duncann

Don't forget when tweaking a tone, whether through headphones or not, about how the rest of the sounds surrounding the one you're tweaking affects its tone. I love the closed back headphones; can't stand the ambient string noise mixed with the virtually amplified tone. Completely changes the feel. Closed backs help a lot with this.

Never messed with the tape echos, but they look pretty much like the other delays. One thing about the delays with bass and treble controls, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, is that when the setting is 50%, that means the delayed signal is cut by one-half the original. What exactly is cut by these controls, I guess would have to be measured someway. Generally, treble would cut something in the higher frequencies and bass something lower.

Probably talking about the cab resonance parameter. It's ultimately a matter of personal preference. There's a lot of people who like it turned to zero, and there's at least one person who likes it over 50% in most cases. The type and genre of music may be a factor also. And the higher the resonance is, the more influence thump and decay have.

Saw this over at tgp: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1543362 Note this is not the FX8, and look at the wording under AX8. This could be interesting depending on price and when it might be released.

This is exactly how I look at it. Sure, there's differences to a guitar player or someone with a trained ear for analog vs digital, but guitar players in general can be a bit obsessive. To the average listener, there's no way they know, or probably even care what kind of equipment you're playing though.

Not necessarily. If you try and look a little further into the future and also take into consideration something else, which would be the integration of technology into human beings. Could there be a time, maybe 100 years from now (or longer), where the need for huge speaker systems in huge venues, or any venue, are obsolete? Maybe this is accomplished by the transfer of information (music) using electromagnetic energy that communicates to a small, implanted processor that's able to intercept, modify, and replace the signals going to different parts of a human brain, essentially making our senses to the outside world obsolete. In this case, the replaced part would be the signals going to the audio processing center of the brain. Even people with no ears would benefit. And no more worrying about stereo imaging vs mono. There is one thing that all of the above might rely on though, and that would be the technological singularity. But if this were to actually happen, would human beings be changed too much to even have music as a prioritized part our culture anymore? What becomes of the guitar then? Could be a sad day for guitar players and musicians. But if it happens and doesn't mean a discarding of human cultural history, it could be a most wonderful thing. Anyway, this is getting a bit too much in la-la-land.

Maybe I'm trying to over-think this or I'm not familiar with the capabilities of mainstage. From what I can gather, it's a sort of specialized DAW? Another thing I'm unsure about is what happens with the pod's lights when using the it as a midi controller. Never done that before. I'm assuming nothing happens from what you say? So you're using the pod as a midi controller to control s-gear and the fishman triple play through the host of mainstage. Is this the exclusive use for the pod? There is absolutely no patch loaded on the pod, except for what you have configured for midi output? If that's the case, add to the patch you made with the configured midi outputs the following: eight volume pedals, all set to 100%, and assign each to a different footswitch. Here's where it gets kind of iffy for me, because I don't know the capabilities of mainstage. When you hit one of the footswitches on the pod to change something in either s-gear or the fishman, mainstage, being the host, must recognize this event somehow. Use that event to trigger another midi event that gets sent to the pod via the usb to midi device. This new event is the midi cc command corresponding to one of the eight footswitches, toggling the appropriate volume pedal effect, thus toggling the light. Just thought of this: Would you even need to send a midi message back to the pod? Fill the FX Blocks in your patch with the volume pedals, and assign each one to the footswitch with the corresponding one assigned to the midi output. Now when you hit one of the footswitches, it will simultaneously send the midi message you want and toggle one of the volume pedals (and the light). If this would work the same everytime, the state of the volume pedals would need to be toggled in a predetermined state before you start.

After looking a little more closely at the equipment you're using, you're going to need something with a physical midi connector on it, like this: http://m-audio.com/products/view/uno . You can also find much cheaper ones that would probably work. It's the only way the pod can receive midi messages from your computer.

You should be able to do this. Assign a dummy effect to the FX block you want associated with MainStage, and also assign that FX block to the footswitch you want. The dummy effect could be something like a volume pedal set at 100%.

It's going into a cheap coax to optical converter, and then to a computer sound card with an optical input, then straight to reaper via the soundcard's asio drivers. It was worth a shot but I didn't think boosting the spdif level would do anything, especially since 0dB is quite loud to begin with. Something else that might be worth a try is resetting the global parameters by holding the left arrow key while powering on the unit.

I use the digital out all the time with the usb connected. No problems with that. There is a system setting where you can adjust the spdif level, which defaults at 0dB, and can be increased by 12dB. It's in the same place as the sample rate setting. Other than that, it could be a hardware problem. On my unit, the digital out sometimes cuts out when my foot touches the exp pedal. Could be something to do with static electricity. To fix it, I just unplug the digital coax and plug it back in. Sound always is back then.

Redundant backups of all the the patches you create is excellent advice. Imagine how you'd feel if you spent many hours, weeks, months, tweaking patches and one day find out your pod doesn't like you anymore. Or even worse, a power surge in your computer blows out the usb ports while both your pod and usb backup are connected, taking those two things out as well (this is a highly unlikely situation though, even having the usb ports blown out).

Nice videos explaining the amp dep parameters. I've seen these before, but it's always good to go back and watch stuff like this frequently.

Thanks for fixing my perception. Now I know why I like the parameter turned slightly below 50.

Here's one called Essence Lead that was in both FX Heavy and Songs - Style setlists (was in position 5C): Essence Lead.zip

I suppose it could be either way or my perception is bass ackwards, but when I turn it down, it gets "mushier". Guitarists should have their own dictionary. lol.

Which POD do you have? I looked in the Bass/Aco/Voc setlist, and nothing exists called "Choir" for the HD500 or HD500X.

I do this too, and rarely encounter a problem. Sometimes (rarely), weird behavior ensues - mostly loss of sync - because a patch might require use of the exp pedal while the edit software is running.

In addition to this, here's a couple more terms to describe the the SAG parameter: the lower it is, the more "spongy", "springy", or "loose" it feels, and the higher it is, the "sponginess", "springiness', or "looseness" becomes more dense, or compacted. Does it actually add any compression though, or just a "feeling" of compression?

I missed that part about it being a simulated bass from guitar, must have spaced out while reading. I guess that would explain why something sounds a little off about it. But it does sound good for how it was accomplished. I also listened to it through sony mdr-7506 headphones. Did you use the cabs on the pod or something else?

I would say it's possible, but if you try it, plan on spending a lot of time on it because there's a lot of different types of tone going on in that video.

That was cool! Really liked it. I didn't hear anything particularly wrong with any of the six-string guitar tones; they sounded really good. Nice and clear, great definition. Great playing too. The bass sounded not bad, but a little weak and somewhat over-processed. Maybe that's what you were after though?

Can't say I've ever had a problem with HD Edit lagging, but it does have some strange bugs. Sometimes the renaming is kind of funky, but I can click anywhere on the selected patch to rename it. It's sometimes just the timing of the click(s). Sometimes it takes more than one click, kind of a slow double click. Laggy controls might suggest something wrong with the usb connection. Try a different usb port and/or cable if you have another one. What else is connected to any usb port? How do other applications behave on your computer? If you can, try the pod on an entirely different computer.

First test: Started with a blank patch, added a noise gate, sent to the device. Patch was fine after disconnecting and recalling. Second test: Modified decay to 60%, sent to device. Switched to different patch. Switched back to previous patch. Patch was as edited.

You could try increasing the feedback level while decreasing the mix.