Hockeynut19 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Trying to use some acoustic models with a hd500x. Sounds are very brittle with some weird midrange tones. Using the acoustic amp model on the 500x. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_Watt Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I would go with no amp model and just effects. There are some good ones on customtone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_Watt Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 look for Variax Acoustic in Custom tone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 One of the HD500X factory setlists contains presets designed for acoustic guitar and vocals. Start with those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeynut19 Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 I have tried with no amp, using no effects to start with, watched a few videos my setup sounds nothing like the videos. Ran it through my JBL reference speakers and my Bose L1 pa. Just getting a lot of weird midrange overtones. Set my global eq settings low cut at 85 hz and high cut at 6500. Like the way the guitar plays might be just getting the right combination nailed down. Thanks for your comments all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I tend to use a compressor, the Vintage preamp (in the EQ FX section) and a parametric EQ for the base tone. Then add a mild chorus, delay and reverb if desired. Also note that the Tone knob on the JTV provides acoustic guitar body modelling, and can greatly affect the 'boominess' of the tone. And I find that different acoustic models on the JTV require significantly different EQ settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcosta_sr Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 The easiest patch no amp, parametric eq,( focused around 500 hz -3db) gets rid of the boomy lows......A little reverb.....I have found if you try to add more gain using amps, fx you eventually will clip the sound as you play the guitar hard strumming, you can hear the distortion........However, once you remove the gain in the signal chain and use the mixer to add volume then you get accoustic clarity........in this case imho -------less is more. jc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeynut19 Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Cool Thanks for the tips will try that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeynut19 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 Ok found a good patch for acoustic figured out that I needed to set the hd 500x input to guitar and selected the globalsetting.Before that had guitar,aux, variax selected, this is where all the weird harsh overtones where coming from. Those overtones also affected my strat settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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