Korg Toneworks G2 manual ?

[Jan Homuth]

Hi all,
maybe this is a bit OT but please give me a chance...

I am looking for a Korg Toneworks G2 manual or at least some info about the
effect box.
Just recently bought one to use it with my '63 Gibson JD45.
(Well the JD45 sounds nice ebough but a little effect every now and the does
not harm...)
The trouble is: no manual came with it.
Well, the basics are pretty easy.

If there is no manual available, does anyone know about some hidden tricks
that are not obvious ?
Like factory reset or the like ?

Thanks for your patience.

/jan

[Gary Hall]

Post by Jan Homuth
Hi all,
maybe this is a bit OT but please give me a chance...
I am looking for a Korg Toneworks G2 manual or at least some info about the
effect box.
Just recently bought one to use it with my '63 Gibson JD45.
(Well the JD45 sounds nice ebough but a little effect every now and the does
not harm...)
The trouble is: no manual came with it.
Well, the basics are pretty easy.
If there is no manual available, does anyone know about some hidden tricks
that are not obvious ?
Like factory reset or the like ?
Thanks for your patience.
/jan

...

Hi jan,

I hope that you'll find your G2 to be as useful as I've found mine to
be. After all these years, it's still one of my favorite pieces of
gear.

To get back to the factory resets, connect the power adapter while
pressing and holding down both the "Bank Select" foot pedal (far right
foot pedal) and the "compare/write" button. This will cause all the
LEDs to blink. The next (and final) step is to press the
"compare/write" button again. Now you should be in factory reset,
presuming you didn't inadvertantly press a pedal between step one and
step two

Here are the names of the effects:

Bank 1 (green led) 1.... Medium Room
2.... Super Chorus
3.... Shimmer

Bank 2 (red led) 1.... Slap'n Echo
2.... Country
3.... Country Twelve

Bank 3 (orange) 1.... Huge Solo Plate
2.... Chorale Hall
3.... Rotary Chorale


If memory serves, I've only kept two of the original effects, the
Choral Hall and the Shimmer. The Shimmer sounds great with slow chord
melody stuff.

You'll probably want to set one or two of the patches completely dry
(effectless). It's the variety that's interesting to me - not a steady
diet of one effect. I tend to prefer the dry setting for faster things
and a moderate chorus/plate reverb blend for slower picking
accompaniments. I also have some compression on one of my chorus/plate
reverb patches. It helps in noisy settings. I only use the Shimmer
patch for slower instrumentals. I'll use regular Hall Reverb with
classical guitar and recording off the pickup. Believe or not, I've
found the G2 pretty useful for recording off a pickup - using a little
compression and Hall Reverb. In retrospect, I think that the G2 has,
perhaps, been more useful than the Yamaha AG Stomp for recording. (Not
certain of that, but I'm thinking that the G2's compression really
helped some of my older pickup recordings. I don't care for the
Stomp's limiter.)

I'll be glad to go thru the instructions for creating and storing your
own patches, if you need it. Have patience, though. I'll be pretty
busy these next few days.

Hope that helps.
Gary Hall