Boss GT-3 advice

[Gary Wright]

Hi

Had my GT-3 for a while now, and need some advice.

I get superb sound through headphones, and also through an ordinary stereo
amp and speakers. Excellent distortions, everything fine.

I just cannot get it to sound this good through my Marshall Valvestate S80
combo, which is a real swine. It's good, but not a patch on the performance
through the stereo amp using the 'line' global setting.

I am obviously using the clean channel on the amp, and have tried the
following:-

1. Guitar into main input. Amp set so as bass = 0 middle = 10 trebble = 0.
Gain kept fairly low. This is the GT-3 manual's advice. With this, I set
the 'global' setting to 'Gt. Amp Combo'. Output volume of GT-3 between 1/2
and full on.

2. As above, but tweaking all the amp's EQ settings.

3. Guitar into effects loop return. 'Global' setting on 'Power Amo
(combo). GT-3 output between 1/2 and full.

1 and 2 tend to be fizzy. 3 is too 'dark'. Altering the top end global eq
helps, but it still isn't great.

IMHO, the problem here lies with the GT-3 cabinet emulator - it is only
switched on at all when the global setting is set to 'line'. If global is
set to any of the other 4 settings, the cabinet emulator is off (which you
can prove by turning the 'mic' and 'direct' levels in the preamp to zero.
If global is set to line, you (rightly) get no output. All other global
settings are unaffected).

Unfortunately, the cabinet on my marshall combo bears little resemblence to
a 5150, and sound quality suffers. Putting 'global' to 'line' to enable the
cabinet emulator sounds awful when plugged into the guitar amp.

Any suggestions here would be very welcome. I love this little box of
tricks, and think that it is a superb piece of kit. It'd just be nice to
get it as good as it is to 'line' with the guitar amp.

Thanks

Gary (remove -nospam from address to reply via email)

[Unknown]

Try the following connections with 4 cables:

Guitar -> Boss INPUT
Boss SEND -> Amp IN
Amp EFFECT SEND -> Boss RETURN
Boss OUT -> Amp EFFECT RETURN

[MBx]

I had a GX-700 (GT-3's brother...) with a Roland Combo (GC408) :
- GX-700 output to Amp Main Input
- Global Setting on "Power Amp Combo" (I know that manual says to use "Gt
Amp Compo" - but don't do it... )
- No cabinet emulators (only use cab.emulat. for direct recording or
full-bandwidth stereo amp/speakers)

Maybe it works to you...
Rgds,
Marcio

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[ZscottieZ]

I've tweaked my GT-3 for about six months now, and it is a great
little unit. However, you really have to program patches specifically
for the amp you are going to use. That means that creating patches
with the earphones will not work. I've done that, and they sound
horrible when going through my amp. My suggestion is to set up
specific banks of patches specificallly for each amplification device
you have.

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