Guess what I got for an early Christmas present. If you look close enough, you'll see that it's called a GNX4. IMHO this is Digitech's best guitar processor. It has a built-in 8 track recorder, supports various file formats (MIDI, MP3, WAV, etc). And one of the most exciting things to me is the pedal on the far right. It looks like a WAH pedal, but Digitech calls it an expression pedal. The reason they call it that is because you can map almost any of the effects to that pedal. When you map the volume to the pedal, it works like a normal volume pedal. If you map a WAH effect to it, it works like a normal WAH. But if you map the delay effect to it, you can control the delay through this pedal. If you map distortion to it, you can have a clean or distorted sound (or anything between) based on the position of the pedal.
Of course, I havn't learned how to do anything with it yet. :) But I'm learning. I only had an 8 Meg CF memory stick laying around, so I was only able to record about 30 seconds of some playing. The track is the basic MIDI drum kit with 3 layers of guitar work over it. Nothing special, except that it is my first recording with my GNX4. :) When I did my final mix, I boosted the volume a little too much, so some clipping occurs. But that's what you get when you do your first recording, right?
It also does a decent job of simulating a bass guitar. I made a short recording of just the gtr2bass effect to give you an idea of what it sounds like.
But the best feature in the GNX4 is the ability to update/modify/share custom effects, riffs, songs, amp modelings, etc. In fact, mfxsupermodels.com offers more tweaked configurations than you could handle for around $100.
I am really excited about my new toy. The only down side is I have finals for the next two weeks. So for now, I probably won't get to play with it as much as I would like. But once school is out, I'll be all over it!
