TC Electronic G-Major, User Manual

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EFFECT BLOCKS NOISE GATE
Introduction
Basic Operation of the Effect Menus
The six (or seven including Noise gate) effect
keys on the front panel, all work as follows:
• Single click: Toggles the current effect on/off.
• Double click: Accesses the edit page of the
current effect.
The navigation in the effect edit pages is done
with the CONTROL EDIT and PARAMETER
wheels. Some of the effect blocks contain
several effect algorithms. As an example the
Filter block contains Phaser, Tremolo, Panner,
Resonance Filter etc. The Algorithm choice is
located as the first parameter in the effects edit
page.
As all the effect blocks are always present, they
can be activated or accessed at any time by
simply using the single or double click
functions. Bypassing an effect block equals
removing it from the effects setup, meaning that
though the block is still in the routing it does not
affect the signal in any way.
The settings of a bypassed block are always
kept in the preset and it is therefore easy to
reactivate a bypassed block in the preset again
with the previous settings in that block.
Consider it as turning a stomp-box on and off.
Mix/Wet parameter
When the Kill Dry parameter found in the
Levels All menu is set to “on” no clean signal is
passed to the Outputs and the Mix parameter is
then changed to Wet in al algorithms.
Introduction
A Noise Gate is generally used to attenuate the
signal when you don’t play the guitar. This way
you can avoid hearing the entire hiss, hum and
other noise you might have on your system. Of
course a Noise Gate is not the solution to any
noise problem. You should try to avoid the
noise in the first place. Problems with noise can
be introduced by a number of different things.
Poor cables, poorly shielded single coil pickups
and power supplies placed close to signal
cables are common problems that you can
work your way out of by experimenting.
There will, however, always be a certain
amount of noise in any guitar setup. The Noise
Gate can help you attenuate the noise when
you are not playing. Be careful when setting
Threshold and Release Rate. A too high
Threshold setting will result in e.g. not
“opening” the Gate when you play the guitar
softly. A too slow Release time will result in
cutting your attack.
Settings will vary depending on the signal
present on the Input of the G•Major, so you will
most likely need different settings for Clean and
Overdrive sounds.
Mode
Range: Off - Hard - Soft
General overall mode that determines how fast
the Noise Gate should attenuate/dampen the
signal when below Threshold.
Threshold
Range: -60dB to 0dB
The Threshold point determines at what point
the Noise Gate should start to dampen the
signal.
To set this parameter you should turn up the
volume on your guitars volume potentiometer
but not play. Then start turning up the
Threshold value from -60dB to the point where
desired dampening is actually achieved.
This little experiment will of course require that
the Max Damping parameter is set different
from 0dB - as 0dB means: no damping.