Sascha Franck
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Nah. After all, there's no need to get it that quickly.
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Nah. After all, there's no need to get it that quickly.
ragingplatypi
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Sascha Franck
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No worries, got enough of them left.
Still, this thing would've made a great toy for the x-mas holidays when we're somewhere on the road.
Dave Lewis
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bucephalus
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Anderton's have them in stock in UK
Sascha Franck
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Watched the Andertons video earlier already. Doesn't make me want it less for sure.
I already knew the delays and verbs wouldn't be too great, but they're serviceable. But it seems to play pretty well with loaded captures, especially in terms of dynamics, which defenitely is the most crucial part for me.
So, Thomann, come on!
I already knew the delays and verbs wouldn't be too great, but they're serviceable. But it seems to play pretty well with loaded captures, especially in terms of dynamics, which defenitely is the most crucial part for me.
So, Thomann, come on!
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This arrived earlier from Guildford 
Sascha Franck
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So?
Sascha Franck
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GP-50 on its way to my parents-in-law, will be there on Tuesday. Gonna be a very neat thing to explore over the (otherwise sometimes pretty boring) x-mas/NY holidays.
Dave Lewis
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I’ve been seriously messing about with it now for a few days.
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ragingplatypi
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Dag, I started seriously thinking about pulling the trigger on this, and it’s already out of stock with a bunch of sellers.
Sascha Franck
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Delayed yet again... 29th now. No xmas jamming.
madmarcus1960
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Just got my SHOP shipping notice for a GP-50. Label created, item in to be picked up. I'm in NH, shipped from CA, so mid next week?
Dave Lewis
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Loads available in the UK 
Sascha Franck
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So, Santa has been early, unit arrived at my parents-in-law, me too, nothing else left to do today but checking the thing out.
Only switched it on so far and looked through some stuff, everything seems pretty solid.
Time to get the guitar out.
Will post my first impressions later.
Only switched it on so far and looked through some stuff, everything seems pretty solid.
Time to get the guitar out.
Will post my first impressions later.
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Great stuff man!
Really curious how you feel it performs & if the NAM conversion is good.
Sascha Franck
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Very first quick impressions, wanted to check the unit on its own, no editor, no NAM files, just the onboard stuff.
- 100/100 presets => trash. Overcompressed and partially fx-laden silly stuff. Don't try to impress me with FX when the FX are just serviceable but no better (which was to be expected, but in that case, FX washed sounds are just a dumb idea). Had to stop with the presets after 30 or so, it's just no fun.
- Amps: Some decent, some really bad. The Bassmen are both fine for me, the UK50 and 800 are ok. Anything heavier is pretty meh IMO - but I knew that before and don't need heavy stuff. Could play pretty much any gig with just the Bassman and the 800 plus some variations.
- Boosts and drives are usable. Nothing to write home about but nothing terribly bad, either.
- FX are, well, usable too. Again obviously nothing to write home about.
- On unit editing: Very easy. No need for a manual in case you're remotely familiar with digital FX units. There's not much parameters to tweak anyway and after 2 minutes you know how to get there. Created a kinda gig ready patch after 5 minutes with the unit (medium drive /w extra drive on one switch, the other switch adding a boost and some delay).
- I already wish there was an option to limit the patch up/down thing to even just 2. That way I could use one switch for patch cycling and the other for a lead modification. No idea whether Valeton would listen to such suggestions, but I'll give it a try.
- Excellent support of external footswitches.
- Headphone out seems powerful enough to drive pretty much any models.
Mini resume so far: This is already worth its money as a backup unit. Even without having checked NAM import, this would save my ass in pretty much any situation. Battery operation is an incredibly nice bonus for me, so far I didn't plug it in anywhere. just hanging on the sofa at my parents-in-law place.
On to loading some NAM stuff and what not.
- 100/100 presets => trash. Overcompressed and partially fx-laden silly stuff. Don't try to impress me with FX when the FX are just serviceable but no better (which was to be expected, but in that case, FX washed sounds are just a dumb idea). Had to stop with the presets after 30 or so, it's just no fun.
- Amps: Some decent, some really bad. The Bassmen are both fine for me, the UK50 and 800 are ok. Anything heavier is pretty meh IMO - but I knew that before and don't need heavy stuff. Could play pretty much any gig with just the Bassman and the 800 plus some variations.
- Boosts and drives are usable. Nothing to write home about but nothing terribly bad, either.
- FX are, well, usable too. Again obviously nothing to write home about.
- On unit editing: Very easy. No need for a manual in case you're remotely familiar with digital FX units. There's not much parameters to tweak anyway and after 2 minutes you know how to get there. Created a kinda gig ready patch after 5 minutes with the unit (medium drive /w extra drive on one switch, the other switch adding a boost and some delay).
- I already wish there was an option to limit the patch up/down thing to even just 2. That way I could use one switch for patch cycling and the other for a lead modification. No idea whether Valeton would listen to such suggestions, but I'll give it a try.
- Excellent support of external footswitches.
- Headphone out seems powerful enough to drive pretty much any models.
Mini resume so far: This is already worth its money as a backup unit. Even without having checked NAM import, this would save my ass in pretty much any situation. Battery operation is an incredibly nice bonus for me, so far I didn't plug it in anywhere. just hanging on the sofa at my parents-in-law place.
On to loading some NAM stuff and what not.
