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In a german forum a user looked for the possibility to control his Hughes and Kettner Tubeman 2 by his Boss GT-8. He said that he is using the Tubeman in the external effects loop of his Boss GT-8 especially for crunch sounds the Boss GT-8 isn't able to produce.
But is it true that the Hughes and Kettner Tubeman 2 produces a more dynamic crunch sound?
I own both, the Tubeman and the Boss GT-8.
Certainly the feedbacker belongs to the category of "special" effects. For this reason I ignored the feedbacker a long time. But when playing in small pubs - of course not at full volume - the feedbacker can help us getting feedbacks, even when playing without distortion.
The newer effect devices like the Boss GT-10 or Boss GT-8 have a so called natural mode.
You almost get one answer when dealing with the question about the signal level: "Use the highest possible signal level because otherwise the Boss GT-8 and GT-10 analog / digital conversion will produce undesirable low quality results (digital aliasing)." Simultaneously you are pointed to the fact that you must not overdrive the input of the Boss GT AD-converter because then you'll get a lot of digital distortions.
A ducker is the opposite of a gate. That means that the signal will get louder when the control signal is getting quieter. Whereas a gate will mute the signal when the control signal is getting quieter.
Therefore a ducking reverb creates reverb when the signal (your guitar) is getting quieter. It's better sounding because there's no reverb while playing rhythm.
Reamping means to record the clean guitar signal without any effects or amps. Then the recorded clean guitar can be played through any possible effects and amps combination until you get the desired sound.
The problem is that it is almost impossible to play a clean tapping guitar solo. Therefore you need to split the signal path into two parts. The first for the recording and the second is connect to the effects and the amp of the guitarist.
With the 4 cable method (4cm) you can connect your Boss GT-8 /GT-10 to your guitar amp, that you can use the preamp of your guitar amp. This is especially usefull when using a good sounding tube preamp, because then you can still use it. Another advantage of the 4 cable method is that you can switch between your built-in tube preamp and the preamp models of your Boss GT-10 / GT-8. The basic requirement for the 4 cable method is that your guitar amp has an effects loop.
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.
In Mixer I explained how to use the resonator effect to get a better low end from the thin sounding preamp models of the Boss GT-8 / GT-10. The "fat sound" trick was to use the tone modify effect with the resonator and custom speakers.
The problem is that you waste a valuable FX1/2 effect! And actually the resonator only changes the sound of your guitar amp combination. It must be possible to use the EQ instead of the tone modify resonator.
It would be nice if we could activate the tuner of our Boss GT-10 without using the tuner button or the ctrl button. Since we don't usually want the audience to listen to our guitar tuning it would be even nicer if the output could be muted automatically. Muting the output is done with the exp. pedal which is often used as a volume pedal.
Therefore we use the exp.
I will talk about two key areas of the Boss GT-8 & GT-10 multi effect processors.
Some examples:
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