T1 ToneMatch® Audio Engine / Tips & Tricks

Problem Solving

Feedback

Use the CompGate - Noise Gate to effectively mute the microphone when there is not a strong vocal.

You will have to experiment to find the best setting.

Thanks Musicman,

It seems so obvious now that the Noise Gate is the answer; still, your post prompted my epiphany. We play electric and definitely louder that an acoustic act. (ex: I use either two customized Blues Jr's in stereo, my '65 Super Reverb, or my ProTube Twin Amp on stage) The tonematch's Noise Gate solved the feedback resulting form my need to push the vocal mike to the max. Also, I don't have to stand in between the microphone and the Bose to avoid that ensuing ring. The band was awestruck by my the improvement in my "mixing prowess". Of course, I didn't tell them that you cued me in. Thanks, (and don't tell anyone you told me, ha!)

Feedback Problems - Esparka

Single Coil Buzz

Use the Noise Gate

The default settings seem to work okay for me.

eliminating single coil buzz - jayare and ST

Piezo Pickup Thump

Use the ParaEQ

Wind Noise

Use the ParaEQ (Woody B called it the notch filter)

I had an extremely windy gig last night. Even with windscreens on the mics they still had the wind rumble. I used the notch filter on my T1 to notch the wind sound out. I don't believe it's called a notch filter on the T1, but I don't remember the correct name. I just turned the volume way up, and adjusted the frequency until the wind noise was gone. I tried using the noise gate, but if it was high enough to eliminate the wind it also eliminated most of the vocals. Usually wind screens solve any wind problems I have, but the wind was so strong I kept my guitar case on stage to sit my guitar in, instead of using a stand. I believe the wind would have blown it over.

What to do in windy conditions - Woody B

Tips

Passive Piezo Pickups

If you have instruments with passive pickups, and instruments with active pickups or preamps, try the passive pickups in T1™ Channels 1, 2, or 3. You can put the instruments with active pickups or preamps into Channels 4/5. Bouzouki with passive McIntyre Pickup to T1™ MBanshee.

Switching between Instruments

Mary (Banshee in the Kitchen) noted

The main trick for me was to remember to hit the channel edit button for the instrument you want to change. For instance, I'd be playing guitar and want to tune in between numbers, so I'd crank around to the tuner and wonder why it wasn't picking up my signal well. Well, I'd been playing with my 12-string settings a while back and that Channel Edit button was still pushed, even though I'd gone on to playing another instrument.

I'm going to develop the habit of hitting the Channel Edit button before doing anything instrument in hand.

Hilmar-at-Bose replied

Do you mute the "unused" channels when you switch instruments ? If you do, you could try to make a habit of hitting the "channel edit" everytime you take a channel out of mute. I've tried that a couple of times when switching basses and it works fairly well for me. I do

• a) hit mute on Channel 1
• b) put bass 1 down
• c) pick up bass 2
• d) hit unmute and Channel Edit on channel 2

This way I don't even have to touch the volume controls on the bass and can go directly back to where I was.

Bypass for A/B Comparisons

Hi Folks,

At the recent L1 users conference in Colorado, we found out that a high percentage of T1 owners did not know about the BYPASS feature that's employed in many places in the T1.

The BYPASS feature is extremely useful in deciding if a particular adjustment is giving you the sound you want. It's a form of an A/B switch.

For example, if you want to hear how a particular ToneMatch preset sound on and off, you would use bypass. If you wanted to hear how a particular reverb sounded you could turn it on and off, on and off. And so on. Most effects have this valuable feature.

As an example, here's the screen after you've chosen a Tonematch preset for Channel 1. In this case, I've chosen the preset for an Audix OM5.

To go into bypass mode, just click on the rotary-push knob below the word "category" on the screen.

Here's what the screen looks like after you push the button.

Quick Tutorial on Highly Useful BYPASS Feature... - Ken-at-Bose