• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: help devices & processors

As you have noticed, there is a "device" forest growing.
This makes it really difficult to choose now. I had the the luck to have a very friend working as a custom agent, nice period, I had everything for 40%, like my first real electric guitar: Black Gibson Les Paul Studio, but he never staid in tune: 2 songs, tune again. ARE THERE FELLOW CHORDIANS having the same problem, and how to fix it? I have changed it for a PRS custom 24, and this is still my magic guitar, playing on the North Pole or in a Rain Forest: almost always in tune.
But the topic was
The processors I have are
- a 10 year old ZOOM 8080, but for being that old it is still a great pedal & effect processor, still, compared to new material in the running
- I own a boss VF-1, a thiny little red box, still very good.
- Since 1 year I own also the line 6 POD xt LIVE, very good, but there is 1 problem, it contains a lot of different amps, and I have a Fender Cybertwin 120 W, who receives his signal analog (tubes) digital, and the output is digital, I think. A tremendous number of special effects in comination with almost all the amps they produced, and when I play here with someone who has a fender bassman, you don't hear the difference. You push the knob to find an amp, they are preselected and all the other knobs are turning, and you can still change the sound, fatter, more distortion, and I can continue...
So the Line 6 POD xt live, has a lot of functions that you find on the cyber. (so I use it on Marshall)
In fact I am not so happy, I decided to quick, it is indeed a super processor, but I am missing something.
I wanted to know if there are processors who do exactly what you searched, like an electric guitar, plugged in, on an acoustic preset 6 or 12 string guitar, BUT NEVER or impossible to have really the sound I want. 6/12 string effect, you don't have the same sound as you want to have.
I own a variax (electric type) and on that guitar, your 6-12 string effect is a lot better.
What are the suggestions, solutions, IS THERE A PROCESSOR who plays really the sound you want? Like today I got publicity for a "vocalist live 2 by digitech. On my PC, it sounds like a miracle, you sing, after plugging in your guitar, in a certain key, like A, and this device takes C, and you are, and it sounded perfect here, singing with yourself in harmony.

Do you know if there are devices, to create effects sounding like the real thing, or at least closre to the real thing

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  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: help devices & processors

Hi Phil, back in the 80s I really liked all the synth bands but when I decide to learn an instrument I didn't want to spend all my time on Cubase programming I wanted something immediate. I like guitar because you pick it up and play and how you sound comes from the playing and not hours of staring at a screen. I have a Behringer Vamp 2 but I stick with the presets (or at least a couple of good ones) because I want to be playing not knob-twiddling.

For me the challenge is to find time and places to play. Had been learning some children's songs for my nephews this weekend but of course I got a cold and have lost my voice!

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: help devices & processors

Hey Cytania, there are so many amps today. I had money on an account to spend for a holiday, to spend for special things. I think the Fender Cybertwin, has so many different kinds of amps in it, being a cross breed tubes and digital. I love 2 things: playing acoustic, 99% playing it without an amp. To keep my guitars intact, I bought 2 mics, like in the sixties, and if you keep distance, it sounds nice. But my acoustic guitars are giving a lot of sound. Playing especially on the Martin HD-28, you can hear it from a great distance. Having an acoustic amp, I love to plug an electric guitar in the amp, and you will have a fantastic, crystal clear sound. On the other hand (depending on my mood) I love to play with a lot of distortion, reverb, in fact my Cybertwin provides me every possible sound.

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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