Anyone with BOSS GT6?

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Please help me. I need to find out how to control an effect with the expression pedal on the BOSS GT6 guitar processor. By this i mean instead of the expression pedal controlling volume as its default, i want to assign say FX2 or FX1 to the expression pedal so as i can control the amount of effect going to the clean signal. So if the pedal was down then the sound would be without effect, and when i start to move the pedal more and more effect is added to the sound.
I know this is possible as there are certain presets banks with effects that can be controlled by the expression pedal. I have tried to understand the manual but failed many many times miserablly.

Any help would be great. ta.

P.S. (If anyone knows how to do this, could they give me step by step details on how to achieve this.)
 
I have the Boss GT-6B (for bass) and it's not the same as the Boss GT-6 (for guitar), sorry... but, the info should be in your manual... it's in mine.
 
Yes, but it doesnt make sense to me in the manual. I try and do as it says but it doesnt work. ?@~#
 
As far as I can tell on my GT-6, there are only certain effects that are assignable to the expression pedal--things like volume and wah do not have an "on/off" and can be used at variable intervals. With the other effects (phase, synth, what-have-you), you cannot assign it to the expression pedal so that "some synth" will pass through the signal. It either goes off or on. I think what you may be looking at in the manual is assigning certain effects to the "control" pedal, and even in this case it's still an on/off option.

Sorry for the bad news, but at least that is what it looks like to me. I'll go home and screw around with the pedal some this weekend, and if I find out anything different, I'll definitely let you know.
 
No there is a patch in the GT6 that you can control vibrato with the expression pedal. You can do it. You can assign FX1 or FX2 and maybe more like delay. I just cant figure out how to assign it. ARGGHH.
Cheers anyway.
 
I think I see what you might be talking about. In the manual (around page 43, I believe), it does show that you can assign effects from FX1 or FX2 to the expression pedal, but the way I read it, those effects are assignable to the toe switch as an on/off feature only. (e.g. the little rubber boot under the top of the expression pedal can be used to turn off wah effects when you stomp on it hard, and I'm almost postive that this is what the manual is intending as far as assigning other effects to the expression pedal.)
 
Out of curiosity, which patch is set up to control vibrato with that pedal? (don't have my manual here.) Maybe there's some hidden programming running around, and I'll try screwing around with it some more.
 
off topic kinda, but I've never really liked and figured out the EQ on my GT-6. damn I wish it just had a 10 band eq, but its got the funky stuff. Is it really as hard as I think, or is there something I'm missing and its easy as pie? and the manual sucks at explaining anything...
 
Yeah, no kidding! Hopefully, the GT-7 will include some nice sliding-fader jobbies for EQ. Even though the knobs are "analog-style", you can't just adjust them to that specific EQ setting and have it be there for all your patches--you have to go into each patch and EQ it appropriately. Once you actually start flipping the knobs around, they actually will match up to the display, but once you exit the EQ (and rewrite the patch), the knobs won't be representative of what is stored in the banks.

Damn, you guys are actually looking for sounds in this thing...I've been stoked about the fact that I finally figured out how to mute the tuner and run it to an actual pedal!!
 
For EQ find a good setting and then use it as a default (maybe use a clean sound). This means when you are making a new sound you can copy this default sound to the one you are about to make. That gives you a good starting point for your eq settings. But remember every sound you create might need a different eq setting anyway. I think the eq is easy to use except for the Q value, as it is hard to grasp without a visual of the wave.
 
UNI-V CRUNCH BANK 31-3. See it is true about the myth! You can hear the vibrato getting faster as you move the pedal. And if you go into the FX2 vibrato setting you can actually see the value for "rate" change when you move the pedal.
BUT i still cant see a way of assigning an fx to the expression pedal. I know about the expression SW and ctl SW, but this one truely baffles me.

Try and work out this puzzle and i will try too. If it is a secret programming then i wanna know!
For the price this pedal cost, you would expect it to do this sort of thing and have a clearer manual.
 
Cool, I'll check it out tonight and jump back tomorrow.
 
For example... with the GT-6B you can push the "WAH" button and use the "PATCH/VALUE" knob to assign the wah-wah to "WH" (petal wah), "TW" (touch wah), or "AW" (auto wah)... to assign the wah-wah to the petal... select the "WH" setting. You do the same with the "FX-1" and "FX-2" effects to assign them to the petal.
 
Alright eck, we're getting somewhere!! I checked out that patch, and I thought it was a bit weird that when I pulled up the settings on FX2 (just like you did), it was "volume" that was assigned to the expression pedal. Obviously, that didn't wash with what we were both hearing--the vibrato level would increase, but the rate seemed to be increasing to. After screwing with the parameter buttons and the meter dial, I starting trying to assign different effects over, since (again, like you pointed out) there was a "rate"...umm...thingy in there as well. I also saw that there were basically parameter ranges in there too which I would have to assume were for the expression pedal. If you toy with this, you'll see some MIN and MAX settings.

Stupid manual says NOTHING about this. Glad I didn't bet you. But it does look like you can only assign one parameter at a time to the exp pedal. When you think about it, what would you do if somebody told you to "increase the delay"? Level? Rate? Or feedback? So I think we're at the point where we CAN convince the damn pedal to something different, just not a whole bunch.

Now here's the bad news. While trying to remember what I did, I somehow confused myself, forgot my name, got a headache, and eventually said "fuck it, I'm gonna go watch Spider man." I'm going to look at this some more but in the meantime, try fiddling with those parameter buttons when you're in FX2. (crap, come to think of it, maybe it was the "pedal assign" button? aw, hell...) Anyway, sorry to be a bit non-definitive at this point, but we're getting closer.
 
Yeah, it is a bit of a head pickler this one. I will keep trying to work it out. Im sure it is the assign bit in the pedal menu, but it is quite weird to say the least. Why wouldnt the people at boss put this in the manual? Seems silly. Oh well maybe in a few weeks this problem will be solved eh!!
Keep me posted.
Cheers.
 
Rougemusic : about GT6

Hi there!!! Mayby you could take a look at additionnal foot switch that Boss offer. I think that's the way to do it. You can have another volume expression pedal et or control pedal that are sold separately.

( They wrote the instruction manual for themselves )

I hope that it help you and that you understand my english...lolllll Here in Québec city i dont speak english often.
So, good luck to you!
 
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