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May 9, 2009 10:22 PM

Some opinions on my new piezo simulator patch

hi there...

 

i'm in a band that is starting to play alot of country...  my parker nightfly has a piezo pickup which is great, but it seems such a shame to play that guitar instead of my gibson...  so i remembered that guitar rig has a couple pretty good sounding piezo electric simulation patches...  so in cubase i found the preset i liked the best, turned off all the mod fx, delay/verb, compression, all the splits, and basically just left on anything that was making the guitar sound like an acoustic electric...  then i used waves q-capture to analyze the eq curve, and took a screenshot...  the guitar rig patch used an ampeg SVT model with no speaker sim, so i started with that, and used the combination of the amp's eq and the post eq to get q-capture to give me as close to the same curve as possible on the x3...

 

i think it sounds pretty good, but as i've been goofing around with it for the past few hours, i probably have some listener fatigue and i'd like some impartial opinions on how close it sounds to the sound of a piezo pickup in an acoustic/electric guitar...  my guitar is a Gibson ES-339, and to me the best sound is when i use the bridge pickup, full tone and volume...

 

any opinions, criticism, and/or suggestion is certainly welcome and appreciated...

 

thanks

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  • LeonardoCastro Just Startin'
    LeonardoCastro
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    May 10, 2009 7:10 AM (in response to chrisblackwell)
    Re: Some opinions on my new piezo simulator patch

    IMHO, the best X3L's acoustic simulation I've already tested!

     

    Congratulations and THANKS A LOT for the sound!!!

     

    It's easy to know why Line 6 wants your opinions!!!

     

    Regards,

     

    Leonardo.

  • mimungr Gear Head
    mimungr
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    May 10, 2009 7:53 AM (in response to chrisblackwell)
    Re: Some opinions on my new piezo simulator patch

    Too much 'verb for my taste. I dropped the mix to about 35%.

     

    But very well done!

     

    Oh, and for what it's worth, I thought it was most convincing with the neck 'bucker on my Carvin SH-550.

    • chrisblackwell Just Startin'
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      May 10, 2009 10:51 AM (in response to mimungr)
      Re: Some opinions on my new piezo simulator patch

      ya, i still have to tweak the verb and stuff like that...  but i'm glad to hear that the AMP+CAB and EQ blocks sound good...  they sounded good to me, but you know how it is when you've been tweaking for a couple hours...  it's hard to tell if it sounds that good or if it's just all in your head...

       

      it's interesting that you like the neck pickup more than the bridge...  i find neck pickups have a really distinctive tone that makes it sound too much like a neck pickup rather than a piezo...  i actually like the neck pickup a bit more for finger picking, but i find the bridge pickup is really good for strumming...  but to each his own...

       

      thanks for checkin' that for me

    • chrisblackwell Just Startin'
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      May 12, 2009 3:53 PM (in response to mimungr)
      Re: Some opinions on my new piezo simulator patch

      i jammed with the band last night, and used the new patch alot...  i'm starting to agree with you that it sounds better using the neck pickup...  we played "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles and it was perfect...  too stingy on the bridge pickup...  not to toot my own horn, but i recommend this patch to anybody looking for a convincing piezo acoustic sound...  i'm actually not particularily fond of the sound of piezo pickups, but it definately makes people think "acoustic" as opposed to electric...  it has that spicy je-ne-sais-quoi

       

      i'm eager to get my income tax refund so i can scoop a variax off of ebay and investigate the possibility of a transplant...  until then, this patch should do...

       

      thanks for checking it out guys...  let me know how it works for you in a band/full-volume situation...  worked great for me

  • chrisblackwell Just Startin'
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    Jan 26, 2011 1:47 AM (in response to chrisblackwell)
    Re: Some opinions on my new piezo simulator patch

    hey everybody...  sorry to dig up a dead post but, for some reason the .l6t file doesn't work for me anymore...  i was wondering if somebody could see if they can load it in to gearbox, and if it works, resave and repost it for me...  or at the very least tell me what the paramaters are...  i need this patch...

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