ncavins

I tried this and found that by the time I boosted the acoustic enough to get parity with the other channels it was clipping and sounded awful. the other option would be to go into every other patch and turn them down (doesn't sound feasible). Using some of the suggestions for pre amps I was able to get OK results with a minimal amount of clipping. still if I plug the variax straight into the board and use about plus 18 gain on the input I get a signal peaking at about +3 to +6 and sounds fine. Going through The HD it was peaking at about Minus 12 . Trying to make up this difference using the pre amps combined a slight gain with the two channel mixer, I can get it close but with some loss of quality (with a few more hours of tweaking I may be content with it, now I'm at about Minus 3). I cant imagine that the best remedy is to go into all of the gazillion other patches and turn them down. Adding a virtual power amp or acoustic amp seems just too logical to me. Have everything leave the HD at the same amplification stage. are you listening line 6?

I'll give that a try next time I hook back up to workbench. I didn't think of using the compressor because I though it would take away the natural Dynamics. Right now I am using the studio and Vintage pre's and they are working but I notice some grainy-ness on some of the channels. I still would like to see line 6 add at least one clean power amp. that way the all of the input devices could be focused only on sound character and unity instead of needing to push gain out of them to achieve output parity with other pre sets.

Thanks Uber Guru!, The vintage eq worked, I turned it up and it gave me enough volume. In my previous post, I also thought you were referring to a mixer that controls the overall mix between channels. I had found the 2 channel patch mixer you were referring to and had it at 75, (which I have now turned back to 60) I didn't want to push it any more and lose unity. I still think they should add a clean virtual power amp like a Crown DC 300 and maybe a few other classics. Then you can turn it up without loosing all the clarity. (and help balance the levels between acoustic and electric channels better.)

I'll try to find it when I get a chance, I don't remember finding a mixer. I will look harder, I thought I was missing something. the output couldn't be designed with that much level variance. thanks!

I am having the same problem with my Variax/ HD500 combo. the acoustic settings are really low volume. Causing you have to attenuate the electric patches (so when you switch channels they don't blast you out). If I Plug my variax straight into the board I can set the gain at about 10db. and get great volume and clean headroom. through the HD 500 (with no virtual amps in line) I can't get enough volume even at +60db. Are there any amps to add to chain the acoustic patches that would not change the clean acoustic sound but get it up to the electric level? I'm using a Variax 700 elec for both electric and acoustic via the data cable. I use the HD 500 to change the channels on the variax. I'm primarily a singer so I need to switch channels without too much attention being taken away from the vocals.