If you are unsure of how to update your GP200 to it's latest firmware, then this is the video for you. Take advantage of extra features, sounds and effects to give you even more creative options.
I just received my Valeton GP-200 from Lazada online shopping app in the Philippines. I'm a retired expat living overseas and I really appreciate your very clear instructions. Now, I just need to figure out how to use my cool, new toy!
Hi Paul, Recently picked up the GP-200. Previously a BOSS GT owner and this little unit holds up. Massively enjoying your content. This video is one of the best examples of really USING the GP-200. Great song, tones and performance!
@@PaulBondMusic oh dude! I so am, what a great piece of tech. I like it more than the other pedals I've tried, the tone is killer. Thanks so much for the extensive videos❤️
This has proven to be a top-notch modeler for the cost and have some broad and deep parameter mechanisms for the wide range of effects. *My one criticism is that the gain emulations do require a noise gate, and I have been accustom to running all of my modelers with overdrive and distortion circuits I have designed from the ground up that with a wide variety of brands and gear including solid-state and tube amps, enabled me to have ultra high gain that's completely noise free right down to no 60 cycle or RF buzz to ground and without a noise gate.* The GP is one of very few pieces that custom overdrive works well with, but I do have to fire up the noise gates. I must also interject, I've had this luxury performance for 15 years, am not fond of noise gates so it's ultimately a fairly negligible detail. I greatly appreciate you backing the model on here for us. *On the flipside, running pedals for majority of the emulation gain, amp models at nearly zero if including them at all, I don't need the noise gates when overdriving the GP with my analog circuit, and ultimately, I can design and build something specific to this unit that will give me the exact result I desire, and it's well worth the effort.* That design is well underway, has performed great with initial testing, and in the long run, is going to be developed into a free standing analog preamp with analog modeling and ultimately, will become a full feature guitar amp with a power amp stage. The GP was ultimately bought to mate with my Carvin V3, and these two are a match made in heaven, and without the noise gate! My Carvin was used, and I didn't notice I wasn't getting the midi foot controller, but the GP has it's own midi and fate has revealed itself to me once again.
Paul, please can you do some more short videos of how you create your patches on the GP200. I’ve already learnt a lot from watching your videos and loved them all so far, but would love to see how you dial in your other tones like the Soldano! How you created the clean patch was so good to follow along with. 👍
I emailed them asking them to have me on their books as an official artist. I've also written to them telling them that they are welcome to use my videos on their website. I never heard anything either LOL
Hi Paul, thanks for all the amazing Valeton videos, just picked mine up a few days ago and now getting into the finer details of sound sculpture, EQ’s and IR’s! Could you do a video on using the Global Eq? I used to be able to sweep the Q through the whole frequency range on my old POD HD500X to remove nasal frequencies from individual patches as I was playing, but not sure if you can do that with the Valeton. Maybe they’ll introduce a more complex EQ pedal for patches as opposed to a Global one? Many thanks! 😊
So sorry for the slow reply... and thank you! Personally, I don't tend to touch the global EQ. If there's some patch-specific things you want to alter, I'd try one of the guitar pedal graphic eq's. They work quite well. I've found that I've not needed to alter the eq at a global level. If you DO change it, you can end up chasing your tail on other patches if you know what I mean?
Good question. I do NOT, as I have a very good recording interface. I absolutely COULD record using this digitally. I tried it with a USB cable and it works a treat, but it doesn't suit my day to day workflow, so I use the XLR outs into my digital interface
PLEASE HELP this is my 2nd day with it i love it already i dont know a thing about it but it is crackling really bad when i make a loop and i make sure the audio levels ARENT peaking. I can turn the volume to 1 and it will still crackle. It doesnt crackle when i just play. Incase the cpu was overloaded i turned off all the effects and it still crackled. Its not my connections either.
I have the gp200 but still running the original firmware ... I'm also interested in the looper update, specifically if it syncs with the the built in drum machine or not ??? For me, as a hobbyist player, being able to loop successfully with its built-in basic beats would be worth the update.. I need to borrow someone's PC or mac to do it though as I'm a droid tablet user
Hey great videos, just waiting for my LT to arrive, just a quick question... can you change a patch from the footswitch? For example from a high gain patch to a clean one. thnx a lot!
Paul, can he Valeton change channels on my amp? I know that Roland/Boss units do. I’m using a Rivera Knucklehead Tre and the foot switch is a 5 pin midi cable, like a Mesa. Just wondering because I really want one, I just don’t need the amp molders. My Rivera is equal to a Soldano SLO in respect to gain with an even better clean channel. It will do a Blackface or Silverface Twin depending on what you want. Any help would be appreciated
So sorry for the late reply. I have used MIDI to change the patches from a laptop to my Valeton, but I'm not 100% sure about sending MIDI messages FROM the Valeton. I bet you can though!
Paul ... I'm a newbie sort... Bought the Valeton... I'm guessing the V is an Amp too... So.. I'm thinking I just need a Normal speaker ,, as opposed to a "guitar amp"... However.. I'm confused .... I reckon I only need a "speaker" of sorts.. and let the vasleton do the rest... I only play at home (terraced house) so not loud... Any advice ? Cheers John T
If you're planning to use something like a home stereo and a full range stereo speaker, it will work but your EQ settings will be somewhat abnormal because you will need to drastically reduce the treble and midrange. Many of us started out where you are, for me that was nearly 30 years ago lol. It won't typically be the greatest sound ever, but these goofy rigs still perform well enough to make progress. If, however, you mean you just need a guitar speaker and will power it by whatever amplifier source you have, you are fundamentally still correct. This machine like many similar can bypass your need for a dedicated guitar amp, and I say this as someone with a formal background in the science of electrical/electronics engineering. I'm even working on a preamp and distortion I'm designing today in my lab. If you have a guitar amp woofer and some form of amplifier, or a woofer that is relative to a guitar speakers bandwidth and size, this will also work. One of the best amps I had by 19 years old was built out of a crumbling particle board entertainment stand lol. I tore it apart, built a 5' tall cabinet, put 2 woofers from a car audio store in it, a 60kHZ tweeter, and used the amplifier/preamp out of my Crate 30-watt practice amp. It performed ridiculously well with a Zoom 505 plugged in and I could get dead accurate Pantera and Megadeth all the way to AC/DC and Nirvana out of it, and was shredding not long after. That goofball amp I built was absolutely essential to my progress.
Sorry for the late reply... and thanks for JonDeth's answer. If I may... for any digital amp including the Valeton, you should be looking to either plug into a PA System (even a small one), or use what is known as an FRFR cabinet, or plug it into studio speakers (hifi will work, but don't overdo it!) These things aren't designed to feed a traditional guitar cab.
@@PaulBondMusic I 2nd all of that! One issue with plugging into home stereo type equipment is it's not going to be as high impedance as professional musician's equipment, and you risk passing a high current into it rather than just voltage, and damaging or destroying it. For example, a guitar amplifier's input impedance is as a standard, typically at least 1 meg ohm, but home hi-fi type of equipment is more likely to be 10 K ohms. Home audio equipment is generally designed with a 1 to 10 ratio meaning the input impedance is at least 10x greater than the output impedance of what you are plugging into it, but professional musician's equipment is accustom to 1 meg ohm, so you risk current passing into it and causing damage or even destroying it. Now, with all that said, I've used home hi-fi power amplifiers to plug Behringer V-Amps and other digital modelers into that powered a 4x12 cabinet for many years with it cranked pretty high, and it survived for years like this until the power supply capacitors dried out(it was 50 years old at that point). When I opened it up to replace them, it was such an outdated mess I didn't want to deal with yet something else left for me to do.
Same situation for me - running High Sierra and it wont open. Have sent a note to Valeton begging for them to have this version run with older macs (1.4 works...)
That IS a bummer! Typical Mac issue where they stop you from upgrading your OS when your Mac hits a certain age. They FORCE you to buy a newer model ... the money grabbing ********!
I will be able to answer this questing very soon, as I'll be using my Fender Acoustasonic with the Valeton on the War of The Worlds tour in 2025. Watch this space!
