----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 5:44
PM
Subject: Re: University Music Degree
Education or Student Problem
<< The amp was setup with the master and
gain up >>
I appreciate your comments. My first thoughts
were, well, the output from the GT-3's going to the Marshall pre-amp. If the
pre-amp/amp controls are maxed, more or less, then, yeah, it's possible to
hose one's speakers with some really boosted patch. I was wondering how one
could blow the speakers WITHOUT the volume being maxed and caused by some
'secrets of the Incas' GT-3 patch.
Regards, Paul
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002
12:57 PM
Subject: RE: University Music Degree
Education or Student Problem
I
don't have a GT-3, but I do have a GT-6 and it has an output control on the
back side. I would assert to this if it were a GT-6 and I will suppose that
it is entirely possible with the GT-3. I accidentally did this by a
combination as follows I was using an electric violin with a passive piezo
system and switched to an electric guitar with higher output pickups. I had
also switched amplifiers and blindly plugged the setup together and
proceeded to test this setup. The amp was setup with the master and gain up
and with the GT-6 patch I chose I almost blew the speaker out of coarse I
didn't continue to use these settings, because I have some respect for the
cost of my equiptment. I would also suspect that this fellow might be
covering up for his sons tendency to abuse equiptment with his explanation.
I would say that there are actually no hidden features in either the GT3 or
the GT6 just people who don't pay attention to what they are doing or don't
care ;-)
I have this boss who's son is attending a
local university that is reputed to be a good music school.
However, I keep hearing the most ridculous
assertions made by my boss pertaining to his son.
The latest was his son's Boss GT-3 was
responsible for blowing out the speakers on his Marshall stack. Due to
some 'hidden' features of the GT-3 that not many people know or some
such drivel. Doesn't make sense to me. The output of a GT-3 (of which I
had one once) was a line level output if I remember correctly. How could
the output blow the speakers on a Marshall stack?
Regards and Merry... and
Happy...
Paul