acoustic effects

[spookytooth]

when playing acoustic live I normally use a little chorus and use a D I box straight into the P A which gives a nice full body stereo sound.

Good luck Mark

[toucher50]

Not too much is said about acoustic effects, but when playing live I use a phase shifter on my Larivee for acoustic lead parts. I keep it on the low slow setting and it adds a nice full rich presence. "Try it....You might like it"

Toucher50

[mickyb]

get yourself a beheringer EQ pedal 7 band I think it will really lift the tone quality and make it really bright and clean .it will also enhance the Chorus efx. try it and see i think the pedal costs about £20 -£30 hope this helps as I use zoom Acoustic Simulator FX pedal on my Crafter and it made a big difference to the overall sound.

[blankensbb]

Hi there all
I am using a boss GT6 on my acoustic electric and it then plugs into the mixing desk.
Would I achieve anything by adding a DI box and if so what is best passive or powered. Will I get a better sound ? Thanks Bernie

[moonie]

Hi blankensbb, if your using a mixing desk on stage I wouldn't bother with a DI if you intend to keep using the GT6, a good quality passive DI can help if you are going guitar direct to desk, or if the desk is out in the front of house somewhere then an active DI will help by boosting the signal (as the signal gets weaker the further it has to travel before being amplified). If you find you have to crank the GT6 up to the point where you add a lot of noise then consider an active DI. The other thing an active DI can help with is ground loop noise as most have a "ground lift" button.

I use a Roland GP 100 processor for effects (but I never use the pre-amp or amp simulation side of it) for both electric and acoustic guitar, it has two seperate stereo outputs so I can set the acoustic (A) to go direct to the mixing console and the electric (B) to run back to my guitar amp. Each "patch" is assignable to A, B or A & B. Typically I would use the compressor set to "limiter" mode, EQ (set to balance each acoustic I would use), and a light reverb (nice to have a different reverb setting than the one used for vocals on the PA, helps with "seperation". For solo parts I would use the expression pedal set to "master volume". Very occasionally I may then use the other effects available, tap delay, chorus (not so much with 12 string), tremolo, phaser, pitch shift (rarely but have used it ocatave down).

cheers

[blankensbb]

Thanks for the info Moonie . (looking for all the help I can get)