5:50 + Boss GT-10 using 4 cable method?

[Stemp Fester]

Hi, I'm wondering if can can use my GT-10 with my 5:50 using the 4-cable connection method, which I'm led to believe is;

Guitar ---> GT-10 input
GT-10 send ---> 5:50 input
5:50 send ---> GT-10 return
GT-10 out ---> 5:50 return

When I tried this I couldn't get any sound at all - not even a hum! Could get the GT working fine just plugging it in as if it were a pedal, but I'd rather try to get the effects in the right order if I could...

Haven't had either the amp or GT very long so might be overlooking something simple.

Thanks

 

[MrMarkIII]

OK, I no longer have a GT-10, but I still have the manual, so look on page 132 in Chapter 8, Parameters Guide, for the SEND/RETURN function. You want to place the SEND/RETURN loop in your effects chain after wah, compression, pre-amps, overdrives, etc., and before any modulation, delay, and reverb.
The good news is, you can program the GT-10 to do just about anything you want. The bad news is, in order to get the GT-10 to do anything you want, you have to program it to do so.
Hope this helps

 

[MusicManJP6]

Also make sure the loop is turned on and set to 'normal'. Check http://www.bossgtcentral.com/forum for all your GT answers including a 4CM tutorial!

 

[Newysurfer]

Hi, I'm wondering if can can use my GT-10 with my 5:50 using the 4-cable connection method, which I'm led to believe is;

Guitar ---> GT-10 input
GT-10 send ---> 5:50 input
5:50 send ---> GT-10 return
GT-10 out ---> 5:50 return

When I tried this I couldn't get any sound at all - not even a hum! Could get the GT working fine just plugging it in as if it were a pedal, but I'd rather try to get the effects in the right order if I could...

Haven't had either the amp or GT very long so might be overlooking something simple.

Thanks

I've had a GT-8 for years. Sure 4cm works when you set it up right.
Get on this forum for your Boss GT advice. Has full instructions on setting up 4cm right.
I found it more trouble than its worth

www.bossGTcentral.com

Having played & gigged with the 4cm and a GT-8 though my advice is ...don't.
Not unless you play in a covers band where you need a zillion tones n effects.
The MFX preamps are rubbish compared to the 5:50. Literally like mixing Coke into Bollinger.
My GT only gets used as a back-up effects unit now.
It's ok for that but my analog pedal board is much better so that's the No 1 :mrgreen:

 

[UKBoogieboy]

You do know that if you are going to use the overdrives and distortions from the effects, it should go in the front end and not the loop.
Also I don't use the loops on Mesa amps that haven't got a seperate one knob master volume because they are wired in a mental way which means that turning the volume up and down on the amp turns the volume up and down that is fed out of the amp send and into the effects.

I turned my amp up at a gig BUT forgot to "compensate" by turning the input going into the effects from the amp send DOWN to couteract. The extra volume pushed the effects into overload which then feed back into the amp return and blew the amp to hell.

I had input/output meter lights on my effects so I could set the level that it recieved and output, if you are using effects without this how can you even calibrate the signal.

 

[Newysurfer]

You do know that if you are going to use the overdrives and distortions from the effects, it should go in the front end and not the loop.
Also I don't use the loops on Mesa amps that haven't got a seperate one knob master volume because they are wired in a mental way which means that turning the volume up and down on the amp turns the volume up and down that is fed out of the amp send and into the effects.

I turned my amp up at a gig BUT forgot to "compensate" by turning the input going into the effects from the amp send DOWN to couteract. The extra volume pushed the effects into overload which then feed back into the amp return and blew the amp to hell.

I had input/output meter lights on my effects so I could set the level that it recieved and output, if you are using effects without this how can you even calibrate the signal.

Boogie
didn't you already say on another thread that hapenned to you with an F-50....which has a parrallel loop.
The 5:50 has a dam good series loop and you're the only person I've ever heard of that's done that to any amp :mrgreen: