Cinvala Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I'm wondering if anyone has tried variax acoustic models through these PC's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thark Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 I’ve just finished setting up my Helix floor, PowerCab + and JTV59 Variax with a raft of presets, one of which is for acoustic guitars. I have the Flat mode on the Powercab set to LF Raw (don’t know if I got that right, I’ll have to check later ... not in front of my gear at the moment). The acoustics sound pretty good to me ... perhaps a little “boomy” but I’ll tweak that with some eq. I am just amazed at the capabilities of the Helix, Powercab and Variax combination. You can program them to do just about whatever you want. For example, the other day I wanted to set up an A/B split preset with one amp/cab on one leg and another on the second leg AND different Variax guitars on each leg. Done. Cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsdenj Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 If you use Flat/LF Raw, the tweeter is turned off and you're just using the raw woofer with no EQ. That's a guitar speaker that won't really handle the high frequencies required to reproduce an acoustic guitar tone. Flat/FRFR is probably more typically used for acoustic guitars. Of course different songs/styles may benefit from different configurations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thark Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Ah, yes. I forgot. Most of my presets that use Flat use LFRaw however a few, including the acoustics, use FRFR to activate the tweeter for a bit more sparkle. My mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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