The Carvin tube-amp was not miced I placed the Carvin 1x12 to the far right of the band, facing diagonally across the stage. There was nothing between the guitar and the Carvin amp but cables and a buffered-splitter (a Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso) all other pedals and the GNX were parallel to the amp, and sent "direct" through the PA. Update: I have since run both the GNX4- and my various pedals- through the PA, and a Carvin 'Vintage 33' 1x12 all-tube combo-amp, simultaneously, at some small gigs, three of which were outdoors. (Besides a chorus pedal, the only "effect" used by the other guitarist was occasional growling speaker break-up and compression from a cranked SS amp.) The sound and feel of the SD model makes me want to get a real Sparkle Drive pedal sometime! This fit in much more smoothly with the rest of this particular band's sound. Yhup, it was all amp-models, pedal-models, speaker-models, and the speaker-compensated output was on (basically an EQ-curve compensating for full-range speakers, so as not to sound too shrilly bright and upper-midrangey) also digital reverb, modeled spring-reverb, and analog-flavored digital-delay, all courtesy of the GNX4.īesides my Strobo Stomp tuner, which I prefer to the GNX4's on-board tuner, I brought along my Plexitube hybrid tube/SS distortion-pedal, and my Octron multi-octave fuzz.īut surprisingly, for overdrive and distortion tones, I got the most use out of the GNX4's model of a Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive overdrive-pedal, which is sort of like a custom-tweaked Tube Screamer with the addition of a blendable straight-signal.
The GNX4's on-board digital-model of a Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive, its settings tweaked to my liking for a particularly smooth, almost un-distorted tone, got the most use for overdriven/distorted sounds, sitting very well within the context of the rest of the players (bass, drums, another guitar, vocals) and sounding the least "effecty".Īnd the GNX4's reverb and echo/delay sounds, which seem a little lack-luster by themselves, also smoothly sat well within the mix of all the instruments, instead of standing out too much and sounding "gimmicky".Īll around, I have a new-found appreciation for my home headphone rig GNX4!ĭid you run one of the amp models or preamps or speaker sim from the digitech? I was surprised at just how good it sounded, as it was better than I had expected AND hoped. I never did bother to go back for the amps! The biggest thing was to be able to hear myself once I got myself positioned where I could hear myself adequately from the main speaker cabs (there were no monitors of any kind), it sounded great! I got compliments on my playing and sound from everybody, "audience" and other jamming players alike. (The connection can also be made via two mono instrument cables from the GNX4's L&R outs, as well.) Then we tried it out that way. Once I got there, I plugged everything together and ran a stereo "Y"-cord from the GNX4's headphone-out to the PA mixer, panning the respective channels hard-left and hard-right.
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I walked to their house, having to thread my way through a thorny stretch of woods, carrying my guitar case, guitar stand, and a backpack full of cables and a few pedals (Strobo Stomp tuner, Plexitube distortion, Octron multi-octave fuzztortion w/ a blendable clean) I decided to put the DigiTech GNX4 under my arm, and come back for an amp or two. Saturday, at a neighbor's birthday party, I found that running a DigiTech GNX4 straight into a PA, without any guitar amp anywhere in the signal-chain, actually works and sounds pretty damn great!
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