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b GT-10 Guitar EFfects Processor

Welcome 3 Press the GT-10’s EXIT button when you’re finished.

4 Raise the GT-10’s OUTPUT LEVEL knob—for the cleanest sound, set it high.
Congratulations on the purchase of your Boss GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor. This 5 Raise the volume of your amp or mixer to the desired level.
TurboStart contains step-by-step instructions that’ll quickly introduce you to many of
the GT-10’s features. The GT-10’s Play Screen

Making Connections The GT-10’s main display is the Play screen. Here’s how to show its eight different views:

1 Press EXIT a couple times to make sure the display is showing the Play Screen.
To protect your equipment and your ears, start out with the GT-10’s upper left OUTPUT
2 Press the DISPLAY MODE button to cycle through the different Play Screens.
knob turned down, and turn down the gear into which you’re plugging your GT-10.
3 For simplicity, you may want select Screen 1—this is the knob-based Play Screen.
1 Connect an instrument cable from a guitar to the INPUT jack on your GT-10.
2 Plug headphones into the GT-10’s PHONES jack or connect its OUTPUT jack(s) to Selecting Patches
• a guitar amp set to a clean sound.
• a line level input such as a mixer, PA, recorder, or suitable power amp. A patch is a group of effect combinations. Patches are stored in groups of four, each of
which is a “bank.” There are 200 permanent factory Preset patches, and 200 memory
Note: If you’re using one guitar amp or one line input, use only the GT-10’s L/MONO output. locations where you can store your own User patches. (On the red numerical display,
If you’re connecting to two amps or a stereo pair of line-ins, use both GT-10 OUTPUT jacks.
Preset patch names start with a “P,” while User patches begin with “U.”)
Tip: If you’re connecting the GT-10 in stereo, you can take advantage of its stereo-only
features such as having Dual L/R amp models or different effects on each side. Note: Straight out of the box, the User banks contain the same patches as the Preset banks,
so feel free to replace the User patches with your own—you won’t lose anything.

Optimizing the GT-10’s Outputs for the Best Tone To select a patch, return to the Play screen as described above, and then:

1 Just below the main OUTPUT LEVEL knob, press the OUTPUT SELECT button. 1 Turn the big dial to go through all of the GT-10’s patches.
2 Turn the big dial to optimize your GT-10 for the device you’re connecting it to. 2 Use the BANK 6 and BANK 5 foot pedals to select the desired bank, and then
Pedals 1, 2, 3, or 4 to choose the patch you want in the selected bank.
Select: When you’re connecting to:
JC-120 a Roland JC-120 amp’s input Use CATEGORY Search to Check Out Some Patches
SMALL AMP a small or practice guitar amp’s input
1 If necessary, press EXIT a few times to return to the Play Screen.
COMBO AMP a combo amp’s input 2 Press the CATEGORY/ENTER button—notice that the category, or “CATG,” is displayed
STACK AMP a stack amp’s input in the upper-left corner of the display.
JC-120 RETURN the effects return jack on a Roland JC-120 3 Press the 34 buttons on either side of the big dial to select the CATG you wish.
4 When you find a category to explore—for example METAL—use the big dial to
COMBO RETURN the effects return jack of a combo amp
move up and down through the patch list to try out different patches.
STACK RETURN the effects return jack of a stack amp 5 When you’ve found the patch you want, press EXIT to return to the Play screen.
LINE/PHONES headphones, or a mixer, recorder input, or power amp

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Use EZ TONE to Create a Custom Guitar Tone Tip: The 34 buttons on either side of the big dial sometimes reveal additional editing
pages.
1 Start with any patch.
2 Using the EZ TONE buttons on the left of the GT-10, press the CREATE button. 5 Press the WRITE button.
3 Use the knobs below the display to select the type of pickups you’re using and the 6 Turn the big dial to select a user patch location, from U01-1 to U50-4.
type of output into which your GT-10 is plugged. 7 Press the WRITE button again to finish saving your patch.
4 Using the 4 button to the right of the big dial, move to your next edit. (Press the
3 button to return to the previous edit.) Using the GT-10’s Onboard Phrase Looper
5 Use the knobs on the left below the display to select a basic tone for your patch,
1 Select a patch you want to use as you record your loop.
and then use the knobs on the right to select the desired variation.
2 Press both BANK 6 and BANK 5 pedals simultaneously to turn the looper on—the
Tip: It’s a good idea to play your guitar and listen throughout this process. REC/DUB LED lights up red and flashes to show you’re ready to record.
3 To begin recording, press the left BANK 6 pedal. The red LED glows solidly and the
6 Using the 4 button, move to the tone grid, and then use the knobs to move the
GT-10 immediately starts recording what you’re playing. You can record for up to
cursor horizontally and vertically around the grid to dial in the tone you want.
38 seconds.
7 Press 4 again, and move the cursor around the delay grid to set the delay.
4 When you’re finished recording, press the BANK 6 again. This sets the end point
8 Press the WRITE button.
of your loop and the GT-10 immediately begins looping what you just played. The
9 Turn the big dial to select a User patch location, from U01-1 to U50-4.
LED glows green.
10 Press the WRITE button again—your patch is now saved.
5 You may play over your loop as much as you want.
6 When you’re ready to overdub, press the same BANK 6 pedal again—the LED turns
Editing Your Patch red again as you overdub on top of your loop.
7 Press the BANK 5 pedal again to stop overdubbing. You can repeat the overdubbing
Within a GT-10 patch, any effect and/or amp model can be easily edited or “tweaked” to
process as many times as you wish.
sound exactly the way you want. In the example below we’ll turn on and tweak the delay,
8 To stop and clear your loop, press the BANK 5 pedal.
but you can use the same procedure for reverb, chorus, preamp, FX-1, FX-2, and so on.
9 Now the Phrase Looper is ready to record a new loop. If you’re finished looping,
1 Select a patch you want to edit. press both BANK 6 and BANK 5 pedals simultaneously to turn the Phrase Looper
2 Press the DELAY button until it lights up and delay parameters appear in the display off.
screen. (If the delay button is already lit, you only need to press DELAY once).
3 There are two editing views available in the GT-10: Knob view and List view. Press Note: Creating loops with the GT-10 requires that you start and end recording in rhythm to
make your loop sound even. It’s often best to start recording your loop at exactly Beat 1 of
the DISPLAY MODE button to toggle between the two. Let’s select the Knob view
the measure, and stop recording exactly at Beat 1 of a later measure. This may take some
to start out, because knobs are easy and intuitive to work with. practice. Remember the GT-10’s loop points are set exactly at the point you press the pedal.
Note: There are some parameters that are only available in the List view. When you’re in Tip: While you’re recording and overdubbing with the Phase Looper, you can change
Knob view, you can use the DISPLAY MODE button to toggle in and out of List view. patches. You may even want to create a bank of patches designed for looping. For example,
you could create a special patch with a low octave effect to simulate a bass that you’ll add
4 Use the real knobs under the virtual knobs in the display to change your delay to a loop along with guitar sounds, and keep all of them in your looping bank.
settings as desired.

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