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RE: Interactive-Graphical Tour of a Guitar System
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Not sure I
can answer your first question. All I can say is that every unit acts
differently in bipass. Just about everything in my rack sounds
"relatively" transparent in bipass except the LXP-5. Of course, I'm
mangling the tone of the acoustic guitar so much that I really have no reference
point. All I care about is noise....NO noise or hiss. I loath it,
especially when I'm recording direct into my mBox. The LXP-5 is my
problem child right now....but not for long. I just bought the newer Mackie 1202
with the extra 3/4 aux outs...I'm going to give it a channel of its own and keep
the level down until I use it. Someone more engineer-like in the group will have
to answer your question about converters.
As
to your second question, the Boss VF-1 has four synth wav forms:
square, saw, brass, and bow (same as the Boss GT-3 that's on my floor). These
are fairly industry standard terms, each implying a particular sound. And the
Boss allows you to alter several parameters of each wave: sensitivity,
chromatic, cut off frequency, octave shift, resonance, filter sensitivity,
filter decay, filter depth, attack, release, velocity, hold, synth level, and
guitar level. These allow you to generate some pretty far out synth
tones. For those of you who have heard my sound clips, you probably
noted the synth tone that sounds sort of brassy, but very mellow (almost tenor
flute like). I'm using the brass wave, but with the resonance turned down to be
mellow. Not all of the synth waves on the VF1/GT3 track as well. The
brass is excellent. Saw is not that good for soloing. I created a patch
that sounds very close to the Roland GR300 synth, but it tracked horribly...so I
stick to what works for me. Honestly, however, I spent years looking for a
non-hex synth unit, and the Boss VF1/GT3 are the best I could find for the
money....I emphasize "for the money".
Kris
-----Original Message
From: Timothy
Mungenast [mailto:mungenast@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, January 24,
2005 8:00 PM
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re:Interactive-Graphical
Tour of a Guitar System
Am I correct in assuming that most digital FX run your signal through the
converters even in bypass? Is the Vortex like that, f'rinstance?
BTW, my coal-burning modem won't play me any samples from the
Interactive-Graphical Tour, so I may need some sonic descriptions: I see
the red Boss half-rack does synth... can it approximate the Wakeman
mellotron sound? Does it do Sheltering Sky/Nuages '81-84 Crimson gtr
synth?
~Tim
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 1/24/2005 6:59:11 AM
Subject: Re:Interactive-Graphical Tour
of a Guitar System
At 04:38 24/01/05, you wrote:
I'm also
open to any suggestions for improvement too…
hi
Krispen,
It seems your signal passes through an awful lot of
devices.
Might be worth checking the quality of the bypass on those
units.
...and as you've got a mixer in your setup, no need to stick
to an 'all in series' configuration.
For instance, you could run the
EDPs on the Alt3-4 outputs of your 1202 mixer, and bring them
back on a
stereo channel.
The EDP mix controls are then both put to max and
forgotten.
...and it's then dead easy to run a mic into the EDPs
if that becomes necessary.
Also it's worthwhile putting a reverb on
an aux send, one advantage being that reverb
will sound more natural
after the EDPs. ( because of loop boundaries, and reverse).
Or put a
chain of FX on each aux send, bringing them back on a stereo
channel.
I really liked the sound demos yo! u did,
great
stuff.
andy butler
