Gitarren-Verstärker für das Boss GT-10 bzw. GT-8

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Using a guitar amp with your Boss GT-10 or GT-8

Using the overdrive effect without a preamp model

Of course you can use the Boss GT-8 or GT-10 like every other multi-effect device from the '90th. Connect it to a clean guitar amp and only use the available overdrive and distortion models, but not the preamp models. With 30 different overdrive and distortion models - in the '90th I had an Ibanez PT3DX with 6 overdrive/distortion models - you should be able to get every needed sound from blues to rock to metal. Important is that your amp has a good sounding clean channel. Fine tuning can be done with the Boss GT EQ and/or the FX1 tone modify modul.
Everyone who claims that you need an overdriven tube amp in order to get a good distorted sound, should think about the old rockers of the '70th and '80th. They didn't have a Rectifier or 5150. Instead of, they used a clean or crunchy Fender, Vox or Marshall amp with an overdrive/distortion pedal! Don't try to imitate a Rectifier with the preamp models of the boss gt-8 or gt-10 through a Fender amp! It won't work.
Use the overdrive and distortion models of the Boss GT-10 and get your sound with a clean amp.

This will give you a prominent sound which can set standards. And it's much better than imitating the PRS Rectifier sound everywhere used in modern music.

What did I want to tell you? Using the Boss GT-10 or GT-8 with a guitar amp is possible and can give you surprisingly good sounds. But don't use the preamp models with a real guitar amp when connecting to the normal guitar input.

Use the Boss GT-10 / GT-8 like your old stompboxes.

Using the preamp effect

You can use the preamp effect with your guitar amp, but then you should bypass the build in preamp of your guitar amp. Therefore connect the Boss GT-10 / GT-8 to the effects return of your amp. This is done because the preamp colors your sound and you don't want to get the sound of your amp but the sound of the Boss GT. Your amp will still color the sound because a 1 x 12" combo speaker can't sound like a 8 x 12" stack. But if you use an amp suitable for your music then e.g. you will get a sound close to a Rectifier from your Marshall stack. It's even possible to get a descent clean sound from your Rectifier using a clean preamp of the Boss GT.

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Geoff

Marshall AVT amp and GT-10
Reply #26 on : Sun July 25, 2010, 18:50:46

I'm not a great fan of hybrid amps, but a Marshall AVT Tribute 100x is pretty much all I can afford right now, so if anyone out there has got advice/experience on my problem I'd appreciate it.

Connecting the GT-10 via send/return, thus bypassing the AVT preamp, produces some nice distorted tones at low volume, for both rhythm and lead playing, which when you get the volume up to practice/gigging level lose all their warmth and become really harsh, tinny and brittle. The warmth and stickiness disappears from the sound and it just produces a cheap sounding mess.

Alternately, going straight into the AVT, thus putting the GT-10 in front of the amp in the regular fashion and using the clean channel in conjunction with the GT-10s preamps, produces another tinny, thin sounding effect. The overdrive channels on the AVT are naff and not usable as they would be on a Marshall tube amp. I'm using an Ibanez RG370DX with stock pick ups in this process.

Some poeple have talked about a phenomenon where at high volume the mids appear to drop out of the sound - the so-called 'Fletcher Munson effect' - but I'm not sure how to correct this using the resources at my disposal aside from adjusting and compensating the mids on the GT-10. In any case, I don't see how that is going to put the warmth back into the overdrive. When I've tried it at volume all you get is more harshness, not warmth.

Any advice on this would be appreciated - even if it is simply to the effect that it's a crap amp and everyone knows that apart from me lol. Actually I am beginning to think it is naff and am seriosuly looking at investing in a Peavey Valveking or something similar.

Thanks for reading - any suggestions?

Anonymous

Re: kein Betreff
Reply #25 on : Sat March 13, 2010, 01:13:46

thank you thank you thank you

Sooo much clearer the way you phrase it ...sigh of relief ...once again , thank you .

Anonymous

Re: kein Betreff
Reply #24 on : Sun November 22, 2009, 19:18:34

Guys, the best thing you can do is just experiment, experiment, experiment!!!!!!!

Use a little common sense and read up on the different effect and you must have some idea of the type of sound you want!

I know it sounds difficult and it is but chances are you won't get what you want even if you use the exact same GT wired up exactly the same as someone elses that got what they wanted. There are simply too many variables involved to be able to "copy and paste" someone else's setup. This is not to say you can't learn from what they did.

Again, my advice is to play around as much as you can with all kinds of different things. Start over from scratch each time. This way you learn how the different effects work and they affect each other. You also might get some really cool sounds along the way.

But if you develop a good understanding of how to get the sound you want then you can apply it to any situation. If you practice at getting the tone(I know, you'd rather being playing than messing with tone) then you'll get better and faster at getting it.

You do not need an amp for ok sounds out of the GT but do need to screw with the effects in the signal path. The stock patches on the GT sucks for practicing because they are so uninspiring. Also, even when hooked up to the fx loops of a good amp you'll still need to tweak most settings. Even after all that work your sound will suffer in some areas because of the quality of the fx the GT has(you can get a real crappy tone really quick but takes a while to get a really good tone).

Arne

Marshall 1960a Cabinet
Reply #23 on : Wed November 18, 2009, 22:36:27

Of course you can use your Boss GT as a preamp, but an effects device like the Boss GT or any other mfx cannot drive a cabinet! You always need a power amp.
Don't try to connect a cabinet to the line out or headphone out. It might destroy the GT.

steve

Marshall 1960a
Reply #22 on : Wed November 18, 2009, 21:56:49

I need help and fast. Currently i don't have a amp of my own. Next Saturday I have a gig but at location there's only a Marshall 1960a cabinet. They say i need a preamp but can i connect my boss gt-8 directly to the cabinet and use that as a preamp. Any help would be very much appreciated.

rishabh

HELP!!!!!!!!
Reply #21 on : Fri September 25, 2009, 20:32:03

hell people i would really appreciate if u could help me could u tell me the possible settings i could use for shredding(read sweep picking and petrucci and michael angelo nd yngwie kinda stuff)
i want the sound to be smooth and of the kind on the track no boundaries....the sounds that i created are really good but are way too noisy way too noisy
m using a randall 25 rm and a jackson kvx-10 with my tone knob zero on the jackson.......m just not able to get the super nice gt -10 to synchronise and give nice results with my super sucking randall 25rm

Doc P.

GT-6
Reply #20 on : Mon September 14, 2009, 08:16:21

I have done things alittle different. I run my wah, compressor and od straigt into the amp and the GT-6 through the effects loop with a tube mic pre and final effect is the eq. I've notice that some amps sound better with everything in the front end and some amps sound better through the loop. How can I improve my overall sound.

Roy Ellison

BOSS GT-8
Reply #19 on : Wed September 02, 2009, 00:44:15

Hi Jean

Just wiring guitar into the input of the GT-8 and then wiring from the GT-8 output direct to the input of the amp

Jean

AVT Combo
Reply #18 on : Sun August 30, 2009, 15:31:07

@Roy
How did you connect the boss gt-8?

Roy

Boss GT-8
Reply #17 on : Thu August 27, 2009, 23:35:54

Hi
I wonder if you can help me, I have a marshall avt-150 combo and a Boss gt-8. When I use the clean patches and play the strings I get a hiss from my amp when I strike the strings. I have a boss noise gate which cures the normal amp noise but will not cure this. I am just wiring from the output of the gt-8 to the input of the amp.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

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