From no fx at all to boss gt-8

[Nick Welfare]

Playing for years on koch and/or engl tube heads and 4x12" with just a tuner between guitar and amp(sometimes a wah pedal). I got kinda tired of having basicly one good clean and one good cranked sound. A good tone indeed, but it somewhat got limiting in ,say, song writing, and basicly I wanted options.
So I got the gt-8 and got a good price for my fireball head. Taking the gt-8 home I instantly was satisfyed with it, running it through headphones and the lovely little microcube. Both sounded good, and now I wonder how I am arrange myself using the gt-8 with my band in rehearsalroom and on small stages... I am thinkin: -crate powerblock and 4x12" ?
-Our p.a system(active fullrange speakers)
-Getting a cheap, powerfull rack poweramp(p.a)
and two 15" fullrange speakers?

Any tips?

 

[neosadist]

Re: From no fx at all to boss gt-8

Playing for years on koch and/or engl tube heads and 4x12" with just a tuner between guitar and amp(sometimes a wah pedal). I got kinda tired of having basicly one good clean and one good cranked sound. A good tone indeed, but it somewhat got limiting in ,say, song writing, and basicly I wanted options. So I got the gt-8 and got a good price for my fireball head. Taking the gt-8 home I instantly was satisfyed with it, running it through headphones and the lovely little microcube. Both sounded good, and now I wonder how I am arrange myself using the gt-8 with my band in rehearsalroom and on small stages... I am thinkin: -crate powerblock and 4x12" ? -Our p.a system(active fullrange speakers) -Getting a cheap, powerfull rack poweramp(p.a) and two 15" fullrange speakers? Any
tips?

The GT-8 has amp modelling. Try it through the PA first, you may like it. If not, I would say run through an amp on banks that do no amp modelling. But that's just me. I got an ME-50 because i absolutely hate amp modelling. GT-8 is nice though, a friend of mine bought one and loved it (but hated it when running it into an amp with, guess what, amp modelling).

 

[tone4days]

Re: From no fx at all to boss gt-8

if you are really taken with the modelling (including speaker cab modelling), then i think a powered full range cab (like the mackie or the JBL EON2) would be great sound quality, more than enough volume, and a good simple approach

t4d