Re: TC Electronics G Sharp, and LESSISMORE

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Brother thanx for such a mail!
What you are going through is exactly what i am going
through,i sold my GP100 and for acoustic lately i just
use reverb,the echoplex and the DL4 and thats enough
to keep you busy for years!but for electric i am still
on ther hunt,ever since ive been playing with boutique
analog pedals i am so happy that it makes it hard to
go back to digital.Another thing i realized is that
with multi efx boxes there is always preset,patch,bank
and efx chain pre programing thinking involved which
takes a bit of the spontanety of turning a stomp box
on and off.There is always an efx chain that is
missing one of the efx,so i have program a different
bank etc.which at the end makes you start tapdancing
as well!all this cab simulators etc.they are certainly
fascinating for recording but live how many do you
really need?like you,ive found that i mostly use no
more than 5 efx, and with multi FX is endless tweaking
and at the end i still use about the same amount!i
also find myself  lately playing more without them.
The g-sharp for acoustic huh? gotta check it out...
So people gotta get ready to go see Fink tonight!
cheers
Luis


--- William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote:

>   For the last few years I've been pairing back my
> effects usage while my
> Looping has continued to become more complex. With
> my move to the
> Looperlative and its 8 track and bounce capability,
> I've found less and less
> need for complex effects  processing, and I'm sure
> it's also a matter of my
> tastes changing as well. I used to be a chronic
> chorus and modulation
> abuser. At one time I even had a dedicated
> intelligent pitch shifter, the
> Digiitech IPS33B. These days my tastes run to clean
> guitar, a couple of
> flavors of overdrive, sparing use of compression,
> tap tempo delay
> (preferably of the ducking variety), and good
> reverb. Recently I dedicated
> my trusty TC model 1 to my acoustic guitar rig, and
> went looking for a
> worthy replacement for my electric rig. After
> reading a couple of reviews, I
> bought the entry level TC G-Sharp, a strait forward
> 24 bit dual engine DSP
> (god I sound like a car salesman). The G-sharp
> sounds fantastic, has great
> headroom and transparency, and has front panel knobs
> for on the fly
> tweaking.  It does an excellent  job of 2290 style
> dynamic (ducking) delay,
> but its tape simulation and lo-fi delay are just as
> convincing. The reverbs
> are also wonderful sounding, even concert hall verbs
> never get artificial
> sounding, and there is a color knob that lets you
> darken the reverb's tone.
> My only complaint is that you can't increase
> feedback to the point on
> oscillation like you can on delays like the line 6
> DL-4, but since I rarely
> do that, it's a minor complaint. Also, you have a
> choice of either delay or
> modulation effects (excellent BTW),  not both
> simultaneously, as they share
> the same engine, and there isn't a modulation delay
> algorithm, but I really
> don't miss that.. Otherwise, this is an
> astonishingly good sounding effects
> unit, it doesn't have many bells and whistles , but
> its tweak-able like a
> floor effect, and what it does, it does very well.
> 
>  I also bought a G Switch to control the G-sharp.
> This was a major
> disappointment for me as I'm used to tapping tempo
> with a non latching
> momentary style switch. The G-Switch claims to have
> momentary switches, hell
> it even says so right on the box," Triple Momentary
> Switch Elements", but
> the switches obviously have a very loud clicking
> latch type feel and sound,
> rendering tap tempo clumsy, with the added insult of
> sounding like a hoard
> hostile locusts cueing up for a swarm. I don't know
> what they were thinking,
> I thought it was a mistake actually, I e-mailed the
> nice folks at TC, and
> after getting a, " well,  it works with my TC
> Helicon" response,         I
> took the guys advice and tried another manufacturers
> triple footswitch
> pedal. Luckily my Digitech footswitch works fine
> with the G-Sharp, and is
> half the size and weight of the TC G- switch. Now
> I'm stuck with this
> clunky, noisy, bulky behemoth of a footswitch.  If
> this sounds appealing to
> anyone out there,  I'll let it go cheap :-)
> 
> So I have paired my looping rig down too a Keeley
> compressor, a mesa formula
> preamp, the G-sharp, and the Looperlative, with a
> midi controller, and two
> pedals to channel switch the boogie and control the
> G-Sharp. At Y2K7 I
> essentially used this rig, but I also dragged my big
> stomp box pedal board,
> that I use on conventional gigs, along. I realized
> at the end of my set I
> had barely touched any of my stomp boxes, and I had
> a bit of a revelation
> that, Ah this has happened before... wasting energy
> setting up a mountain of
> gear only to not use half of it.  The other
> revelation that is somewhat
> obvious is that in pairing back the gear I end up
> playing more music and
> spending less time tweaking and thinking about sound
> design.  
> 
> Bill
> 
> 


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