Roland GT-8 - Manual

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GT-8

Guitar Effects

Processor

TurboStart

TBS 232

©2005 Roland Corporation U.S.

www.RolandUS.com

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Welcome

Congratulations on your purchase of the Roland
GT-8. This TurboStart contains step-by-step
instructions that will quickly introduce you to the
GT-8’s major features.

Setting Up the GT-8’s Outputs

For optimal sound, configure the GT-8’s outputs for
the device to which they’re connected to:
1. Press OUTPUT SELECT until “Output Select”

appears in the display.

2. Turn the PATCH/VALUE dial to choose the

desired option.

Select:

When you’re connected to:

JC-120

a Roland JC-120 input.

SMALL AMP

a small, or "practice," guitar
amp input.

COMBO AMP

a Combo Amp input.

STACK AMP

a Stack Amp input.

JC-120 Return

the effects return jack of a
Roland JC-120 amp.

COMBO Return

the effects return jack of a
Combo Amp.

STACK Return

the effects return jack of a
stack amp.

LINE/PHONES

headphones, a mixer or
recording device input.

3. Press EXIT when you’re finished.

Tuning the Guitar

The GT-8 features a built-in chromatic tuner that
allows you to tune your guitar quickly and easily.
Here’s how to use it:
1. Press the TUNER/BYPASS button so it’s lit.
2. Play your high open E string. The display shows

the name of the note closest in the pitch to the
string you’ve played.

3. Do a rough tuning so that “E” appears in the

display

.

4. Tune the string more precisely until “

❚

“ appears

in the center. If “>” appears at the left of the
display, the pitch of the string is flat. If “<”
appears at the right of the display, the pitch is
sharp.

5. Repeat Steps 1-4 for the remaining strings.

Selecting Patches

A patch is a group of selected effect combinations
along with their individual settings. There are 140
user patches and 200 preset patches in the GT-8.
Patches are organized in banks of four. The user
banks contain patches U1-1 through U35-4. The
preset banks contain patches P36-1 through P85-4.
Use the following steps to select a patch:
1. Confirm you’re in the main (play) menu by

pressing EXIT a few times.

2. Press the BANK Up or BANK Down pedal to

select the desired bank.

3. Press Pedals 1-4 individually to select patches

within the bank.

4. You can also turn the PATCH/VALUE dial to

scroll through the banks and patches.

Clearing a Patch (Initialization)

You can clear, or “initialize,” any user patch. This can
be handy when you want to build a patch from
scratch, starting from a clean slate. Use the following
steps to initialize a user patch.

Note

: Initializing completely resets the parameters of

the selected patch. If you’ve edited the current patch
and want to keep your edits, be sure to write the
patch to another user memory location—as described
on the next page—before initializing.

1. Turn the PATCH/VALUE dial or use the BANK

Up/Down

and 1-4 pedals to select the user

patch you’d like to initialize.

2. Press the WRITE button.
3. Press the PARAMETER



button until

“Initialize” appears in the display. To cancel the
initialization process at this point, press EXIT.

4. Press WRITE. The patch is now initialized.