TC Electronics G-System

[Artie]

Anybody seen this? Looks kinda cool.
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[B Bent]

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It was reviewed in one of my recent guitar magazines. It comes with a roll of toilet paper so it can wipe your rear since it does everthing else!! Very cool and $$$$ gadget!!

 

[pinto79]

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I'm saving my pop cans for this one. SHould be all that and a bag of chips... I'm so lame...

 

[Artie]

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I just listened to some samples, and watched the music video. Its cool, but I'm not sure it does anything new. Just presents it in a neat package. Which isn't bad.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

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I just saw Ronny North on Saturday night, he ran one of these through a custom Laney.

It was really cool... He'd step on the thing, and get a beatiful shimmering clean tone with some delay, chorus, reverb, and compression. When he went for leads, he stepped on another button, and got a beautiful distorted lead tone with a touch of echo and verb. He used it a few other times during the night, but it looked killer.


For the price, though... I'd get a G-Major for sure.

 

[Artie]

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For the price, though... I'd get a G-Major for sure.

Yow!! I didn't even look at the price 'til you mentioned it. :yell:
I had no idea it would be that much. ($1500)

Yeah . . . the G-Major looks better.

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[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Wonder if they have cured the occasionally freeze ups they had with Major??

 

[Rocker35]

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I tried one out recently at the UK Music Live show and hated it!!! I just tried the factory presets and as is usual, the effects were too overbearing.
It was on the TC Electronics stand running through a Mesa combo, but IMHO, they should have had it set up through the effects loop, rather than direct in. I'm sure it can be tweaked for some great effects, but for the price you can get the same elsewhere for much less!!

 

[spuds]

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Ooh that looks really good! I like how you can dock your other pedals into it and control everything from the main board.

But yeah, the price is rather ridiculous...

Rocker35, are the effects the same as the ones in the G Force? Or are they brand new patches?

 

[aleclee]

Price?

Price?

If you look at it as an integrated G-Force, MIDI footboard, and FX switching system, it's not really overpriced. If you don't need/want all that it provides, that's one thing but if you want all those features, it's not all that easy to find something much cheaper.

 

[spuds]

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I just watched all the video's last night. You can even control your amp channel switching from the floor board. So literally everything will be controlled from the G-sytem. I really like that.

 

[north]

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I'm a proud TC Electronics endorser and I've been using the G-System since August (I have one of the first ones the TC guys tell me!) It is very cool......I've always wanted a Bradshaw system and I've always wanted a 2290 and a G-Major.Well the G-System is all of them in one and more.....It even has 4 loops where you can patch in your pedals and have them in the rack and trigger them with the G-System's pedal board. in my loops I have a Phase 90 in Loop 1,An Alesis parametric EQ to tweak my clean sound in Loop 2, and my Morley Bad Horsie Wah in Loop 3. The system even switches my amps channels for me. When I first got it it did take some tweaking to get everything sounding right (The factory presets were all way too extreme!) We tailored everything to my taste and made me a clean patch that switches the amp to the clean channel ,patches in loop 2 with the Alesis EQ,has a touch of compression a little reverb and a touch of chorus (We named it Klean Kitty!) and a Dirty Patch (We named it Dirty Kitty) That switches the amp to the dirty channel ,has a touch of EQ and some delay. I had my friend Chris at Guitar Center Cerritos dial everything in for me.The GC people have always been great to me and actually let me set up my entire rig in the middle of the store while they were open so we could set everything up and get all the sounds at actual stage volume.I run the system with a Mark Cameron Electronics modded Laney anniversary 100 AOR watt tube head and 2 Laney 4x12 cabs with Celestion 65 watt speakers.I just signed on with Randall so I will be switching to the new 3 channel Randall MTS Tube heads and cabinets in the next couple weeks. The G-System even has a cool built in strobe tuner that mutes everything when activated for easy on stage tuning.It will also power up to 6 additional effect pedals.A major plus is that the switches are very heavy duty and the display and buttons light up brightly (A MAJOR DEAL ON DARK STAGES!!) The pedal board itself is made of very heavy duty metal. It even has full Midi in and outs.I haven't had one problem with it at all in 3 months of shows (I'm very hard on all my gear and always break stuff with my sedate laid back style...) and it even survived our LA County Fair shows where we were playing out side in 100 plus degree weather for 5 days doing 3 shows a day... It is definitely worth checking out. It does so much... The guy at West LA Music was telling me that they were selling them like crazy to the guitar "big guns"... I actually had to wait for mine because TC had to get one to John Petrucci before me...One complaint I have is that they only supply you with a 3 inch cable between the pedalboard and the rack unit (You can use them in one piece as a all in one pedal or you can seperate them. I use a 30 foot cable between them so I can have the brain mounted in my rack on the side of the stage and my pedal board out front.....It definitely rocks!!!!!

 

[JALIN]

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That is a cool system, all the bells and whistle but not for $1500. I really liked it until the price tag.:gurmpy:

 

[north]

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It's definitely not for everyone but if you're a guitarist doing big shows it's definitely cool for the price. If you have ever looked at what a Bradshaw or the Digital Music switching system costs you'll see what a value the TC unit is.Both the other units I mentioned cost more that the TC unit and that is just for the switching unit and no effects......