Using combo preamp with GT6 preamp

[Gordon]

A lot of people seem to be saying that using the preamp sims with a combo preamp doesn't work.... that you should either forget the preamp sims or bypass your real preamp.

But my advice to anyone in my situation (combo amp, no effects loop) is just experiment and you might get a good sound. I run the GT6 into the main input on a Marshall/Park combo, I leave the combo on a clean channel, and use the GT6 preamp sims - especially the JC-120.

It took me a long time to balance the different level controls (patch levels, gt6 main output level, amp level) but now it sounds great. Adding my combo's preamp after the GT6 (rather than going direct to PA) seems to make the sound more touch responsive - so the message is you can get anything to work if you tweak it enough!

Anyone else using a similar setup with success?

[Storm]

Tweaking really is the key to success with the GT-6, I'm slowly getting there.

Ciao ...

[JerryPro]

I use Deluxe Reverb amps and as you know they have no FX loop. I have several patches that I use from time to time that involve the preamp.

You are very correct in your advise to tweak the levels carefully. This has been my soapbox for a long time. I think everyones experience with the GT-6 would improve with more attention paid to the output levels.

[axe2grind]

Of course, set up is part of the tweaking process too. I recently got a Behringer GMX212 as a warranty replacement for the GX212. The GMX is a modelling amp, and when I dialed in the cleanest tone I could get on the amp, the GT-6 sounded horrible--low gain, very clipped sounding, bright, thin, you name it.

While I much prefer to use my amp's master volume know, I now plug the GT-6 into the amp's stereo slave input, effectively bypassing the preamp and the master volume. I now have a lot of work to do in terms of level matching, etc., but the sound quality is superb, subject to some eq'ing, globally and otherwise. Just the clarity of the tone, not just the sound quality, was much improved.

[debrad]

Axe2Grind,

now that you've had the Behringer GMX212 for a while, do you have any more of a critique to pass along?

[Washby]

Hello Axe2grind, I'm looking the gmx212. If you connect the gt-6 into the slave bypassing the master volume, do you have enough volume to play with a band?

Thanks.