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Section 5
Introduction
Many people on the group have asked about various general
configuration issues, including how to organise patches on
their GT-3/5s. In this section I present the philosophy I have
used to configure my GT-3, and give advice on making sure
your GT-3/5 does work for you, and doesn't get in the way.
There are two things I am going to continually stress here;
'have a plan' and 'consistency'. If you haven't planned how
you will organise your patches and use the controls then you
are going to find yourself lost quicker than you think, and
being lost in the middle of a gig is not a fun situation...
Secondly consistency must be the watchword used in the
planning and configuring of the GT-3/5. By being
consistent you will find the GT-3/5 becomes quicker to
configure and the risk of getting lost diminishes greatly.
General Configuration
Find a hook-up method that you are happy with (see the
previous section) and for the most part try to remain with
that set-up. If you keep changing your amp/effects
unit/footswitch/expression pedal connections around then
you will have trouble obtaining consistent results from the
GT-3/5, and will find yourself forever tweaking patches.
I recommend obtaining some external footswitches and/or
an external expression pedal. Doing so vastly increases your
ability to consistently use a given pedal to do a single job.
This helps provide some of the consistency that I believe is
so essential to operating the unit successfully.
Right now you need a plan to determine how, for the most
part, you will utilise these pedals. For instance, I will try to
set up ALL of my patches on my GT-3 so that the on-board
expression pedal is FV. I have an external MIDI expression
pedal that I use differently on a patch-by-patch basis. I also
have two FS5U footswitches. I set the first pedal to toggle
Manual Mode, thus allowing me to 'open' up a patch and
turn the effects on/off individually, and the second pedal
usually gets automatic manual mode assigned via Assign 8.
I don't use the on-board tuner as my Korg DTR1 rack tuner
is far more accurate, convenient to use and is on-line all the
time, and this has saved me from having to account for it
with a CTL pedal. Although you can still have both Manual
mode and the Tuner available by switching manual mode
on/off via the CTL pedal and then allocating the tuner to
one of the pedals. If you do like manual mode and the tuner
available without zapping precious footswitch resources you
may wish to consider the 'Sutton Mod' presented in the
previous section....I am considering this myself.
I suggest finding a foot switch/expression pedal set-up that
suits 90% of your needs and include it in your <Empty> and
'Clean' patches.
© Copyright 2000-2002 Barry S. Pearce et al.
Basic Configuration
Utility Function Settings
The
GT-5
<Overdrive/Distortion
Customize>. This section will not discuss these. These will
be discussed under sections 15 and 14 respectively.
The GT-3 has an additional section called <Auto-
Riff Scale>. As I have no need of the auto-riff functionality,
and thus have never ventured into this part of the GT-3
realm, it is not discussed here. If anyone else cares to fill in
the information here I'm sure others would appreciate it.
<Global>
The previous section contains some good recommendations
for setting the '<Global>[Your Setting?]'. Give this a read
through if you haven't already because I won't be repeating
the information here.
On my GT-3 I use the following settings:
[Your Setting?]
[Low EQ]
[High EQ]
[NS Threshold]
[Reverb Level]
The GT-5 has an additional parameter to control
the speaker simulator to force the speaker simulator to be
always on, always off or to be switched on or off according
to the patch data. This will not be dealt with here but will be
discussed in more detail in section 10.
The Low/High EQ, and Reverb level settings are designed
to accommodate different environments (such as different
venues) without you having to change EVERY patch.
I cannot see a sensible reason to change the NS Threshold
parameter.
Don't use the global NS threshold or EQ to account for the
differences when switching between guitars. It is much
better (I think so anyway) to use separate patches tweaked
appropriately. If you don't then you will have to alter the
GT-3/5 on-stage...glug.
In the studio I have the [Dial Function] set to 'P.NUMBER
& VALUE'. For live use I have the [Dial Function] set to
'VALUE Only' and reduce the [BANK Extent] to cover
only those patches intended for live use. This helps avoid
any embarrassing moments.
has
two
additional
sections;
Customize>
and
<Preamp
Power Amp (Stack)
0dB
0dB
0dB
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