scias23 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Is this works like a regular volume knob where the tone becomes muffled when rolled off? Or does it only reduce the overall volume of the signal but the tone is unaltered? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radatats Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Is this works like a regular volume knob where the tone becomes muffled when rolled off? Or does it only reduce the overall volume of the signal but the tone is unaltered? However, and this is an awesome feature, if you are using it with a HD500 you can assign the variax tone and volume knobs just like expression pedals. That means you can assign the volume knob to control the amps channel volume directly to act just like a volume pedal at the end of your chain with no tone affected. Or you can assign it to control drive, gain, compression levels, delay times, up to 50 different parameters at once so one roll of the knob and you have a completely different tone... gotta love the variax... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scias23 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 However, and this is an awesome feature, if you are using it with a HD500 you can assign the variax tone and volume knobs just like expression pedals. That means you can assign the volume knob to control the amps channel volume directly to act just like a volume pedal at the end of your chain with no tone affected. Or you can assign it to control drive, gain, compression levels, delay times, up to 50 different parameters at once so one roll of the knob and you have a completely different tone... gotta love the variax... I want the effect of a guitar with a treble bleed mod so the amp would clean up nicely. If it affects the tone, maybe a work around is to put an eq before the amp model and control the eq gain using the volume knob? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snhirsch Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I've always been surprised that HD Workbench doesn't support "treble bleed" caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rewolf48 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Add your votes - only 6 people voting for so far, and one that disagreed for some unexplained reason: http://line6.ideasca...ap/666777-23508 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snhirsch Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Already have. With the exception of the global EQ on HD500 (available Real Soon Now) I have seen little sign that Line6 pays any particular attention to IdeaScale input. But, they could always surprise me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rewolf48 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I want the effect of a guitar with a treble bleed mod so the amp would clean up nicely. If it affects the tone, maybe a work around is to put an eq before the amp model and control the eq gain using the volume knob? I think that this is the work-around - if you have an HD 500 you could disable guitar volume and control Amp Gain and EQ settings with the JTV Volume control - it may not work for every amp (some of the high gain ones still have volume when gain is 0 and the mid treble EQ may be wrong frequency), but it will probably work quite well with some of them for no cost in FX slots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scias23 Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 I think that this is the work-around - if you have an HD 500 you could disable guitar volume and control Amp Gain and EQ settings with the JTV Volume control - it may not work for every amp (some of the high gain ones still have volume when gain is 0 and the mid treble EQ may be wrong frequency), but it will probably work quite well with some of them for no cost in FX slots Unfortunately I don't own a JTV. :( I only have a fender strat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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