Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Woogie on April 15, 2007, 07:48:51 PM
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Anyone have any opinions on the Tech 21 GT2 for gigs?
Cheers
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The GT2's are Ok as valve simulators, however I used to use one for recording only. Compared to a real valve amp they're like most simulators ie
a liitle sterile and lack that musical quality.......
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Are there any alternatives?
I have a clean/blues tone but I need something for Ozzy etc
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I used to use mine at one point. For the money and excellent unit and I think it sounds pretty good. I was using a solid state amp and wanted to get a better tone.A bit unweildy in that you have to tweak it by hand and it was a bit impractical. I found that getting the tone right was a lot of trial and error-for recording they are great as you can tweak as you go-not so easy in a live situation. I would say, get the basic tone you like and use the guitar volume to clean things up for when you are not playing solos.
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What gear do you use?
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I would more or less echo 38th's comments, though in my case I was using it with my bass to warm up a solid-state bass combo in gigs. Obviously a roaring valve amp would have solved my problems, but the GT2 worked a treat. Excellent value for money. Whether it still beats out digital sims for realism, I dunno .... But that honestly doesn't matter a lot in a small pub-sized venue, IMO, and the GT2 certainly made that dinky combo sound a hell of a lot better! :)
And, yeah, I dialed in my basic tone and then then didn't mess with it a lot (in fact, since I was playing bass, I never really needed to mess with my sound during the gig and just left it alone once we'd gotten through the sound check (if any! ;)).
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What gear do you use?
Custom strat from Legra (soon), Les Paul Custom, Boss GT8, MXR Zakk Wylde, Boss BF-2 (Japan) and a Laney VC30 2x12.
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i played live with my sansamp GT2 for every single gig I've done ever. straight into the mixer - works great, and frankly I hate carrying loads of heavy gear to places.
you can get some mentalist gain from that thing ;) its one of the most useful pieces of equipment i've ever brought.
obviously, and what is really annoying, you dont get much guitar/amp/speaker interaction. i'm experimenting with compressor pedals at the moment (a boss cs-3), so far I got reasonably positive results, but not 100% convinced by the boss - i'm going to try a boutique compressor.
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What about into a valve amp though?
I expect the results to be very different!
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i've tried it into my marshall 50watt master volume, and it works well there also. i set the marshall up totally clean, or with a slight overdrive, and the sansamp works well with it. very natural sounding even with heavy drive on the sansamp.
if the drive on the marshall is nailed, it sucks with the sansamp though with any setting. very messy, not good, doesn't work in the same way a tubescreamer or sd-1 would.
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Yeah, I'd say that the Sansamp (as its name implies!) is rather more useful when one doesn't have a valve amp than one one does. If you've got tubes, get 'em glowin' with a tubescreamer or something!
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Are there any alternatives?
I have a clean/blues tone but I need something for Ozzy etc
If you're looking for a direct box that will do high gain, or that can be used as a stomp-box in an fx chain, these are great:
http://www.award-session.com/jd10.html
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Do you have any soundclips?
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Do you have any soundclips?
No, but there is a demo of it here:
http://www.thinclient.net/sgg/JD10.mp3
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that sounds pretty nice - great price aswell.
thanks for the link