Advanced Level Matching; Summary - Boss

GT-X Setup Manual

Advanced Level Matching

I personally found that playing and trying to alter levels and
bounce around between meters was way too awkward.
These days I now use my PC to generate either a 1kHz
signal or white noise. I alter the level to match my guitar
input level on the meter. I then use GT-3 Manager to alter
my levels, whilst using the GT-3 on the meters only. The
whole procedure is now so much easier for me.

Summary

OK. Hopefully by this point you've got a really good
understand of the concepts involved and how to put all this
knowledge into practice. We have seen that once we have
set-up the GT-3/5 for level matching, the actual level
matching of each patch really just consists of two steps:
Effects Chain Level Matching
Apparent Volume Adjustment
Just before we are finished though I just want to say that
level matching does not suit every situation, and although I
have presented a set of guidelines here there are exceptions
to the rule. In practice I have seen level matching, make
some quite useless patches that squealed like there was no
tomorrow, sound really quite good. So now take what I have
said, add to it your own style/taste and experience and let
me know how you get on. I just hope this has all proved
useful.
Remember that you can apply this philosophy to your entire
rig, not jut the GT-3/5. If you have an effect before the GT-
3/5, you can use the GT-3/5's meters to help you set the
output level by doing an A-B between the effect on and the
effect off whilst watching the input meter. You can use this
same technique to level your entire external effects chain.
© Copyright 2000-2002 Barry S. Pearce et al.
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