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I'm still figuring this box out - noticed after I recorded that I'm clipping a bit on the cleans. Oh well. One thing that amazes me about this gizmo is that everything on this clip was one patch. Within the same patch I:
Set a delay hold (at the start, the G drone)
Activated a Boss Slow Gear (the part where the clean guitar fades into each note for the most part)
Changed channels (each patch can contain two totally seperate channels)
Noodled around with a lead tone, then hit the Slow Gear again and it totally screwed stuff up
Then I activated an additional 2 part intelligent harmony and closed it out.
Once I learn how to navigate it, I'll work more on the tones. One really bizarre thing about the GT-8 is that you can run it with four cables into a guitar amp and use your guitar amp's preamp in the effects loop. Each effect can be put ANYWHERE in the chain... so what you do is run your preamp for your tube amp in the loop, and then you can run the boost or overdrive pedals BEFORE the tube amp, ditto for the wah - and other things after it. This also means I can have 'tube' patches with my guitar amp providing the preamp tones, and also 'GT-8' preamp patches using the modelling. This is one thing the Pod XTL will never be able to do since it lacks an effect loop.
I think once I get a little more time invested in this, I'm going to really love it. I've had it two days and keep finding amazing stuff. I figured out how to add resonance to the cab emulations AFTER I recorded this... dangit.
Pete
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