The Unofficial
GT-3 Owner’s Manual
Supplement
Page 1: ...The Unofficial GT 3 Owner s Manual Supplement ...
Page 2: ...e following conditions 1 It may be distributed posted printed by any means but must remain intact with no additions or deletions either to the content or the file structure 2 It must be offered freely and without cost of any kind 3 It may not be republished or altered from its original state without expressed written permission from the author ...
Page 3: ...R SETTINGS 11 ACCESSING USER SETTINGS 11 FEATURE EDIT BUTTONS 11 MANUAL BUTTON 11 TUNER BYPASS BUTTON 12 Setting the Tuner Pitch 12 UTILITY 13 GLOBAL 13 METER 13 SYSTEM 13 MIDI 14 HARMONIST SCALE 14 AUTO RIFF PHRASE 14 MIDI DATA TRANSFER 15 MIDI BULK DUMP 15 MIDI BULK LOAD 15 EXPRESSION EXP AND CONTROL CTL PEDALS 16 EXPRESSION PEDAL 16 Setting the Expression Pedal 16 CTL PEDAL 18 Setting the CTL P...
Page 4: ...CONTROLLING THE AUTO RIFF 35 AUTO RIFF SOUND ON SOUND 36 INTERNAL PEDAL 37 WAVE PEDAL 37 USING THE RETURN SEND EXT OD DS JACKS 37 EFFECT DESCRIPTIONS AND USES 38 EFFECT TIPS 38 BOSS RECOMMENDED EFFECT SEQUENCE 39 TIPS AND TRICKS 40 THE EXPRESSION PEDAL 40 Expression Pedal as a Volume pedal 40 Simultaneous Volume and Tuner on the Expression Pedal 41 Expression pedal as a Feedbacker 41 Expression pe...
Page 5: ... GT 3 Owner s Manual Supplement Stephen M Golden forsmg gt3 yahoo com Copyright January 2001 December 2008 5 HOW TO THINK ABOUT YOUR GT 3 50 MIDI FOR PC CONNECTIONS 51 NOTES ON MIDI 52 GLOSSARY 53 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 59 ...
Page 6: ...The Unofficial GT 3 Owner s Manual Supplement 6 Copyright January 2001 December 2008 Stephen M Golden forsmg gt3 yahoo com ...
Page 7: ... area on the GT 3 will be represented as bold green letters between braces Example Display Area NOTE When this supplement is printed using a non color printer the green letters will appear gray NOTE Page references in Italics refer to the GT 3 Owner s Manual e g O M pp 9 12 Page references not in italics refer to pages in this supplement The objective of this supplement is not to duplicate informa...
Page 8: ...e number is light on a dark background However when a patch from one of the permanent banks is selected the patch number displays in reverse video meaning that the background is light and the number is dark You can modify an effect by pressing the appropriate effect button From there you can turn the effect on or off by either pressing the button again or by rotating the VALUE dial either clockwis...
Page 9: ...at can be edited for the effect in the display From here you can press the and parameter buttons as desired to modify the effect parameters Since each effect has many different parameters they will not be discussed in detail here O M p 22 24 Jumping through the parameters 2 The jump feature allows you to jump from the Start to the End of each effect parameter group and the Next and Previous assign...
Page 10: ...ve finished making changes to a patch you will want to save it To save a patch press WRITE You will first be asked so specify a patch location in which to save it The default is always the current patch If that is where you want to save it press WRITE a second time Otherwise turn the VALUE dial either clockwise or counterclockwise until the desired patch number appears in the display and then pres...
Page 11: ...rresponding effect button and turn the VALUE dial The user setting you named should appear under U1 U2 U3 or U4 Once it shows in the display press WRITE or you can press another effect button and modify another effect When you re finished editing the patch press WRITE confirm the location for the write and press WRITE again NOTE If you forget to press WRITE after your final edit for the patch not ...
Page 12: ...e the output as you tune up rock the Expression pedal all the way toward you If you always want to tune silently you can set the tuner to Mute mode which will cut the GT 3 output whenever the Tuner is accessed To set the tuner to Mute mode Press TUNER Press the parameter twice until you see TUNER Out in the display Turn the VALUE dial counterclockwise to change the setting from Bypass to Mute and ...
Page 13: ...it will be assignable set to toggle MANUAL mode on and off or set to toggle TUNER on and off Patch Change Mode There are two options that can be selected under Patch Change Mode The first option is Switch It Now In this mode as you press the up and down BANK pedals the sound of each new bank will be immediately heard This may not be desirable if your destination patch is several banks up or down f...
Page 14: ...rolling foot volume Now change the patch to 36 2 Cool crunch Again there is no sound The position of the expression pedal is respected In patch 36 2 it is also controlling the foot volume Now do the same with the ASSIGN HOLD to OFF When you make the change to patch 36 2 there is sound in spite of the expression pedal being rocked back Its position is not respected The initial value of foot volume ...
Page 15: ...ress UTILITY four times to get to the MIDI access area Press the parameter button until you see MIDI Bulk Dump to transmit MIDI data in the display Determine the range of MIDI data you would like the GT 3 to transmit by selecting the start parameter and the end parameter using VALUE dial and using the buttons to switch between start and end The range can include SYSTEM data Tuner Utility and Manua...
Page 16: ...er Level P11 Auto Wah Level P12 Pedal Ring Setting the Expression Pedal To set the Expression Pedal to perform a different function Press PEDAL ASSIGN Set the Expression Pedal to ON by turning the VALUE dial clockwise one notch position If the value already says ON no action is necessary to activate it If you continue to turn the VALUE dial clockwise you will first see the current USER settings Ne...
Page 17: ... Turn the VALUE dial clockwise or counterclockwise until the function to be controlled is shown in the display This sets the factory preset values for the effect At this point you can edit another effect by pressing the corresponding effect button or press WRITE to save the settings NOTE If you forget to press WRITE after your final edit for the patch not only will you lose these edits but you wil...
Page 18: ...the parameter button once Set the minimum value for the function as appropriate by turning the VALUE dial clockwise or counterclockwise e g Volume minimum would likely be zero This will be the value attained when the pedal is rocked forward Press the parameter button once Set the maximum value for the function as appropriate by turning the VALUE dial clockwise or counterclockwise e g Volume maximu...
Page 19: ...sively after that will step you through the various parameters that can be assigned Once you reach the end of the EXP PEDAL definition fields pressing the parameter button will take you to the beginning of the CTL PEDAL parameter menu Press the parameter button You will see CTL PEDAL in the display If the CTL pedal is currently set to OFF press the parameter button again You will see ASSIGN 1 in t...
Page 20: ... Expression Pedal The effect continues to be sounded until you stop it See p 37 O M p 30 MIDI Control Channel 1 through 95 The MIDI Control Channels allow an external MIDI device to dynamically change the settings on the GT 3 while you play For example if a sequencer controlled a keyboard a drum machine and your GT 3 simultaneously while the Keyboard and drums were playing various parts of the son...
Page 21: ...on until you arrive at a parameter that allows BPM as a value Delay Chorus or etc Set the BPM rate according to the note type that represents the frequency of the recurring effect for example quarter note eighth note or etc If you want to save the patch at this time press WRITE specify or confirm the destination patch and press WRITE again Instead you may choose to edit another effect in the patch...
Page 22: ...ear the tempo of the song tap the CTL pedal with the tempo of the song and the MASTER BPM rate will be set accordingly All effects that are set to use the MASTER BPM will now be operating according to the tempo of the song A preset patch that does this is 59 3 TEMPO DELAY 14 Feedbacker Setting Feedbacker to CTL allows you to trigger the FEEDBACKER effect with your foot Once the CTL pedal is set as...
Page 23: ...Tuner On Setting Tuner On to CTL allows you to access the guitar tuner with your foot See TUNER on p 12 Manual On Setting the Manual Mode to CTL allows you to turn on manual mode with your foot See MANUAL on p 11 Momentary Manual Mode Access 15 You can place these settings into a patch to cause it to enter manual mode for about 7 seconds This will allow you to make stomp box like changes when you ...
Page 24: ... as either normal or toggle and the owner s manual indicates you can use either type with the GT 3 O M p 28 29 it s not quite that simple After trying both types FS 5L and FS 5U I discovered that the UTILITY SYSTEM option for external pedals does not offer the normal toggle setting option As a result the latching type pedal requires four presses to accomplish what the unlatching does in two O M p ...
Page 25: ...effect is the Ring Modulator In a classic Ring Modulator circuit two notes or tones interact with each other to produce the sum and the difference of their frequencies with none of the original frequencies present The resulting sounds are often referred to as metallic and BOSS goes so far as to call them unmusical but they can sound quite nice as well as totally alien In the GT 3 one of the intera...
Page 26: ...be set to any interval in QUARTER TONES with 72 being a unison 48 being an octave down 24 being two octaves down 0 being three octaves down and 96 being one octave up With tweaking the unison setting of 72 and the octave down setting of 48 will produce some excellent Roger Mayer Octavia Fuzzface effects while the 24 setting makes for a skroinky slap n pop bass sound and 96 does a good chipmunks so...
Page 27: ... the input jacks I low gain input II high gain input I II simulates a guitar jacked into both inputs using a splitter which seems to be popular with this amp SLDN Lead Soldano Metal 5150 Peavey 5150 amp Metal Drive Undetermined Boss s invention perhaps uncertain AC Guitar Acoustic Guitar simulator It s like having 11 Different Guitar Amps 20 Here s something you might want to try I entered into th...
Page 28: ... then putting the speaker sim OFF also turns the speaker compensation off If on the other hand b sounds brighter than d the compensation is always present regardless of the speaker sim status 1 2 For the guitar preamp compensation a Set the global setting to Power Amp Combo and put the GT s preamp sim effect OFF b Play some stuff and listen through your real amp don t matter if you use the guitar ...
Page 29: ... tubes to get great tube tones and or a way cool guitar with hot pickups and technique to burn and then you plug into one of these and get all these great sounds But your head tells you they can t be real because there are no tubes and that modeled tubes are not tubes at all Nonsense I have fooled a lot of great players into thinking they are hearing a real Boogie or Fender and they walk away in d...
Page 30: ...note definition the note that will trigger the riff a step definition where you define each of the notes in the riff one at a time and an OUT note for each step NOTE When you set an IN note name for an auto riff that note does not have to be part of the riff Think of the IN notes as labels for storing a particular riff inside the Auto Riff set Auto Riff Phrase Display You can set an OUT note to be...
Page 31: ... the riff Use the parameter key to move the cursor to the OUT position Turn the VALUE dial until it reads E To complete our riff press the parameter key to move the cursor back to the step number and turn the VALUE dial until it reads 6 We are going to designate step 6 as the end of our riff Use the parameter key to move the cursor to the OUT position Turn the VALUE dial clockwise until it reads E...
Page 32: ...e parameter button to place the cursor on the OUT position and turn the VALUE dial clockwise until a dash appears The dash is the next to the last value in the list right before the END value NOTE Steps with dashes count as one of the total sixteen steps that can be held in an Auto Riff definition While you can hold a note in a riff by following it with one or more steps with dashes you cannot sho...
Page 33: ...the patch by pressing the appropriate effect button NOTE If you forget to press WRITE after your final edit for the patch not only will you lose these edits but you will also lose any other settings changed since the last time you saved the patch Setting the Control Assigns to Trigger the Riff Although it is not necessary you will probably want to enable the Auto Riff to only play at specific time...
Page 34: ...arameters for Auto Riff in the patch For each parameter set the values as you like O M p 49 For example Loop OFF means the riff will play once for each time you play the note ON means the riff will play over and over again as long as you let the string on your guitar vibrate at that note Tempo Allows you to set the speed that the riffs will play Sens This sets how hard you have to strike the strin...
Page 35: ... Effect Level using the VALUE dial Press the parameter button Set Min to 0 using the VALUE dial Press the parameter button Set Max to 100 using the VALUE dial Press the parameter button Set the Mode to Normal using the VALUE dial Setting ASSIGN 1 to turn the Auto Riff Direct Level guitar sound to 0 Press the parameter button You will see ASSIGN 1 Turn the VALUE dial to set ASSIGN 1 to ON Press the...
Page 36: ...LUE dial Use the parameter button to select the Auto Riff parameters When you come to Loop set it to ON using the VALUE dial When you come to the Effect level set it to 100 VALUE dial When you come to the Direct level set it to 0 VALUE dial Press PEDAL ASSIGN Set the CTL pedal to AR Hold Set the Mode to Toggle Set an ASSIGN to turn on the AR Direct Level Set the level for both the Min and Max to b...
Page 37: ...t continues according to the parameters you set While it must be triggered by a defined source the EXP or one of the CTL pedals it operates independently of that source for the duration of the effect O M p 30 In other words if you set the Wah to the Wave Pedal and then assign the Wave Pedal to a CTL pedal the Wah would cycle through its Wah effect until you stopped it by either releasing the CTL p...
Page 38: ...ost the overall level Reverb Reverb time sets the length of reverberation or decay Reverb level controls reverb intensity For clean light reverb reduce the reverb level and set a longer reverb time For a thicker reverb set a higher level and shorter time Use the tone settings to add brightness or depth to the sound It s best to start with milder settings and then increase them to the desired effec...
Page 39: ...fter the distortion may produce a sound you want Try it either way to see which sound you like better 2 Volume pedals should occur before delay effects so the volume can be lowered without cutting the reverb 3 Noise gates should occur before delay effects so the can drop the guitar signal without effecting the reverb So here s the BOSS recommended effect sequence Guitar Octave Auto Wah Compressor ...
Page 40: ...being used for other things then pick some other ones If you want to change a whole load of patches to include these settings save them as a couple of presets first then you can quickly recall them again for each patch Volume boost suggestions David Stewart ds marcen com Here are two good ways to boost volume for lead levels 1 Program the same patch but at two levels and put them side by side Use ...
Page 41: ... an Adrian Belew trick he used an EQ stomp box that had the 400 s at like plus 8 to 12 dB This does a great job of inducing real and natural sounding feedback and not always knowing with partial overtone comes rising out of the mix This is different than using the GT 3 feedbacker as you get a predictable tone on a single note and if you play more than a single note the GT 3 feedbacker does not kno...
Page 42: ...ried both and the Auto Wah seems to do it best for me with the following settings Wah select AW Auto Wah Mode BPF Band Pass Filter best for guitar but the alternative LPF or Low Pass Filter keeps more bass in the sound as the top is boosted Polarity Up Sens 0 This effectively stops the Auto Wah effect Frequency Not critical the pedal will change this value Peak 80 This sets how sharp the Wah boost...
Page 43: ...ge High 127 Assign 4 Target WAH Auto Wah Wah Pedal Target Parameter Pedal Target min 0 Target Max 100 Source Exp Pedal Source Mode Normal Active Range Low 0 Active Range High 75 In the Assign 1 and 3 positions the switch will operate if you move the pedal in the range from 126 127 This position on the pedal is at the end of the forward movement of the expression pedal The Assign 1 and 3 Min and Ma...
Page 44: ...rs etc Using the GT 3 s Harmonist effect I found a way around this Just add the following settings to your favorite practice patch press the CTRL pedal and all output will be 1 2 step lower Press it again and you re back to normal In theory this should work in reverse although I haven t tested it If you normally tune down 1 2 step change the Max setting in Assign 1 to 1 and the output should be St...
Page 45: ...simulate tapping harmonics i e holding a note and tapping 12 frets above Infinite Delay Sound on Sound From Bill Davies billdavies psn net I remember someone asking about how to set up the delay to capture a phrase and repeat it indefinitely while playing over it The trick is to have the delay on and set your control pedal to simultaneously turn the delay feedback to max 100 and turn off the delay...
Page 46: ... Suppressor Threshold 45 Release 50 Ring Modulator Mode Intelligent Frequency 17 Effect Level 100 Direct Level 0 Chorus Mode Mono Rate 40 Depth 50 PreDelay 4 0 ms High cut Flat Effect Level 100 Getting that Big Body Guitar Sound From Sutton Reid suttonreid hotmail com As someone who has owned his share of big body guitars including a Johnny Smith which I should never have sold let me say two thing...
Page 47: ...on the pre amp from medium to high 4 Increase the depth of the chorus from 14 to 33 5 Increase the number of delay repeats from 2 to 7 6 Turn on the pickup simulator 7 Turn off the Wah 8 Change the high mid frequency band from 400 to 300 This would take care of the 8 arbitrary assigns You then have a dedicated cc pedal assign so you could also 9 Raise the preamp treble from 7 to 8 all of the above...
Page 48: ...40 When you roll your expression pedal back make it 8 seconds and a volume of 80 Now play some licks or chords with the expression pedal down with some good sounds happening pull the expression pedal back The volume goes to zero but the reverb gets huge So your note ends but the reverb of that note gets longer bigger wider louder and you get this swooshing white noise thing flowing out of your amp...
Page 49: ...orus and phaser are on here just the phaser is on and so forth You can yank the expression pedal around and morph from 50 repeats to 0 repeats sweep your flanger and have unbelievably huge and powerful sound changes going on just by playing with the expression pedal The Feedbacker For an example of using the Feedbacker set the upper mid EQ at 400 and put the boost for this on your expression pedal...
Page 50: ...easily repeatable makes it well worth the time and money spent on the GT 3 Also I love the flexibility of it once I got used to the interface Also of interest for me was having all the pre amp sims it means I can plug into nearly anything amplified and still sound like me David dh monkey boy com How to think about your GT 3 27 O K Here we go a FREE lesson in GT 3 The best way to work with the GT 3...
Page 51: ...ng the joystick connector you can get a dedicated MIDI interface such as the parallel port PC MIDI Flyer by Mark Of The Unicorn MOTU www motu com or one of the parallel serial or USB interfaces by MidiMan http www midiman com like the MidiSport 1x1 or 2x2 USB models These interfaces allow MIDI devices to be connected to your computer without using the sound card joystick port and in my experience ...
Page 52: ...n do this I believe but I ve never attempted it You could use your MIDI recorder called a sequencer to capture data such as patch changes and movements of the expression pedal and then play them back into your GT 3 during a performance or recording session so that you don t have to do it live Another thing I think you could do with the GT 3 I know this can be done with other MIDI devices is to ass...
Page 53: ... Bypass The state or condition where an effect or function is selectively disabled Cancel To undo an action or free oneself of a commitment Chorus A slight delayed and modulated signal combined with the original signal which creates a thick shimmering sound Coincidence An inadvertent occurrence of two unrelated events Compressor Reduces the loudest input levels while boosting the softest input lev...
Page 54: ...ou play Feedback An often unwanted squealing sound usually caused by a given sound being amplified by the same amplifier more than once This is called a feedback loop Sound is picked up through a microphone or acoustic guitar pickup amplified and picked up by the microphone again then amplified again etc This loop continues building until a runaway squealing sound results The AFB anti feedback eff...
Page 55: ...n regard to the GT 3 an insert cable must be used to connect two external CTL pedals to the Sub CTL 1 2 jack Interface The combination of buttons pedals and display which are used to play and make adjustments on the GT 3 Internal Pedal A definable trigger set to cause something to happen This trigger can be set up to coincide with the moving of the expression pedal the pressing of a Control pedal ...
Page 56: ...e global music products industry and to increase active participation in music making It is supported by more than 7 000 music products retailers manufacturers distributors wholesalers and publishers located in the United States and in more than 100 other countries Noise Gate Another term for the Noise Suppressor This is a function that shuts off the sound of your guitar after the decay drops belo...
Page 57: ...y the vibration of a string on the guitar will be heard by the GT 3 Sequence The order effects are arranged in other words which effect is first which is second and so on In general terms the order of things Sequencer A device that can record and save MIDI events for playback at a later time Source The pedal or control that will actually do the controlling of the target Step A single numbered inst...
Page 58: ...TL pedal so that it works as a Toggle Press once the function is on press again it s off Tremolo Varies the volume of the original sound to create a pulsating effect TRS Tip Ring Sleeve Refers to the electrical contacts of a phono three conductor type connector like the kind used on a stereo headphone plug The Tip as the name implies is at the very tip of the connector Next is an insulating disk w...
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Page 60: ...h Hold 23 Tuner 23 Vibrato 22 Control Assign 19 Control Pedal 16 Setting 18 COSM 27 Preamps 27 Speaker Simulator 28 Testimonials 29 D Delay 22 45 Sound on sound 38 E Editing a patch 9 Direct 9 Easy 10 Effect 8 USER Settings 11 Effect Sequence 39 Effects Loop 37 EQ 13 49 Expression Pedal 16 Setting 16 EXT OD DS 37 External Pedals 24 Connecting 24 Control Assign 24 FS 5U 24 Global Manual Mode 24 EZ ...
Page 61: ...0 37 Pitch Shift 25 R Receive 15 Return Send Jacks 37 Reverb 45 S Setting the Control Pedal 18 Setting the Expression Pedal 16 Sound on sound 38 Sound on Sound 36 45 48 Speaker Simulator 28 Sub Ctl 1 2 Pedals 24 Sub EXP Pedal 24 Synth Hold 23 SysEx Data 51 SYSTEM 13 58 T Tap Tempo 22 Tempo 22 Transmit 15 Tuner 23 Pitch setting 12 TUNER BYPASS 12 Tuner Volume EP 41 U USER Settings 11 UTILITY 13 Aut...
