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Published on 08/06/10 at 02:11
See the descriptions available online ... Note: the loop S / R which allows you to use effects "4CM" (4 cables method: guitar input IN WG IN IN 1st group effects "send" to entry and therefore the amp preamp IN " send "the amp to" return "of WG IN second group of effects IN" return "of the amp).
In addition, you can assign this string to the left side of the stereo and send the right signal to another amp, through effects or not: the place of these is in fact fully customizable and the settings can get authentic stereo sound, including the "looper" (sampler) board. I record a rhythm often left on an amp and I play a solo on the right amp ... Or I read parts harmonized two amps at the same time ... GT10 only allows it from the products of this price range (POD X3L not developed in terms of the effects loop as I was able to account, and not giving RP1000 access to the stereo as far as I know).
UTILIZATION
As always with Boss, the manual is a model of inefficiency, based on the obvious and redundant. In contrast, the "easy" tone "directly accessible to the equipment will be very useful for beginners. Informed users discover their part that almost everything is customizable, with easy ... on (the transition from one screen to another was not obvious in all cases). I rather regret not having found many pots of WG8 on this model.
SOUND QUALITY
If they are correct, many effects are mostly convincing, with the eight guitars and six amps that I associated with them.
The machine seems to give the best of himself on amplifier tube if possible: provided that its high input / output are properly calibrated, it respects and honor the envelope dynamics of the original signal (my analog pedal in "true bypass" alters the sound so much I do not activate its input buffer, for example, the Zoom multi-effects I use Line6 or in parallel are not any better either).
Live console, it can provide but requires the addition of the side effects offsetting a priori very "generic" simulation (the "resonators" give such depth to the HP Virtual). I confess rather Line6 use to record, but more for convenience than anything else: the Boss is more dynamic and more responsive to changes in volume and tone on the guitar ...
OVERALL OPINION
I use the machine since its release, as I did before with the ME8, GT3, GT6 and GT8. In thirty years of practice, I could buy or try long many other things in recent years, many digital multi-effects and / or equipment modeling: POD.2, XT and X3L, Tonelab Desktop and LE, a Korg whose name is not for me, a photo, VOX DA amplifiers, Line 6 Spider Valve and Roland Micro Cube ... The GT10 is so far the heart of my "rig" stage because its flexibility is unbeatable.
The cliché that modeling amps "sound better" in other brands is true only if one does not go trials: like his predecessors and that the subject works with an open mind, the GT10 has the potential necessary to deliver realistic emulations in many configurations.
The commonplace according to which "it is digital and it sounds necessarily worse than the analog" deflates himself for who knows how to take and keep a minimum of critical distance: the GT10 does not sound notoriously " Digital "if it is set incorrectly (as in many factory patches, unfortunately).
Admittedly, my Cry Baby, Dynacomp, TS808, Big Muff, HT-Dual, phaser, chorus, and echo analog sound better than their clones in the GT ... but this difference is most noticeable on stage or even in a recording ... digital (and for good reason). I come and go between my analog pedal and the GT without one ever told me that my sound was too digital in the second case the results are actually very close.
Only criticism (though it is significant and can fuel many misunderstandings illustrated by some previous reviews) that the failure of its capacity for flexibility, the GT10 is still extremely difficult to resolve correctly in a given config. For most of the numerous parameters, the usable range is particularly narrow and does not illustrate what to expect the user to analog devices. Example among many: if the gain is mismanaged, the amp models produce an effect "Cocked Wah" (sound of a wah in a fixed position). We must develop strategies to overcome this defect, which it is hoped will be gone with the next GT.
In addition, you can assign this string to the left side of the stereo and send the right signal to another amp, through effects or not: the place of these is in fact fully customizable and the settings can get authentic stereo sound, including the "looper" (sampler) board. I record a rhythm often left on an amp and I play a solo on the right amp ... Or I read parts harmonized two amps at the same time ... GT10 only allows it from the products of this price range (POD X3L not developed in terms of the effects loop as I was able to account, and not giving RP1000 access to the stereo as far as I know).
UTILIZATION
As always with Boss, the manual is a model of inefficiency, based on the obvious and redundant. In contrast, the "easy" tone "directly accessible to the equipment will be very useful for beginners. Informed users discover their part that almost everything is customizable, with easy ... on (the transition from one screen to another was not obvious in all cases). I rather regret not having found many pots of WG8 on this model.
SOUND QUALITY
If they are correct, many effects are mostly convincing, with the eight guitars and six amps that I associated with them.
The machine seems to give the best of himself on amplifier tube if possible: provided that its high input / output are properly calibrated, it respects and honor the envelope dynamics of the original signal (my analog pedal in "true bypass" alters the sound so much I do not activate its input buffer, for example, the Zoom multi-effects I use Line6 or in parallel are not any better either).
Live console, it can provide but requires the addition of the side effects offsetting a priori very "generic" simulation (the "resonators" give such depth to the HP Virtual). I confess rather Line6 use to record, but more for convenience than anything else: the Boss is more dynamic and more responsive to changes in volume and tone on the guitar ...
OVERALL OPINION
I use the machine since its release, as I did before with the ME8, GT3, GT6 and GT8. In thirty years of practice, I could buy or try long many other things in recent years, many digital multi-effects and / or equipment modeling: POD.2, XT and X3L, Tonelab Desktop and LE, a Korg whose name is not for me, a photo, VOX DA amplifiers, Line 6 Spider Valve and Roland Micro Cube ... The GT10 is so far the heart of my "rig" stage because its flexibility is unbeatable.
The cliché that modeling amps "sound better" in other brands is true only if one does not go trials: like his predecessors and that the subject works with an open mind, the GT10 has the potential necessary to deliver realistic emulations in many configurations.
The commonplace according to which "it is digital and it sounds necessarily worse than the analog" deflates himself for who knows how to take and keep a minimum of critical distance: the GT10 does not sound notoriously " Digital "if it is set incorrectly (as in many factory patches, unfortunately).
Admittedly, my Cry Baby, Dynacomp, TS808, Big Muff, HT-Dual, phaser, chorus, and echo analog sound better than their clones in the GT ... but this difference is most noticeable on stage or even in a recording ... digital (and for good reason). I come and go between my analog pedal and the GT without one ever told me that my sound was too digital in the second case the results are actually very close.
Only criticism (though it is significant and can fuel many misunderstandings illustrated by some previous reviews) that the failure of its capacity for flexibility, the GT10 is still extremely difficult to resolve correctly in a given config. For most of the numerous parameters, the usable range is particularly narrow and does not illustrate what to expect the user to analog devices. Example among many: if the gain is mismanaged, the amp models produce an effect "Cocked Wah" (sound of a wah in a fixed position). We must develop strategies to overcome this defect, which it is hoped will be gone with the next GT.