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TC RH450 Club
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Reaper has not bailed -he has had alot of personal problems latley and has been very busy. i apologise for not being on top of things. and thanks SharkUSMC . I just been busy . Shark if you have the time please feel free to take control. i am very active in POW-MIA and helping my brother vets right now. So that comes first and always will.
Digesting to help out
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Ivan M=42
Ron Plichta=43
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John Wentzien=4
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oddio=12
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fazzoes=23
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James E=26
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leehoop=28
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joeykun=33
caw=34
Jam119=35
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hogbog=37
Steve Clark=38
dimetech=39
petey=40
SharkUSMC=41
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Ivan M=42
Ron Plichta=43
Hello RH450 club.. I just picked one of these little monsters up yesterday! Cant be more pleased with my tone!
Does anyone happen to know how the footswitch works? I've got a GT10B with a midi out, wonder if I could map a bank of patches to do my ch1, ch2, ch3, mute functions?
Does anyone happen to know how the footswitch works? I've got a GT10B with a midi out, wonder if I could map a bank of patches to do my ch1, ch2, ch3, mute functions?
I'm getting closer to getting mine dialed in after a week. I've got three settings dialed in - a mildly overdriven rock tone, a mid-scooped modern one and plain ol' flat. I'm concerned about playing different rooms with varying acoustics. Rather than try to adjust at the amp, I'm thinking about getting something like a Rane parametric EQ that I can use to make global adjustments. Anyone else try that idea?
Hey Ron,
I don't know if you saw this thread or not - http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=609634
You may find it of interest as you're dialing things in.
Thanks for the EQ chart. I'm a little concerned about what to do in different rooms. I have the channels pretty well matched up now and was afraid of how to compensate for different rooms. I figured I'd leave the presets alone and use an outboard equalizer to adjust for the room. Does that make sense or am I overthinking?
BTW, since I have a spare rack, I can slide in a power conditioner and be set.
BTW, since I have a spare rack, I can slide in a power conditioner and be set.
This is a great question to send to TC Electronics support, or to post on their forums. I suspect that the use of a MIDI cable for the footswitch is more a matter of convenience than it is a case of the amp having standard MIDI implementation. Eg. if the footswitch cable breaks you can mooch a backup from your keyboard player... Keep us posted.
Interestingly, I purchased a short Midi cable in an attempt to replace the very long cable that comes with the footswitch (since on the rare occasions when I bring the footswitch to a gig, it sits close to my amp given the typically small stages I have to deal with). It would not work, so seems like something 'unique' is going on with it (or the cable I purchased was faulty!).
Hi Ron... personally I would spend a little more time playing with the EQ and then writing down favourite settings in a log book or something. It's easy to modify these on the fly for a given room and write them as presets during soundcheck. When needed, it's easy to find your way back to those sounds you prefer... as you've written them down. After a while the quick adjustment will probably become second nature.
Adding a rack with a multi-band EQ is only going to complicate this process considerably and defeat the excellent convenience of the amp, IMO. I hope this helps....
Ken, the cable you purchased was a dud. I just grabbed a standard Roland MIDI cable out of one of my racks and gave it a test. It works 100%.
Will keep you all in the loop. Cant wait to take the new rig to practice and see how it cuts.
I don't think you will find that being necessary. I've had very good luck with room adjustments by just varying the levels of the various presets slightly. Just dial into the room with your presets and store. Only takes a second, and I only really have to do this in extreme settings (i.e., very large boomy rooms, or super small carpeted 'dry' sounding rooms.
Once you get used to the programming, it is VERY easy to then quickly go back to your 'standard settings' and restore after the gig.
My three 'standard' presets are quite similar to yours. Pretty much flat with bass treble boosted just a smidge as my 'standard' voicing, a 'tubetone' setting with a softening of the top end, and then a widened (bass and treble shelving widened with bass slightly boosted and treble cranked up, upper mids softened a bit, compression) as my more 'modern' setting.
As glorious as that third setting sounds at home, I rarely use it on the gig, since in a large room and a mix, you lose some definition. Fun for the rare slap break or section that I might do on some gigs.
Here is a clip demonstrating these three settings with my 70's J and the RS210. I dig it!
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Not necessarily...you want to make sure the cable you use has all 5 pins wired up, a.k.a "5 pin DIN connector". Standard MIDI doesn't require all five, so some cables labeled as "MIDI cables" may work fine for MIDI but not other devices.
I had the same problem when I lost the original cable that came with my footswitch, I tried an old MIDI cable I had laying around and it didn't work.
I'm midi clueless
... my guess is, that is what happened... I thought 'midi' was 'midi'. Thanks for the info.
Interesting... all of the cables I have lurking around are older and have all 5 pins wired as per the MIDI.ORG MIDI-DIN specification, although that was penned in 1983. As you say, it appears some current implementations don't respect this any any longer as only two pins (4 & 5) are critical and the other three (1,2,3) are ground. Thanks. Learned something new....
