Gain Changer toggles

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Gain Changer toggles

Postby David Barber » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:52 pm

For those of you who have a Gain Changer, which setting on each of the toggles gets the most use? Which EQ, and which gain? No fair choosing more than one!
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby Cobra Kai » Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:15 pm

High gain, flat mids! I guess I still miss my single channel Unlimited.
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby bigal » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:39 pm

Fat and flat, low gain for me. It's working really well with my single coils, mahogany w/P90s, mahogany w/ humbuckers, and maple-top w/humbuckers. Really wicked pedal, Dave!
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby TeleRod » Mon May 18, 2015 5:47 pm

I've only had my Gain Changer a couple of days, but for right now the sweet spot seems to be: Both toggles to the right, Tone and Gain at noon. :D
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby hobbyist789 » Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:47 am

Almost always both toggles right: low gain & flat mids. I do bump those mids up for a Strat, but generally this is what I stick with. Sounds amazing all the time.
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby Supernova » Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:16 pm

bigal wrote:Fat and flat, low gain for me. It's working really well with my single coils, mahogany w/P90s, mahogany w/ humbuckers, and maple-top w/humbuckers. Really wicked pedal, Dave!


Same for me, I'll add that I like the tone anywhere from 12 - 1 o'clock.

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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby Properpat » Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:09 am

I used to run mine with bumped mids and high gain all the time, but I recently swapped the humbucker in my parts tele and right now I'm diggin' some flat mids and low gain (plus, this pickup really enjoys the GC a lot more than the last one did in general).
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby DreamTheaterRules » Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:38 pm

Since you said only one- flat+fat and low gain.

But this pedal is way to versatile to only use one way. That's they way I use it most because I play humbuckers more than single coils. With SCs, more time is spent on fat. And depending on whether I'm using it as a solo boost, or a gain channel, I use low gain or high gain.

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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby David Barber » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:09 pm

I asked the question a while back because I came up with a new setting, but in order to implement it, one of the toggle settings would have to be replaced, either toggle left, or right. The jury is still out, so my "Bass In Place" setting is still on the back-burner while I think about it, maybe another year will do!


It's takes me a while to think about stuff. :shock:
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Re: Gain Changer toggles

Postby djw » Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:50 pm

Catching up with this thread. I almost always use
Flat + Fat
Low Gain

But I occasionally use the LTD setting, and having the High Gain option is pretty awesome. I guess I'd say I rarely use the SR setting.
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