https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:26:08 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377412 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:09:17 +0000 Opinions and Polls TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377412 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377406 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:35:18 +0000 It would be hard for me to set up a patch and then go play live without needing to adjust something. Interesting. You mean during songs even, or just in between songs? I don't know how the GT-100 is yet on quick changes on the effect level. I spent most of last night just going from preset to preset.
I don't use alot of effects and I don't really cahnge alot of settings so the ME-70 is fine for me I have never used nor tried to modify or create a patch on my own as I really don't have a need.

I just recently started adding a few effects for certain songs like flanger etc. at some point when I get more than a few I will probably start looking at the patches and setting my own up. In theory I know how but I never bothered to actually do one.
I started off the same way. By 1/2 way during ownership period I probably never used a Factory pre-set. My own creations or user creations. I had a whole series of them that I made starting off with my favorite pre-amps, and then the various distortions, etc. I've got far less in the 11R so far, but I'm doing a ton more other things because of Pro Tools. Heck, my main go-to patch in the 11R is still something I explore all the time. Getting to the little zones of perfection with each guitar and just playing. I need to broaden my horizons a bit more. :lol: :roll:]]> Opinions and Polls rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377406 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377405 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:15:59 +0000
On the ME-70 if I want more distortion I just reach down and twist a knob no scrolling no having to pick what patch what level.

It would be hard for me to set up a patch and then go play live without needing to adjust something.

I don't use alot of effects and I don't really cahnge alot of settings so the ME-70 is fine for me I have never used nor tried to modify or create a patch on my own as I really don't have a need.

I just recently started adding a few effects for certain songs like flanger etc. at some point when I get more than a few I will probably start looking at the patches and setting my own up. In theory I know how but I never bothered to actually do one.]]> Opinions and Polls cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377405 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377403 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:03:04 +0000 Opinions and Polls rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377403 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377402 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:59:52 +0000 The big pain unless I'm missing something is what do you do at a gig when you need to modify something.. :shock:. I can't imagine stting there trying to scroll through pages to get to the effect you want, I'm a KISS kind of guy and trust me the simpler the better.

The few times I played at the open mic recently that's what I did just bring the ME-70 and plug into an amp already there worked perfect and I didn't have to lug an amp around. Absolutely not. I've never gigged, but I can assure you that going from one patch to the other is simply a matter of stepping on a pedal switch. No more difficult than turning on or off your effect pedal. That's without getting creative.

Folks who gig have their songs' patches all moved to an area. Even if you do 50 songs with 50 different patches, it's no more easier than kicking the pedal button. You just gotta know where the patch is. Navigate one pedal for bank, the other pedal for patch number 1,2,3 or 4.

Even if you have the need for an overdrive to kick in, like during a solo or anything, you can add that functionality to your patch. The GT-10 had something like a "Solo" button, while the GT-100 has some big button named "accel". When you create your patch, there's a little area that allows you to define what kicking that accel pedal does. Volume boost, increase gain, whatever. If you don't feel like that, just have two patches for the song.

I would think a multi-effect would be much simpler during a performance, especially between songs. Go from a hard rocker to a soft rocker with by kicking on or off a few regular pedals, or go to the patch using your patch navigation pedals. No settings to remember. Just where the patches are, and what you named them.]]> Opinions and Polls rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377402 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377401 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:44:15 +0000
The few times I played at the open mic recently that's what I did just bring the ME-70 and plug into an amp already there worked perfect and I didn't have to lug an amp around.]]> Opinions and Polls cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377401 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377400 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:36:43 +0000
Even though I'm a technical guy I'm lazy too and I don't liek having to preset everything in patches. I know in some cases it would make life a hell of a lot easier.

But you don't need to justify to me why you have all those toys I'm just jealous :D I'm a knob guy too Chris ..... but toys are cool. 8) I'd just buy one of the ones with the knobs too. My antique KORG has knobs.]]> Opinions and Polls TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377400 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377399 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:33:16 +0000
Enjoy!]]> Opinions and Polls TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377399 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377398 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:31:50 +0000
Even though I'm a technical guy I'm lazy too and I don't liek having to preset everything in patches. I know in some cases it would make life a hell of a lot easier.

But you don't need to justify to me why you have all those toys I'm just jealous :D]]> Opinions and Polls cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377398 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377396 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:05:44 +0000
Fast forward almost a year and I'm missing the portability factor of the GT-10. Yes, I could travel with the 11R, but I was timid. That, and it would be a pain.unhooking it all and re-setting it all back up when getting home. The seperate unit is pretty much grab and go.
I'm assuming the GT-100 is new. Does everything need to be prgrammed or can you make adjustments like they are analog? Yes, it's new. Nothing needs to be programmed, technically speaking. I will make my own patches (or pre-sets) as well as tweek a setting or two here and there. The factory pre-set patches are pretty good and in many cases cn be played out of the box. perhaps even recorded in the rare instance. Keep in mind that when I'm setting up a track to record guitar on in Pro Tools or anything else for that matter, I'm optimizing the signal in the 11-Rack. If I was to use the GT-100, I would have to go through a similar routine.

You can make adjustments just like analog with either unit. You just have to navigate to it. You've got a technical back-ground. It's got kind of an object model look and feel to it, but with some hierarcheral aspects. Kind of like this:
GT-100 ->
System Settings ->
System Input ->
Pre-sets ->
Effects Chain ->
Effect or Amp ->
Settings for Effect or Amp ->
System Output

One only has to navigate to the area that you want to adjust. Then page through the various settings. Tweek and enjoy. Many people complained about the navigation of the GT-10. I loved it. I'm a geek. I got it. The 100 sort of hides some of the hierarcheral aspects. You can get to it from the same "level", so to speak.

If the COSM engine of your ME-70 (it's what you have, IIRC) is similar to the 100, you should be a really happy camper. If it's like the 10, you're still happy, but there might be a tone improvement step up. Either way you spin it, you've got a good MFX unit. Heck, I could go up and up and up from the GT-100 or HD series to the 11-Rack to supposedly the Axe-II to Kemper and so on and so forth. There's still the Vox ST series for comparatively little change that does very well from what I understand, and I think would have been the step up from the RP-255 I had briefly. Once I hit the GT-100, I was sold. personal preference.


Duplication of functionality: I have tons. I have a more convienient travel unit. I have something I can use as a stomp box should I ever get good enough to play out live. I also have 2-3X more effects. This is overkill, but consider that it's also one of the few hobbies I can mess with for the past five years. It doesn't justify the green, especially to my frugal side, but it's a small price to pay for some shallow minded mood-boosting.]]> Opinions and Polls rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/new-toy-day/#post-377396