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ZOOM G9.2tt Guitar Effects Console

Introduction/Preamble
I was just thinking back to when I first got serious about the Guitar, when amplification and effects equipment was either non-existant, hard to come by or just too expensive - certainly as regards the money I had available at the time - the pre-MOS-FET era was certainly more of a challenge in using the old 807, EL34, EL84 Valves, and one of the main binds, was having to build a substantial metal chassis to build the whole thing on, but at least being a budding electronics engineer was of great help. One of the first effects that I got was a second hand Watkins Copycat, which didn't work, 2 ECC83's a 6BR8, and used a tape loop directly driven from the motor spindle, and a small eclipse magnet in the pulley head to wipe the tape clean on each pass, and was pretty nifty stuff in those early days. The problem with the Unit was eventually found to be the Triode-Pentode 6BR8, and a part that was quite difficult to source at the time, but, did eventually manage to get hold of one!
In those early days practice equipment was very primitive, and to emulate what can be done today would just be absolutely impossible!
If only the G9.2tt Effects console, an MP3 Player and some backing tracks, and a pair of Beyer Dynamic Headphones had been available in those early days - WOW! - your own Hi-Fi Mini Music Studio in your own bedroom, and nothing really to bother your family, or indeed the neighbours!

Fig.1 - Zoom G9.2tt Top View(Click Image for Larger View)

Fig.2 - Zoom G9.2tt Isometric View(Click Image for Larger View)

On receipt of the unit and opening the box, I just couldn't fail to be absolutely and totally impressed by the shear quality of the unit, and my first thought was, however was I going to persuade myself to put my foot on a thing of such beauty! - but, that was only the start ...
Like most things, and most people, I just couldn't wait to get started, so first putting the 'huge handbook' to one side plugged the whole thing in to see what it would do straight out of the box! and within minutes was playing along to a backing track ... totally at one with my new unit, and delighted and trilled with my new purchase ...
To say that the G9.2tt was a good buy would probably be the greatest of understatements, and probably ranks as one of the best buys made during my lifetime!
What follows is a brief overview of the G9.2tt, a full account of the Units capabilities would require many dozens of pages, which is well beyond the scope of this document, and being honest is also well beyond the useage that I have ever needed to put it too! and would probably think I have used no more than about 5% of its capabilities! and would therefore direct any aspiring owner/user to read the PDF manual which is freely available on-line.
Addendum - Sadly the G9.2tt has now been discontinued ....

The G9.2tt Overview
Zoom is a Japanese company, which has been in the guitar effects market since the 1980's, and manufacture the G9.2tt, which is a cutting edge multi-effects and amplifier simulator with features not found on other devices, such as the innovative Z-pedal and dual tube pre-amps. The G9.2tt is built around Zoom's proprietary ZFX-3 32-bit chip with industry leading 96kHz/24-bit sampling. The power of the G9 at any level should not be under estimated, and at the time of writing this, it is one of the most powerful all-in-one units on the market.
The G9.2tt includes 2 separate expression pedals, the left - Pedal.1 is a standard Volume/Swell Pedal, the right - Pedal.2 being classed as the Z-pedal, the Z-pedal works just like a regular expression pedal, except that flicking the switch on the left side of the pedal allows the top part of the pedal to be moved horizontally, in addition to up and down, in effect, it's really like having three expression pedals packed into the same unit, since left, right, and Z can all be programmed independently.
The Unit also features vacuum tube-based analog input and output gain stages, and are called the Accelerator and Energizer respectively, both using a 12AX7 (ECC83 in UK terms) double-triode vacuum tube, both can be blended with the solid-state circuitry for as much or as little of the characteristic warm tube drive tones as needed!
Features at a Glance:

ZFX-3 32-bit Processor

96kHz Sampling Rate - 24-Bit AD/DA Converters

Fast Patch change speed: 7ms

Supports 200 patches, 100 factory and 100 user

106 Effects/ 10 Modules

Two 12AX7 vacuum tubes for natural overdrive/compression, drive/volume

Dual Expression pedals

Z-Pedal allowing multi-dimensional parameter control

USB interface for direct computer connectivity

MIDI Support

Bundled Steinberg Cubase LE Software

Remote Patch Editor/Librarian available online

Setup
As previous stated, and depending on your requirements, the G9.2tt can take a matter minutes to set up or indeed several hours! At its simplest, you can just take it out of the box, plug in your guitar, and plug the mono-out to your amp, or the L/R stereo-outs to your PA System, Click the OUTPUT GAIN switch (-10 dBm or +4 dBm) to the correct setting for your amplification method (eg. recording or amp), or indeed as in the case of my own personal music studio requirements ... plug in the guitar, plug in the MP3 backing track player, plug in the headphones ... and away you go! ... your own personal music studio in a matter of seconds! ... really! what more could you ask for ...
A simple Zoom G9-2tt Demonstration
A Simple Set-Up Demonstration Track using the fabulous Zoom G9-2tt, which can be found HERE. This Track is also duplicated in the Audio Section covering the use of the <audio> html tag using an HTML5 compatible Browser for web page audio inclusion.

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ZOOM G9.2tt Guitar Effects Console Introduction/Preamble I was just thinking back to when I first got serious about the Guitar, when amplification and effects equipment was either non-existant, hard to come by or just too expensive - certainly as regards the money I had available at the time - the pre-MOS-FET era was certainly more of a challenge in using the old 807, EL34, EL84 Valves, and one of the main binds, was having to build a substantial metal chassis to build the whole thing on, but at least being a budding electronics engineer was of great help. One of the first effects that I got was a second hand Watkins Copycat, which didn't work, 2 ECC83's a 6BR8, and used a tape loop directly driven from the motor spindle, and a small eclipse magnet in the pulley head to wipe the tape clean on each pass, and was pretty nifty stuff in those early days. The problem with the Unit was eventually found to be the Triode-Pentode 6BR8, and a part that was quite difficult to source at the time, but, did eventually manage to get hold of one! In those early days practice equipment was very primitive, and to emulate what can be done today would just be absolutely impossible! If only the G9.2tt Effects console, an MP3 Player and some backing tracks, and a pair of Beyer Dynamic Headphones had been available in those early days - WOW! - your own Hi-Fi Mini Music Studio in your own bedroom, and nothing really to bother your family, or indeed the neighbours! Fig.1 - Zoom G9.2tt Top View(Click Image for Larger View) Fig.2 - Zoom G9.2tt Isometric View(Click Image for Larger View) On receipt of the unit and opening the box, I just couldn't fail to be absolutely and totally impressed by the shear quality of the unit, and my first thought was, however was I going to persuade myself to put my foot on a thing of such beauty! - but, that was only the start ... Like most things, and most people, I just couldn't wait to get started, so first putting the 'huge handbook' to one side plugged the whole thing in to see what it would do straight out of the box! and within minutes was playing along to a backing track ... totally at one with my new unit, and delighted and trilled with my new purchase ... To say that the G9.2tt was a good buy would probably be the greatest of understatements, and probably ranks as one of the best buys made during my lifetime! What follows is a brief overview of the G9.2tt, a full account of the Units capabilities would require many dozens of pages, which is well beyond the scope of this document, and being honest is also well beyond the useage that I have ever needed to put it too! and would probably think I have used no more than about 5% of its capabilities! and would therefore direct any aspiring owner/user to read the PDF manual which is freely available on-line. Addendum - Sadly the G9.2tt has now been discontinued .... The G9.2tt Overview Zoom is a Japanese company, which has been in the guitar effects market since the 1980's, and manufacture the G9.2tt, which is a cutting edge multi-effects and amplifier simulator with features not found on other devices, such as the innovative Z-pedal and dual tube pre-amps. The G9.2tt is built around Zoom's proprietary ZFX-3 32-bit chip with industry leading 96kHz/24-bit sampling. The power of the G9 at any level should not be under estimated, and at the time of writing this, it is one of the most powerful all-in-one units on the market. The G9.2tt includes 2 separate expression pedals, the left - Pedal.1 is a standard Volume/Swell Pedal, the right - Pedal.2 being classed as the Z-pedal, the Z-pedal works just like a regular expression pedal, except that flicking the switch on the left side of the pedal allows the top part of the pedal to be moved horizontally, in addition to up and down, in effect, it's really like having three expression pedals packed into the same unit, since left, right, and Z can all be programmed independently. The Unit also features vacuum tube-based analog input and output gain stages, and are called the Accelerator and Energizer respectively, both using a 12AX7 (ECC83 in UK terms) double-triode vacuum tube, both can be blended with the solid-state circuitry for as much or as little of the characteristic warm tube drive tones as needed! Features at a Glance: ZFX-3 32-bit Processor 96kHz Sampling Rate - 24-Bit AD/DA Converters Fast Patch change speed: 7ms Supports 200 patches, 100 factory and 100 user 106 Effects/ 10 Modules Two 12AX7 vacuum tubes for natural overdrive/compression, drive/volume Dual Expression pedals Z-Pedal allowing multi-dimensional parameter control USB interface for direct computer connectivity MIDI Support Bundled Steinberg Cubase LE Software Remote Patch Editor/Librarian available online Setup As previous stated, and depending on your requirements, the G9.2tt can take a matter minutes to set up or indeed several hours! At its simplest, you can just take it out of the box, plug in your guitar, and plug the mono-out to your amp, or the L/R stereo-outs to your PA System, Click the OUTPUT GAIN switch (-10 dBm or +4 dBm) to the correct setting for your amplification method (eg. recording or amp), or indeed as in the case of my own personal music studio requirements ... plug in the guitar, plug in the MP3 backing track player, plug in the headphones ... and away you go! ... your own personal music studio in a matter of seconds! ... really! what more could you ask for ... A simple Zoom G9-2tt Demonstration A Simple Set-Up Demonstration Track using the fabulous Zoom G9-2tt, which can be found HERE. This Track is also duplicated in the Audio Section covering the use of the <audio> html tag using an HTML5 compatible Browser for web page audio inclusion.