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bjnette

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  1. If the video is off the board or very good mics in the room the FoH mix has to share the frequency space.

    Guitar being such a broadband instrument it steps on kick, bass, vocals, hihats etc.

    It can wash out those instruments and those instruments can wash out the guitar .

    In reality the guitar has to fit and the soundman wouldn't be doing his job if the guitar washed other instruments.

    Much of this instrument separation is pre production stuff unless everyone is thru the PA.

    If the other players are using amps and only you are going direct to FoH that can be a cause and here is the most likely,

    If everything is going thru the PA that will make the wash more so unless you have a good FoH Engineer.

    A good 3 way PA helps.

    You can tell if you are a broadband hog by checking your patches for if you are highpassing your cab or not up to about 120hz or more.

     

     

  2. Yeah me too!  It was fresh at first, but in the end the HD is adequate enough.

    It is like hooking up two HDs together; just gets too mind boggling; option paralysis.

    Less is more most of time, but fine for ambient patches.

  3. I've given up using the D3200 as an FX extention;  not quite worth the extra tweaking and using the loop sort of loses the playing feel.

    The HD Amps sound good to me and the FX are good enough. There is enough to tweak within the unit. Still lovin it!

  4. Yes, you can do this easily with a patch of that delay saved to the device. Saved as "Fav Delay". Drag  that patch to a free "new" tone slot. or on the device hit copy and scroll to new tone and hit enter.

    You can then add what ever you want to it. Your fav delay is now saved. You can save a chain of effects you usually use and their settings and save it without an amp.Fairly easy to copy and fast in EDIT. 

     

    You cannot save a preset of an FX and select it from the FX preset menu which might be what you are asking like say you can do with some Amp- Sims.

     

    Think of it like real pedals where there is no user preset.

  5. Wow, that Cooper Carter is a master of the Fractal! He really knows a lot of riffs;  a great testament that he can approximate cover tones and the AxeIII is capable.

    He even runs a class on how to program the AxeIII. But if you don't have the time or inclination, he has done it for you. Gig Ready! Time is money!

    If you are tired of the Helix or AxeII sound I'd go for a KPA. If money is no option, go real amps and FX.

    If you want to create never done before tones learn to program the AxeIII.

    If you want ease of use and creative tweakability  go the Helix.

    Instant gratification Axe III with this guys patch pack and guitars all done in the same shirt! He's done the work!

     

     

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  6. Yes, I do. I am using it much more then I used to for Bass.

    you can make a bass amp out of nearly most of the amps already in there.

    You probably don't need POD Farm but the Bass pack, though only a few, is an improvement.

     

    Like with Guitars and amps you must, must ensure you are not clipping internally your tone. 

    The low end has a lot of energy. There are no meters or indicators on the HD.

    I am pretty sure this is the source of most complaints about tone of guitars and bass in the HDs.

     

    A very good pair of Studio headphones is a good way to check for distortion, reverb tails etc. 

     

    It is handy to have a  FFT meter inserted into a DAW channel to look at the frequencies that are poking in the red.

    Makeup gain thru your monitoring but peaks are  only important to not go over.  Use a free VU meter (mVU or RMS and the like)

    to actually look at the actual volume. You can have lots of peaks clipping with little-perceived loudness.  

    If you try to get an optimal FFT meter loudness, the tone will get very tubby sounding.

    Really all you are doing is seeing if there is sub bass energy to be removed that your speakers can't reproduce and any to tame any in the red frequencies without ruining your tone.

     

    As the bass widely swing the meters it needs to be tamed by compression, while the Tube Compressor helps it cant catch and clamp down on the bass

    as well as the hardware counterpart. But if you keep the levels moderate you can get a good tone out of it.  For higher levels a decent compressor in the FX loop is ideal.

     

    It is easy to overload FX into the amp and then into the converters and it is wise to level check an FX on and off so it matches your initial

    level. Louder sounds better but not in this case, a slight scratchiness onto ticks is the beginning of clipping. A bodgy cable can cause a more noticeable crackling version of this.

     

      I generally leave the Master on the HD volume output at maximum as use another interface. But it is advised to set a level and stick to it as there are so many volume variables in the HD. Also, making a patch with headphones on the HD unit won't translate to an amp or PA and patches made for recording don't translate back to amps and PAs.

    Whatever the intended purpose is, make the patch under the same conditions.

     

    Some of the FX in the HD work very well on bass but so does just an Amp model on it's own.

     

    I for a long time would use a better preamp and compressor into the HD FX return and while it smoothed things out it was not suitable for live work. I even just went DI bypassing the HD and occasionally  using it as an FX via a loop.

     

    Eventually, I figured out how to make it work with the HD only and I'd encourage you to do the same before looking elsewhere first.

    Anyway, probably too much info and a bit of a raving answer but it is all here. And, use your ears you will be happy with it!

     

     

     

     

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  7. It has been a long while but I recall having an issue like this.

    The solution was to uninstall the drivers but have them downloaded on your PC.

    Restart computer with HD usb connected.

    When Windows looks for drivers steer it to downloaded driver folder.

    Then open Monkey (latest version)and try the update per instructions in manual.

  8. That was a video I have never seen. I had seen a much later one regarding his rig.  I got it back the front, I always thought his center was clean

    and the effects left and right including higher gains. Seems the left and right are dry verbs.

    Glad your loving your tone! Looks good.

  9. Running thru this mixer and affects adds a smear of latency when recombining, so routing outs to DAW from both the HD and the D3200 and phase tweaking there.

     

    The time based effects have more control in the D3200 than on the HD and there is some improvement in clean wet tones from the HD. High gain there is less definition except if using D32 EQs. Will try out a few more of the effects  and midi sinc  and see what I can get from it. I usually don't like FX heavy patches.

     

    In conclusion  the HD using a few parametics EQ blocks can get good resultss and the global EQ can be used for creating separation for double tracking.

     

    Often for recording purposes, you want wetter higher gain while monitoring than what is recorded (advantage of Amp Sims)  

    While it can be done in the DAW depends,  it can cause the need for greater buffer settings.

     

     

     

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  10. Sorry, I wasn't sure what you were referring, with the numbers. 

    If it is the Amp knobs compressed air clean out and some pot cleaner non residual type. This will require some dismantling to access the pots. Just a few screws.

    Failing that you have a faulty one to replace so test it works before putting it back together. Most likely dust in the pot.

  11. As feedback is the result of a loop occurring between the pickup and the speaker  over a distance you might be able to replicate it within fairly wet reverb block set for resonance and some EQ and compression and boost tube gain before it on an alternate path. This will produce sustain at moderate volumes and the trick is to bring the resonance out where you'd like it than reduce the effect volume to keep the straight path predominant. Should be possible! Even a delay in the line. Basically replicate the feedbackloop using a couple of paths.

     

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