Which GT2 Setting

[SplinteredSkull]

I sat down today and crafted 4 great sounds from my GT2 (IMO). 2 of them are distortion tones and 2 are emulations of Justin Chancellor's tone. I'm trying to decide which of the 2 distortion sounds I want to use as my main effect. while both sound good, I don't want to be switching between settings in the middle of a set.

This is just a D1, D2, D1, D2 setup. If you could comment which one you like more, or your opinion on both it'd really help me out



EDIT: I find it significant to mention that it will be blended with my clean signal either way using my Wounded Paw

 

[Snakeman1066]

of the 4 samples you have posted I like #3 the best overall

 

[Nephilymbass]

do you have a blend pedal? I run my gt2 with a boss ls2 is a blend. I actually cut lows some and boost highs a little on the gt2 and run the gain pretty high. Switches on center/hot wired/california. with the blend the lows stay clean and its a much thicker sound. Kinda of like a 8 string guitar (it's actually pretty similar to the guitar tone of Meshuggahs Nothing album) doubling your bass perfectly. Before the gt2 in the same loop in the ls-2 I have a nano pog which is set with the sub and dry at like 8oclock and the octave up pretty much all the way cranked. That combo sounds kind of like royal blood if they used a more modern sounding guitar amps instead of GVTs and fenders with A fuzz pedal for additional dirt.

As for getting closer to Tool tones. I think you'd get closer with either a blend or a separate clean and dirty amps and a rat for the dirt. That's where I would guess he seems to get most of his dirt. He also has a fuzz and he does have the gt2 after the bass whammy but I think he more so uses the gt2 to minimize the digital characteristics of the whammy. I know with my board the POG by itself sound way more digital by itself but when I run it through the gt2 it smooths out the sound a lot and minimizes a lot of the digital artifacts.

 

[SplinteredSkull]

do you have a blend pedal? I run my gt2 with a boss ls2 is a blend. I actually cut lows some and boost highs a little on the gt2 and run the gain pretty high. Switches on center/hot wired/california. with the blend the lows stay clean and its a much thicker sound. Kinda of like a 8 string guitar (it's actually pretty similar to the guitar tone of Meshuggahs Nothing album) doubling your bass perfectly. Before the gt2 in the same loop in the ls-2 I have a nano pog which is set with the sub and dry at like 8oclock and the octave up pretty much all the way cranked. That combo sounds kind of like royal blood if they used a more modern sounding guitar amps instead of GVTs and fenders with A fuzz pedal for additional dirt.

As for getting closer to Tool tones. I think you'd get closer with either a blend or a separate clean and dirty amps and a rat for the dirt. That's where I would guess he seems to get most of his dirt. He also has a fuzz and he does have the gt2 after the bass whammy but I think he more so uses the gt2 to minimize the digital characteristics of the whammy. I know with my board the POG by itself sound way more digital by itself but when I run it through the gt2 it smooths out the sound a lot and minimizes a lot of the digital artifacts.

I do have a blend, as I mentioned at the bottom of the OP. I actually already have my settings for the GT2, I'm just asking which distortion tone (out of the 2 tones above) sounds better to your ears?

Though your post does make me curious to get my GT2 in the chain with my OC-2 and see what it sounds like

 

[Nephilymbass]

I do have a blend, as I mentioned at the bottom of the OP. I actually already have my settings for the GT2, I'm just asking which distortion tone (out of the 2 tones above) sounds better to your ears?

Though your post does make me curious to get my GT2 in the chain with my OC-2 and see what it sounds like

Id pick the second one as my fav. But it's hard to tell without the clean bass blended. My guess is with the blend you'll like it more if you cut the lows on the gt2 and get your lows from the clean tone.

Here's the video I kind of copied as far as using the gt2 with the ls-2 and POG. He does put it on hot wired around the 5 minute mark. I don't boost highs that much but it's close enough to give you an example of how I like to use the gt-2

 

[SplinteredSkull]

Id pick the second one as my fav. But it's hard to tell without the clean bass blended. My guess is with the blend you'll like it more if you cut the lows on the gt2 and get your lows from the clean tone.

Here's the video I kind of copied as far as using the gt2 with the ls-2 and POG. He does put it on hot wired around the 5 minute mark. I don't boost highs that much but it's close enough to give you an example of how I like to use the gt-2

I actually cut the highs and lows in the setting used for 2 and 4 ironically enough (to bring out the mids). On the setting for 1 and 3 I have the lows cranked because they all bottom out on that particular setting. But I will probably end up fiddling around with it once I bring in the blend. I like to use more of the dirty tone with a little bit of the clean behind it

 

[grouse789]

Zombie thread, but since im here...
The second one followed by the fourth one. The second one has more focused to end and tight bottom. First and third are too woolly, will get lost in a mix.