Help with Input assignment

[Stratotron]

Probably been covered, I am helping another HD owner ot set up an acoustic guitar in to the Aux input and would like some clarity on the input assgnments. Basically we are going to have his electric in to input 1 (Guitar in) and acoustic in to Aux with patches designed accordingly. Right now he is using A-B switches, an outboard eq and a spaghetti mess of cables in order to switch back and forth, I have assured him that we can create a seperate input for his acoustic and eleminate all of the other mess, and only use 2 input cables and no headache for the sound guy.

 

I just want to be clear on how to assign the inputs.

 

A description or a link to a tutorial.

 

Thank you

[edstar1960]

For patches that use the ELECTRIC guitar set INPUT 1 to GUITAR and leave INPUT 2 as SAME or set it VARIAX if SAME produces too hot an input signal

For patches that use the ACOUSTIC guitar set INPUT 1 to AUX and leave INPUT 2 as SAME or set it to VARIAX if SAME produces too hot an input signal

 

For patches that use both ELECTRIC and ACOUSTIC or that can be used with either you can set INPUT 1 to GUITAR and INPUT 2 to AUX.

 

NB: Using SAME for INPUT 2 is effectively like having a +6db boost on input.

[pfsmith0]

Hi Strato, I've done this quite a few times using the 3rd technique described above (Input 1 = Guitar, Input 2 = Aux). I then have two completely independent signal chains of different FX (mostly EQ for the acoustic channel) for the two instruments. At the mixer I pan one L and the other R to get two separate, independent signals coming out. You can also pan them both center to get them both coming out the same output (not a problem if you're playing them 1 at a time). The only problem I've had is that tuner is hard-coded to read the guitar input. You have no tuner on the Aux input so you may still need to add that externally.

[jandrio]

http://line6.com/support/topic/4470-pod-hd500x-tone-for-a-guitarvoice-preset/?do=findComment&comment=29227