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Boss GT 1000Core

#1,001
Ahoy gentlemen, just wanted to drop a line in here that some changes around the house have caused a massive pedal liquidation for yours truly including both my GT1000 and GT1000CORE (as well as a ton of other pedals) in case anyone is interested to pick up a second (or first) unit! Love this piece of gear but needing to purge!
 
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Dewdman42 said:
Check this setting. Yours should NOT look like mine, it should be set to SEND.

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Thanks again for this reply. I was wondering if there was a way to control the volume level of the send that would remain constant even if I raise and lower any volume before the Effects send in the chain.

I would like to be able to control that level to get the perfect amount of Signal into the pedal in the effects loop. If that level goes up or down the dynamics of my pedal change drastically.

Anyhow, Thanks again for the original reply and for any help with my 2nd question.:)
 
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well... I finally had a chance to try my CORE at a rehearsal the other day and the patches I had made just didn't cut in the mix. The rest of the band asked "where did your bass go?" I ended up going back to my analog board for my Saturday gig. So, I'm back to the drawing board.

Any recommendations for what I need to do to preserve the growl of my short scale EBMM stingray? I hoping to spend a few hours today working on my sound.
 
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Djadja said:
well... I finally had a chance to try my CORE at a rehearsal the other day and the patches I had made just didn't cut in the mix. The rest of the band asked "where did your bass go?" I ended up going back to my analog board for my Saturday gig. So, I'm back to the drawing board.

Any recommendations for what I need to do to preserve the growl of my short scale EBMM stingray? I hoping to spend a few hours today working on my sound.
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An EQ block at the very end to "tune for the room" would likely bring your tone back.

My unscientific guess is that High Mids might need a boost
 
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Djadja said:
well... I finally had a chance to try my CORE at a rehearsal the other day and the patches I had made just didn't cut in the mix. The rest of the band asked "where did your bass go?" I ended up going back to my analog board for my Saturday gig. So, I'm back to the drawing board.

Any recommendations for what I need to do to preserve the growl of my short scale EBMM stingray? I hoping to spend a few hours today working on my sound.
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Maybe use more of the tone shaping of your Genzler, and less from the CORE. Just use the CORE as an FX unit. 4 cable method, or run the CORE in the loop of the Genz? I'm getting a Bass Katana on Wednesday, and I'm planning on trying the 4 cable method with my CORE.
 
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I'm thinking I was doing too much on the CORE... especially too much compression. I was trying to set the CORE up as a copy of my analog board with compression (always on), distortion, envelope, chorus, and octaver, adding the options of reverb & delay. The octaver was not tracking well so I turned up the compression. When I took the octaver out, turned down the compression and took the pre-amp tones to pretty much flat and it seems to have come back to life. I'll just set up a separate patch for the octave. I use it very seldomly anyway...

Is anyone finding any must have patches on the tone exchange?
 
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Djadja said:
I'm thinking I was doing too much on the CORE... especially too much compression. I was trying to set the CORE up as a copy of my analog board with compression (always on), distortion, envelope, chorus, and octaver, adding the options of reverb & delay. The octaver was not tracking well so I turned up the compression. When I took the octaver out, turned down the compression and took the pre-amp tones to pretty much flat and it seems to have come back to life. I'll just set up a separate patch for the octave. I use it very seldomly anyway...

Is anyone finding any must have patches on the tone exchange?
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I run my Octaver on a side chain with a HPF in front of it (also in the side chain. Then I blend it back in to taste at the mix of the side chain.
 
#1,011
I’m guilty of trying to do too much with it and over engineering patches. I’ve got a ME Super 800+ and I’ll 4cm my head once I get my cables delivered. Can’t decide if I should use an fx for each or just chain them and preserve a separate send to foh. I’ve got the first gig with it in a month so need to get some time to test at volume!
 
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I was in the same situation. Had an analog pedal board, then I got the GTCore and quickly realised it was like learning a new instrument. Eventually sold all but a couple of pedals and haven’t looked back. There is a learning curve with multi fx. Ive had the GTCore since Oct 2020 and I’m still leaning how to get the most out of it. It definitely has plenty of growl. Just got to spend the time looking for it. Best of luck with it,

Edit: something that might help is get an accurate recording of your sound, put it the DAW and try and match it with the GTCore. I know Logic Pro has a Match EQ feature for comparing two different sounds.

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well... I finally had a chance to try my CORE at a rehearsal the other day and the patches I had made just didn't cut in the mix. The rest of the band asked "where did your bass go?" I ended up going back to my analog board for my Saturday gig. So, I'm back to the drawing board.

Any recommendations for what I need to do to preserve the growl of my short scale EBMM stingray? I hoping to spend a few hours today working on my sound.
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Just thinking about how to get that grind/growl tone out of the GTCore. Gain staging types:
  • Boost the input level to drive the preamp gain.
  • Use the Clean Boost effect in the DS block to drive the preamp gain.
  • Overdrive effect in the DS block to a clean preamp.
  • Boost the gain on the preamp.

Each one will have slightly different results. High or low output pickups will play a part also.
 
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FunkHead said:
Thanks again for this reply. I was wondering if there was a way to control the volume level of the send that would remain constant even if I raise and lower any volume before the Effects send in the chain.
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I don't have a way to confirm this right now, but basically the Core lets you configure the SEND jacks to function either as sends....or as SUBOUT. When they function as SUBOUT...then there is a master SUBOUT level you can set, along with master EQ.

If you have them configured as sends, then you use the Send module in your patch to decide where in the signal chain to actually send/return the audio externally... that module in the FX chain has its own level adjustment. So you can decide that level on a patch by patch basis.

Ensuring that you always have a consistent level going from the send will mean tweaking every patch until they all have the same level going on. And it will always depend also on everything else in the signal chain leading up to the send. As soon as you bump the gain in some other FX module earlier in the chain, then you will need to tweak the corresponding send level to make sure you get a consistent level going to your external pedals.

I can't think of any way to automatically make the level going from the SEND always consistent in an automatic way. You could use a limiter in the front of your external pedal chain I guess.
 
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Dewdman42 said:
I don't have a way to confirm this right now, but basically the Core lets you configure the SEND jacks to function either as sends....or as SUBOUT. When they function as SUBOUT...then there is a master SUBOUT level you can set, along with master EQ.

If you have them configured as sends, then you use the Send module in your patch to decide where in the signal chain to actually send/return the audio externally... that module in the FX chain has its own level adjustment. So you can decide that level on a patch by patch basis.

Ensuring that you always have a consistent level going from the send will mean tweaking every patch until they all have the same level going on. And it will always depend also on everything else in the signal chain leading up to the send. As soon as you bump the gain in some other FX module earlier in the chain, then you will need to tweak the corresponding send level to make sure you get a consistent level going to your external pedals.

I can't think of any way to automatically make the level going from the SEND always consistent in an automatic way. You could use a limiter in the front of your external pedal chain I guess.
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Perfect. Thanks for the reply. It works exactly like you said.
 
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So thinking I’ll be using both of my fx loops for external preamp/drives. I don’t really want to loose the option to send a different mix to foh too though with cab sim etc.

Is there a downside to just splitting the main out to L/R and having one to my amp return and one to a di?
 
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MrDinsdale said:
So thinking I’ll be using both of my fx loops for external preamp/drives. I don’t really want to loose the option to send a different mix to foh too though with cab sim etc.

Is there a downside to just splitting the main out to L/R and having one to my amp return and one to a di?
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I don't think so. Just means really that you can't have a seperate cab sim and/or master EQ for your amp rig out vs the FOH out. That may or may not matter very much, depends on numerous factors.
 
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