North Idaho: I run balanced cables on most of my stuff as I find I get a hotter, cleaner signal. When I run my 2101 into a power amp live, I take the XLR's out of the back and go into the power amps at 1/4 TRS on the other ends. For studio, straight XLR's right into my console. If you were going to send your pedal board into a console or a soundcard, you could try running TRS 1/4's coming out of your pedal board and XLR jacks on the other end to go into the board. But the console or soundcard would need to have XLR inputs for this to work. Using 1/4 TRS on both ends is not recommended for guitar signals. Most of those types of cables are used for footswitches or amp switching boxes. You'd need something like this to go into a console from your pedal board. Īnd this is what I use going from my 2101 to my power amps.One of the most attractive aspects of MIDI is that though it was designed to allow keyboards and computers to communicate with each other, it can also be applied to many other forms of music-making. Drummers, wind-instrument players and sound engineers all now use MIDI, and, of course, so do guitarists. The most familiar application of MIDI for guitarists is in 'guitar synths', which use guitar-like controllers such as the Yamaha GS-10 to play synthesiser sounds. But these instruments tend to be expensive, and most guitarists are happy to stick with their conventional electric guitars, and enhance their sounds with effects units. The DigiTech GSP-5 is a combined pre-amp and programmable effects unit which lets guitarists make the most of MIDI without adventuring into the sometimes baffling world of synths and samplers.

Rather than forcing guitarists to rely on a pile of little battery-powered boxes for their effects, the GSP-5 aims to provide a complete 'signal-processing' system in one unit.

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