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Here's my Grateful Dead band the other night. I used the AX8 direct to FOH with just a CLR monitor in front of me. This is an example of me using the envelope filter block I created to emulate a Mutron III -- a signature part of Garcia's sound.
If you don't want to enjoy (suffer through) the whole tune, skip ahead to 7:15 or so, that's the start of the jam at the end of the tune where you can get a good idea of how it sounds (although I use it during the entire song).
This works really well for me because I have an onboard effects loop in the guitar, which send the signal hot from the pickups out to the Fractal where it hits the effects blocks. It then exits the Fractal and comes back into the guitar where it goes to my volume pot. The signal then exits the guitar and back into the Fractal to hit the amp, speaker and reverb blocks. This basically turns the guitar's volume pot into more of a master volume (or volume pedal) so the effects can be set at their sweet spots independent of where I have the volume on the guitar. It works brilliantly for the envelope filter, which is so dependent on the volume.
I set the envelope so it opens easily all over the fretboard and then adjust my touch to open and close it the way I want to.
Not sure how to export the block itself but here are the parameters. It requires some pretty intensive tweaking based on your own guitar (mine also has a unity gain buffer), so it's maybe better to do from scratch, and it's not complicated.
The block is a Wah block, using the Clyde type.
Frequency min: 177 Hz
Frequency max: 2400 Hz
(these are based on the Mutron III specs)
Drive: 0
Fat: 0.78
Tracking 9.13
Now the important part, the Control. Set the modifier as follows:
Source: Envelope
Auto Engage: Off
PC Reset: Off
Min: 0
Max: 10
Start: 0%
Mid: 24.9%
End: 100%
Slope: 85.6%
Scale: 2.158
Offset: 62%
Damping: 6 ms
Off Value: 5%
The key to dialing this in to your specific guitar, I have found, is adjusting the midpoint and the slope of the little graph you can see in the window. As you vary your pick attack you can follow the little ball to adjust it so the filter is opening and closing how you want it to.
For MY specific guitar, the slope looks like this:
If you're having trouble getting it to open, you can put a filter right in front of the block to push up the guitar's output some. I had to do that in the AxeFX II to make it work right, but did not need to in the AX8. But again, I have the effects loop thing happening, so your setup may be completely different.
Have fun!
If you don't want to enjoy (suffer through) the whole tune, skip ahead to 7:15 or so, that's the start of the jam at the end of the tune where you can get a good idea of how it sounds (although I use it during the entire song).
This works really well for me because I have an onboard effects loop in the guitar, which send the signal hot from the pickups out to the Fractal where it hits the effects blocks. It then exits the Fractal and comes back into the guitar where it goes to my volume pot. The signal then exits the guitar and back into the Fractal to hit the amp, speaker and reverb blocks. This basically turns the guitar's volume pot into more of a master volume (or volume pedal) so the effects can be set at their sweet spots independent of where I have the volume on the guitar. It works brilliantly for the envelope filter, which is so dependent on the volume.
I set the envelope so it opens easily all over the fretboard and then adjust my touch to open and close it the way I want to.
Not sure how to export the block itself but here are the parameters. It requires some pretty intensive tweaking based on your own guitar (mine also has a unity gain buffer), so it's maybe better to do from scratch, and it's not complicated.
The block is a Wah block, using the Clyde type.
Frequency min: 177 Hz
Frequency max: 2400 Hz
(these are based on the Mutron III specs)
Drive: 0
Fat: 0.78
Tracking 9.13
Now the important part, the Control. Set the modifier as follows:
Source: Envelope
Auto Engage: Off
PC Reset: Off
Min: 0
Max: 10
Start: 0%
Mid: 24.9%
End: 100%
Slope: 85.6%
Scale: 2.158
Offset: 62%
Damping: 6 ms
Off Value: 5%
The key to dialing this in to your specific guitar, I have found, is adjusting the midpoint and the slope of the little graph you can see in the window. As you vary your pick attack you can follow the little ball to adjust it so the filter is opening and closing how you want it to.
For MY specific guitar, the slope looks like this:
If you're having trouble getting it to open, you can put a filter right in front of the block to push up the guitar's output some. I had to do that in the AxeFX II to make it work right, but did not need to in the AX8. But again, I have the effects loop thing happening, so your setup may be completely different.
Have fun!