To dub over an existing phrase:
1.Press the 
(dub) button. You will hear the original phrase start to play back.
2.Play guitar along with the original phrase.
3.Press the 
(dub) button to stop recording – or – you can keep going until the progress bar reaches the end of the phrase.
To play back your overdubbed phrase:
1.Press the 
(playback) button. You will hear the original phrase and your overdub play back together.
♫If you press the 
(record) button accidentally, it will erase your overdub and start recording a new phrase.
Overdubbing multiple layers
You don't have to stop with one layer of overdubbing. You can add as many layers to your phrase as you want. Every time
you press 
(dub) you can play a different section or instru- ment until you are playing every part in the band!
♫You can adjust the Dub Feedback setting so that every time you overdub another layer onto a phrase, the previous overdub layers will become quieter or fade out completely, making the newest overdub layers more audible. See Phrase Menus below.
Phrase Menus
Use the phrase menus to save, load or delete phrase samples and adjust all phrase sampler settings, or to work with the dub track options.
Dub Commit—Use the Dub Commit menu when you want to make the overdub track "permanent" by mixing it together with the original phrase. The advantage of Dub Commit is that you can erase new overdub layers without erasing the previously "committed" overdub layer (See Dub Undo below).
Dub Undo—Use the Dub Undo menu when you want to erase an overdub track and start over. Any overdub tracks that have been "committed" will not be affected (see Dub Commit above).
Save Phrase—Use the Save Phrase menu to save the cur- rently active phrase (all overdubbed layers are automatically committed). Turn the big knob to select the G-DEC 3 hard drive (HD) or a flash card (SD) as the save destination, then press either SAVE PHRASE soft-key.
♫Phrases are saved as .wav files with consecutively num- bered filenames in the format: GDEC0000.wav
Load Phrase—Use the Load Phrase menu to load any phrase file on the G-DEC 3 hard drive (HD) or SD card (SD). Turn the big knob to select a file, then press either LOAD PHRASE soft- key.
Phrase Level—Use the Phrase Level menu to adjust the vol- ume level of phrase playback.
Dub Feedback—Use the Dub Feedback to make previous overdub layers fade out as new overdub layers are recorded. When Dub Feedback is set to "10" the previous overdub lay- ers will remain at their original volume levels. Lower Dub Feedback settings will decrease the volume level of previous overdub layers and a setting of "1" will cause previous over- dubs to fade out completely.
Phrase Mode—Phrase Mode only applies if you are using a MIDI file as a phrase. Select SYNCHRONOUS to have the phrase neatly trimmed to the nearest measure during play- back. Select FREEFORM to disable this feature.
Phrase Source—Use Phrase Source to select exactly what the Phrase Sampler records. You can choose to record just your GUITAR or just the BAND track or you can select ALL (nor- mal setting) to record everything.
♫Try setting Phrase Source to GUITAR then record along with a band track. When you play the phrase back you can hear how good you sound without the band!
Phrase Speed—Use the Phrase Speed menu to adjust the playback speed of the Phrase Sampler from 50% to 150%. You can use this feature to learn fast licks by recording a section of a song, then reducing the Phrase Speed so that you can hear each of the notes more slowly.
♫The Phrase DUB function is disabled if Phrase Speed is set to anything other than 100%.
Phrase Pitch—Use the Phrase Pitch menu to adjust the play- back pitch of the Phrase Sampler ±5 half steps. You can use this feature to change the key signature of a song.
♫The Phrase DUB function is disabled if Phrase Pitch is set to anything other than NO SHIFT.
Phrase Playback—Use the Playback menu to choose REPEAT for endless loop phrase playback or ONCE for once through phrase playback.
Phrase Quality—Select HI RES for maximum quality phrase recording with a total phrase length of 35 seconds or select LOW RES for normal quality phrase recording with a total phrase length of 2 min, 20 sec.
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