Informative video, thanks. I bought a GT1000 recently and after spending a fair bit of time fine-tuning EQs, I am getting nice amp sounds through a PA. GT1000 is a great sounding unit when you really learn to dive deep and set it up
Hi, I'd really like to hear some live samples where you are using those settings. I play the GT live through PA regularly, and my approach to EQ:is very different to yours. Not arguing, but a couple of points: you can set the low cut at 100 hz for live, anything below it it just waste of energy. Secondly and more importantly, the 4-5 Khz frequency is crucial for a guitar to cut through in the mix. Setting the hi cut at 4 Khz puts your guitar 'under a blanket'. The nasty frequencies with the GT lie at around 315 hz, 1,25 khz and depending on the guitar etc somewhere between 2-3 khz. On the other hand, the crucial frequencies are between 500-800 hz and like said around 4-5 khz, the lower being the 'rock mids' and the higher the 'cut through. I have my high cut set at 8 khz, but I know the sound engineer is also setting pretty much the same lo and hi cuts on his console, Tweaking the the GT amps, starting at 'noon' settings, I always roll the bass down to 35-40 before anything else. The bottom of a rock guitar is around 150-250 hz, and can be enhanced with a parametric EQ. Just comparing notes and scratching the surface here, my channel has tons on the GT. Cheers!
Hi and thanks for your thoughts/comments. There are many factors which can influence getting a good live sound and the video explains what works for me with the GT1000 but I appreciate it may not work for everyone. At the time I made the video, we were using a PA system which I always found to be very bright indeed, hence a 4k hi cut gave me a fat guitar sound without the piercing top end. Also, my main guitars are a pair of 1994 PRS Custom 24's and the HFS bridge pickup in those instruments has (to my ears) a real upper-mid range hump and not much low end, hence I don't need much of a low-cut and cutting through the mix is not a problem. What I was trying to explain in the video was how to use 2 EQ 'stomp boxes' as separate global EQ's for clean and overdriven sounds......but of course I appreciate that the actual high and low cut frequencies may well vary depending on the player, guitar, PA....etc. Based on the feedback I've had, some players have found that my settings work well for them......but I'm sure there are others who need to adjust them. Interestingly, we've very recently acquired a new PA (since I made the video)......and with that system, I now set the hi cut to 6.3k as the new PA is much less toppy than the RCF one. Regards,
Thank you for this explanation, I have an FRFR Laney Amp at home and it is a huge source of frustration that the sound varies nearly everyday and that’s because my music room is only small and the sound can be affected by having the curtains open or closed or the temperature changes for example. It is very challenging and frustrating and I end up tweaking the amp or EQ settings and you think you have cracked it and it changes again the next day you play. I play in a duet and have yet to play live, it won’t be through a PA system I will be using my FRFR Amp and we are going to hire a rehearsal studio to practice so I will try and use the EQ block as described in your demo.
This is a good. I'd just been using the global EQ settings and to be honest have struggled to get a tone I've been happy with in all environments. One thing I wanted to check. In your patches in the video, the EQ stomp block is in the "main out" path only. In my case, the "sub out" path would be my PA route, whereas the "main out" would go to an FRFR stage speaker (for example). In my case, the EQ stomp should go after the "sub" speaker I'm assuming? What's the best approach when you're not sure exactly how a venue will handle your guitar, i.e. main out only, sub out only, main and sub out? Hope I'm making sense.
Hi Paul, I actually no longer have the GT1000 but when I had it my signal path was : GT1000 Main Out (XLR) -> FRFR monitor (Alto TS310) ‘mix out’ output on the Alto -> main PA The ‘mix out’ on the Alto is effectively a ‘thru’ output….i.e. the input signal gets routed directly to it. Using this signal path I only ever needed to have the ‘global eq’ block on the main outputs. This method worked really well for me with the GT1000 and even though I now use a Kemper Stage, I still use the same signal path. Regards,
thank you, I setup my patch in my home studio and its sound is great but when i perform in some places that did not provide pa but only amp. As a result, its sound is very terrible. Do you have any suggestion once my patch setup at my home can be applied when connecting in front of amp?
That’s exactly why I set up 2 “global EQ”stomp boxes, one for clean and one for overdriven sounds. When I get to a gig, I just adjust those 2 EQ stomp boxes so the clean and overdriven patches sound good through whatever amp or PA is provided. NB: if an EQ stomp box is used in 20 different patches, you only have to adjust it on one patch and all the others will automatically be adjusted accordingly. When playing through a PA I set both my “global EQ” stomp boxes to have a hi cut somewhere between 4 and 6khz and this helps to mimic the high end roll off you get with a normal guitar speaker. If you’re playing through a guitar amp, I would suggest removing the hi cut as the speaker in your guitar amp will probably already have a high end roll off. Also some guitar amps can have a mid focussed tone whereas most PA’s have a fairly flat EQ, so if I’m presented with one of those guitar amps I’d probably also roll off some mid range (500hz-1khz). Hope that helps. Regards,
thx for this interesting video. I have a question. Say you are at home practicing and then will be going out to rehearse or gig and plugging into a PA. Do you have to go through all of you patches you will use and activate the EQ1 then write to patch so that you get the high cut, then after when you are home again deactivate it everywhere? Or is there a clever way to do it which is less cumbersome?
Hi, I'm glad you found the video interesting. In answer to your question, I would leave the EQ1 block permanently engaged and then adjust the parameters depending on the environment I'm working in. e.g. At home, I set the parameters of my two EQ1 Stompboxes (one for clean and one for overdriven patches) to sound good through studio monitors but then on a gig, I apply whatever EQ settings are needed to suit the venue. The great thing about the 'Stompbox feature' is that I only need to amend the EQ1 Stompbox settings on one clean patch and one overdriven patch and they will automatically then be applied across all patches that use those stompboxes. So at a gig, I only have to adjust the EQ settings on 2 EQ stompboxes (one for clean and one for overdriven patches...as per the video) and all patches that use those 2 stompboxes will then automatically be amended accordingly. Similarly, when I return home after a gig, I just amend the settings of those 2 EQ stompboxes to sound good through my studio monitors. Hope that helps.
@@HD-ok1kg ah right, got it. yes that makes much more sense than how I was thinking you might be doing it (disabling the EQ on every patch depending on location). Clever stuff , I will be adopting this method. Thanks bud. Really appreciate the time you put into responding to my question.
Its a great tip but how do you use it live?? Do you save the preset/s with the appropriate EQ curve after you have arrived at the venue and tested out the environment? If you have many presets you are using for the gig and have to switch quickly between them if you are chaining songs together, then it's a laborious task ahead of you..........???????????
All my clean patches have the same EQ stomp box saved at the end of the chain and all my overdriven patches have a different EQ stomp box saved at the end of the chain. At a gig, I sound check one of the clean patches and adjust the “clean stomp box EQ” to suit the room…..that EQ stomp on all other clean patches is then automatically changed. I then sound check one of the overdriven patches and adjust the “overdriven stomp box EQ” to suit the room….that EQ stomp on all other overdriven patches is then automatically changed. Hope that answers your question ?
I use the main out to my Boss Katana. And I'd like to use the sub out a to a mixer but there's only 1 channel available. Do you know if I have to use an XLR cabke in Y type. Or just there's a setting to use it Mono? I don't really use stereo effects BTW.
@@HD-ok1kg i tried patches and are fantastic!!!( for me reverb off and low cut at the end, eq1, 100hz, with 2 dxr15 yamaha at very loud volume with a full band)
How to achieve a good guitar sound is very subjective and what works for one person may well not work for another. At the time I made the video, we used a very bright sounding PA for live work and a hi cut at 4k worked perfectly to get rid of the really harsh/brittle top end and give me a smooth but punchy overdriven lead sound. Also, my main guitars are a pair of 1994 PRS Custom 24’s which have an upper mid range hump, so cutting though a mix with those is not a problem. Very recently (since I made the video), we have bought a new PA and the top end is considerably smoother, so I have now changed the hi cut to 6.3k. So for me, the hi cut I apply is very much dependant on the voicing of the PA (PA’s vary greatly…..especially the crossover frequency). The point of the video was not to suggest that everyone should use a hi cut at 4k….it was to illustrate how you can use 2 ‘stomp box’ EQ’s to act as separate global EQ’s for clean and overdriven sounds.
