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I am (still) pretty psyched on the GT-3. It is phenomenally powerful, and I am beginning to believe that it will rival some $1,000-plus rack units in processing power. BUT be prepared to don your propeller hat and pen protector, as the manual truly sucketh. At the GT-3 email newsgroup, we seem to be rewriting the book, as it were, page by bloody page. Check out: GT-3@onelist.com for email and the Boss GT-3 Users' Site http://members.tripod.com/bossgt3/FAQ_Superframe.htm for the in-progress web site. In response to your questions, I don't know if the GT-3 will sound as "low-tech" as the EH microsynth, but I think it can be coaxed in that direction. It certainly does some more wildly extreme stuff (and cleanly!) than loads of EH pedals, the MicroSynth included. Think about what you heard when you demo'd the GT-3, and then think about being able to tweak EVERY parameter that you heard, including the order of effects. Remember also that EH stuff falls apart pretty easily, while the GT-3 is built like a tank. And if you swing the MIDI way, the GT-3 has your hookup. The slicer, if I remember correctly, has about ten preprogrammed rhythms in it, and no way to edit them. But by imposing another effect, like an in-sync trem, you could probably make it stutter into some new polyrhythm. I think the mere availability of rhythm based effects in sync is rad. There was a post just a day or two ago about beefing up the wah by using the (more powerful) autowah, and controlling it with the expression pedal. Such tricks are commonplace on the GT-3. You could, ferinstance, set up the expression pedal to control not only the wah, but to goose the highs of one of the selected preamps at the high end of the pedal's travel to really fizz it out, or bloat the bottom in a similar way, or make a wah morph into a cloud of delays... or a cloud of aluminum locusts, clattering Ring Modulator-like across fields of Escheresque step-chorus plants... "scuse me while I go play my GT-3ar..." Douglas Baldwin, Alpha male Coyote, the Trickster dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us -----Original Message----- From: M T <ylpunk@yahoo.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 12:41 PM Subject: Multi-effects (GT-3 mostly) >Hey all- > >I was wondering - I think you all were raving about this unit earlier, but I'm >not sure. I currently am using a Quadraverb GT with a wah & overdrive, >and was >planning on adding an EH microsynth and a Echoplex, whenever the (*&&%$^%**&! I >can get ahold of one. THEN, I spent 2 hours the other day playing with >the >GT3, and started to think I could make my life a lot easier if this thing can >do what I think it can, like get rid of my wah, forget about buying a separate >controller pedal, and ditch all the xtra cables. (there is no posted manual) > >My questions about the unit are: > >1. Do you have a lot of control over synth parameters - is it the equal >of the >microsynth in this regard? >2. Do you have full control over the rhythms used by the slicer, gate and >others? > >Any input about this unit, as well as comparable units from other >manufacturers, would be very cool. (Most of the ones I saw had no synth >effects or anything like that.) Also, I heard the wah sucks. Is this true? > >Thanks, > >MT > > >===== >************************************************************* >This is a web-based account I use when I can't access my "normal" mail account. Please reply to my regular address at 'm1cha3l@earthlink.net'. Thanks. >************************************************************* >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com >