I heard may lag siya in terms of responding to a player when he plays. Totoo ba ito?
nope. wala naman akong narinig na ganun. hehe. sorry. inintercept ko yung tanong.
also, about the patch switching zip. dun sa mga mga newer ones i've tested, the gt8 (which i have), xtl, tlse, gnx3k, and g9.2tt, yung gnx3k lang ang narinig ko na may noticeable zip talaga. its about as bad as the one in the ax1500g i used to have.
each has its own pros and cons i guess. i wont get into the difference sa sound between units anymore. kasi they're too minute now and that comes down to preference and feel, usually. it is generally agreed that you can get good, or at least acceptable, sound from the 4 i mentioned above, if you're willing to spend time tweaking. if you're looking for a "plug and play" setup and dont really need to vary your sound much anyway, then maybe you'd be better off buying individual effects nga. and before we get into "i change my sound with my hands" discussions, thats not what i mean by "varying your sound."
what i mean is what if you have to go from quick slap delay to a long-ish ambient effect in the middle of a song? or what if you need a wobbly chorus for the verse and need it to be a less intense shimmer for the bridge? or what if you need metal type chug on one section of one song and light and warm drive on another or its a 15-20 song set cover a lot of bases? what are you gonna do? bring 4 dirt, 2 delay and 2 chorus stomp boxes?
yung pros and cons for each, from a gigging (and recording) perspective:
even with the lag, the great thing about the gnx3k is, yung speaker sim and output programming (i think i've raved about it somewhere else before). you have 4 outputs (2 1/4 and 2 XLR). you can set it up so that the speaker sim applies to just the XLR outs and feed those to the board so you dont have to mic your amps. then you can set up the 1/4 outs with no speaker sim and plug them into amps. thats something you cant do with the others. you usually have to turn the speaker sim off and plug one of the stereo outs into an external speaker sim to feed both you amp and the board straight from the unit. and you cant set up amps in stereo na after that.
yung g9.2tt and tlse are pretty much even stevens to me. fans of both units claim that the tube does have an effect on the "feel." deltaslim used a tlse for some time last year and, from where i was standing, it sounded about as good as his usual boutique stomp setup. plus its got 2 expression pedals. a big plus kasi you can use one to control overall volume and the other for other stuff like rotovibe or wah emulation. with other units kasi you have to rock the pedal forward (effectively changing the volume, if you're using it as a volume pedal) and press down to activate the wah or rotovibe. the big bummer about the tlse for me is its lack of, uh, flexibility or limited programmability. it makes for a pretty user friendly package because you wont have to dig deep to get to the essentials but i sort of wish it could do more (you're stuck with one preamp/speaker/effect sequence). also, there's the way some effects are lumped under the "pedal" group. you can't use wah with the fuzz?!?! makes me wonder if the designers have even heard of hendrix.
the xtl has switches for turning individual effects in the patch on and off. thats an edge over the others where you have to hit (and sometimes hold) a switch to get into manual mode before you can you can turn specific effects on and off on the fly. yung software it comes with is pretty good. plus you can get plugins (i think they call them model packs) and other updates. and its got a USB out for conversion-less recording to pc. its a pretty good box overall. the decision to go with the gt-8 instead of this came down to preference. i've owned a gt-6 na kasi so it was easier for me to find my way around the gt-8's myriad of buttons and parameters.
i've owned the gt-8 for a little over a year now (on and off
) and i've been through different stages with it from love to hate and sometimes apathy.
i sold my first one (i still havent stopped kicking myself over that) thinking i didnt need it anymore only to end up needing it again and buying another one. the biggest, and most common, beef about the gt series is that its so complicated. i always say its complicated kasi you can do so much with it. want to put your delay first in the chain then into a wah then into the preamp then into a bi-phaser then into an external pedal (like a whammy) then into a compressor? you can do that. want 3 different EQs placed in different parts of the signal chain? you can do that. there's also an external loop you can place anywhere in the signal chain (and, if your amp has an effects loop, you can put your amp in that external effects loop). you can use it to switch channels on your amp. in fact, there isnt much it cant do with your signal. there are a lot of other things it can do that i'll probably never need anyway. it just feels good to know that, if i ever need a steve stevens ray gun sound, this unit can deliver. so whats wrong with it? why arent more people using it? kasi, if you're buying locally, its usually more expensive than the others when brand new. it doesnt have a patch editing software (though meron 3rd party software you can download from bossgtcentral.com). no way of connecting to pc via USB so if you want to do direct-to-pc recording, you'll have to use the headphone out and go into the soundcard, which means extra D/A/D conversion, or you'll have to use the PDIF output. i tend to think of it as a unit geared more towards playing live, an out and out stompbox, than the XTL, which feels more like an amp modeler adapted for use onstage.