They are more concerned with gaining prospective customers. You already bought the unit. Most owners (not all, but most) will not buy the next new model.
Well, at least that little video was mildly entertaining. :-) Now if they could just put some of that video production money into getting that Vista software worked out... :-(
Sticking around here to help those clueless is a calling.
As a wise man once said....
\"No pharmaceutical drug could equal the rush you get when the band grooves, people are dancing, shouting and the house is rocking.\"
\"Remember this.
Walk away now and you walk away from your skills, your vocations leaving our youth with nothing but digitally-sampled techno grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo songs of violence-laden gangster rap, acid pop and saccharine soulless slush.
Depart now and you separate yourselves
from the vital legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson One and Two, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley and Robert K. Weiss.
Turn your backs and you snuff out the fragile candles of blues, R&B and soul. When those flames expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind for seven decades will wither and die from abandonment and neglect.
I don't know about mildly entertaining... mildly stupid would be my choice of words. I just posted it because the Digitech MFX market manager blasted an e-mail about it.
It frightens me, that this video will actually appeal to someone out there, and they will buy the unit because of it :shock: . These same people are allowed to drive cars on the same roads as me :roll:
There's five minutes of my life I'll never get back. I shall require one hour of private consultation and negotiation with Nurse Cherry in order to reach a suitable settlement with Digitech; I'm sure the two of us can reach an appropriate compensation package for my pain and suffering...
Hey heres an Idea just show the unit and play it!! Holy freekin cow thats part of my life I cant get back! what lame advertiseing....show the unit lets hear it in a bunch of our fav diffrent amps too. then lets hear it by itself...for cryin out loud get a grip and a clue. :x
I am intrested in it due to the fact you can get true bypass and signal routing it might sound great with the Valve Jr I am modding.
.........................ok, I would do the nurse. :oops: :roll:
I admire them for taking 5 tabs of acid and then being brave enough to make this video their first real introduction to market the product...
I hope Eddie, Dr. Maximus Gain, et al, can look beyond what they've done with their lives and NOT hurt themselves... But we may not be able to stop that now...
(Im tired of posting how inane and ridiculous this companies business tactics and practices can be...Their marketing is truly perplexing to me at times. Their RP series rollout I thought was very nicely done. Everything from the pre / post release materials and PD sheets, etc as well as the site demos and web experience. But this....Embarrasing and insulting...
Repost from guitarlogic.org, based on information in the manual:
So far it looks like a spiffy RP350 in a rack. Unlike GNX, it doesn't have mic input, and has hard bypass for the amp modeling. It has a lot of new stompbox models and various effects - much like the RP350. There is a \"setup wizard\" that configures the output settings automatically. It uses Preset Library and Tone Library just like the new RP. It has the same amp models as GNX3000, except bass models, though I didn't look through the list in detail so maybe some new, changed, or missing. Doesn't look like it has the warp feature - bummer.
There's an fx loop, so you can hook it up to run like this:
guitar -> 1101 (stompbox model + noise gate) -> fx loop out -> your vintage amp -> fx loop in -> 1101 (eq, modulation, reverb/delay, etc) -> mixer or PA
or
guitar -> your vintage amp -> fx loop out -> 1101 fx loop in (eq, modulation, reverb/delay, etc) -> 1101 fx loop out -> amp fx loop in
Best of all three worlds. Again, the configuration wizard presumably makes life easier configuring these settings.
There is a global eq setting, and the parametric eq finally has a width setting for each band. Ambient effects spill over, meaning switching from one preset to the next is truly seamless - much like the 2101 with dual chips, except you can't change the curve for the ramp, just the time.
Speaker compensation settings for 1/4\" outputs are reminiscent of what we had on GNX3 - variety of amp possibilities, but also more direct settings, such as tube power amp, ss power amp, and mixer as target system settings. XLR levels can be fixed, meaning unaffected by output level control, and speaker compensation cannot be turned off on this set of outputs.
It can take an analog expression pedal, GNXFC (not sure for what - HFR maybe), and MIDI. MIDI is fully mappable, both PC and CC. No longer limited to three controller settings, there are many more available - each internal controller is assigned to a MIDI CC and then to a parameter within each preset. Also, delay time can be set with MIDI tempo, which is a welcome addition. There's an RJ-45 jack, the usage for which is not yet stated, but I'm guessing they'll come out with pedalboards like the original PODs did (used the same jack on those).
Nothing terribly exciting, but it probably sounds pretty good. The other specs are pretty much unchanged - still 24-bit, still 44.1kHz, etc. USB is 2/2, which is inferior to GNX4/3000 (and identical to the new RPs) - I guess they're tailoring this unit to users who said they want \"no USB whatsoever\" and this is the compromise. It doesn't have anything like the Lexicon units where the USB effects operate as DirectX plug-ins in software. It seems like a pretty simple to use machine, tube amp friendly, for a variety of applications.
As far as drivers, I'm guessing we're in the same boat as GNX4/3000 users where it comes to Vista. Does anyone using the RPs have them working with Vista and X-Edit? No mention in the manual - system requirements reads Windows XP for OS. I'm assuming it uses X-Edit 2.0 because of the aforementioned similarities to the RPs.
I'll post some samples and commentary once I get it.
That was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. My IQ dropped at least 100 points because of it.
Fire the marketing schmucks who came up with that concept, and the managers who said \"yeh, sounds great. DO IT!\".
Go back to the simple \"guy with a guitar showing the unit in action\" videos, and get away from this sophomoric (sophomoronic?) schtick that won't sell me a unit, but rather make me look more seriously at the competition.
I'm a long time fan of Digitech, but that just, well...insulted my intelligence.
That was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. My IQ dropped at least 100 points because of it.
Great...just what I need...competition. :evil:
Looks like I have to pull out all the stops now... :?
I am quite an intellect you know...
You may think you know where this is headed, or maybe think you know what I am thinking and think you might think I might decide to do something quite predictable. But I might want you to think that and all along be choosing to do something unpredictable, thinking that you would think that I would think that and choose to be unpredictable yet thinking you will think that I may switch at the last moment and do something quite predicable, which I may have decided to do all along.
SHUT UP....JUST SHUT UP... no GAK...GAK...you GAK shut up! gak!
I even felt ashamed being interested in the new GSP1101! Whoever said \"ok\" to that line of merchandise isnt a musician, not a real one anyway....what happened to the usual \"lets have a celebritiy guitarist showoff the new produkt\" and let us the potential customers hear how the thing sounds like!!
Luckily i did have a opportunity to testdrive the GSP1101 yesterday and all i can say it is a great product, good sound and very easy to edit, even without the editor. I myself own a Boss GTPro so i had some comparing to do. The GSP even has the super IPS intelligent harmonizer built in.
I will be buying this one but not because of its bad bad merchandise but because Digitech IMO always have made quality rack products before!
But DIGITECH, if you're reading this (probably not...) Shame on you for not displaying the unit properly!!
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As a wise man once said....
\"No pharmaceutical drug could equal the rush you get when the band grooves, people are dancing, shouting and the house is rocking.\"
\"Remember this.
Walk away now and you walk away from your skills, your vocations leaving our youth with nothing but digitally-sampled techno grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo songs of violence-laden gangster rap, acid pop and saccharine soulless slush.
Depart now and you separate yourselves
from the vital legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson One and Two, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley and Robert K. Weiss.
Turn your backs and you snuff out the fragile candles of blues, R&B and soul. When those flames expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind for seven decades will wither and die from abandonment and neglect.
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I am intrested in it due to the fact you can get true bypass and signal routing it might sound great with the Valve Jr I am modding.
.........................ok, I would do the nurse. :oops: :roll:
I hope Eddie, Dr. Maximus Gain, et al, can look beyond what they've done with their lives and NOT hurt themselves... But we may not be able to stop that now...
(Im tired of posting how inane and ridiculous this companies business tactics and practices can be...Their marketing is truly perplexing to me at times. Their RP series rollout I thought was very nicely done. Everything from the pre / post release materials and PD sheets, etc as well as the site demos and web experience. But this....Embarrasing and insulting...
http://www.digitech.com/products/GSP1101/
Repost from guitarlogic.org, based on information in the manual:
So far it looks like a spiffy RP350 in a rack. Unlike GNX, it doesn't have mic input, and has hard bypass for the amp modeling. It has a lot of new stompbox models and various effects - much like the RP350. There is a \"setup wizard\" that configures the output settings automatically. It uses Preset Library and Tone Library just like the new RP. It has the same amp models as GNX3000, except bass models, though I didn't look through the list in detail so maybe some new, changed, or missing. Doesn't look like it has the warp feature - bummer.
There's an fx loop, so you can hook it up to run like this:
guitar -> 1101 (stompbox model + noise gate) -> fx loop out -> your vintage amp -> fx loop in -> 1101 (eq, modulation, reverb/delay, etc) -> mixer or PA
or
guitar -> your vintage amp -> fx loop out -> 1101 fx loop in (eq, modulation, reverb/delay, etc) -> 1101 fx loop out -> amp fx loop in
Best of all three worlds. Again, the configuration wizard presumably makes life easier configuring these settings.
There is a global eq setting, and the parametric eq finally has a width setting for each band. Ambient effects spill over, meaning switching from one preset to the next is truly seamless - much like the 2101 with dual chips, except you can't change the curve for the ramp, just the time.
Speaker compensation settings for 1/4\" outputs are reminiscent of what we had on GNX3 - variety of amp possibilities, but also more direct settings, such as tube power amp, ss power amp, and mixer as target system settings. XLR levels can be fixed, meaning unaffected by output level control, and speaker compensation cannot be turned off on this set of outputs.
It can take an analog expression pedal, GNXFC (not sure for what - HFR maybe), and MIDI. MIDI is fully mappable, both PC and CC. No longer limited to three controller settings, there are many more available - each internal controller is assigned to a MIDI CC and then to a parameter within each preset. Also, delay time can be set with MIDI tempo, which is a welcome addition. There's an RJ-45 jack, the usage for which is not yet stated, but I'm guessing they'll come out with pedalboards like the original PODs did (used the same jack on those).
Nothing terribly exciting, but it probably sounds pretty good. The other specs are pretty much unchanged - still 24-bit, still 44.1kHz, etc. USB is 2/2, which is inferior to GNX4/3000 (and identical to the new RPs) - I guess they're tailoring this unit to users who said they want \"no USB whatsoever\" and this is the compromise. It doesn't have anything like the Lexicon units where the USB effects operate as DirectX plug-ins in software. It seems like a pretty simple to use machine, tube amp friendly, for a variety of applications.
As far as drivers, I'm guessing we're in the same boat as GNX4/3000 users where it comes to Vista. Does anyone using the RPs have them working with Vista and X-Edit? No mention in the manual - system requirements reads Windows XP for OS. I'm assuming it uses X-Edit 2.0 because of the aforementioned similarities to the RPs.
I'll post some samples and commentary once I get it.
Fire the marketing schmucks who came up with that concept, and the managers who said \"yeh, sounds great. DO IT!\".
Go back to the simple \"guy with a guitar showing the unit in action\" videos, and get away from this sophomoric (sophomoronic?) schtick that won't sell me a unit, but rather make me look more seriously at the competition.
I'm a long time fan of Digitech, but that just, well...insulted my intelligence.
Looks like I have to pull out all the stops now... :?
I am quite an intellect you know...
You may think you know where this is headed, or maybe think you know what I am thinking and think you might think I might decide to do something quite predictable. But I might want you to think that and all along be choosing to do something unpredictable, thinking that you would think that I would think that and choose to be unpredictable yet thinking you will think that I may switch at the last moment and do something quite predicable, which I may have decided to do all along.
SHUT UP....JUST SHUT UP... no GAK...GAK...you GAK shut up! gak!
Inconceivable :evil:
Inconceivable!!
or
Maybe they knew we would hate it, but our curiosity would get the best of us.
or
They thought we would love it, and our curiosity would get the better of us.
or
....
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect
I even felt ashamed being interested in the new GSP1101! Whoever said \"ok\" to that line of merchandise isnt a musician, not a real one anyway....what happened to the usual \"lets have a celebritiy guitarist showoff the new produkt\" and let us the potential customers hear how the thing sounds like!!
Luckily i did have a opportunity to testdrive the GSP1101 yesterday and all i can say it is a great product, good sound and very easy to edit, even without the editor. I myself own a Boss GTPro so i had some comparing to do. The GSP even has the super IPS intelligent harmonizer built in.
I will be buying this one but not because of its bad bad merchandise but because Digitech IMO always have made quality rack products before!
But DIGITECH, if you're reading this (probably not...) Shame on you for not displaying the unit properly!!
/Juan