rounsph Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I play in a acoustic duo and have constructed my sound with the hd500 over the years. Just recently picked up a voicelive 3 in hopes of using the robust looper and harmonies, but I prefer my guitar sounds out of the hd500. I have seen that you can use the guitar thru to connect an amp or processor. Does anyone know what this would look like, how it's routed? Do I use a trs cable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormstudios Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I'll take a stab at it but it does rely on what you are intending to get out of it. I don't have the VoiceLive 3 but I read the manual to figure some options out. But like anything you can always break the rules and be creative too! Keep the 500 for your guitar effects. Easiest Plug in your guitar in Guitar IN. This will allow the chord sensing to occur. Run a regular guitar cable from Guitar THRU to your HD500. This technically is an output and it's misleading that they have it under inputs but seemed like an easy engineering answer to have them close. Run a MIDI cable from the VoiceLive 3 MIDI OUT to the MIDI IN on the 500 so when you change patches on the VoiceLive3 it changes the 500 for you. Learn your MIDI commands. - you can skip above if you wish to foot switch each device independently...the above was just for making your life easier. Then you should be able to use your VoiceLive 3 VOICE outputs for your voice and the 500 outputs for your guitar to the house. --- Give that a go for a simple use case. Then as you get more comfortable with it you can expand and maybe eventually move all your guitar sounds into the VoiceLive 3. Keep in mind you'd lose some effects. But for an acoustic duo it shouldn't matter that much. As someone who re-programs guitar sounds into multiple devices a LOT (read: TOO MUCH) its hard to get a new device sounding exactly good without a lot of tweaking. So, use the 500 this way until you get comfortable with the VoiceLive's guitar effects. But over time you'll find the VoiceLive 3 will make your set up easier at your gigs and make the soundperson (or yourself) happier with all the outputs coming from one small device. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rounsph Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Guitar thru to hd500 line in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormstudios Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 no, just to your regular Guitar IN on the 500.........VL3 Guitar THRU ---> HD500 Guitar IN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rounsph Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 Thank you! I will try this weekend! There are a couple of tones in particular that emulate a distorted electric guitar that my Taylor handles well, particularly for leads on my looping tracks. 2 songs Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics) and Sail (AWOL Nation) I have this nasty distorted over the edge synthomatic sound. I spent hours creating it would take time to reproduce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerbakken Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 How bout if I use my Variax? Right now I'm going Variax-----> Pod HD500------> Guitar In------>VoiceLive 3 Extreme------> Mixer Problem is, the voicelive 3 wants to put a guitar tone to every flippin' vocal patch. Do you know how I can turn off the guitar tones on the VL3 globally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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