airguitargb Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Hi Looking for a bit of advice or some tips on my query please. I use and HD500 connected via 4CM to a Marshall JVM 215c combo. The majority of my gig requirements are for electric guitar and this works fine for me. I then DI from amp to desk For several acoustic songs I plug direct into the Aux input on the HD500 and use some delay and chorus. The positive of this set up is its easy and only requires one channel on the desk. The negative is that I here the acoustic via the Marshall amp behind me which sounds crap as you would expect. I am trying to work out a way I could still use the effects of the HD for acoustic but cut out the sound from Marshall and use monitor only for acoustic. Any ideas welcome Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 The easy way (if you run mono) is to assign a left signal and right signal and then mute the one that goes to the marshall. --- or turn it down significantly. so that you can still hear it but its ugly sound isn't so overpowering. The next easy way is to start running direct from pod (which you do) and then just get used to the fact that the onstage sound may not always be the best but it sounds awesome to the paying customers. I am also wondering if you, instead of running stereo... Use the fxloop. Send the acoustic sound to the fx in, and mute the volume of what goes into the standard input - perhaps with the volume pedal. Perhaps someone with fx loop experience could weigh in on if that will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfsmith0 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 But he IS using the FX Loop with his 4CM setup. But I agree with your first option. Assign two independent signal paths, one for the Marshall 4CM and the other for his acoustic. That should work beautifully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 I don't use 4cm, and never got into fx loops. So I don't pretend to be an expert. But doesn't 4cm utilize the standard input? If we mute the input jack and use just the fx in, it should remove a lot of the 'personality'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfsmith0 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 No wait, you're right. 4CM uses the amp's FX loop, not the HD500's. My mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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