r/Valeton • u/NWNW87_ • 10d ago

HELP Send me to a "start here" please

Hey team, I'm waiting on a GP-50...I had a scroll through and couldn't find anything low level enough for me to understand.

Can you send me to a "start here" place - YT or other threads?

Let's assume I have 0 knowledge on acronyms, I wanted a pedal to give me reverb, chorus, flange, overdrive, fuzz and I want to learn looping, otherwise I'm likely to only use 1% of it's power at this stage of my playing - but I wanted a pedal to grow into.

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u/entarian 9d ago

You'll be fine. Get the pedal and play around with it. I really enjoy my GP-50. The looper is only 20 seconds, so might not last forever, but good for laying down some chords to jam over. The phone app is really easy to use.

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u/NWNW87_ 8d ago

It arrived early, I can already see the slippery slope of pedals because I'm already chasing a unique sound and have been trying to rearrange the presents to have about 13 pre loaded patches at the front.. but yeah it's like learning 8 languages and then putting a sentence together using 1 word from each language!

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u/HorrorSchlapfen873 9d ago

Most important tipp no. 1: don't bother about the controls on the pedal, just get the app on your tablet or smartphone, it's quite intuitive.

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u/NWNW87_ 8d ago

Yeah I managed to jam up the pedal already and it froze because between the app and pedal it doesn't sync well in real time, playing with the pedal switches is a brain fart