So I swapped the Pickup Booster out for my MXR 10-band eq with the mids boosted and the gain boosted a little bit similar to how I had it set in my TC Electronic G-System in my main rig, and I found it does a better job of adding some crunch and fuzz to the distortion channel 2 on the Renegade with my PRS guitars without muddying things up. It also adds some grit and punch to the clean channel which clears up when rolling the volume knob back a small amount. Here's a picture of the new layout.
It was pretty tricky to get everything to fit with the cabling, but it's fairly snug and compact now. Now I'm interested in a Z.Vex Fuzz Factory for a different kind of dirt going into the clean channel. The pedal looks small enough to fit in the bottom row of the Pedalboard Mini, or I might move the Egnater footswitch down and put the Fuzz Factory in the top row. We'll see...
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Hello
I am a G system user and very interested in picking up a Renegade. I notice you still have the footswitch hooked up to the Renegade.. was there a problem switching with the G system relays.
Thanks
David, there's no problem at all with the G-System relays switching the channels on the Renegade. This post was talking about a "minimal" setup with a small pedalboard straight into the amp. It works well for certain situations, while the G-System setup is for normal practice or gig situations.
Thanks for the reply. With the footswitch there is an option for channel one / channel two or both ( for reverb, effect, main2 ) I suspect the relay must just do both correct? How do you like the Renegade with the G System.. much change in tone with the G hooked up? I have been using the G for three years and could not live without it. At the present time I am using a two amp rig with a Metroamp 50watt and a Fender Deluxe... looking to simplify a little also with the Renegade.
Thanks for your insight
David
The Renegade has two balanced jacks for the footswitch to handle the switching for channel, reverb, effects loop and lead volume. I first plugged in the footswitch into both jacks as designed and set everything to "both", turned off the reverb (since I'm using the G-System for that), turned on the effects loop (since I do a four-cable method), and turned off the lead volume. The channel can be left at 1 or 2 no matter.
Then I run one balanced cable from the G-System relay jack to the first balanced footswitch jack on the Renegade which handles the channel switching. I leave the other footswitch jack empty since I use reverb and volume boost on the G-System and not on the Renegade.
I like the G-System withe Renegade a lot. It all works reliably and the tone isn't noticeably affected, but be sure to mess with the loop levels and all that in the master menu to make sure you're at 0 db for everything.
I too like having a consolidated setup that's easy to setup and tear down. I put the G-System rack into a 4U SKB case along with a Furman power rack. My four pedals are velcroed down to the inside of the case while plugged into the G-System loops in the rack.
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