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TC Electronic G-Natural User Manual

Effects processor for acoustic guitars
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  • Page 1 G-Natural User’s Manual...

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with an arrowhead symbol within The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to intended to alert the user to the presence of important the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient the literature accompanying the product.

  • Page 4: Emc/Emi & Certificate Of Conformity

    15 of the FCC rules. Certificate of Conformity These limits are designed to provide reasonable TC Electronic A/S, Sindalsvej 34, 8240 protection against harmful interference in residential Risskov, Denmark, hereby declares on own installations. This equipment generates, uses and can...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Boost G-Natural – Front ..... . .6 Boost .......26 Functions .

  • Page 7: Introduction

    With G-Natural you no longer have to put your guitar sound in the hands of the sound engineer or to put up with effects designed for electric guitars to boost your performance. It goes without saying that effects for electric instruments do not take the construction of a hollow body acoustic guitar into account.

  • Page 8: G-Natural - Front

    OVERVIEW...

  • Page 9: Operation

    Right - Tuner indication. settings. However, you feel that you have edited the reverb parameters to a point where you find yourself a bit Presets - G-Natural has 30 factory presets and 30 user lost. - What would TC Electronic suggest? preset locations.
  • Page 10 11 - Comp pressing the switch for 2 seconds. In Tuner mode On/off switch for the compressor. G-Natural can be set up to mute the outputs for convenient quiet tuning. This is setup in the Utility menu 12 - Mod via the Output parameter.

  • Page 11: G-Natural - Rear

    1/4”TRS to XLR adapters. Via the pedal menu you can set up what parameter the expression/volume pedal should control WARNING! When connecting the G-Natural outputs to microphone inputs on a mixing console, the phantom power for these channels MUST be switched off! Otherwise you may damage the G-Natural circuits.
  • Page 12 G-Natural or the mixing console. WARNING! Please note that using phantom power from both the mixing console and G-Natural simultaneously will result in too much power and possible damage to the microphone.

  • Page 13: Guitar With Piezo Pick-Up

    • Select active effect pressing the COMP, MOD, Connections DELAY and REVERB switches • Connect your guitar to the G-Natural’s instrument input • Connect L/R outputs to a mixer or to a dedicated acoustic guitar amp When connecting the G-Natural outputs to...

  • Page 14: Guitar With Piezo Pick-Up + Microphone

    Connect the output of your guitar’s piezo pickup to DELAY and REVERB switches the instrument input of G-Natural • G-Natural features separate EQ and compression • Connect the microphone to the mic input of settings for mic and instrument inputs G-Natural •...

  • Page 15: Guitar With Piezo Pick-Up + Vocal Microphone

    If a condenser microphone is used you must enable Instrument input of G-Natural the +48V phantom power • Connect the microphone to the mic input of G-Natural • Set input sensitivity via the Levels menu • Connect L/R outputs to a mixer or to a dedicated •...

  • Page 16: G-Natural With A Dedicated Acoustic Guitar Amp

    TYPICAL SETUPS G-Natural with a dedicated acoustic guitar amp Amp for acoustic guitar Guitar with an active pick-up system Instrument input LR outputs algorithm select VARIATIONS factory hold to save default preset bank | tune store levels menu thicken clean...

  • Page 17: G-Natural In A Studio

    BANK DN G•NATURAL In project studios you may enjoy utilizing some of the Basic settings effects in G-Natural while recording. In this setup we • Set input sensitivity via the Levels menu show a setup with a condenser microphone connected to •...

  • Page 18: Routing

    Confirm by pressing MENU DELAY • Exit by pressing MENU again G-Natural has three ways of routing the chain of effects: Parallel Serial, Semi parallel and Parallel. Looking at the In the Parallel routing, the same signal is fed to the input...

  • Page 19: Pedals

    If you are not sure which type to use, you may have to try both types. G-Natural measures the signal on your In this menu you assign which parameters to assign, expression pedals output connector. Therefore only one calibrate G-Natural to the connected expression pedal cable should be used per expression pedal.
  • Page 20 • The LCD now reads If an expression pedal is connected to the pedal input PEDAL CALIBRATE and a preset is recalled, G-Natural can be set up to Set Max: <menu> respond to either the current position of an expression pedal or to the value stored with the preset.

  • Page 21: Utility

    Delay effects should act when changing between presets Range: On/off and when bypassing one of these effects. G-Natural comes with a selection of factory presets to show the many different sounds and effects you can Soft: create with G-Natural. However, as you begin you create Delay and Reverbs will “ring out”...

  • Page 22: Levels

    • Switch on any pedal in your signal chain that is This parameter determines the routing of the mic input placed prior to G-Natural and may boost the signal signal. • Strum your guitar as hard as you do when you play MIC INPUT •...
  • Page 23 Mic Pre - routing Range: Off, 20 bit, 16 bit or 8 bit Vocal In L NOISE COMP G-Natural operates at a bit depth of 24. If you are Mic/Pre GATE Guitar feeding the G-Natural digital outputs to a digital device In R...

  • Page 24: Boost Function

    Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just hit a single switch and boost the entire signal for a few important phrases? With the G-Natural boost function it is easy. Via the Levels menu a max boost level is set. Within this limit you may set up a boost level for individual presets.

  • Page 25: The Tuner

    THE TUNER Basics Too low • To activate the Tuner, press and hold the footswitch in the lower right corner • Set values using encoders A, B and C • Change pages using encoder D • Press any footswitch to exit. In perfect pitch In Tuner mode the following parameters can be set.

  • Page 26: Effects Compression

    “Mic/Line” compression. The different compression modes are indicated by “M” for G-Natural offers two types of compression. “Stomp”, that Microphone/Line or “I” for instrument in the right side offers only a few but effective handles similar to the ones of the display.

  • Page 27: Stomp

    Release G-Natural EQs Range: 50 to 2000 ms G-Natural has separate EQs for the Instrument inputs The release time is the time it takes for the compressor and the Mic/Pre input. to release the gain reduction of the signal after the Input signal drops below the threshold point again.

  • Page 28: Boost

    EFFECTS - BOOST EFFECTS - MOD Boost Detune The boost level can be set for each preset within the The detune effect is – to some extent – similar to a range of the Max Boost parameter. The Max Boost level chorus: The source signal is split and a specified amount is set in the levels menu.

  • Page 29: Vibrato

    EFFECTS - MOD Vibrato The vibrato effect modulates the pitch of the incoming signal. The result is similar to the vibrato technique used by vocalists. In contrast to a chorus or flanger effect, no direct signal is combined with the pitch-modulated signal. Speed Range: 0.050 Hz to 20 Hz Sets the speed of the effect.

  • Page 30: Tremolo

    A tremolo is basically a change of the signal level If you set this parameter e.g. to 20% with a type setting controlled by an LFO. The G-Natural offers variations of of hard, the waveform will be on for 80% of one period.

  • Page 31: Chorus

    Range: 0.050 Hz to 20 Hz Range: Ignore, 2 to 1/32T (T= Triplet & D= Dotted) This parameter sets the speed of the effect. When set to any value between 1 and 1/32T. G-Natural’s Global Tempo is subdivided according to this setting. Tempo When set to “Ignore”, the speed set by the Speed...

  • Page 32: Reverb Types

    EFFECTS - REVERB Reverb Types Common Reverb Parameters G-Natural features four different reverb classics. All types Decay have identical editable parameters, but the reverbs’ Range: 0.1 to 20 seconds characteristics vary. The Decay parameter determines the length of the reverb diffuse field. The length is defined as the time it...

  • Page 33: Delay Types

    Global tempo, which can be tied to an incoming MIDI The Single Delay effect is the most simple and basic clock. delay type in G-Natural. It comprises a single delay line Delay Parameters with all the common parameters and it gives a clear reproduction of the source material.
  • Page 34 EFFECTS - DELAY Range: 0 to 100% This parameter sets the mix between the dry signal and the level of the effect in this effect block. Damp (Dynamic Delay only) Range: 0 to 100 dB The output of the delay repeats is controlled by the input dynamics.

  • Page 35: Technical Specifications

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Digital Inputs and Outputs Supplementary Connectors: RCA Phono (S/PDIF) Display: 4 character LED, 24x 2 character LCD Formats: S/PDIF (24 bit), EIAJ CP-340, IEC 958 Dimensions: 11.1" x 10.25" x 3.5" (282 x 260 x 89 mm) Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz Weight: 5.9 lb.

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