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Section 12
Patch Problems
chain target which we determined in section 8. This is likely
to be fiddly. Sorry!
Noise Suppression
Some patches I have seen use no noise suppression, some
use loads. The question is—effect or just problem solving?
Bit hard to tell. The main thing here though is that if a patch
is too 'noisy' for you, check out the compression—it may
have been overused, and then tweak the NS.
If the NS has been underused it will either not cut in or will
reluctantly cut in. This case is easy to solve – just set up the
NS as described in section 9a. It is also possible that the NS
has been overused for your set-up resulting in the NS
cutting in and cramping decay. In this case you will actually
end up lowering the NS threshold. Again, just set up the NS
as per section 9a. The NS however, may not have just been
used as a problem solver but may have been used for effect.
However, this is most likely to take the form of a very high
threshold (80-90+), and thus is unlikely to be a problem.
Making Life Easier
Hopefully, we will now find it a little easier to start
modifying patches we receive. However, I think it would be
much easier all round if the following information was
provided with a patch: (The GT-3 Manager does make
some attempt at doing this, however, the additional
information is proprietary to the GT-3 manager and will not
transfer to other applications).
<Global> [Your Setting?], Guitar type, and pickups used,
GT-3/5 placement in the rig, and the amp/speaker set-up
used and in the case of the GT-5 whether the speaker sim is
set to permanently on or off.
If we all supply this sort of information then there we have
some good information to start from and it will take less
time to adapt a patch to our particular set-up.
The 'Patch Central' patch repository on the GT-3 Yahoo
Group web site contains a .txt template that includes this
information. If all patch authors supply the .txt with the .syx
then making tweaks to patches should be a lot easier as you
will know what the author was creating the patch using.
This method of disseminating information seems to have
met with some success. I for one find it very useful and I am
grateful to those who made the effort and spent that small,
but important amount of time to provide the details. I can
only encourage others to do the same.
© Copyright 2000-2002 Barry S. Pearce et al.
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