It's easy to operate, but requires a read through the manual to find and understand all the features it has (like cabinet resonant freqency tuning, eq frequency shifting for bass, mid and treble, morphing between patches, etc.). It has a fairly decent chromatic tuner.

I like the "Blackface" patch (but without the default cabinet), and there's a a Vox AC30 patch that sounds pretty cool for steel, too. I have some presets that bypass the amp simulator, or the cabinet simulator, or both.

E9 Peavey Two Amp Settings

Press Warp knob until green shows.
Amplifier – More
Warp – Green
Cabinet – 57 Tweed 1x12

Bass – 0
Mid – 0
Treble- 0

Gain – 15
Amp Level – 85

Press edit button and remove all effects you don’t want by using DATA/PRESET knob in upper right hand corner to switch to off.
Press edit button until readout says “DELAY.”
Use (DATA/PRESET) knob to select “ON.”

The 5 little knobs across the top mid section: SPEED/AMOUNT – DEPTH - MOD LEVEL - DELAY LEVEL and REVERB LEVEL, adjust the characteristics of the effect both before and after you program the effect.
Use the Speed/Amount knob to set P1, or the type of delay to “Spread.”
Set the Depth knob or P2, to 380ms.
The Mod Level knob (P3) is for “Feedback.” Set it to 22.
Use the Delay Level knob to set P4, the Delay Spread (Dlyspd), to 50.
Use Reverb Level knob to set P5, (Dlylvl) to 42.
Once set, press edit button until red selector light goes back to the top of effects selections and you should be out of the program mode.

To save the effect, press the store button and use the DATA/PRESET knob to change letters to name your effect. EDIT button moves letter selection to the right and TAP/IT, to the left. Once named, press store again and use DATA/PRESET knob to select a number to save your effect. If you wish to keep it in that position, press store again and program will be saved at that number.

To get to the UTILITY section, press the AMP SAVE and STORE buttons, simultaneously.
Press EDIT button once and the readout should be STEREO. Leave it on Stereo.
Press EDIT button again and you’ll see DIRECT. This is an option for studio direct or amp sound. Turn upper right knob, DATA/PRESET to select #2, or Fx 1 x 2.
Numbers 2, 4, and 6 are the cleanest but number 2 seems to work best for my Legrande guitar. The other settings are a bit thicker, but slightly darker sounding. Press AMP SAVE and STORE simultaneously buttons to exit the UTILITY section.

This configuration is for the Peavey 1000 amp with all knobs straight up (flat setting) which allows all tone adjustments on the amp or the Genesis to start from the zero position.
At home, I use a Peavey Nashville 400 as a second amp (all flat setting) and the sound is great.
I must say that I use a Goodrich LDR volume pedal which does make a difference in the sound.
The Genesis 3 is one of the more user-friendly, but for those of you who aren’t used to dealing with multi effects units, this should help take some of the sting out of setting it.

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Student of the Steel, Fessy S12U, Emmons S12 E9 P/P, Carter D12, Nashville 400, Fender Squire, Peavey Transtube Supreme into JBL 15", 1968 Gibson J50, '60s Kay arch-top, 7-string Raybro, customized Korean Regal square-neck, roundneck Dobro 90C, 1938 Conn Chu Berry tenor sax, '50s Berg mouthpiece, Hamilton upright piano, Casio keyboard. You make it, I'll play it (sort of).

Genesis 3 C6 Settings

Press WARP knob to Red Section
R Amplifier – More
Warp – Red
R Cabinet – 57 Tweed 1x12

R Bass – 0
R Mid - +3
R Treble – 0
R Gain – 25
R Amp Level – 85

Press WARP knob to Green Section
G Amplifier – More
G Warp – Green
G Cabinet – Blond 2x12

G Bass – 0
G Mid - +2
G Treble – 0
G Gain - 15
G Amp Level – 85

EFFECT
Delay – Spread
Delay – 260ms
Feedback – 30
Dlyspd – 30
Dlylvl – 30

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Brad Sarno
Blue Jade Audio Mastering
St. Louis
http://home.earthlink.net/~bradsarno/

I haven't messed with the cabinet resonant frequency tweak much. It appears that the numbers that go from -12 to +12 represent half steps so you can move the resonant point down or up an octave relative to the cabinet model's actual resonance. Pretty fun box.

thx

thx

http://www.digitech.com/soundcom/genedit.htm
http://www.digitech.com/soundcom/firmware.htm

Jim, I believe that the 15pin jack on the soundcard is where the MIDI connects. You need to get the $20 cable that turns that 15pin into two MIDI jacks, one in, one out. I really dont know PC, I'm pretty much Mac only but I have made this hookup on a friends PC. It's pretty simple. You'll need some kind of software so your PC will talk MIDI. I bet the websites mentioned above will walk you thru the procedure. Once it's all set up, the Genesis 3 will easily communicate with the GenEdit software. It's pretty cool.

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Brad Sarno
Blue Jade Audio Mastering
St. Louis
http://home.earthlink.net/~bradsarno/

Knobs 2,3,and 4 are your EQ frequency points in Hertz. For steel it's nice to have a midrange control in the 750-850 range, generally. The Session 400 and the modern Peavey mods put the bass at about 50Hz. The old Session 400 and unmodded Peaveys have the treble at or near 2700Hz. The modded ones and the Nashville 1000 put that freq at 6kHz I think. Since steel pickups tend to have their hotspots at 750 and 2500, it's a nice place to put them to help smooth out the pickup. Then you can use the cabinet resonance control to work that mid-bass range. Many variables with this box.

Once set, hold the Warp knob down for 3 seconds to leave that mode. I think you save your settings after that but I'm not sure. Maybe it saves them automatically.

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Brad Sarno
Blue Jade Audio Mastering
St. Louis
http://home.earthlink.net/~bradsarno/