Decent acoustic simulation?

[southpawpete]

I'm a leftie and used to own a Variax, which I stupidly sold a few years back. As Line 6 no longer see fit to produce a leftie Variax I'm looking out for a used model.

 

In the meantime, has anyone experimented with getting a passable acoustic simulation out of the various eq and filtering options in the HD500? I'm picking mine up this week and this would be the icing on what I'm hoping will already be a very delicious cake!

[cruisinon2]

Easier said than done...even with a Variax. Usually the best results are attained with no amp model at all, a little EQ and reverb. It's gonna be a Herculean task unless you've got another guitar with piezo pickups. And if you're feeding the POD into a traditional guitar amp or cabinet, you can forget it altogether...the frequency response you need just isn't there. Won't work no matter what you do.

[DunedinDragon]

The only way I've ever come close to it with an electric guitar was to use the Boss Acoustic Simulator pedal.  With the right guitar and with the right settings you can come very close, but I had to select the bypass option when I used it so it would route straight to the PA and not to the amp.  But it was pretty handy for when I needed to play part of a song with electric and a few phrases with acoustic.

[duncann]

If you have a way to load an IR (DAW, Torpedo Cab, or Logidy Epsi) instead of using any of the HD built in cabs, you could grab the Taylor IR's floating around the web that produce a pretty convincing acoustic guitar with electric. This would probably get you the closest next to that Boss pedal mentioned above, but I've never actually heard that Boss pedal in action, so maybe the IRs would be even better.

 

Edit: here's a link for the mentioned Taylor IRs - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XgNa5vH3j1ZkVoTFJLQ241WTg/view

[Smashcraaft]

If you have a way to load an IR (DAW, Torpedo Cab, or Logidy Epsi) instead of using any of the HD built in cabs, you could grab the Taylor IR's floating around the web that produce a pretty convincing acoustic guitar with electric. This would probably get you the closest next to that Boss pedal mentioned above, but I've never actually heard that Boss pedal in action, so maybe the IRs would be even better.

 

Edit: here's a link for the mentioned Taylor IRs - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XgNa5vH3j1ZkVoTFJLQ241WTg/view

Are you willing to record a sound sample using this IR?

[duncann]

Are you willing to record a sound sample using this IR?

 

Here's something already made from phil_m: https://soundcloud.com/phil-miller-20/acoustic-strat?in=phil-miller-20/sets/helix-clips

 

Here's the link where the above link comes from: http://line6.com/support/topic/15873-helix-clips-and-samples/

 

Note that although this was made using Helix, the bulk of the tone comes from the IR. Very few other blocks were used if I remember right, such as the LA2A compressor (tube comp in the HD), some EQ maybe, and some reverb. I don't think there was an amp. Perhaps if phil_m would like to confirm.