TC Electronic G-System - Manual (Page 8)

Once you are up and running …
… what can you do?
How you get where you want to go is explained in later
chapters in this manual – this section is only meant to
serve as an inspiration while you are getting ready for
building your dream setup.
The Five PRESET and BANK UP/DOWN Switches
Presets are organized in banks of five. Using the five
PRESET switches together with the bank UP/DOWN
switches allows you to make radical changes to your
sound by pressing a single switch.
Preset Switches
Presets consist of:
–
Effect Blocks (Reverb, Delay etc.) – both active and
inactive ones.
– Settings for all Effect Blocks – for both active and
inactive ones.
– Status (active/inactive) for all loops.
– The assignment of the connected expression pedals.
– Various other parameters.
The EFFECT BYPASS & LOOP Switches
These switches allow you to turn effects (such as Delay,
Reverb, Pitch, Modulation Filter, Compression and the
Loops) on or off as parts of a presets. These switches
are similar to the On/Off switches on regular stomp-
boxes.
Three, four or five Loops
There are four loops – for drive pedals etc. – plus the
Insert loop, which is especially designed to insert a pre-
amp. For each preset you can decide which of the five
loops should be active.
Additionally, you can switch loops 1 to 3 on and off using
the Control board. If you also want to have access to the
fourth loop via the board and maybe even to the Insert
loop of a pre-amp (or a fifth pedal), you can set up your
switches accordingly using the “Custom Switch
Functions”.
What? How? Why?
You may find your own way of utilizing the system, but
the following describes part of the philosophy that has
been the basis of the G-System’s design.
For the purpose of the following example, let us assume
that you have connected overdrive pedals to some or all
of the four loops and maybe a pre-amp to the Insert loop.
Expression pedals are excellent for either Volume control
or real-time parameter control such as pitch in a
“whammy” effect.
For the following example, your setup should resemble
this one:
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