TC Electronic G-Sharp User Manual - The Effects Engine
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THE EFFECTS ENGINE
Effects engine
Effect Selector
With the EFFECTS selector you select between
one of the following effects and Off.
• Dynamic Delay
• Soft Delay
• Tape Delay
• Lo-Fi Delay
• Clean Delay
• PingPong Delay
• SlapBack Delay
• Vintage Phaser
• Smooth Phaser
• Swell Tremolo
• Hard Tremolo
• Vibrato
• Flange
• Lush Chorus
• Soft Chorus
-12dB, -6dB, -3dB Gain Reduction LEDs
These LEDs indicate the applied gain reduction
on the delay repeats when the Dynamic Delay
is selected. - The purpose of the Dynamic
Delay is to reduce the level of the delay repeats
while you play and increase the level of the
repeats in-between phrases.
This is a classic “ducking function” from the
legendary TC2290.
TAP key and TIMING knob
Delay Effects:
The tempo of the Delay effects is set using both
the TAP key and the TIMING knob.
By tapping the TAP key you set a “global
tempo“ that you can increase/decrease using
the TIMING knob.
With the TIMING knob in 12 o’clock position the
tapped tempo equals 1/4 notes.
With the TIMING knob in fully counter-clockwise
position (min), the delay time is multiplied by
0.5 thus giving half the tapped tempo.
With the TIMING knob in fully clock-wise
position (max), the delay time is multiplied by 2
giving the double delay time.
Example
Let us say that you tap quarter notes in tempo
120BPM using the TAP key. With the TIMING
knob in 12 o’clock position you now have a
Delay time of 500ms*.
If you turn the TIMING knob fully counter-
clockwise the actual Delay time will be
0.5 times 500ms= 250ms
If you turn the TIMING knob fully clockwise the
tempo will be:
2 times 500ms=1000ms (1 second)
When powering up the G-Sharp the default
tempo is 120BPM, but as explained above the
position of the TIMING knob defines the actual
tempo.
*The nature of a Slapback Delay is very short
delay times and the range of this delay type is
therefore much shorter with this delay type
selected.