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    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
    
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      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