TC Electronic G-Major

Hi again!

I will have to say goodbye to an old friend soon. I have had an ad out for my TC Electronic G-Major.

I have used it for several years together with my ENGL stack. In the beginning I used it for all effects. I controlled it via an old midi foot controller I had. Overall it sounds really nice and contains quite a lot of effects. But after a while a started to go further in my chase for my sound and I discovered that what I really liked when it comes to chorus effects was not what the G-Major could deliver. The G-Major is really good in delivering a nice, soft and transparent chorus sound. What I got a kick from was more of a heavier compressed over the top chorused sound.

So I went internet window shopping for a nice chorus pedal and find one that I really liked on youtube. An old DOD FX65 Stereo Chorus pedal.

 
Just what I was looking for in sound and I found a cheap old used one. I bought it and I just loved the sound. The pedal had not been used for a long time so the pots where almost stuck in their positions, but some electronic cleaning spray together with some heavy turning on the pots from zero to max cured that. The effect was placed before the amp, and therefore before my gain stage, since I thought it sounded better there. I don't use chorus on distorted sound (yet) so it had nothing to do with that, but it sounded somewhat better before then after the gain stage.

After the chorus a couple of more pedals replaced effects from the G-Major. Sometimes it was because of a special tone and sometimes because I wanted the effect before the distortion. For example, I have never really liked phasers because I have followed the general rule that says that you should have modulation effects after distortion. But I was really surprised when I first heard the sound of a slow phaser before distortion...   The  Eddie Van Halen sound!  Yeah!!!

Conclusion: GENERAL RULES SUCK!! Don't listen to other people, i.e. except me, experiment freely with everything when looking for sounds.

After a while the delay was the only effect I was using in the G-Major and then I discovered the class of the tape echo simulations in the Strymon gear. Amazing not to say the least!. So now I have replaced the delay with a Strymon Timeline.

Goodbye! And have a nice rest of your life G-Major!