About This Booklet - Roland VG-99 Workshop

About the Workshop Booklets
Roland's VG-99 V-Guitar System is, simply put, the most powerful guitar
processor ever made. It's the third and latest generation V-Guitar system
from Roland, and it offers an astounding set of creative sound-making tools
for the guitarist. Featuring dual COSM guitar and amp modeling paths, two
independent multi-effects processors, massive realtime control options,
pitch-to-MIDI conversion, and USB, the VG-99 is a guitarist's dream machine,
capable of producing sounds that are limited only by your imagination.
Each VG-99 Workshop booklet focuses on one VG-99 topic, and is intended
as a companion to the VG-99 Owner's Manual.

About This Booklet

The VG-99 lets you tailor its sound output to match the amplification system
you're connected to and the environment you're performing in without
changing the settings stored in individual patches. We'll show you how in
this booklet.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, you'll come across information that deserves
special attention—that's the reason it's labeled with one of the following
symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.
Adjusting the VG-99's Sound Output for Your
Performance Environment
The VG-99 gives you an amazing amount of sound-
shaping power, allowing you to store a complete
"finished" sound in every patch, including instrument,
amps, effects, EQ, and so on. However, when you
perform with the VG-99, you'll probably find that
you need to adjust the overall sound of all patches
slightly to optimize your tone for a given performance
situation.
Why is this? Well, because every performance situation is a bit different.
For instance, at a live gig you'll probably plug the VG-99 into an instrument
amplifier, while for a recording session you'll likely connect it directly to a
mixer or a computer. And when you play live, the acoustics of a given room
may be very different from those where you originally created your patches.
For example, you might find your patches sound too "wet" in a live room or
too "dry" in a dead-sounding room, or that you want to add a little treble or
bass to the overall sound.
Obviously, it's not practical or desirable to go into each patch and tweak the
sound for every gig. That's why the VG-99 provides a number of parameters
that let you tailor the overall sound of all patches, while not actually
affecting the stored patch data itself. These parameters are stored in groups
called "Global Settings, " global meaning that they affect every sound coming
from the VG-99's outputs.
In a Global Setting, you can make the following sound adjustments:
•
Main Output Select— This adjusts the VG-99's MAIN
outputs to match the device you're plugging in to, be it
headphones, a mixer, a combo amp, an effects return on
an amp head, etc.
•
Global Main EQ and Global SUB EQ—
equalizers allow you to independently adjust the tone of signals sent to
the VG-99's MAIN OUT and SUB OUT jacks.
•
Global Reverb Level— This setting increases or decreases the overall
reverb level relative to the level(s) set in each patch.
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