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Any helpful hints before beginning?
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Will do thanks!search for "GT-8 Primer" and download that thing!
I know there is a Boss forum and ALOT of info but thought Id see what people had to say here
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Any others out there with experience?
Would like to hear your ways.
As you know the Boss forum lost with all the info.
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I am doing the same, and having a blast playing guitar instead of effing around with a lot of patch cables!*Pulling the GT8 out of closet and time to get "reacquainted" once again after several years. I remember it being a little frustrating learning the parameters ands settings.Any helpful hints before beginning?
(Haha, I just realized this thread was resurrected!)
I have had several GT units over the decades (yes) and always got along really well with the menu system.
I think, first, make a blank patch to find unity gain with everything zeroed out: no effects on, Patch level at 100 (not max), all global EQ settings flat - just make it so that the guitar plugged straight into the amp sounds the same as going through the GT-8 on that baseline patch. I set up an A/B switch to do this. I think really, the input gain is the only control you should need to touch for this.
Then, mess around with one effect type at a time. Start simple, with effect types that you're already familiar with, and tweak away.
Repetition is really the key to getting comfy with the menus and developing the muscle memory that will let you make edits quickly without getting frustrated. I'd also say spend some quality time with the manual reading and re-reading the parameters and controls. The GT series has really comprehensive control options! And, there's this:
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=12747
Don't forget about the effect chain - this lets you put the effects, including the loop, in whatever order you want. I say this as much to plug the feature as to point out that it could be a source of something sounding wrong. For example, if you put a distortion (mono) effect afgter the stereo delay, it won't be stereo anymore. But the stereo delay after the mono distortion will be lovely.
For me, I am not completely giving up on the drives and amps, but neither am I spending much time trying to get gold from them at the moment. I understand folk have gotten great tones from the COSM modeling but I really don't want to go in the rabbit hole at this point. I did just enough amp sim to get a decent sound thru the phones jack and called it a day. If I'm running thru my amp, I shut off the amp sim. I put a Lovepedal Purple Plexi in the GT-8's fx loop and there's my drive.**
Have fun!!
*two patch cables: one for fx send, one for fx return
** I often use the expression pedal to control FX Send volume. This cleans up the drive pedal very nicely. I also set up an assign to turn off the fx loop entirely when the EXP is in the heel-down position, so I get the full clean sound with no drive at all.
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No I've never been much of a fan of the COSM even though I have used it to create a patch. However as you mentioned is to start with a blank patch and go from there.
I remember the global eq messing with me until I understood it.
Never really mastered the effect chain sequencing.
These units are fairly comprehensive and they take some dedicated time to learn... Definitely far from a "plug 'n play" ...lol
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Thanks much will do!poke aroun this document! GT-8 brilliance pdf
Seems like I remember this from someone on the Boss forum years ago
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