Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? These are very nicely built. Seem very sturdy and buttons are not cheap feeling. Good quality. Reliability How has it stood up over time? Just got it today. Should be fine as I take care of my stuff. General Your general opinion of this product. I like it. I remember Dave Mustaine saying he used one in his setup so I started reviewing them and glad I bought it. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? N/A Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Good. Action How was the action out of the box? N/A

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Only had it a few weeks, probably could drop it off the roof and it would work... its solid state. Easy to program and operate. Good support from Digitech as well. Reliability How has it stood up over time? Havent had it that long General Your general opinion of this product. Solid, only takes up 1 UP rack space, easy to operate. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? Its a preamp Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Good tones from this, but I feel real tubes are better...wish they would have made the 1101 with tubes. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? No paint job Action How was the action out of the box? No action, this is a preamp

Reliability How has it stood up over time? so far so good. General Your general opinion of this product. High Tech in every aspect. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? Will Chunk with the best. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? will do it all Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Great. Action How was the action out of the box? Not to bad to learn the functions

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Tough and ready to hit the road. Reliability How has it stood up over time? It is rack mountable and is well built for studio or on the road. General Your general opinion of this product. Best programmable effects I have ever owned, hands down. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? Feels like a tube amp. Great compressor, reverbs, amp types, tube feeling distortions. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? I started dialing in my tones after about 2 weeks of study and use. It takes a little study and then no problem dialing in absolutely anything from clean to blues to bloody thrash !!! Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Cool blue backlit display. Action How was the action out of the box? It fit right into its rack !!! Sounds fantastic through a 1500 watt rms power amp/1960a Marshall Cab.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Great. Got a B Stock and it looked brand new. No rash or markings or any problems. Reliability How has it stood up over time? Not a problem yet. Good firmware from mustbebeta.com. Sucks you cant route the noise gate to after the preamp or external amp, but oh well. Suck it up and buy a Boss NS2 and run it after the amp and into the return. General Your general opinion of this product. Probably the best digital preamp behind the Axe FX. Still prefer it to the Pod HD's due to the routing options. That and the fact that it has dual processors and your delay and reverb trails off on patch changes. I dont believe this is true on the Pods. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Amazing feel, playability, cuts through the mix of 2 other guitarist plus keyboards and drums. Cleans are fantastic as well as the Lexicon reverbs and delays. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? NA Action How was the action out of the box? Not Applicable

Reliability How has it stood up over time? so far, so good General Your general opinion of this product. I decided to save a few bucks and pick up a b-stock 1101... I'm very happy with it. I'm only using it for home recording so far because I have a handful of great tube amps that I use live, but this unit is impressive enough that I'm considering using it in live applications. In my opinion all the routing and I/O options make this unit extremely versatile. Given that I'm using it for recording I've got the output set on mixer mode and the resulting sound/tone is very realistic. Not to mention it's much easier to just plug this baby in and start recording than it is to mic up an amp, get the mic placement right, etc. Great unit! Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? I really love the the 1101 has the traditional amp controls accessible from the front panel... that's a huge time saver if you just want to make a tweak to shape your sound. Gain, Bass, Midrange, Treble and Level knobs are all right there... very handy. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Everyone has their opinions/biases, but I've tried several of the modelers out there and I've been unimpressed by most. You're going to sacrifice some tone vs. a tube amp in a live setting with this unit, no question about it. On a recording the difference is less noticable. This unit does sound very impressive though and I'm sure it would "pass" with most pros and semi-pros as an acceptable tone engine if you're in need of something highly flexible (i.e. you need more sounds on stage than are attainable with a standard tube amp). Just like everything in life... it's about trade-offs and compromise. This is a great unit and most will be happy that there's minimal sacrifice to tone necessary to achieve a high degree of flexibility if that's what you need. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? I was expecting to see something cosmetically wrong with this given it's a b-stock, but everything is perfect from what I can see. Action How was the action out of the box? n/a

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Quality is great for the price range. Reliability How has it stood up over time? It has been a great unit, but Digitech should really release an update for the unit to allow you to move the noise gate to after the loop. That was a deal breaker for me. I have since found third party firmware for this guy that gives you more tones and usability. It's a shame Digitech dropped the ball on support. General Your general opinion of this product. Great 1 rack space unit for tons of tones. Only flaw in design is that the noise gate when using the four cable method is NOT before the external loop. That means if you have an external preamp in the loop of this guy; it better have it's own noise gate in that loop as well because the loop in the GSP1101 will NOT be able to remove noise from anything in the loop. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? Tones are there to allow whatever you'd like to dial in. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Tone is subjective; if you can hear it in your head, you can probably dial it in on this unit with enough tweaking. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Unit looks great. Not a fan of silver rackmount units as they stand out in my rack and not in a pleasing way, but that's more of a personal opinion. Action How was the action out of the box? Action out of the box is awesome.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? this thing is built very well and i expect no build quality issues Reliability How has it stood up over time? I have been playing live with it twice a week for about a year and no issues General Your general opinion of this product. This is a great processor. Digitech advertises it as being able to easily blend into your current set up but I use mine for my main tone and fx and it is killer i Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? responds just like a tube amp. saturated tubes sound and act like saturated tubes Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? like i said before the tone is very accurate. the twin is sweet and the 2101 tube is just killer Finish How did the stain or paint job look? the blue led is super cool on stage Action How was the action out of the box?