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Section 14
Preamps
Dirty Preamp Presets
OK, let's take a look at some presets which highlight the
characteristics of these preamps.
Preamp
Preset Patches
Crunch
36-2 COOL CRUNCH
MATCH
42-3 MATCH LEAD
Drive
53-2 NICE CRUNCH
VOXY
53-4 YOUNG UK
Drive
Blues
38-1 COMBO LEAD
BG Lead
40-3 BG LEAD
MS1959
37-3 '70S STACK
(I)
42-4 LED STACK
MS1959
umm....where are they!?
(II)
MS1959
50-3 SMOOTH LEAD
(I+II)
61-4 SATCH TONE
SLDN
36-1 TUBE STACK
LEAD
40-1 LA LEAD
43-2 METAL POP
Metal 5150
41-1 5150 CRUNCH
47-2 METAL 5150
Metal Drive
41-2 BOTTOM MTL
41-4 METAL SOLO
Distorted Preamp Summary
The basic preamp controls should be familiar to you now
from our earlier look at clean preamps. What is really
different with these preamps is that by using the
Gain/Volume combination you can control the amount of
drive that is available. Remember that any increase or
decrease to the gain/volume will result in a change to the
Master Volume in order to keep the effects output checked
and in line with out level matching policy.
So use Gain/Volume for drive, Bass / Middle / Treble /
Presence / Bright for colour and Master Volume to match
the output level.
Again, remember that the EQ is there to help alter the
colouring; 40-3 BG Lead shows this up well.
One disadvantage of using any increase in gain we
discussed in distortions is increased *noise*. The preamps
are no exception here; more gain—more noise. Again, as
discussed above you may need to change the NS settings.
Also, remember I mentioned the 'Yuk' noise, with regard to
both clean preamps and the OD/DS? Well the distortion
preamps are even more susceptible. I describe this noise in
the section 16.
Anyway that concludes the preamps. Hopefully you will
have found some of the information useful and now know
how to avoid some of noise problems that exist.
© Copyright 2000-2002 Barry S. Pearce et al.
Preset Patches
2-4-3 WEST COAST
2-5-2 COOLCRUNCH
2-3-1 MATCH DRIVE
3-1-2 TIGHT DRIVE
2-4-2 VOXY BEATLE
2-5-1 FISH & CHIPS
1-2-1 HARD BLUES
2-2-4 90'S ERIC
2-3-6 BLUES LEAD
1-2-1-2 BOOGIE LEAD
1-5-5 CARLOS LEAD
1-1-1 TUBE STACK
1-3-5 FAT MS1959
umm....where are they!?
2-1-4 FIXED WAH
1-1-4 SLDN LEAD
1-4-2 MELLOW LEAD
2-1-2 NICE BULGE
1-1-3 EDDIES 5150
2-1-3 ERUPTION
1-1-5 HEAVY METAL
Preamp Customisation
My my! You GT-5 users are spoilt! You can even design
you own preamps! The GT-5 allows two custom preamps to
be defined. Full details are on pages 34-35 of the official
manual. What you get it is 10 'building blocks' and you
choose the characteristic of each. So if you ever find
yourself wishing you could have one of the preamps – but
changed just a little in character here is where you can do it!
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