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Something amazing happened over the weekend. most of you know that I love my GT-8 and have commented about it a LOT. So, over the weekend, in the middle of a typical jam session, the drummer gets a call and he had to leave immediately. So, I and the other guitarist are just playing on our songs and after a while, we are done. So, he asks "dude, do you want me to set you up with a nice tone for yourself real quick?". He adds this "real quick" after everything. 
"do you want to go over the song we learnt last week real quick"? At this point, I'm thinking to myself "getting a great sound from the gt-8 is anything but real quick" Plus, he's never owned a gt-8 before. his rig consists of a Rocktron Prophesy II, a Compressor, 32 band equalizer and finally a Carvin TS100. But he does use two 4x12's. A Crate and a Jackson cab. the crate is for the high end and the jackson he says gives him a great low-end. His tone is very nice. Solid state tight yet with the tubey feel.
Anyway, he picks up the gt-8 and goes crazy on the knobs just using his ears for guidance. But within 10 mins, he's got me a great fat tone. It cuts through his sound and everything. It actually complements his tone and vice versa. Next week when the drummer's back, will be the real test. but, I'm confident it will hold good. I had plugged in my jackson SL2HT into the Boss and the out was going into the back of a crate powerblock. That's it. The speaker cab was a stock crate closed back which I got for $50 and put in 4 guitar warehouse Lead 80 speakers.
Lessons learnt:
* the gt-8 sounds amazing at LOUD volumes. I had even turned off the Harmonic Converger. The HC was making the sound very bright.
* to carve your tone, play the freaking thing loud. After I got back home and plugged into my 1x12, the tone was still excellent. but the other way around, never did so good.
* get out the mental blocks...dont think "hmm, I love the rectifier sounds of xyz band...I think I will use the rectifier models on the gt-8" doesnt work that way.
* for extra tubey feel, use the carvin ts100.
Anyway, thanks for reading. If anyone's interested in the patch, just let me know and I'll post it here.
Sam
"do you want to go over the song we learnt last week real quick"? At this point, I'm thinking to myself "getting a great sound from the gt-8 is anything but real quick" Plus, he's never owned a gt-8 before. his rig consists of a Rocktron Prophesy II, a Compressor, 32 band equalizer and finally a Carvin TS100. But he does use two 4x12's. A Crate and a Jackson cab. the crate is for the high end and the jackson he says gives him a great low-end. His tone is very nice. Solid state tight yet with the tubey feel. Anyway, he picks up the gt-8 and goes crazy on the knobs just using his ears for guidance. But within 10 mins, he's got me a great fat tone. It cuts through his sound and everything. It actually complements his tone and vice versa. Next week when the drummer's back, will be the real test. but, I'm confident it will hold good. I had plugged in my jackson SL2HT into the Boss and the out was going into the back of a crate powerblock. That's it. The speaker cab was a stock crate closed back which I got for $50 and put in 4 guitar warehouse Lead 80 speakers.
Lessons learnt:
* the gt-8 sounds amazing at LOUD volumes. I had even turned off the Harmonic Converger. The HC was making the sound very bright.
* to carve your tone, play the freaking thing loud. After I got back home and plugged into my 1x12, the tone was still excellent. but the other way around, never did so good.
* get out the mental blocks...dont think "hmm, I love the rectifier sounds of xyz band...I think I will use the rectifier models on the gt-8" doesnt work that way.
* for extra tubey feel, use the carvin ts100.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
If anyone's interested in the patch, just let me know and I'll post it here. Sam
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