Boss GT 1000Core

[MrDinsdale]

Just impressive to see two very notorious pedals on such a small board. I love them though from what I’ve heard, especially the hm-2.

 

[BEADist]

Haha, yes funny how infamous they are.
When I started playing in deathmetal bands in 1990 the MetalZone was very well respected. It was rather expensive compared to other distortions also. Paired with a Noise Suppressor NS-2 and a EQ-7 (post MT-2, you know why..) this was some really powerfull setup, it's time well ahead.

Just impressive to see two very notorious pedals on such a small board. I love them though from what I’ve heard, especially the hm-2.

 

[Krisfield]

New Boss DS 1w Waza. It will sound fantastic in parallel with a clean channel through the GTCore. Apparently it has increased touch response. I’m a big fan of the TS 808, DS 1 mid range sound.

 

[Andy westwood]

Hey guys so I’m trying to find an answer to if my incoming core will run of my strymon Zuma on a single outlet or do I need to combine a few?

Thanks in advance

 

[Johno Dunn]

Hey guys so I’m trying to find an answer to if my incoming core will run of my strymon Zuma on a single outlet or do I need to combine a few?

Thanks in advance

How many ma’s does the Zuma provide?

 

[BEADist]

The Core needs 670 mA (so you will probably have to use 2 outputs of the Zuma)

 

[Johno Dunn]

The Core needs 670 mA (so you will probably have to use 2 outputs of the Zuma)

I was powering mine from a Cioks @ 600ma’s and it worked fine.

 

[BEADist]

I power mine with a cioks DC7 that has 660 mA per outlet and I don't worry at all about the 'missing' 10 mA. But the Zuma seems to have 500 mA per outlet, I would not trust using just one outlet. However I don't have a Zuma, there seem to be switching PSU's that can power much more from one outlet as long as you do not use more than it's total capacity. I don't think the Zuma is one of those though...

 

[MrDinsdale]

I’d love a Cioks but probably gonna cheap out on a Harley Benton one instead and just make sure I have spares if I ever find a band to gig with.

The one I was looking at has 2 500ma and a few 300ma, is it better to go for a combined 600 or 800?

 

[BEADist]

Other than just power specs I think form factor is important. The Cioks have the power outlets at the 'short' side, making it suitable for a small board :

Of course this PSU is overkill for this board, but someday it will change...

For me, on the Harley Benton PSU's the power outlets are in the wrong position.

 

[Johno Dunn]

I've got my CORE, DMC Micro Babay3 running off the power cord that came with the CORE, and is working perfectly with no noise at all.

 

[MrDinsdale]

Other than just power specs I think form factor is important. The Cioks have the power outlets at the 'short' side, making it suitable for a small board :

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Of course this PSU is overkill for this board, but someday it will change...

For me, on the Harley Benton PSU's the power outlets are in the wrong position.

That’s a nice fit! Yeah I have a nano currently but thinking about possibly getting something a little deeper in the near future so I can add a DI and possibly another drive. I think the HB Powerplant should fit in my current board just about, I’ll just need to use angled cables and take it out to connect new ones.

 

[MrDinsdale]

On the patch front I’ve barely touched my gtk in the last two months.

I was watching a run through of someone’s quad cortex patch and they had it split with 4 freq bands so that they could have loads of control of their tone and where effect’s were applied.

I had a go with splitting into 3 bands, only really applying fx to mids and was pretty impressed. Managed to get some really tight fuzzy driven sounds with lots of definition but waaaay less hiss and noise. Didn’t really get much further than that except trying with and octave block which sounded way better but will try and upload a patch to tone exchange if I can.

 

[Andy westwood]

The Core needs 670 mA (so you will probably have to use 2 outputs of the Zuma)

Yeh what I was thinking tbh!

was hoping if not using all the dsp it might be less, oh well cable ordered

 

[MrDinsdale]

Well it needs a lot of work but heres the first pass of my multiband patch. It's built assuming a preamp pedal in loop 1 but could easily use an AIRD preamp block too.

Really want to get it set up in Logic with a noise generator to see how the frequency bands overlapping is actually affecting it. There are a few overlapping frequencies, wanna play with the EQ blocks to see if I can get it fairly flat as a starting point.

BOSS TONE EXCHANGE

 

[Krisfield]

New pedal from Boss, Slicer. I like this effect. If you’re doing some synth EDM stuff, this effect can add some interesting ideas. The Slicer is in the GT 1000/Core. I think Roger Waters used this effect on One Of These Days?

 

[Nuage420]

New pedal from Boss, Slicer. I like this effect. If you’re doing some synth EDM stuff, this effect can add some interesting ideas. The Slicer is in the GT 1000/Core. I think Roger Waters used this effect on One Of These Days?

If there's one effect I wish the GX had it's this one. So much fun to play with all the patterns

 

[MrDinsdale]

I’ve not really touched it to be honest, will have to give it a play.

I got the GTK to experiment more than everything with effects but primarily just used it for drives, compression and eq. I think the furthest I got was some reverb +flange/phaser to emulate some Justin Chancellor tones and that’s about it.

Might have a flick through the presets for inspiration.

 

[Nuage420]

I think it was pattern 13 I enjoyed the most it's an effect you really need to deep dive with and combine with other effects

 

[BEADist]

was hoping if not using all the dsp it might be less, oh well cable ordered

Some time ago I measured power draw of my Zoom MS60B. The difference in power draw with max DSP vs no effect in the chain was only some 10 %. I have no device to measure the Core and see if it's comparable.