It Never Fails

HughJasol said:
I too have the Sustaniac on one of my guitars, but not on my main Strat. Having that capability (with all the modes) built into the Axe would be huge!
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Is this even the kind of thing you *could* do in the box? Seems to me like it would require some mechanical interaction, physics, blah blah and such.
...then again, toobz.
 
FractalAudio said:
Right after I release a firmware I always realize something I wanted to add and forgot about. I had been working on passive EQ (which sounds massive, wink, wink) and forgot to add it to the firmware release. Oh well, next week.
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Dude! Seriously? Not trying to kiss your ass here but your continued dedication and support of this stuff is really pretty remarkable. A LOT of people in your shoes would sit back and ride this out or sell out. I hope you're making a ton of money and that this is all worth it and you still enjoy your life and your guitar.
 
One way I got some sustainiac-like behavior is to use envelope to control gain and compressor levels - when the envelope is low, boos the gain/compressor. It takes some experimentation but it's pretty cool - not exactly like a sustainiac at all but you'd be surprised what you can do. You could use the harmonizer and to blend in some higher "harmonics" based on envelope as well.
 
Rotti said:
Is this even the kind of thing you *could* do in the box? Seems to me like it would require some mechanical interaction, physics, blah blah and such.
...then again, toobz.
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I think you've hit it on the head. The Sustainer / eBow effect physically drives string vibration, as does mechanical / resonant feedback when standing in front of a speaker. Without energy being added, string vibrations decrease in amplitude over time. I don't think this can be overcome just in an external device. Yes, you could sample / hold the note just before it decays, but that algorithm would ignore subsequent input signals until new vibrational energy brought the volume above some trigger threshold.

What if you take a compressed + boosted (but otherwise no-effects) guitar feed in the AxeFX, route it to a separate output, amplify it just a little bit (perhaps even just 1 watt headphone amp), and use that signal to drive a tiny speaker / transducer suction-cupped to the back of the guitar? You could probably generate the same kind of harmonic feedback as you'd get from a loud amp. You also might cause microphonic feedback if your pickups aren't potted. But it wouldn't be particularly invasive as a guitar treatment, and you could experiment with the ideal placement for the driver in order to get desired results.

FYI: I discovered this in the studio with a pair of headphones. I got up from a tracking session to grab a coffee, and just left my headphones clamped over the body of my strat, which was sitting on the stand. We were listening to playback in the control room and I could *see* my guitar strings actively vibrating in the other room. I stuck a microphone up against the open back of my strat, cued up the song from the top, and tracked a direct channel of that weird ghostly sound using my tremolo springs as a primitive reverb.
 
Excitin' .....

Whoawww I never fail too .... Exciter is somthing I always want to ask you add and everytime forget to

EDIT : Actually I don't know what this FX does (maybe a little idea ) but his name is cool !!
 
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Wow sounds good ,I'm so excited for that passive EQ. If that is what I`m thinking that would be ,I have very much benefit to few of my presets. I hope there will be in some point those Digital numbers/values for Output knobs ,then I definitely update newest firmware and test that new passive EQ. But like I was say I'm very excited for that passive EQ ,very good news can`t wait to try it.

Admin M@ said:
"Actively" testing the beta now. VERY nice.
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I'm excited for the extra EQ options, but I was hoping there'd be more! I heard somewhere that 15 would have a fix for the latency issues in the pitch block. The droptune function is completely unusable, which is a major bummer for me. Fingers crossed for another update!
 
Skipped over entire 15 firmware...was hoping this new version would be out by now so I can tweak before next rehearsal....fingers crossed as "next week" has almost come and passed.
 
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