Composer, recording engineer, musician (mainly guitar and keyboards)

Rock, New Age, Jazz, Blues, Blue Grass

Touring Musician, Recording Engineer

Metal, Thrash, Hard Rock

My experience with this product has been amazing. My rig is well lets just say less than desireable, and this tiny wonder specifically coupled with the impulse response cabs I got for it have made my sound something I'm not ashamed of Wouldn't trade it for anything.

Again this thing rocks although unless you're gonna be using it for studio work I wouldn't bother getting it without the pedal.

I'm only giving this on a seven because there's a gap between when you first get it and a few weeks later when you finally get your sound where you want it. Even just tweaking the sound leaves you with multiple outlets such as an eq that only affects the distortion effect i.e. warmth presense mids treble yada, then you still gotta go back and set the eq on your amp model.

I got a B - stock and it looks perfect.

You cannot get more bang for your buck.

I'm sure its fine but I haven't needed any support. I suppose thats a tribute to its reliablilty.

I heard another guitarist with one and was instantly sold. When your friends see what you can do with it they will be too!

Active Musician

Metal

Recording Musician, Active/Touring Musician

Heavy Metal, Thrash

I have to say, I'm amazed at the sounds I can get out of this thing. I can plug straight into it and run that to a recording board and listen back through a monitor......... it is NASTY! The recording sounds great.

I love the presets that I can tweak to perfection. I wished it had an input level LED on it. Other than that, love it.

Easy to use.

Appears to be made well, only had it for about a week though, so it hasn't been hauled everywhere yet. It is is a shockmount rack, so there should be no issues.

I would have to say that it is worth it in terms of what I've been able to get out of it so far.

haven't had to use support

Looks nice in the rack.

Active Musician

Power Metal

First off I'd like to say I was REAL leary about buying Digitech cause I've never been impressed by them. After reading a gazillion reviews I'd thought I'd give them one LAST try since it's been a few years since the last one. I'm using this with a Carvin V3 tube amp so as you should know I want "MY" tube tone. Using the GSP 1101 pre amp in front of mine for more gain did fine but it did affect my tone which was unacceptable. It had a bit of a reverb sound to it like I was in a tunnel or something. I'd could see it killing in front of an pa amp or a solid state amp for this set up though. On the other hand just using it as an effects unit for a tube amp turned out to be top notch!!!! You won't find any better effects for under a $1000 . NO TONE change at all as advertised. AWSOME! This along with my BBE 482i Maximizer makes for a extremely versital and simple to use great sounding rig. I'm still not a fan of Digitech but if they keep up whith stuff like the GSP they might win me over after all. Oh yeah seamless preset changes. It's about time you figured that one out Digitech. Welcome to the real world of sound.

I gave it a 10 here simply for what you get for the money. Like I said earlier you won't do any better for under $1000. You might find one that you like as well but it won't be any better and will certainly cost more.

If you've used multi-effects before you won't have to much problems. Doesn't take to long at all to get used to since you'll be fiddling with it so much when you get it. I got the manual out once for purposes of editing. If your new to these I'd say it's your best bet on learning to use one. It's that easy as far as multi-effects go.

Seems to be rock solid I've only packed a fews times though. For 500 bones it's very well built though.

I would say this thing is actually as advertised. Although they forgot to metion it only leaves tone alone when used as soley an effects unit. If your scared of Digitech like me you can relax on this one it's actually the real deal. And for $500 man wow.

not needed here.

Excellent piece of equipment if you like using effects to cover a very wide variety of tunes.

Active musician

Mostly hard rock

My modeling career began with the old Johnson J-Station and the Digitech Genx desktop boxes in my studio. When it was time to play some gigs, I tried all kinds of kludges to mount the genx box inside a road rack along with wireless and power amp. Worked, sounded wonderful, but very non-roadworth. So I switched to Line6 only because they made this nice heavy-duty rack package. For all that time, I never felt as though the modeling was as good as with that little table-top digitech box. When I saw the GSP 1101 *RACK* unit, I thought I'd go back to digitech. I'm not one to use factory presets on anything so I spent quite a bit of time working on some tones. For a while, I was really not warming up to the 1101. I'm one who thinks that any of these modelers can do a good job at super clean or super overdriven tones. My world is in between these extremes for the most part and here is where modelers either make it or don't. I worked side by side with the Genx box and I was having some luck getting the same kind of feel, but not entirely. Then I moved into experimenting with some of the "digitech" models rather than the "simulation" models. Here I'm finding lots of love at last and most of my patches are based on these models. I'm also a bit of a guitar compressor snob and they really nailed the DynaComp and the CE. Very happy with these. The effects sound beautiful as well.

I'd give it a 10 except for one very glaring omission (which others reviews have mentioned as well). Of all the parameters to NOT expose to the MIDI control mappings, they chose Delay TIME! I'm hoping and assuming this is a matter of a firmware update but who knows. Seems like a very strange miss to me. Other than that, the programming interface is great - either from front panel or the app. The IO is extremely flexible. I also wish it had an optional way to let some guitar sound through while using the tuner. It's nice to be able to hear and see when tuning. Not very many guitar boxes do this but I think it's important.

I'd give it a 10 if it actually loaded itself into the gig from my car.

I bought a B-Stock, and it's perfect. Very nice quality rack, knobs and Jacks all around.

B-stock. perfect condition.

Recording Engineer, Gigging Musician

Rock, Alt, Surf Rock

sounds are too sharp, nice effects, reverbs and delays, Fine quality but digitech should focus to distortion & amp similators sounds, those havent soul, so digital

havent spdif and mixer-out's are XLR that cant use 1/4 but usb connection is not bad

u can control all option by 2 keys, it good

i have a problem with headphone output, when i power it on , have some clicking noise on my headphone, i checked my jacks and cables, the noise just apear for Few minutes on power-on?! somewhere i read thats a problems of DAC's Capacitor.

i bougth it 670 $, becuase in this country we cant have usa product, 500 $ is not bad for this

i cant use it, cuase im in the courty of a monkey \m/ ++++ the monkey \m/

i want it cause i have no choice

guitarist & composer

instrumental , progressive , death , metal

This is really great. I sold POD X3 and bought GSP 1101. Sound is more analog and more natural. And first of all: Fizz is still present on this Digitech but it sounds more like of real amp - it is dynamic and different for each model, unlike POD X3 which had fizz constant and identical for all amp models. Example: Recording two guitars and playing one in left channel, second in right. Recorded on POD they seam to meld with one common fizz. Recorded with GSP 1101 both are separate and easy to read.

If it has SPDIF for digital monitoring and a simple metronome for practicing would be great. There are a lot of popular amp models but You can get even more on mustbebeta.com.

Very easy. Graphical display. There are some things that could made better but not many.

Well made. One thing that is strange is that some ticks can be heard in speakers right after powered on. It goes off after few seconds and does not have any influence on sound later.

It's more expensive then POD X3 but it is a lot better.

Not needed yet, but fact of existance of mustbebeta.com is strange.

Best device I have ever had in this price range.

Active, Recording, Musician, Amateur :)

Metal

Didn't try it. I hear it sounds great.

I didn't even test it out. I had it out of the box for 5 minutes and noticed how bad the build was on the one I received. Pressing the select knob pushes the LCD and other front panel buttons an 1/8 inch into the unit with each press. Very disappointed.

I have used allot of rack gear threw the years, I have had Roland gt 16 and many many more and every stomp box too, This Digitech 1101 is killer, best rack I have every had, The user programs it comes with suck, but once you start tweeking, oh my GOD!! iF YOU LIKE AMP SOUND, LOOK OUT, this thing is great.... effects are just killer and I started tweeking without even opening the book, so easy!!I highly reccomend this unit to anyone that knows there stuff about rack effects....

Active Musician", "

"CountryRock,Alternative