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I apologize for committing a cardinal sin (or several) with this post, but did anyone else have problems viewing Krispen's post in Firefox? I can't figure out how to disable the font properties which makes the text look so microscopic. Sorry Krispen if this looks like I'm picking on you... Paolo --- Krispen Hartung <info@krispenhartung.com> wrote: > 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 ----- > From: a k <mailto:akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> butler > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > 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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com