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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I'd be putting it in 4cm with an amp most of the time but occasionally will be doing quick setup/tear down support slot gigs so a minimal, straight to desk setup that sounds good (GT100 with HT Dual for distortion in loop) would be far preferable to getting involved with a provided backline too. I'd just leave the HT Dual on and patch change between the loop being active (for distortion) and to a separate clean patch with no use of the loop for cleans, so would still be controlling changes from the GT100 keeping tap dancing to a minimum.
What you might run into is the paralell loop being a bit dodgy on the regular JVM. I am using the Satch JVM as you know, and it has a series loop which is less prone to leakage and phasey nonsense.
Also with my Satch, the switching is instant. I was a bit worried that the GT-100 would re-introduce a gap. But it doesn't, so patch changes on this thing are instantaneous. So this really does tick all my boxes.
Compared to the HD500, this was a doddle. Didn't need to adjust the send or return gains either. I couldn't stop grinning at how easy it was! Our other guitarist uses a Laney VH100R, I'm kinda interested in trying it out with his amp too, to see how the noise gates work. My amp has them built in, so I don't need the ones on the unit itself.
I may give the preamps a go, see what they sound like through the return of my amp.
My main criticisms, or if you prefer, feature requests:
- Stop the reverse delay from getting 'pitchy' when being tapped from the master BPM
- Scroll the preset names when you are changing the banks
- Allow the ability to remove the effects blocks and exchange them for other blocks, particularly the amps and noise gates
Check this out:
DD7 - https://soundcloud.com/drewvernon/sets/dd7-delay-tap-tempo-demo
GT100 - https://soundcloud.com/drewvernon/sets/gt-100-delay-tap-tempo-demo
Kind of annoying that the DD7 is absolutely fine in this respect. But the GT100 is both quite clicky on some models, and warbles like crazy! I couldn't use this live I don't think.
Based on this, it's going back. Nearly perfect in all other ways, but I can't live with this and live is too short!
All they need to do is expand their tap tempo window for the delays to be an average across the last four taps, and add parameter smoothing to the delay times so that you don't get crazy pitches... and the kicker? They've done it before in the DD7!!
Boggles the mind. I can't imagine any regular guitarist being happy with pitch wobbly crap coming out of his amp in the middle of a song... maybe if you're one of those crazy surf noize guitarists sure...
Bah. Really depressing.
1. The clicking you get with the Single and Reverse modes. Even when tapping with roughly the same region, say 100bpm-102bpm, it will glitch out and sound crappy.
2. The pitch artifacts as you tap the tempo. Some people love that, but I really don't. It sounds amateur in a live setting, particularly with our kind of music.
The key really is that the DD7 does not have either of these problems. That the GT-100 does seems slightly sloppy of them to be honest. In all other respects the GT-100 is perfect. A *really* good controller for the JVM and great sounding effects too. An excellent screen and tuner, and really good sounding AD/DA stages and easy to setup in 4-cable mode tops it all off.
Line 6 HD500 is a no-go. Silence when switching patches. None of the Zoom units properly support midi. The earlier Boss units are the same as the GT-100 (AFAIK). Digitech makes iPad toy bullshit these days, and none of their units offer more than one delay at once. Nova System midi is limited, only offers one delay at a time, and the screen isn't as clear as the GT-100. M13 would potentially be a go-er, but I grew really tired of the Line 6 sound, so I ditched all of my Line 6 stuff months ago. Not going back. Fender Mustang Floor has the sounds from what I can tell, but still only one delay at once. It does do midi though.
*sigh*
Maybe someone will get it right someday. Hell, even the Axe-FX has a slither of silence between patches, enough to be off putting. I was incredibly surprised that the GT-100 didn't!!
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Y'know.... I was perfectly fine persevering with my tap dancing until I came back to the Musicradar crowd and The Gear Page crowd. Now I'm miserable again.
I need to fucking finish some songs and stop obsessing about this shit
I hear ya. In the last month or so, I've started planning a new pedal/effects arrangement 3 times to solve a particular problem, and each time it's become incrementally more complex until I look at my current board and the songs we've got and realise that actually the problem never existed in the first place or could be easily solved by hitting pedals in a different order.