I'm actually going toward rackmount stuff Re: T.C. G-system

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

Just great! Here I am transitioning from pedals to rackmount (esp. after
hearing what Ted K did with his Vortex) while the rest of you are segueing
the *other* direction...don't *I* feel like a chump!  ;-)
But I got some great rack stuff for fire-sale prices recently, and I plan
to run it though my olde-tyme amps, even if I'm dialing up an amp
simulation upstream of the real amp. I figger I'll use stompboxes for most
gain-related live things, and my toy-based stompbox will have to stay
because there is nothing on earth, either analog or digital, that can do
what it does. Other than that, I figured that after 20 years of using
stompboxes I needed a change. There were sounds in my head that my little
zink boxes could not do. If I grow tired of it, I could always go back to
stompboxes...but it'd take 50 pounds of stompboxes to get what my mpx500,
VF-1, and Vortex can do....
And here's the main thing I tell myself....even if I'm going through a
SIMULATED tape echo, and a SIMULATED Plexi Marshall, and a SIMULATED plate
reverb, I AM REAL, and that realness will hopefully come through no matter
how much digital sleight of hand I decide to use. 
Sonic Luv,
Tim


> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Willers <a.willers@arcor.de>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 9/11/2005 3:42:45 PM
> Subject: Re: T.C. G-system
>
> Hi all,
>
> yes, same here. For electric guitar nothing beats a single channel well
set
> up tube amp period. I am back to stomp boxes, true-bypass-switchboxes and
> velcro all the way - with the EDP being my only rack unit left (I'd be
into
> a stompbox version of it!). While I loose some processing power I gladly
> give it up since my instrument sounds so much better, more real if you
will.
> I compare it with the difference between playing an upright and a grand
> piano.
>
> For the record, I have never tried the Lexicon competitor to the G-Force
> since it came out after I had bought the t.c. At least I think they
featured
> one fx section before and one after preamplification. Their recording amp
> seemed neet. The Vox tonelab seems well laid out but quite big for my
needs.
>
> Regards, Andreas
>
>
> > Luis,
> > I just went through a similar experience. I played my Chapman Stick
through a
> > Mesa 
> > stack with none of my digital processing and loved it.
> > 
> > I'm now exploring analog stomp boxes: current production, current
production
> > that 
> > has been modified, vintage, and DIY. They are a little noisy, but the
> > technology has 
> > vastly improved, especially with the modded units and the DIY units.
> > 
> > 
> >> Hi Andreas,
> >> Is there a multiefx at all that doesnt go through a
> >> damn A/D converter?
> >> I just played a rock n roll gig recently which
> >> required only a guitar and amp,so it was a little
> >> marshall amp and a les paul, for a bit of boost i just
> >> used its dedicated foot switch and man did it feel and
> >> sound good to play like that!I havent been motivated
> >> lately to play through so much digital stuff
> >> lately,could it be that i am looping backwards?
> >> Luis
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --- Andreas Willers <a.willers@arcor.de> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Also I guess they made the same problematic
> >>> decisison as in the G-Force and
> >>> G-Major Multieffects that in order to achieve a good
> >>> wealth of routing
> >>> options they ruled out one of the most important
> >>> ones: the option of routing
> >>> the analog (guitar) signal through untouched whith
> >>> just some "add-on"
> >>> effects like reverb and delay (you can't do that
> >>> with distortion, filters
> >>> and compression of course). So your signal is always
> >>> (even when no effect is
> >>> added) undergoing an A/D and D/A conversion. NO good
> >>> idea IMO......
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> Von: "L. Angulo" <labalou2000@yahoo.com>
> >>>> Antworten an: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >>>> Datum: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
> >>>> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >>>> Betreff: T.C. G-system
> >>>> Neu gesendet von:
> >>> Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >>>> Neu gesendet am: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:31:14 +0000
> >>> (UTC)
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is aybody using this yet?
> >>>> http://www.tcelectronic.com/G-System
> >>>> seems awesome specially its switching system and
> >>> being
> >>>> able to take out its compete internal DSP
> >>> processor
> >>>> and putting it into a rack!
> >>>> guess what the only drawback is?
> >>>> 1400.00dlls;-(
> >>>> Luis
> >>>> 
> >>>> www.luis-angulo.com
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>> 
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> > 
> >