Creating Blues Rock Tones from Scratch with Digital Effects (full Boss GT-1 walkthrough)

[@StephenGallacher]

A nice introduction - it's easy for someone new to this stuff to suffer from option paralysis, so sharing settings that actually work is a great idea.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

cheers Stephen, the factory presets are mostly rubbish with too much volume difference between them. They basically just showcase what it can do with very few practical applications. Took me a while to figure out how to make my own so hopefully this is of use to some folk. Thanks for giving it a watch!

[@TheKingacevedo]

Option paralysis... I've never heard that term before, but it describes it absolutely perfectly.

[@derekhandley3270]

So Gary when you say this unit o we writes the preset what exactly happens . You said it has 99 user patches and 99 presets if they are all the same can you make a mistake a write off a preset forever ?

[@gerrymcgill3209]

Great Strat tones and superb playing .......

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks a lot!

[@magp5851]

Thanks. That was pretty useful! I was about to throw the GT-1 out the window. This video has saved the pedal board. A great tone and a great playing. Best regards from Spain.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Glad you decided to stick with it! Hopefully you'll get more use out of it now. Any questions let me know!

[@oliverwerner7903]

Great sound

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Cheers Oliver

[@jkro30a]

Major props for including DB2 in your demo tunes! Thanks for the settings.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Green Light Girl is such a Jimi style jam. DB2 is a legend for keeping his feel alive

[@ExpandingSpirits]

Thanks for the walk thru, it was very helpful!

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

@@ExpandingSpirits glad to be of service 😁

[@leandrocruzcps]

Dude! This is the best tone so far in my GT - 1! I'd love to see you creating a solo/lead/high gain preset! Thank you!

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thank you sir, I'm glad the video was of use to you! Will put your suggestion in the list of ideas for future videos, although I'm not much of a shredder so don't expect any double tapping or sweep picking in the demo 😂

[@DisruptedSinner]

I have a GT-1 and this was very useful - great info, thanks! :)

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks you Brad! Glad to be of service 😄

[@PatAutrey]

Thank you so much for sharing really appreciate getting to know more about this amazing device We all know and love as the GT - 1

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

It is a strangely maligned amazing bit of gear. We don't care tho. We chuck it in our backpacks and laugh at the guys wheeling in their Helix and Fractals 😂

[@frankeluv]

Love the shirt best movie and thanks for the help

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Cheers 👍

[@craigjenkins6917]

Great tone. Thanks for sharing

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks Craig hope it was useful for you

[@matsnilson7727]

Nice playing and good sound!

[@deanandthebeans857]

Thank you! Seems like digital guitar effects have finally come of age - farewell to valves?

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Aww hell no man 😂 I still don't feel right playing live without my trusty Blues Junior. Just been working with digital stuff for online gigs or silent stage setups. Thanks for the comment! 🤘

[@quarteracre8051]

this is the best one so far !! thanks

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks a lot, more to come 👍

[@mapuiakckc3729]

Thank you so much. Im new to digital effect.. my tone so sucks , after watching your video tone got so good .. thank you...

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Nice one thanks for the comment. Glad the video helped!

[@robpickles-z3v]

The amp presets are great through a transistor clean amp

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Nice one Rob, yes they can be useful that way if you set the amp to be at flat as possible. You're best to turn off the speaker sim on the GT1 inside it's amp settings so you're not emulating a speaker through a speaker, unless of course the real speaker you're going through is FRFR. Also, if you can bypass the preamp section on your transistor amp by using an effects "return" input, you'll bypass the eq stage of the amp and get a clearer representation of what the GT1 can do. All the best 🤘

[@Geocifuentes]

Omg great tone bro thanks 🎸🔥

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks Geo, hope it was of use to you. Let me know if you have any Q's 👍

[@HenryAmat]

Great job. Thank you!

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Cheers Henry hope it's of use to you!

[@ShavasanaKitty]

Thanks! That was pretty useful!

[@gabriel_santana_86]

That's a great tone! :-)

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks Gabriel. Just takes a bit of fiddling but it’s all possible with these little boards

[@Marciojzb1]

Timbre maravilhoso!

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thank you Marcio, hope it helped!

[@kevinquinn6874]

Thanks so much Gary! You walk through was super helpful! I'm been watching tutorials on the GT 1 that I'm pretty new to. Looking forward to more content on the GT 1 and of course I subscribed to your channel. :) And you playing is really Great! Appreciate you, best wishes from L.A., California Keep Rocking!

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Hi Kevin thanks for the feedback. Hope you’re enjoying the GT1, it’s been a game changer for me and a lot less hassle than a big stomp box board which although is “cool”, doesn’t give you remotely the bang for buck that this does. Any questions hit me up 🤙

[@robertmckenzie2789]

great playin

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thanks Robert hope the vid was useful to you

[@cyprineocloo7693]

Thank you very much , Bro. that was very helpful.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Thank you for watching Cyprine, I’m glad it was of use to you 🤙

[@lehmusic2675]

Nice tones. Love GT1 have you plugged Digitech Foot switch adds so many more stompbox/exp settings

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Hi LEH, thanks for the comment, I use a boss fs6 for switching between patches. The great thing about that is you can use it for gigs you need it for, but if I’m just doing one style all night I’ll leave it in my gig bag to simplify the setup.

[@alexreis3615]

I think it's more about the guitar than the Boss GT-1. ...but I have one and it really is a good multi effects.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

True, but the guitar here is nothing too out there it's just a Highway One with Texas Special style pickups. As they say it's all in the fingers 😁 As illustrated in the YT video of Mayer playing gravity on an Epi LP with a bunch of college kids. Thanks for watching, and let me know if you have any Q's 👍

[@Hammerman48]

Great video…..but easier to edit patches using the Tone Studio software on your laptop.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Agreed! This vid is directed at homeless guitarists who don't own computers 😁

[@accentontheoff]

Greetings. Kind of unrelated, i realise, but just wondering how you chose this particular device over the million others in the market. I’m the middle of deciding what to get and finding it hard to choose between this and a few others such as the Boss M80, the Zoom G5n and the Mooer GE150. Any advice? Thanks. Although, your entertaining tutorial has perhaps helped make my decision a little easier.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Hi thanks for the message. To be honest this is the first digital multi I've had since the Zoom 505 in 2001 😂 I've since upgraded to a Boss GT100 as it uses similar software and functionality but with more footswitches so less need to change patches (if you use it the way I do as a virtual stomp board). I'd thoroughly recommend anything by Boss if you can put up with Fractal or Helix users looking down their nose at you. Confuse them with your own pure class digital tone. Whatever you go with, you can use the process in this video to build a tone from scratch rather than sticking to the pretty useless albeit showy presets. Good luck dude!

[@accentontheoff]

@@garyjohnstonemusic Hi, appreciate the reply. And the whole thing about looking down on / being looked down upon is funny 😄. Fortunately, I too do not care too much about the name on the tin. Since I posted here, I’ve come close to choosing the GT1 - the only cause for doubt remaining is the ME80 seems a lot easier to use for an effects beginner. But the GTs have far more options. Either ways will refer to your video later (have saved it) once I pick up the pedal. Thanks! And Cheers.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

You're right that the ME would be easier for a beginner simply because the interface is more user friendly but I guarantee once you spend a bit of time with this little device you'll realise that it can do anything that the bigger ones can. For me playing so many live gigs on small stages this thing just makes so much sense. I've always found "Mo knobs mo problems" 😁 I'm more inclined to fiddle with stuff if it's available. For most gigs now I use this and my Tom Delonge style strat copy and the hassle-free simplicity makes me have more fun just performing. Each to their own but having been through countless setups and pedalboards I'd say keep it as simple as possible when it comes to live work. Happy rocking bro 🤘

[@accentontheoff]

@@garyjohnstonemusic Went ahead and bought the GX-100. Mainly because it’s a new technology and great reviews about feel - which are true. As luck would have it they released the ME-90 soon after 😊. But I’m committed now. The GX-100 is not easy to use if you’re not an effects expert. But I’m working on it. Sounds pretty good to my ears although it does need some tweaking.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Hope it works out for you man 👍

[@robertodias8750]

Passa os parâmetros de configurações.

[@dennisloobman8013]

2.56; "you have another whole hundred bank of ones that are NOT editable?? WTF??? Newbie to the GT1 here and confused already, please explain.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Sorry if that wasn't clear Dennis. With most multi FX units like this you'll find that they have a set amount of "NPC" presets which are really just for demonstrating what the unit can do, then another set that are editable. Hope that's of use. Any Questions just let me know and I'll get back to you in another 2 months 😂

[@dennisloobman8013]

@@garyjohnstonemusic cheers Gary, this video is a big help but it comes at the GT1 by starting with a clean page and building your patch from there (your SRV patch in this particular example), but this doesn’t really cover use of the presets very well, perhaps you've already covered this question in another vid, but I digress.. Now my understanding is that I have 100 ‘preset’ pages (some of which are pretty cool), PLUS 100 ‘editable’ pages, but I’m not sure how to identify the one type from the other and in particular, how to go about ‘swapping’ patches between the two. I imagine I should be able to select a sound I like in the ‘preset’ pages and then move it to any position I like within the 100 ‘editable’ pages. Having done that I should then be able to make my own minor adjustments and save the result in that particular ‘editable’ patch number. I’m sure it’s all very simple but it isn’t very clear or obvious how to do it, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Fanx 😃

[@octavio-blues-sound3022]

Please... Does the GT-1 has a Drums Machine in-built as a Rhythm trainer???... Because nobody talks about that clearly and those of us who have problems with rhythm and with budget will like to hear about it plainly...! Thanks a lot in advance...

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Hi thanks for the comment. No it doesn't have a drum machine built in

[@octavio-blues-sound3022]

@@garyjohnstonemusic Thanx a lot... Really useful...!

[@rubberbandlevin]

Great vid, any chance you can try the same type of tones without the pre amp, it’s pretty much unusable with my Roland blues cube stage 60. Mike.

[@garyjohnstonemusic]

Ah ok so as I said in the vid, you can use a lot of this info if you just deactivate the preamp. If you can get a decent crunchy clean tone out of the cube, just use these settings and use the GT1 as you would a normal pedalboard. I’ll be doing a vid on how to set up the lower 3 buttons soon

[@michiomichiba]

Lot of talk my God