Product Reviews

Lonestrat

How many of you read gear reviews on web sites like Harmony Central and wonder how people can be so dumb or ignorant. Much too often there is a review on a piece of gear that gets my blood boiling. Example would be certain reviews of GNX4. The person would say... Price Paid: None - just tried it in the shop. Ease of use: 0 - I played it for 10 minutes and still couldn't figure it out. Reliability: 5 - Would probably break if I spilt beer in it and droped it out of a moving vehicle. Customer support: 0 - I emailed them asking why won't it work on my windows 95 PC and they didn't reply.

Now I try to avoid these reviews and look for magazine reviews that will have Pros and Cons.

ACWild

I hear you, but it's easy enough to filter out the bs from the useful reviews, of which I've found many. Quite often I'll search around for reviews, filter them out, then go to the store and end up with something totally different.

SlashNBurn99

I know what you mean, but magazine reviews always seem to be very positive and give very high ratings.

With the HC site I usually look at how long the reviewer has been playing and if he's a noob then I move to the next review.

I remember when those Marshall MG's cameout Total Guitar gave the 100watt version 5/5.

The MG's a suck.

thehootman

There's a review of the gnx4 on HC by me
But yes I detest all these people who hate everything. But, I dont have to worr about sales of these products, so It doesnt bother me that much.

SlashNBurn99

I saw a review by Archon for the GNX3K, he was bashing mike and his supermodels disc :shock:

thehootman

Thats something I never expected... :roll:

partch

Hey speaking of Archon. I see that he hangs around some at the Jamstix forum. I'm currently evaluating learning Jamstix to be totally sure I want to purchase it. So I've been reading post & such and behold who do I happen to stumble across. He posted a tune there. I thought it was pretty cool!!

God Bless!!
Partch

Metal Rulz

I've never relied on reveiws. I bought the GNX3 because I had owned the RP1. I've had nothing but good to say about the RP1, so after I saw the GNX3 on ebay, I bought it because I trusted Digitech.My preciuos RP1 was killed by a drunk @#@#$@ in a bar we were playing in. He came up on stage when we were finishing up and said that he wanted to play my guitar. I said @#@$ off, and shoved him out of my way. So he looked at me and said #%$#$ you and poured his beer out all over my RP1, Jeff, our bass player blind sided him with a shot in the head and I was in the process of taking of my guitar off to enter the \"ring\". I was strangling the pour @$#@# with my patch cord. To make a long story short our whole band got arrested along with a bouncer at the bar. That @$$#'n drunk guy got to go to the hospital wit h a concussion, broken nose and a cracked rib. We spent the night in jail. My Rp1 was gone, never worked again,, The charges against us were dropped, eventaully. Apparentley the guy we beat up was wanted for beating up his ex girlfriend, when the cops ran his name in the hospital, they found out that he had a warrant out for his arrest. We have never been able to play there again..
I've got the GNX3 now and am pretty happy with it.
Later.
M.R.

iliace

Really, all you need is a confirmation from current users that you can use the unit as intended. This is why I always try to point out pros and cons, tasks that are easy to perform as well as the ones that are not so much. When I initially got my GNX3 (which got me into Digitech) I relied on a single review (from my bassist's brother) and a simple test run at the local music store (got it that same day). Of course you won't figure it out in 10 minutes at the store - I didn't - but I could tell right away that the functionality is there, it just needs to be accessed.

Potential users will either make intelligent decisions, or else they'll just have to live and learn. Some miss out on a great unit as the GNX4 that will be perfect for what they want to do; for others it won't work (e.g. running fx-only on a distorted amp channel), and thus not really an error in judgement, rather a stroke of luck. But usually you want to be sure, and independent research is the best way to do it..