FX that your acoustic/ guitar cant do without.
If you ran your acoustic guitar through a LRBAGGS DI straight to the PA to do small club shows and could only have one stompbox in the loop....what would it be? My Gibson songwriter deluxe sounds fine just plain and dry but occasionally I wish it had something to take the \"dry \" edge off. to give it some grease you know.I got about a 200 dollar price range so it seems a stompbox in the fx loop would be the way to go. but what...a compressor a chorus a multifx acoustic preamp...
:? thoughts?
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something like this. pretty expensive for just a chorus pedal, but acoustic guitars are a lot different from electric so... :roll:
http://www.abesofmaine.com/item.do?item=FMPROAFXCH1&id=FMPROAFXCH1&l=FROOGLE
with the price of that effect though (it is kind of a \"multi fx\") I'd go with one of those Zoom Acoustic guitar multi FX pedals.
When I played accoustic songs, I had Stereo Chorus, slight Delay, and reverb on my Yamaha 6 and 12 string. 12 string really sounded awesome this way.
I have never used a compressor, so I couldn't comment on that.
send us a sample.
I'm with you on GNX4--alot less to haul around, not to mention less cables.
But as to your Q. I vote chorus.
Aren't there some combo's out there ... like a chorus/delay. Would that count as one pedal?
I play through presets I've made on my GNX. They mostly consist of a warm-ish tube amp playing through one of the factory cabs, like a blnde single 12\" or such. Compression on, short reverb with low-ish die-out. Teeny bit of delay, fairly short (50-75ms) with regen and level set fairly low. EQ set to make my git'r sound good. I don't have any amp- or level-switching going on, 'cuz the electronix in my Dean are really good (Fishman), so I don't need to pump it up for single-string riffs. If anything's noticable, it's that I tend to use the chorus a lot, it makes an ac/el sound great.
running drums acoustics electrics and vocals through a couple of bigger powered monitors sounds muddy in this enviorment...I tried 2 weeks a go not bad but not as crisp as the small serarated setup...hope that makes sence.
I run my acoustic to an LRBaggs parametric DI because it sounds to me ... WAY... better than running it through anything else I have tried....bringing a gnx for the chourus fx alone and running that to the mains would be a bit overkillfor what I need and I would have a pedal board 4 feet long :roll:
I tried an H20 pedal chourus/echo combo but it was noisey so i will take it back...think chorus is definaly the way to go. I will grab a used cheap one at MUSICGOROUND and put in the DI loop. sounds like you have a nice setup going on ther too shred.
thanks for all the help
peaceout D.
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Sadly, the amazing ac/el sound I've gotten out of it hasn't gotten Shania's attention, or any other woman worth looking at either. Apparently good sound is only of interest to guys, usually players. Tragic.
So for this week I guess I will leave tha amp at home. thought I was just adding some fx to my acoustic loop and ended up replaceing the amp for an all in one solution that doesnt require any addintional footwork and keeps things simple and lite another requirement for this small 2 man gig.
Digitech vocalist live 2 + Pocket puke + LR BAGGS DI box. :roll:
let ya know how it works live after tommorrows gig.
UPDATE: the gig went well and the modeling through the small PA was a perfect solution. instead of my amp bieng so loud behind me screwing up the stage volume, with the MFX its now way down and a way more comfortable level for preforming. The pocket puke goes back to the store cause I just wanted it for this small show and I need the money to hotrod my Gretsch with some TV JONES Classics.