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Experienced
Over the weekend one of the songs I was covering had a keyboard line that I needed to match on guitar (in case the keys player wasn't up to it) and as it transitioned to the verse the line rung out and faded in a wide vibrato run off a LFO.
Initially I thought oh that'll be easy as pie to do on the Axefx2. Just run an LFO on some pitch or chorus block. Which I dialed up in a few minutes but I found the amplitude of the vibrato limited to +-50 cents using the detune mode of the pitch block (or was it +-100? Can't remember). Anyway that didn't sound right... not wide enough. So I played with the chorus block in full wet mode. That sounded OK, still not wide enough but I was running out of time and decided to run with it. Slaved the depth to the extern / expression pedal and off I went.
However if you wanted to create a vibrato effect with a larger amplitude, like 3 semitones, how would you do it?
PS... since I upgraded to 15.02 I decide I needed to redo my main church patch. I was bored with AC30 tones so I decided time to try the wreck model. And it was so much win. Running newly minted patches all I had to do was adjust the bass on the amp block to taste for gig levels and off I went. Had a ball and it sounded so good all the way through the set. I was able to back off the guitar's volume a smidge and get lovely warm cleans, full volume for break up... add dirt block for leads and big chorus'... and touch sensitivity... oh wow. I could never have got away with that on the Ultra... which took months of dialing it in to get a tone I was happy with. Months!!! Now it's just a day. Yay fractal.
This year it seems I'm less focused on "the gear" and getting "the tone", and can just get on with making music.
Initially I thought oh that'll be easy as pie to do on the Axefx2. Just run an LFO on some pitch or chorus block. Which I dialed up in a few minutes but I found the amplitude of the vibrato limited to +-50 cents using the detune mode of the pitch block (or was it +-100? Can't remember). Anyway that didn't sound right... not wide enough. So I played with the chorus block in full wet mode. That sounded OK, still not wide enough but I was running out of time and decided to run with it. Slaved the depth to the extern / expression pedal and off I went.
However if you wanted to create a vibrato effect with a larger amplitude, like 3 semitones, how would you do it?
PS... since I upgraded to 15.02 I decide I needed to redo my main church patch. I was bored with AC30 tones so I decided time to try the wreck model. And it was so much win. Running newly minted patches all I had to do was adjust the bass on the amp block to taste for gig levels and off I went. Had a ball and it sounded so good all the way through the set. I was able to back off the guitar's volume a smidge and get lovely warm cleans, full volume for break up... add dirt block for leads and big chorus'... and touch sensitivity... oh wow. I could never have got away with that on the Ultra... which took months of dialing it in to get a tone I was happy with. Months!!! Now it's just a day. Yay fractal.
This year it seems I'm less focused on "the gear" and getting "the tone", and can just get on with making music.