rwinking Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 I have been posting on here a lot about getting a great acoustic sound with acoustic IRs and PC stuff in general and I am getting close. Since I was working on this I decided to try some mandolin IRs from a company called 3 Sigma Audio. They only had three but they are cool in that you get to download IRs specific to your pick up system, in my case a K&K. It is a game changer for me. I use either a Martin or a Taylor IR for my acoustic and now I have the PC+ set up to where I just turn around and dial the knob up one and there is my mando IR.Totally cool! I don't know if there are a lot of sensitive acoustic players using PC or Line 6 stuff, but I do. And it is really helpful for me/ BTW, I also play a lot of sreaming loud electric music too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsdenj Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I use IRs for mandolin and acoustic guitar. I make my own using Logic Pro's match EQ capability. I've also created a python program that will create them. At some point I'll get around to putting a UI on that and submit it to open source. However, I've found the IRs for the mandolin don't work as well as I had hoped. They tend to have a bit of an EQ spike, probably because of how I mic'd them when capturing the audio to produce the IRs. This tends to increase feedback issues. If I blend the K&K raw pickup with the IR, I can get better results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwinking Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 So I am using a Grace preamp into the PC with the IR on the PC. How do you blend the K&K and the IR. I can see how if I am using a Helix or Stomp but LMK if there is a way to do the blend on the PC. Also, what mandolin did you mic for your homemade IRs? thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsdenj Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 You'd have to use an IR mixing utility on the computer to create a blended IR and put that in Powercab. Powercab doesn't have any means of blending the IR with the unprocessed signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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