My rather large “GT10+other pedals” rig, explained

Nyarlathotep · #1 08-31-2009, 01:22 AM

For those of you interested

GT10B Full Rig Demo - EQ
GT10B Full Rig Demo – Pedal Bend/Octave & Chorus
GT10B Full Rig Demo – Modulation
GT10B Full Rig Demo - Wah
GT10B Full Rig Demo – Delay

One thing I would like to make perfectly clear: I AM NOT TRYING TO BE GRYGRX HERE.
I don't have proper video equiptment, but I didn't want to have a hundred small 5 second clips and a huge waste of post explaining it.

I also didn't demo the blended OD/DS I currently have running after all the fuzzes and such. Im basically trying to have a second gain sound, but still have the original gain sound present. So not an EQ. The main reason I didn't demo it is simply becuase I haven't got it perfet, and the other reason is that it pretty much sounds like poo. I guess I did demo it a little in the delay clip, but only a little.

The other thing I realize that I didn't demo is a combo of effects, besides the low-end-killing-EQ and the reverb thats always there. I even ended up forgoing the lunchbox sound for most of it. My reasoning for this is that if I did so there would be no mystery as to what the full crazyness of my rig is. Also, I think that it would take WAY to much time to demo the full extent of my rig if I did. Again, I do demo a little bit of combo sounds in the delay clip, but not to many.

Thunderscreech · #2 08-31-2009, 08:48 AM

gastric · #3 08-31-2009, 12:20 PM

I'm curious how you physically recorded this. The GT10B has DI and USB out. But it sounds like it's recorded through a mic.

Nyarlathotep · #4 08-31-2009, 12:45 PM

Nice pic there thunder

Quote:

Originally Posted by gastric

I'm curious how you physically recorded this. The GT10B has DI and USB out. But it sounds like it's recorded through a mic.

That black box with the red LED to the right of the Attack Goat in the pic is a 4 channel mixer. The GT-10B is chan 1 and the lunch box is chan 2. There are 2 outputs on it and I send 1 to my amp and the other to the line in on my laptop. I just plugged in a cheap dollar store dynamic mic into chan 3 so that I could easily do the commentary. The pauses between the end of my playing and me speaking are me fumbling with the on/off switch on the mic

On reason it might sound like the GT-10B itself is recorded thru a mic is simply becuase I have a f***ing HUGE amount of reverb thats always on.

Honestly, I haven't tried to hook up the GT-10B thru USB yet, but because I use a Linux (Ubuntu) system I don't think I can record audio from it, based on a couple of posts here.

jazzy82slave · #5 10-09-2009, 11:14 PM

Thanks for the in-depth review of all your crazy pedals. My rig is lacking, and I'm looking for a few new things to buy. Could you post a list of all your pedals, and perhaps a better picture as well? I'd be great to know how you chain them all together, as well as all the individual pedals you have. I've listened to all of your sound bytes, and sometimes I get confused as to which pedals you are using. By the way, how do you like the GT-10B? I'm looking into getting one, but I want a real person to tell me it's okay to drop 5 bills on a foot pedal. Thanks again for all the work you've already put into showing off your massive rig.

Nyarlathotep · #6 10-10-2009, 07:55 AM

Current rig:

Bigger Version:http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/v...opped_600H.jpg

The GT is still an integral part of my rig. It's prolly very replacable, but not for the same cost as it. For 6-700$ I don't think there's much out there to beat it

EDIT: Basically I use the GT for bass-cut EQ, reverb, and the octave up, for the most part. I've been playing around more with the flanger and wah tho. In the end it's the delay that is the deal breaker. In order to even have the possibility of getting what I want (and currently get) out of a delay I'd have to start with the Empress Superdelay. 450$ for the delay alone makes the GT's price tag of 700$ seem not so bad, especially since I can sync everything (delay/flanger/etc) to one tap tempo.

I also have switches set to change the flanger module to a step phaser (with "rotating" tap synced resonance and step speed for chip tunage), or a tap tempo tremolo. To get that I'd end up having to get something like the Eventide ModFactor or TC NovaMod. The ModFactor is 500 bucks and the TC is 250-350.

Even if I just settled with a flanger (BF-3 is still approx. 150$), the reverb I could prolly replace it with anything, even with the superdelay, but the octave up could only really be repped by a micro POG (225$).

The EQ is a different story tho. It has a low cut setting which is like a soft slope high pass filter with a LOW knee freq. I have the knee set for 800 Hz, but I use the 2 mids @ 160 and 315 Hz to lower the knee to around 100ish Hz and increase the slope of the HPF. I also have the lows set for -20db to kill them further. This is basically so I can use one of the Ernie Ball VPjr's to swell/fade the lows more than just hitting a button for on/off. Plus, with the TLSF I can add some extra high harmonic content to "fill out" any of my other fuzzes, and more midrange from the bass itself. Adding the lows from the bass sound a lot different that just turning off the low cut EQ.

Because of the way the EQ works, it would be almost impossible to replace. A robot factory "brain freeze" in HP mode might work (if it could get a low enough knee freq), along with something like an empress paraEQ might get close, but the freeze works on AC power, and both would cost around 600 bucks anyways.

Im also planning on getting a paraEQ anyways to be able to add a different midrange curve to the fuzz sounds.

Thunderscreech · #7 10-10-2009, 11:14 AM

You need to loose that Green and Black pedal to the left of the Swollen Pickle. I heard those things really suck. You should send it to me for proper disposal.

Nyarlathotep · #8 10-10-2009, 10:11 PM

Nice try thunder

Regret selling your Collider?