New Toy - From Here to There

Re: New Toy

spides — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:56:48 +0000

Unless you've got a good mic(s), a good preamp and experience mic'ing an amp, recording directly from the GT will sound much better. Make sure the GT10 is not set to 'combo' when going directly into the pc/mixer. 100% completely and utterly could not agree more.

micing amps is for people with gear and know-how. DI from the pedal is the way to go. Especially the boss pedals, you can get fantastic stuff from the GT series DI'd.

Re: New Toy

Ignar Hillström — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:34:14 +0000

Unless you've got a good mic(s), a good preamp and experience mic'ing an amp, recording directly from the GT will sound much better. Make sure the GT10 is not set to 'combo' when going direc...

Re: New Toy

Nuno — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:57:18 +0000

It sounds very well, Roy! Usually I don't like the fuzz but you got a great tone!

Your amp is also contributing to the final sound when you use it. By recording directly in Audacity you are loosing that stage. I don't remember now your amp, sorry, but I think it was a good one (I remember an old post...). I don't find (yet) a good amp modeling. Try miking directly, surely you will improve the sound.

Re: New Toy

rparker — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:44:40 +0000

It loses some zing in Audacity or getting to Audacity. Have to dig under the hood in there for a bit and see what things are. Fo now though, I'm considering just miking th amp to see how it is.

I found about 20 or so patches out on the net, and 15 of them turned out to be really good. I think the most amazing thing is that even the over-the-top ones are usable so far. I've got PLENTY to go through still. So far though, I'm still very much liking this whole thing. 20 patches and 20 presets examined so far, and only about 4 of them I've got rated poorly. Realistically, they all be could be rated higher by someone else who can handle lood coming from their ear-drums. Some of these can be too loud. Already turned down a few.

Re: New Toy

kent_eh — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:55:44 +0000

Pretty decent sounds fore outta-da-box.
and has some mindless bashing of Breathe, plain 'ol noodling Hey, waitaminnit. Have you been listening in on my "setlist"? :lol:

Love the band name, by the way. Just saw that movie on TV (for the 127th time) last week.

Re: New Toy

rparker — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:42:56 +0000

Well, I've messed around with it some more. I found a USB cable lurking around under my desk and hooked that up. Installed an app called Librarian and found some good patches on-line. Librarian also (supposedly) converts GT-6 and GT-8 patches to work on GT-10. Sooooo, if any previous offers of patches are still standing, I'll PM you my email address......

The UI is proving to be a continued impressive aspect to this. A surprising feature, though, is that the documentation is very good too. Those are two things I had gripes with on my 6.

So, straight out of the box samples of some pre-set samples. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=833547

The first one is the 60's Fuzz done on the neck of my LP. Brief snips of the National Anthem, Wild Thing and the easy version of Hey Joe. The second one called Clean Theater and has some mindless bashing of Breathe, plain 'ol noodling and Tangerine. I was changing tempos up a bit for this one to let it ring once in a while.

Sounds much better through my amp. Something is cutting off my highs a bit while recording, but that's another day.

Re: New Toy

rparker — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:13:39 +0000

Yeah, I'll put some samples up soon. I've played with some presets. Mostly good things so far. With a previous version, it seemed like too many were just overkill. I'll put together a little sampling of a few. Next step is to find/buy a USB cable. I'm pretty sure I got one somewhere.....
Good For You! a complete review in the works maybe? Perhaps in a couple of weeks. Suffice to say that it's sounding very good right now.
Have you checked out http://www.BossGTCentral.com yet? Yup. I've been lurking around. I've poured through that forum's GT-6 section on many occasion.

Re: New Toy

TwistedLefty — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:37:05 +0000

Good For You! a complete review in the works maybe?

Re: New Toy

Dagwood — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:26:11 +0000

Grats Roy!!!

Have you checked out http://www.BossGTCentral.com yet?

Pretty good forum and Patch sharing over there too...... alot of talent using these GT units for sure :)

Have fun, we'll see you back in a....... week or two?? :lol: :lol: :lol:

PS: Can't wait to hear some samples

Re: New Toy

Nuno — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:04:05 +0000

Sounds like the second preset needs you to record something for us. :wink: +1 :evil:

Roy, please, be careful with that thing, I've read that it is full of fun! :mrgreen: