TC Electronic G-System - Pedals and Head Setup; Connecting for Head Setup

Pedals and Head
PUSH
Drive Pedals
TAP TEMPO
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FORMANT | WAH | EFFECT FILTERS COMPRESSOR ALGORITHM
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WHAMMY | PITCH ALGORITHMCHORUS | FLANGER | TREMOLO
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HI-CLASS | TAPE ECHO | DYNAMIC REVERBALGORITHM
INPUT DAMP
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Loop 1
Expression Pedal
Loop 2Loop 3Loop 4
Expression/Volume Pedal
Out Insert
Guitar
Input
Send
Return
Send
Input
HEAD
Return
CAB
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vintage pre-drive
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vintage pre-drive
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Connecting
• Connect your guitar to the G-System’s Instrument
Input.
• Connect up to four drive pedals to the loops.
• All pedals connected to the loops must remain
switched on at all times. The G-System
activates/deactivates the loops – not the pedals!
• Connect expression pedals using a single standard
1/4" jack cable. Depending on the expression pedal
model, the cable must be mono or stereo.
• Connect the G-System’s “Insert Send” to the head’s
input. Connect the head’s effect loop send to the G-
System’s “Insert return”.
• Connect the G-System’s “Out” to your amp’s effect
loop return (“power-amp in”). Use two amps for
stereo operation.
• Connect expression pedals and calibrate these using
the Pedals menu.
In this setup we are using a head as both pre-amp and
power amp. The pre-amp section of the head is
connected to the G-System’s Insert loop. Set the Insert
loop to “on” on all G-System presets, using the Utility
menu.
Look at the illustration and see if you can follow the
signal chain:
• Connect your guitar to the G-System’s Input.
• Up to four pedals can be connected in loops 1 to 4.
• Via the Insert loop’s “Send”, the signal is sent to the
head’s input.
• The head’s pre-amp out/send goes to the G-System’s
Insert loop “Return”. This way, the entire signal from
the drive pedals and the pre-amp section of the head
is returned to the input of the G-System’s effects
section.
• Via the G-System’s Out Connector, the signal is sent
to the head’s return – which is actually the input of
the head’s power-amp section.
TYPICAL SETUPS
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