Feature:
Features. Great instant Amp Modeling with big thumb wheel to turn your selected sound into monster or lullaby. Wish it had more record room at high bit rate, but it still lets you laydown a lot of measures to jam to. That's another thing I like, the jam with yourself or to external inputs. Another great thing is the Bass progression that plays in the Key you select in the Jam feature and rhythm.
Lots of other features as in product description.
Batteries last, but less with the excellent backlight display. I always use wall power unless at a friends and then batteries last about 6 hours without backlight.
Negatives: Control button/knob labeling text too tiny.(I used a WhiteOut pen to label some knobs more clearly. Needs standout mark on G/T/B/V knobs to see where they are set.
Clip on carrier is secure, but when put on guitar strap, you can't see the display without twisting it around. Clip on will slide onto waist band or belt but presents the same display problem. (I use a big black office paper clip to hold mine to the edge of a music stand, and leave it there. And I have put velcro on back of PX4 clip-on and the face of my music stand. This arrangement is quite secure. This is brings us to one thing that would be great for this baby... a jack to accept a footswitch to scroll the presets.
Quality:
Made Well? It is plastic, but I swear to you, I have dropped it from table top level at least 10 times and a couple of times it hit the floor when the music stand fell over face first. The case has even popped open. Each time I have thought OMG this has to be the end, but unbelieveablly it keeps right on performing exactly as it did when new. It is beyoud rugged. My only disappointment is the slide selector switches on the sides for Hi/Lo pickup and Off/On/Backlight.
These gave up after about a year, but were prob. do to the above mentioned belly flops. I just leave the pickup set at Hi for Humbuckers...and a toothpick or push pin works on the other slider.
Value:
If you are a performer and need hand free switching of presets, this isn't the tool. But for home and garage players this is a very powerful tool and really makes one guitar sound like one thousand other setups. Amps, Cabinets, Pick-ups, Miles of effects, Rhythm,Bass,Tuner,lots more.
Desirability:
I'm not much on needing the coolest look, I want performance and the PX4 has it in a cool package about the size of a cigarette pack.
Sound:
Playin through '74 Fender Twin Reverb, PeaveyBackStagePLus and Gretsch Electromatic. LP Studio and SG. Have only used the PX4 and Digitech RP100 which is fine, but the PX-4 is heads above it. The range of factory presets sound is better and easier to adjust to create your user presets. I've had the PX-4 about 3 years and only used the RP100 a couple of times since and I play at least 1 hour everyday. Take advantage of the Gain,Treble,Bass and Vol adjustments to trim in any of Presets when the venue accoustics change from where you normally set them up. Also there's easy access to clicking through the "change settings" (my term) on any preset, can alter the sound tiny or knock out the walls.
Ease of Use:
This baby has a lot of different levels of adjustment, but after just a little noodling around it mostly becomes automatic and easily adjusted on the fly. The RP-100 mentioned above drove me crazy trying to dial in what I wanted.
Support:
Contacted them about slide switches mentioned above. Helpful, steered me to supplier for parts, but cost+shipping wasn't worth it.
Overall:
If it dies, I will buy another immediately...with the hope Korg includes a footswitch in newer models.
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