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Rack is back with legendary TC tone and easy integration. The TC Electronic G-Major 2 is made by guitarists for guitarists. This multi-effects processor is pure guitar magic in a single-space rackmountable unit at a price that lets you ease into greatness.
Studio-quality sounds combined with stompbox simplicity is geared for your most heavy-duty performances. These are not modeling wannabes, but pure undiluted TC Electronic effects in a league of their own. The G-Major 2 offers easy integration with your current setup and pain-free on-the-fly editing. Or use a MIDI interface for more dedicated patch programming using the included PC/Mac editor. G-Major 2 processor houses all the classic TC Electronic effects that made the original G-Major a favorite among passionate hobby musicians and pros alike.
It adds a wide range of guitar effects and features based on feedback and requests from dedicated users of the G-Major platform. From the delays, reverbs and modulation effects that helped define the industry and new daring sounds such as Tri-Chorus, Through-Zero langer, modulated delays, and Univibe, everything is done with impeccable TC Electronic quality. Digital Inputs and Outputs Connectors: RCA Phono (S/PDIF) Formats: S/PDIF (24 bit), EIAJ CP-340, IEC 958 Output Dither: HPF/TPDF dither 24/20/16/8 bit Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz Processing Delay: 0.1 ms @ 48 kHz Frequency Response DIO: DC to 23.9 kHz ± 0.01 dB @ 48 kHz Analog Inputs Connectors: ¼' phone jack, balanced Impedance, Bal / Unbal: 21 kOhm / 13 kOhm Max. Input Level: +24 dBu Min. Input Level for 0 dBFS: 0 dBu Sensitivity @ 12 dB headroom: -12 dBu to +12 dBu A to D Conversion: 24 bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream A to D Delay: 0.65 ms / 0.70 ms @ 48 kHz / 44.1 kHz Dynamic Range: 100 dB typ, 20 Hz - 20 kHz THD: typ. Great processor at a great price Overall if you're looking for a dedicated effects unit at a great price that works well with MIDI and plays well with other units then this is the product for you.
I've been playing. Overall if you're looking for a dedicated effects unit at a great price that works well with MIDI and plays well with other units then this is the product for you.
I've been playing guitar for 20+ years and this unit sounds great in a serial setup whether through my preamp (Sansamp PSA1.1-another great product) or my Carvin V3 head. There's a bit of a learning curve to programming and some of the routing functions but once you get passed that, you're golden. I highly recommend this unit.
I never do reviews like this, but I read some of the negative reviews and felt compelled to give this unit a great review because it's a great product. Just learn to take care of your gear by treating the knobs and buttons nicely and do yourself a favor and get a nice rack case if you're going to have rack gear. This is a pro unit, it deserves a pro case. For this having been my first experience with rackmount effects (I've played for over 20 years with nothing but pedals), this unit had the most features in terms of delays, reverbs and modulations for the price that I could find.
I'm not really too interested in the EQ, gate or compression but they are handy and serve their function should I need them. We mic everything through our PA and we have a gate already on all the instruments so the noise gate isn't something that benefits me greatly or that I would even need to use. I'm not running super high-gan distortion.
The different routing options and modifiers are great and work well with my midi controller. I was wanting a unit that performed strictly effects as I have a rackmount preamp for clean/distortion tones. This works well for me in that respect. The midi function from my GM2 to my midi/firewire interface is awesome and works flawlessly. The Vyzor editor is great for editing, saving (for backup purposes) and transferring presets and I've had no problems. Again, with this being my first experience with rackmount effects I can't compare this to something else. I have played the POD modelers and other units out there and this isn't even in the same category as it is effects only.
Aside from that, I've read that some people find the buttons and rotary knobs somewhat cheap. With this in mind, I did rate this a little lower in that respect, but my experience varies. I keep mine in a heavy duty rack case at all times and I'm careful how I push the buttons when I need to. Once you get all your presets programmed, it's basically a non-issue. So no issues with that. The case is steel, everything seems solid. Again, first experience.
For what you get in this little box, this thing sounds fantastic for the price. My brother tried to convince me to get the GT10, this thing is much better for my needs. I don't need something with built-in modeling and would rather have a dedicated unit for effects and this does the job nicely. Buyer Beware I bought a G Major 2 which worked until the warranty period expired.
First the power supply failed, and was replaced for $100. Since then the unit freezes whenever it receives a signal. I bought a G Major 2 which worked until the warranty period expired.
First the power supply failed, and was replaced for $100. Since then the unit freezes whenever it receives a signal rendering it useless. The repairer says that this is a common problem seen in 1 to 2 percent of the units, requiring a major service including removal and re-soldering of all ICs, removal of front and soldering of ribbon connectors.
TC responded that they have a warranty policy and that my complaining about wasting[$] on this piece of rubbish is not 'fair'. Unit has broken, will never buy a TC product again. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I bought this to replace my jungle of pedals. I did so based on reviews and hype.
I thought this was the way to go forsure. You would think that after so many issues with the GM1 that TCE would have worked out the kinks and come back with a better unit as a whole. That didn't happen. The major flaws in these units are simple. VERY hard to program, even for those with experience and the build quality. The main flaw in the build quality is the ribbon that connects the front panel with the board. The ribbon is negatively affected by a lot of factors.
In fact its affected by basically anything and everything. The next mogul was programming the GM2 with the FCB1010, this was a headache that a bottle of tylenol couldn't help. Avoid this unit at all costs. The effects are beautiful and extremely high quality, it's too bad there's so many hurdles in the way of using them.
Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: Overall if you're looking for a dedicated effects unit at a great price that works well with MIDI and plays well with other units then this is the product for you. I've been playing guitar for 20+ years and this unit sounds great in a serial setup whether through my preamp (Sansamp PSA1.1-another great product) or my Carvin V3 head. There's a bit of a learning curve to programming and some of the routing functions but once you get passed that, you're golden. I highly recommend this unit. I never do reviews like this, but I read some of the negative reviews and felt compelled to give this unit a great review because it's a great product. Just learn to take care of your gear by treating the knobs and buttons nicely and do yourself a favor and get a nice rack case if you're going to have rack gear. This is a pro unit, it deserves a pro case.
For this having been my first experience with rackmount effects (I've played for over 20 years with nothing but pedals), this unit had the most features in terms of delays, reverbs and modulations for the price that I could find. I'm not really too interested in the EQ, gate or compression but they are handy and serve their function should I need them. We mic everything through our PA and we have a gate already on all the instruments so the noise gate isn't something that benefits me greatly or that I would even need to use. I'm not running super high-gan distortion.
The different routing options and modifiers are great and work well with my midi controller. I was wanting a unit that performed strictly effects as I have a rackmount preamp for clean/distortion tones. This works well for me in that respect. The midi function from my GM2 to my midi/firewire interface is awesome and works flawlessly.
The Vyzor editor is great for editing, saving (for backup purposes) and transferring presets and I've had no problems. Again, with this being my first experience with rackmount effects I can't compare this to something else. I have played the POD modelers and other units out there and this isn't even in the same category as it is effects only. Aside from that, I've read that some people find the buttons and rotary knobs somewhat cheap. With this in mind, I did rate this a little lower in that respect, but my experience varies. I keep mine in a heavy duty rack case at all times and I'm careful how I push the buttons when I need to.
Once you get all your presets programmed, it's basically a non-issue. So no issues with that. The case is steel, everything seems solid.
Again, first experience. For what you get in this little box, this thing sounds fantastic for the price. My brother tried to convince me to get the GT10, this thing is much better for my needs. I don't need something with built-in modeling and would rather have a dedicated unit for effects and this does the job nicely. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I bought a G Major 2 which worked until the warranty period expired. First the power supply failed, and was replaced for $100. Since then the unit freezes whenever it receives a signal rendering it useless.
The repairer says that this is a common problem seen in 1 to 2 percent of the units, requiring a major service including removal and re-soldering of all ICs, removal of front and soldering of ribbon connectors. TC responded that they have a warranty policy and that my complaining about wasting[$] on this piece of rubbish is not 'fair'. Unit has broken, will never buy a TC product again. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I got this because it was the best sounding rack effects for my budget and it really does sound great and doesn't significantly color the sound of my Mesa Mark V.
However, there is sigficant latency when changing to presets that use certian effects, sometimes as much as a whole second for the new patch to initiate. The Whammy effect is unusable because of the one second lag between the sweep of the expression pedal and the sound of the Whammy. I waited too long to return it thinking I could fix the issue, assuming it was operator error. No such luck and this issue is documented on many blogs. Now, much to my disappointment, the unit will not save changes to the mix level for the delay and reverb banks.
Are you kidding me TC?! Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: A lot of people are slamming this unit. Not sure why. I have it running through a ENGL powerball II and it kicks ass. If you have the patience to program it; buy it. You will have a lot of fun and if you are like me you will appreciate the tone that comes out of this box.
No piercing klinky clean tones like line6 or digitech stuff. The wah and volume pedals were a little difficult to get right but now that I have it set right I love it. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I bought this for live performances to use in the effects loop of my tube head. When it worked, no doubt about it, it sounded good but this unit is not intuitive at all especially when trying to program with a midi foot pedal. Not long after the warranty was up the left side output jack stopped working producing only static, so just continued to use just the right side instead. After a while wasn't getting any sound out of it at all, the display still shows and everything else seems to be working but no output so useless to me. Got about 18 months of frustrated use out of it before it finally farted in my face.
I like to think I take good care of my equipment but this thing is probably suited for a studio environment where it never gets moved - very temperamental. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I found this unit with a great price and since my 4 space rack only had 2 spaces occupied, I forked over the cash and added this to my collection. My first rack was shaping up nicely. The users manual is pretty complex. I've taken graduate classed and struggled to get through this. I kept thinking about the Vox Tonelab that was written for guitarist. This was NOT.
I do like the sounds I get out of this unit. It's clear sounds are crystal. A vast array of colors to mods and tones. Maybe I need to be more patient.
Its good enough that I didn't give up and list it on some website. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: This is a great sounding processor, especially for the price. All the effects sound great. It's pretty easy to use, although, if you've never written/edited patches in a multi fx unit there might a slight learning curve. I don't know how common this is, but I also use the parametric eq on some patches to fake the overall eq curve of amps with different 'out-of-the-box' sounds than my main amp. This isn't the same as having a dozen different amps but it's passable and let's me save space and cash by not having a dozen amps for certain sounds I'd only use occasionally. The only downside is no rotary speaker simulator, you can get pretty close by tinkering with the modulation and filter effects though.
I'd recommend this unit for virtually any situation. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I bought this unit because it does not have amp modeling like some of its competitors. I have the amp I want, I buy effects for effects.
This will do pretty much anything and everything you want. Plane And Spherical Trigonometry By William Hart Pdf Editor. Just have to figure it out. Some of the negative reviews are very old and those issues have been resolved.
Rest assured this is one of the best units you can buy for the price. The gate is worthless though, total tone sucker. I recommend an isp g string for a good gate.
Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: What more can you ask for from a fx processor than what you get from the g-major 2? Great natural sounding reverbs, compressor, eq, modulations, and delays all in one rack unit package.
User Interface is very intuitive and is very easy to program to your own stylings. If your looking for something extra to add to your rack to push your sound over the edge, this is a great choice. PC connectivity is a breeze via midi, and programing software is very easy to save and change patches very quickly. Only complaint is the front knobs slide off very easily and feel kinda cheaply made.
Other than that this is a great product, and the best bang for the buck. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I've used these in my rig for about 10 years and one of them just froze up and quit working. I ordered 2 different replacements from Musicians Friend and both had issues. One started rebooting on its own, which is a deal breaker when playing live. The 2nd unit just froze up on patch #10, then the screen eventually went completely blank. TC Electronics clearly has some quality issues and some of these issues have been going on with G-Major units for years. Buy at your own risk!
Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: Using with Soleman midi controller, EP25 mission eng. Exp.pedal & Bogner Shiva 20th with KT88's. Learning curve is a bit steep with both. Have an M-One for the studio and knew I would like the G-Maj. The more I dig into it the more functions I'm able to fine tune & use. Not crazy about any of the presets but they can be used as a starting point to create your own presets. The real value is in taking the time to learn all the components of each effect then building your own combinations to match your style and genre of playing.
Very versatile and a good value even with adding a controller and expression pedal which you need to use the unit live. The built in tuner is great and the relays can be programmed to switch amp channels automatically.
Great for Metal, Blues, Jazz or Country when pared with a good amp. Comments about TC Electronic G-Major 2 Guitar Multi-Effects Processor: I was used to play and record with modeling gear, line 6, waves, revalver. I have hesitate for a while between the gmajor and a line 6 pod x3 pro and a digitech gsp1101, all i can say is that i was blown away by the quality of the fx compared to those of the other. It sounds very authentic, no emulation. The pc editor is still in beta but is already doing his job, very usefull and simple to use.I use it with a marshall jmp1 preamp in serial directly into the firewire interface and record using recabinet irs. No way i will come back to existing modeling gear stuff!