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Hey guys,
I'm thinking of retiring the GT-100 From Boss as Im at that cross roads again wanting to go back to pedals. I do this all the time actually.
When I owned the GT-8 loved / Hated it. It's the control I love , the ease of use and the flexibility but at the expense of the last note of Organic tone.
I went back to pedals until the GT-10 came out and then went back to the GT series. It was totally better in every way over the GT-8 but I still heard my tone of my amp fall off. Sold the GT-10 and went back to pedals for a minute as the GT-100 came out in the mean time and Guitar Center had a Trade in deal for the older Gt series.
So I got the Gt-100 and hated it right away as I thought mine was broken or something. The damn thing was all bass heavy and I thought it was way worse then the 10. I was also WAY harder to setup as I was so use to the 10. I got another one and it sounded exactly the same. I almost through in the towel but I worked with it for a while and discovered that this one had my amps tone almost all the way in check. I'd say this. GT-8 was 80%, GT-10 was 85% and the Gt-100 is 94% of your tone.
I owned it for years now and in the mean time I pick up a pedal here and there just to play with and demo against the GT-100. I was actually shocked on how damn good the Gt-100 is at Tube Screamers. I got the Gt-100 to sound damn exactly like the Ibanez TS-9. I was going back and forth shocked how close they where to each other.
Delay same thing except I tried the MXR Carbon copy and the GT-100 destroyed it. That really sucked as I use to love MXR pedals. I went and got a Boss DD-7 and that pedal is amazing at Delay. I really miss my Boss DD-20 as they don't make that double pedal anymore which is a shame as it was remarkable and probably the best overall Delay on the market in my opinion at least.
Then I learned about the TC Electronics Spark and had to have one. I tried it out with the Ibanez TS9 in front of my Krank Revolution on the Krank channel , gain dialed in at 3 , Bass at 7 , Mid's at 6 and Treble at 5. WOW what remarkable tone I was getting out of my drive channel. It has a Mesa Dual Rec kinda tone Boosted. I was totally loving my tone. I recently had the amp re tubed and setup so the amp is in tip top condition.
I have a Boss NS-2 for Noise but I almost don't need it. My amp is quite when it comes to noise and the TS-9 and Spark add some noise so I use the Loop in the NS-2 to filter out all noise. It works great and NO TONE SUCK as some say it does. I don't hear any change at all other then no noise with it or without it wired in.
I have a BBE Sonic Stomp at the end of the chain in the loop after the DD-7.
So finally for some questions to you Pedal Masters
1) What is the best Pedal power out there? I'm looking for one that has a lot of Outputs but is quite. I don't want a cheap power supply to add any noise to my sound.
2) What about reverb pedals? Why makes great flexible analog sounding Reverbs?
3) Chorus? I know Boss makes some of the best sounding Chorus pedals ever in my opinion but what else out there is better or at least compares? My favorite of all time was the double Boss Pedal in the CE-20 which I don't think they make that either which sucks. I would totally buy one. Maybe I'll have to shop used.
4) best quality volume pedal. I want to put one in the loop before Chorus , delay and Reverb so I can have an overall volume control but keep trails.
Suggestions?
I'm thinking of retiring the GT-100 From Boss as Im at that cross roads again wanting to go back to pedals. I do this all the time actually.
When I owned the GT-8 loved / Hated it. It's the control I love , the ease of use and the flexibility but at the expense of the last note of Organic tone.
I went back to pedals until the GT-10 came out and then went back to the GT series. It was totally better in every way over the GT-8 but I still heard my tone of my amp fall off. Sold the GT-10 and went back to pedals for a minute as the GT-100 came out in the mean time and Guitar Center had a Trade in deal for the older Gt series.
So I got the Gt-100 and hated it right away as I thought mine was broken or something. The damn thing was all bass heavy and I thought it was way worse then the 10. I was also WAY harder to setup as I was so use to the 10. I got another one and it sounded exactly the same. I almost through in the towel but I worked with it for a while and discovered that this one had my amps tone almost all the way in check. I'd say this. GT-8 was 80%, GT-10 was 85% and the Gt-100 is 94% of your tone.
I owned it for years now and in the mean time I pick up a pedal here and there just to play with and demo against the GT-100. I was actually shocked on how damn good the Gt-100 is at Tube Screamers. I got the Gt-100 to sound damn exactly like the Ibanez TS-9. I was going back and forth shocked how close they where to each other.
Delay same thing except I tried the MXR Carbon copy and the GT-100 destroyed it. That really sucked as I use to love MXR pedals. I went and got a Boss DD-7 and that pedal is amazing at Delay. I really miss my Boss DD-20 as they don't make that double pedal anymore which is a shame as it was remarkable and probably the best overall Delay on the market in my opinion at least.
Then I learned about the TC Electronics Spark and had to have one. I tried it out with the Ibanez TS9 in front of my Krank Revolution on the Krank channel , gain dialed in at 3 , Bass at 7 , Mid's at 6 and Treble at 5. WOW what remarkable tone I was getting out of my drive channel. It has a Mesa Dual Rec kinda tone Boosted. I was totally loving my tone. I recently had the amp re tubed and setup so the amp is in tip top condition.
I have a Boss NS-2 for Noise but I almost don't need it. My amp is quite when it comes to noise and the TS-9 and Spark add some noise so I use the Loop in the NS-2 to filter out all noise. It works great and NO TONE SUCK as some say it does. I don't hear any change at all other then no noise with it or without it wired in.
I have a BBE Sonic Stomp at the end of the chain in the loop after the DD-7.
So finally for some questions to you Pedal Masters
1) What is the best Pedal power out there? I'm looking for one that has a lot of Outputs but is quite. I don't want a cheap power supply to add any noise to my sound.
2) What about reverb pedals? Why makes great flexible analog sounding Reverbs?
3) Chorus? I know Boss makes some of the best sounding Chorus pedals ever in my opinion but what else out there is better or at least compares? My favorite of all time was the double Boss Pedal in the CE-20 which I don't think they make that either which sucks. I would totally buy one. Maybe I'll have to shop used.
4) best quality volume pedal. I want to put one in the loop before Chorus , delay and Reverb so I can have an overall volume control but keep trails.
Suggestions?
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