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Also - you may observe the forums for popular gear here each have two main areas:
General Discussion - this is for basic questions, conversation
Top Things to Know- this is the "Go To " area for newbies, as its the Fast Track area for Solid Information and important concepts, and discussions.
If you see a thread that gets moved to the Top Things to Know area, its because we want to maintain a high signal to noise ratio of good information here, and not allow crucial bits of information get lost in 6 weeks to page 48 of the General Discussion area, and then forgotten.
In other words, good advice , Important tips, How To's", Bug Workarounds are all provided in the " Top Things to Know" area - that should be the first place to navigate to, as it contains "all the good stuff" and the information contained there is known to be good valid solid information that is important to know.
The Moderators here do read each and every thread, so as soon as any thread here starts to get interesting and someone posts crucial important new concepts which should be shared with the community, one of the moderators here will move the whole thread to the suitable " Top Things to Know" area. Additional new posts on threads already moved to the Top Things to Know area are encouraged!
Do not be alarmed if one of your threads here at VGuitarForums gets relocated or moved or Locked. The Moderators here are simply trying to avoid having dozens of different threads which actually all cover the identical topic. We do encourage you to use search before posting, and we do encourage you to post a new question to old 4 year old threads.
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Anytime you want to search here at vguitarforums, be sure to click to the Forum Home page first, (click Home on upper left ) then enter your search terms in the search box on upper right, then click on the small magnifier glass icon on the left of the search box
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If you omit these steps, the search is rather useless here.
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Damn wheres the thumbs-up smiley
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Its inevitable when we have separate areas for half a dozen processors - to get confused regarding which product is being discussed.
So pay attention to the topic area when responding - ( this is the Boss GP-10 Patch Exchange area , not GR-55 Patch exchange area)
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And remember we have a 10:1 ratio of GR-55 owners here compared to all the others, and the Boss GP-10 has only been available for 5 months and has around 200 patches out there on the internet ( bulk are still at Boss Tone Central)
http://bosstonecentral.com/liveset/category/gp-10/ (http://bosstonecentral.com/liveset/category/gp-10/)
while the GR-55 has over 1,400 Patches in our GR-55 Patch exchange.
Get bulk of GR-55 Patches in one download here:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3684.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3684.0)
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I know there's loads of stuff on GR-55 and I've tried transcribing one or two, but my ears aren't that great and it's not easy.
We have a thread describing a concept called "Patch Cloning" here
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4087.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=4087.0)
which Boss GP-10 Users can employ to convert many meat and potatoes Guitar tone VG-99 / GR-55 patches into Boss GP-10 Patches - for those who can't determine what type COSM Model Guitar > FX > COSM AMP > Delay results in Jimmy Page tone.
Quotebeing useless at guitar, and knowing nothing about "gear"
Then get some training
Start here - learn how effects interact - and hear the results
http://www.bossus.com/go/vpb-2/ (http://www.bossus.com/go/vpb-2/)
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Study Guitar Rigs of the stars
https://web.archive.org/web/20060116011604/http://www.guitargeek.com/
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To get the most from ANY Roland VG/GR/GP/GT COSM Processor - Must read all doc in this thread:
Roland COSM Reference Docs:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0 (https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88.0)
Maybe as an outcome of too many folks spending High School detention in the Library, I discover a backlash of users who avoid ever going into one.
I have renamed all the former "Reference Library" folders to "Top Things to Know" folders.
Hopefully they will get read more often
look at the Looper areas of the forum here:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=254.0
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Suddenly VGuitarforums is not such a lonely place ;)
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If you find any post at VGuitarforums relevant to your question or situation seeking knowledge. regardless of age, feel free to reply on that topic with your question -even if the thread is 12 years old.
Perhaps its a cultural thing, but unlike other forums, We do encourage resurrecting "dead" threads !
VGUITARFORUMS has a vast collection of over a decade of shared cumulative knowledge on many topics and new and old gear , and asking questions on old threads is encouraged-as the moderators do read each and every post.
Side note- in 2009 I briefly was being groomed to work for Gibson Guitars , I was appointed Admin/Moderator for several categories at Gibson User Forums -
Back then they had an arcane master setting that deleted or Hid any post older than 6 months, they claimed this process kept the Forum topics fresh and relevant.
Of course my philosophy is polar opposite, as this crippled my plans to cultivate a repository of shared knowledge for future generations -to grow their goal of moving towards a high tech operation with fast access to answers to "Frequently Asked Questions"
I'm also a member of other forums, yet I'm surprised when on that other forum I get reprimanded for resurrecting a 3 year old thread with a relevant question.
Perhaps its my passion for history, and witnessing several occasions of folks/co workers repeating others mistakes because they ignored reviewing the past.
QuoteThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
Quote from: mshor on January 19, 2022, 10:24:12 PM
Both old links are dead. Is this the same article? https://cycling74.com/articles/expand-your-guitar-vol-1/.
I believe so
Over the past 6 months ShawnB (site Admin) has worked to merge my old "FutureGuitarNow" forum (circa 2009-2013), with VGUITARFORUMS ( 2008- now)
So pay attention to the Date of the post -as VGUITARFORUMS now has a lot of valuable content inherited from FGN , but some links are stale
As always paste dead URL links at Web.Archive.org , many have been archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20080829162812/http://www.cycling74.com/story/2008/7/28/12224/9253