and it works very well. I'm going to rate this high becuase of the effects and clean tones.

This is where I need to take away some points.
It's been a month and a half since I've had my gen 3 and I'm currently on my 3rd one !!
The first one: after a couple of weeks it started doing this thing when after being on for awhile, the effects would start to alter themselves. For example reverbs would swell, speeds would increase on the chourus, delay repeats would increase, pitch intervals would change, etc. I bought this from musician's friend , it was ver 1.0. I sent it back and asked if they could send me a more recent model as I don't have a pc at home and can't download upgrades. They sent me a version 1.2. This second one had a problem on the pitch settings - there would be distortion and wobbleing ( sp?) on the tone that was being played back. So that one went back and they have sent me another 1.2 that I just got the other day. Hopefully that one will be ok, I haven't checked it out too much yet. Other than that , as far as reliability, the outer casing of this thing is made of plastic and I'm not sure how well it would hold up if someone was playing out regularly with it.

Ehh - never dealt with them directly but they don't strike me as being so great. I'll explain. The first genesis I had didn't come with the genetix software and made no mention of the cakewalk guitartracks. It did have a card to send in if you wanted the software rather than downloading it so I sent that in right away. Month and half later - no software. The following 2 replacements each came with the disk. Digitech has a website with a message board that is not maintained by them but has some pretty help people who post there regularly. Another thing that was kind of off about digitech was around the end of November, I had sent away for a free GNX 3 demo video and didn't get it until this week (mid March !!) and they sent me 3 of them. Who knows maybe thats not a support issue but a mailroom one. But my guess is that it's probably the same people.

I play a varitey of music but mainly insrumental acoustic, rock, and hard rock pieces.Although, I do like to shred it up once in awhile. Like I mentioned earlier I've been playing for about 22 years. I'm through with playing out in bands and am now just mainly interested in recording my own music by myself in my own little studio. I have a few strats, a yamaha acoustic, an Ibanez bass, an esp EC-1000 ( awesome guitar - incredible for it's price), a yamaha keyboard, a pod 2.0, a tascam 414 and my beautiful new korg d1600. For an amp I just have a little mesa combo as I've traded in my marshall half stack because I have no use for it anymore. I live in a small apartment and do most of my stuff thru headphones as not to disturb my neighbors and/or wife. The genesis 3 makes a really nice addition to my gear as it's my main source of effects besides the ones that are in the d1600. I plan on running the gen 3 into my pod to see if I can get the best of both worlds ( effects & high gain)without too much noise or signal loss. If something happened to it, I would definiely replace it, I missed having one when I had to send it back a couple of times for replacement. I highly recommend this for any one looking for a low price multi effects unit and something to play thru with headphones. If you're just interested in ultra high gain moddleing, get the pod ; but make sure you have an additional noise gate with that sucker.

quite simple.. especially with the genedit software stuff, you can even tune cabinets but that beats me.. I havent gone in deep the parameters deep but it is really quite easy to edit; i can dial up tones during live performances, depending on the PA..

A mexican fender strat (I think its a cheap richie sambora model)-with a dimarzio humbucker in the bridge and a seymour duncan vintage rails pickup>>>>cry baby>>>sans-amp gt-2>>>>genesis>>>PA.. No noise, even with my sans-amp on. The modulation effects are great, I love the phaser and flanger. The one reason I bought it that it has really good effects. The amp settings.. well I guess theyre quite ok, but you really got to dial up to get a really good distortion tone, I mean it takes some time to dial up a distortion tone that sounds like the gt-2, and i can get a good distortion sound from the gt-2 in seconds.. but since there is the warp function, you can find your way.. there are some uploaded patches on the net, for example I've found some nice dist settings such as the ts-9 and DS-1.. What I love most is the compressor.. it is just like the Boss Cs-3, it beefs up the sound and doesnt suck up the harmony of the chord/melody you're playing.. the cleans are much better han the v-amp and the pod 2.0, I personally use 3 settings of clean tones; a regular clean, one with some flanger and a dynamic clean solo tone, then a use the gt-2 when I need distortion... I dont use a midi controller since I have problems with the device which I will explain later on... I use it primarily at gigs (although its no designed to go on road) and sometimes at home for recording.. the recording features are quite good, ive done a couple of songs, they sound quite fine and its quite quiet even in front of the computer.. the gate sure works fine...

This is where it sucks.. In my country (Turkey) the voltage is 220 DC and this device simply goes nuts when there is a voltage decrease and it starts to change the parametres on its own; it turns on the chorus and it makes totally unusable sounds; imagine that happening during a gig.. I have to buy UPS and carry that around now how lame is that.. I contacted digitech support and they told me to buy a rack mounted power supply, I bought the device for 300$, whats the logic in buying a 450 dollar rack mounted power supply??? well I use the device in gigs but I make sure that the power is regulated and always carry a backup (which I never do). this elecricity stuff is really bad though...

I've sent them an e-mail and they responded fast, but not with a feasible answer, I sent one more, same attitude, one more the sam attitude, they sure are fast but show little interest for my problem, and this problem is a known problem for my country and I have a friend who cant take out his GSP 2101 out because of this electricty problems. I give a 5 for fast response

I play for a local rock singer who has released his first album recently and the songs are clean tone rock, seldom distortions except solos; and cover stuff like REM, cure, U2, etc. I've been playing for 10 years now and have always used multi effects because they are easy to use during gigs and really few people can tell the difference.. the bad thing is that you have to buy a foot controller; the control X is ridicously expensive, I think I will go for the behringer FCB1010 IF I can solve the eletrical problem.. I like the sounds, I like its easiness, I like that it has a small screen that shows the name of the patch (unlike the pod or Vamp) nice green and red lights which I can see in dark situations (I usuallly wear sunglasses on stage :)) I like the compressor, amps, especially effects, delays and reverbs are cool.. I wish it had a leslie on it though, the pod has lesli on it and its swell..
If it was stolen I'm not sure that I would buy another one because it caused a lot of pain because it has the probability of going nuts during a gig and thats not something I'd like to experience... I sure does sound good, and I did not like digitech (or DOD) stuff before but this one is quite cool.. I give it an 8 because it sounds good, looks good feels good but is not dependable for gigs but thats not it was designed for...

Quite hard if you want to go deep, If you just wanna get started it's really easy but there is no magic that way..
Everything is very logical though, but you do need to understand an eq properly, what all parameters mean in an effect and how a compressor work, eq being the most important thing.

Extremely good, why not everyone has one of these and dumps all other equipment they have is a mystery. Only way I can explain it is, a big stack looks more impressive..
This thing kicks ass!!!!

I hope so

Don't know

This is a miracle machine. All amps sound good, effects are amazing. But it is in the tuning of the cabinet and the ability to change the eq-s centre freq that makes this thing completly remarkeble.
Making a good electric guitar sound is easy, find an amp that you like, get a cabinet you like for the sound you're looking for, listen for what is missing, change channel to red, do something similar and then warp them, save it as a new amp. Love your new sound.

But that's not why I love it.

For 5 years I have invested thousends of dollars in getting a good sound on my acoustic guitar. I have the best magnetic pickup, the best under saddle pickup and condenser mic, One of the best blenders on the market, reverb, tube compressor, top end steel string guitar. I mean I got the works. I can eq the mics seperatly, I can do anything to make my guitar sound as a guitar through vertily any PA system. On my way of doing this I have bought and sold many many products and learnt everything there is to know about this.

So what's the problem? Well I ended up with a million cables and something always broke down, but most imprtant, it took a while to dial the sound in and when I had, I had one sound. But playing with your fingers, playing with a pick, on your own or with a drummer. All those things require different sounds, I could get all of them, but I could only get one at a time, or, one per night. That basicly sucks.

This unit makes all those problems go away. It took me about 20 hours and I have a couple of years doing research for this so I know frequenzies and all that shit in my sleep, but the result.. One cord from my guitar, only the magnetic, reliable no battery pickup in to genesis 3 and I'm done. Patch 1 Big strum normal sound, red channel a bit louder
Patch 2 less bass red channel a bit more volume
patch 3, with a chorus

etc etc etc

Oh man, I am the happiest guy in the world, no more worries.

Thank you genesis 3.

If you take a patch, put the same amp on both channels, enter the cabtune mode, you have 6-band semiparamtric eq, now who can beat that?
When they put out the software that can change the q-value as well, I might start humping this thing..

Fairly easy to use. The manual is a must in order to get good tones out of this. You have to set up the target system in order to make this sound good. I originally put it in my effects loop and had the target system set up to go into the FX return on a 4x12 combo but I just couldn't get any good sounds. I then plugged directly into my amp's input and changed the target system to IN4x12 and BINGO. Awesome tones. You should definitely play around with these to find what sounds right for your setup.

I have run either a Ibanez RGT42, ESP MH200, or an Ibanez RG770 into a Morley Wah->Genesis3->Crate GX900->Fender 4x12 cabinet.

The unit appears to be reasonably quiet(except for the accoustic simulator). The noise gate works extremely well.

Most of the presets are a bit overprocessed for me so I took a couple and stripped all of the effects off and built them from scratch. This is what I recommend that you do because once you get rid of all of the effects, you really get a good feel for the amp model and can build your tone from there. I haven't really built any Hypermodels yet because there is so many different tones available in the 16 models that I haven't had a need for anything else yet.

The accoustic simulator is the only thing that didn't impress me much. It actually sounds OK but it is just too noisy for any practical applications.

I play out quite a bit and I am definitely going to use this thing live as soon as I get my Control X. It's not like the old fuzzy digitech junk. I used to own an RP7 and a 2101 and this thing is hands down better than either of those units.

Seems to be pretty solid. But only time will tell.

Haven't had to contact them yet.

Digitech has really put out a good unit with this one. The distortions sound like real tube distortions and not like the fuzzy solid state stuff you find in older products. And the cleans are equally nice. The effects are great too. The tuner kind of sucks, I'm hoping that the Control X has a better display for the tuner. I also don't like the fact that you HAVE to have the Control x to bypass the unit easily, but oh well I'm buying that too. This seems like a marketing ploy by Digitech to get you to buy the Control X instead of another midi controller. All in all, I would definitely get this unit again if it were lost or stolen. It's quickly becoming an integral part of my sound.I've been playing for 15 years(professionally for about 10). I know good tone and this unit definitely has it. It's obviously not the same as having the actual amps that are modeled but it comes very close and when you think about comparing the cost of all of those amps to the cost of this little unit then it becomes a no-brainer, this thing is a great value. Definitely a keeper.

I know alot of people are into the "amp modeling" thing and try to find out which unit is the best, so I will use the LINE 6 POD and Behringer V-AMP 2 as references when comparing features, etc. I currently own a Behringer V-AMP 2 and previously owned a POD. (I tried out the PODXT, but something just didn't sit right with me when I played it).

When I first bought the unit, I thought that editing functions, etc. would be difficult but that is definitely not the case. It is a piece of cake editing on this thing. It is basically setup like the POD and V-AMP where you turn the knob to the different amps and cabinets. The gain, bass, treble, mid and amp level knobs are clearly labeled and can easily be accessed.

The manual is very easy to follow. You really only need it for key things. Once you have messed around with the unit a bit, you probably won't go back to the manual. I have not messed with the online functions, but I have seen the site and know that there are plenty of patches, etc. available. Also, a copy of GUITAR TRACKS 2 by Cakewalk and the twin program (for a MAC computer) come included with the unit.

One thing I noticed that I didn't like is that when you tweak the bass, treble, etc. settings, you have to turn the knob almost a full turn and then you go into an "edit" mode when you can change the level. I wish it instantly started changing immediately upon touching a knob. Just a picky thing.

I can't really complain about ease of use. I wish there were more amps already available so you didn't have to build and save your own.

I am running a Gibson Gothic Explorer into this thing and then into my computer for recordings. This thing is WAY quieter than my V-AMP 2. I get no noise, even with my computer monitor right in front of me.

EFFECTS- I think that the effects on this unit are outstanding and smoke all of the other amp modelers out there. The effects sound "in your face" and ambient. There are alot of useful effects. The downtune is really cool and I even like the acoustic simulator, which I thought I would hate.

HIGH GAIN- This is a hard area for me. As much as I want to complain about there only being 16 different amp types, the WARP function allows you to build an endless supply of amps. The only problem is that I don't really know what I am trying to emulate by mixing a tweed with a brit stack, etc. The sounds I am getting are very cool, and maybe that is ok. The heavier amps are rectified and high gain. Modern gain and Hot Rod sound great also, but they are not as saturated as I would have expected. The clean and medium gain amps sound great.

CABS- The cabs sound good, but this is probably an area where LINE 6 did a better job. Don't get me wrong, they sound good but a few of them are just a bit off. There is a cabinet pitch function which I have not tried yet. That might add some cool things to the mix.

The WARP thing sounds really cool when you mix two amps. I have not delved into this enough yet to know what sounds I want, but you can really go bananas with this thing. It is really great being able to mix and match two amps for a really unique sound.

Digitech seems to make solid stuff. I have never had a problem with any of their products.

I like playing with alot of gain. The rectifier, high gain, etc. settings alone will give me the sound I like, but I wish there were more choices. The POD and V-AMP 2 offer 32 amps out of the box, but I guess they don't have the WARP function.

The clean on this thing beats the POD hands down and is probably equal with the cleans on the V-AMP 2.

I was planning on buying another POD, but since the price dropped on this ($199) I picked it up. If you like creating new sounds, etc. then the Digitech would be right for you. If you want patches identical to certain players, etc. then I think the POD is a better choice.

Between the three units, I think that the POD wins for high gain abilities since it has the Insane setting and the Soldano amp, etc. For cleans and effects, the Digitech sounds outstanding. The Digitech also wins based on how noise free the unit is. The Genesis 3 is right up there with the big boys. It is hard to compare the three, so I recommend trying one in person.

It's easy enough

Sound quality is not bad for some applications (modern hi-gain sound and sparkling clean being most notable), but I have a few major problems with the Genesis 3. I would highly recommend that no one buy this unit. Read on, I'll explain. First, let's look at what the Genesis 3 is: This unit was designed by DigiTech as a second version of it's failed Genesis 1 processor, both the Genesis 1 and the Genesis 3 are direct competitors to the mega successful Line6 POD 2 direct box, the problem is, for the price you pay, the Genesis 3 is a not a value at all. It, like the recent RP50 is a disgrace to the DigiTech name, a name that once stood for quality, but is quickly becoming known for poor, overpriced products.

The Genesis 3 features 16 amp models, but the tube simulation is quite horrible, try to dial up a vintage Fender amp here and you'll get a novelty sound that only a fool would record with. If you look at competing products such as the POD 2, J-Station (also made by DigiTech) and V-Amp 2. It's clear the J-Staton and Genesis 3 have the poorest sound quality (note: the Rectifier model on the J-Station is actually better than the one on the Genesis 3, go figure that one). So as an amp modeler (which is what this thing is marketed to be) I'd give the Genesis 3 two stars! Out of it's limited selection of (16) amp models only four or five of them sound professional grade.

Moving on to effects, the unit has plenty to pick from here, but they are average at best. The DigiTech RP100/RP200 effects and amp models sound identical (I came to this conclusion after spending about an hour comparing the RP100 and Genesis 3 side by side), DigiTech is charging you the extra hundred for the MIDI input and S/PDIF digital out option (which they took from their failied J-Station product), if you do not need this options (few of us do) then pay $100 less and buy the RP100. Or, if you need quality amp models and fewer effects then buy a Behringer V-Amp 2. The V-Amp 2 is probably the best value in the guitar effects market, because it sounds identical to a POD 2, but cost hundreds less, unlike the overpriced Genesis 3, the V-Amp 2 does almost do it all, like the POD 2 it can come very close to reprodicing that real tube amp sound, it's amp models sound real and almost all of them are useful, plus you get 32 models with the V-Amp 2 (sorry I didn't mean to make this a plug for the V-Amp 2, but I'm just disgusted with DigiTech for trying to sell the Genesis 3 for $70 more than the high quality Behringer product, yet provide less features guitarist need).

No clue.

No clue.

If you must buy one, I suggest buying from a return/exchange friendly chain of music stores and if possible take the Genesis 3 home along with the Behringer V-Amp 2 or the DigiTech RP100. Both of the later products are priced appropriately for what they are (the V-Amp 2 is actually a steal for what it is). Once you open the Genesis 3, keep eveything togeather because this is the one you'll be taking back.

The Genesis 3 definately has usable sounds right out of the box, and that is a really good thing because the user interface is a little less than intuitive. I used to live in Utah and I swear this is what we used to call Utah Logic. But regardless of what the last reviewer said Utah is pretty cool. Anyway, the interface is great once you learn it and it is easy to get excellent sounds tones very quickly.

Here is where the G3 shines. It sounds truly great. I owned a POD 2 since 2000 and sold it because I just could not take the boomy bass and the far away sound any longer. The G3 fit right into a mix and easily puts you over the top without turning up the volume. I also had a V-Amp which I really liked also. But of the three I like the G3 the best. Most of its amp models are generically named which when you think about it is really appropraite. I never really believed all this crap about R&D associated with amp modelling. It is all about tone (not marketing) and the G3 has loads of it. And the morph thing is loads of fun. At first I thought it was just mick but it is one great sounding gimmick.

Its made of plastic and I would never gig with an amp modeller. I have been playing for a long time (37 years)and play out on a regular basis. I use a 66 Fender Deluxe for medium gigs (bars) and come to think about it thats the only place I play.

Don't know but there is a guy who works there who used to work on my guitars at Wagstaffs Music and he was gifted in terms of technical ability.

Yes I'd buy it again and am very happy with my purchase. It is hard to keep away from it because the tone is that good. It is really inspiring. Its also makes a nice sonic distinction between single coils and humbuckers.