GNX Out Of Vogue??

BettyBoo

Hey All,

Over the xmas break I had the chance to sniff through a heap of music shops as I was looking for an RP500 to replace my GNX3K, or at least that was my brain wave at the time.....

The situation I was confronted with was (a) nobody had an RP500 on stock or they didn't carry DT at all and/or (b) they didn't want to trade my GNX whatsoever as they were having trouble shifting this sort of product in general to the public. Some good friends of mine in the music retail business said it was getting harder to sell these workstations no matter what brand. Of course, some shops gave me the usual POD snobbery from young sales staff who have no clue which is always appreciated. :x

Are workstations starting to lose their popularity now or something??? I thought they were labelled as the future of guitar playing?

BBoo 8)

cyclonic

Honestly.........\"REAL\" workstation users are a little more \"cerebral\" than most pedal stompers I have, more than once,had to step up and help a clueless salesperson with gear questions.Quite a few players \"fear\" what they don't understand So your experience is NOT suprising at all.

Heck,try selling/trading in a pointy guitar and you can part a crowd like Moses and get labled with leprosy :roll:

gtaus

I have been a big fan of multi-effects pedals for years. The GNX4 is the best I have ever had. Plus, all the recording, drums, mp3, etc.... How can you go wrong? I know a guy who has spent about $80 per pedal on about a dozen or so pedals and still can't get the sound he wants. He could have bought a GNX4 for half the money and been able to download all kinds of presets, or make his own. For some reason, he doesn't think \"workstations\" are real guitar pedals. I guess it more \"real\" to buy pedals that cannot be modified and when they don't work out for you just sit in the closet collecting dust - or sold/traded for a fraction of their original cost.

Sadly, I don't see much future in support for the workstations like the GNXs. Great machines, but it seems that Digitech is no longer pushing them. I don't understand why. The GNX4 is the best investment I ever made in my music gear. Maybe someday we will see a renewed interest in the concept. I hope so. At least this forum is active with some people with good advice for us users.

partch

\gtaus\ wrote:

The GNX4 is the best investment I ever made in my music gear. Maybe someday we will see a renewed interest in the concept. I hope so. At least this forum is active with some people with good advice for us users.

Amen to that! 8)

shredd

\gtaus\ wrote:

The GNX4 is the best investment I ever made in my music gear. Maybe someday we will see a renewed interest in the concept. I hope so. At least this forum is active with some people with good advice for us users.

+1

iamsuperdan

I couldn't imagine going back to stomp boxes. I switched from boxes to an RP1 back in 93 or 94, and I've stuck with it until recently, when the power supply started to go. Just picked up a GNX3000 and would not even consider anything lesser.

One power supply, all possible effects I could ever need, built in tuner...why would I frak around with pedals and stuff when playing live, Simplicity rules, even though Im still slogging my way through the instructions this thing came with!

Having said that, the unit I picked up was the only one they had in store, and had no GNX4s in stock or incoming. One Boss GT8, and a bunch of Zoom units. And a ton of stomp boxes.

BettyBoo

\cyclonic\ wrote:

Honestly.........\"REAL\" workstation users are a little more \"cerebral\" than most pedal stompers I have, more than once,had to step up and help a clueless salesperson with gear questions.Quite a few players \"fear\" what they don't understand So your experience is NOT suprising at all.

Heck,try selling/trading in a pointy guitar and you can part a crowd like Moses and get labled with leprosy :roll:

Yeah I guess with pointy guitars people wonder where you've had them.... :shock: For the last couple of years I've had a music shop owned by a friend forward people with GNX problems to me - gets quite annoying actually because people just want to get a tone ultra quick and not really explore what the GNX is capable of. Isn't that half the joy of these units?? But people are scared of working out new tech stuff themselves. Drum machines would have baffled people who mastered the metronome I guess, early Roland stuff like MIDI players and recorders used to make me scratch my head too. :? But then again in those days I had only just graduated from etching my emotions on a cave wall too..... :roll:

I'm kinda disappointed that a capital city here in Oz didn't have an RP500 to try at least. I've decided to keep my GNX3k for now and use it at home etc or as a backup perhaps. But I'm wanting to sort out some effects for this Rivera KR7 I've bought. Don't want to do the Rack/MIDI effects thing, just a simple floor unit like the RP500. Does anyone know if the RP500 loses or cuts the signal strength when used straight into the amp input?? I've tried some other older units I have in the cupboard and they seem to do that.

zoopanoobin

The GNX4 is the best piece of gear I have bought in 29 years of serious guitar playing and songwriting.
I just buy online. My local shops don't have them either.
I can't wait to but another GNX4.
best damn thing since the electric guitar was invented.

BettyBoo

\zoopanoobin\ wrote:

I just buy online. My local shops don't have them either.

Yep I'm starting to think this way for certain products too zoo. I've always bought stuff from one local shop for the last 20 odd years because they always give the service and repairs when I'm playing all the time. There's been plenty of times when we've done a gig friday night, something's broken and we need it for saturday night. My music shop just gives me a loan of whatever it is for the night while they get mine fixed. Thats great support no matter what. But I think for products like FX in future I'll buy online too.