FarleyUK
Inspired
Hi all,
Finally had some time to play around with the new AFX3 (and FC12). I've got Austin Buddy's Live Gold pack, which has really helped me learn things, but I have a few separate questions, more to do with 'best practice':
1. I have three guitars - a Les Paul Standard with Slash pups, another Les Paul Custom with Bare Knuckle Rebel Yells and an SG with the stock humbuckers. I noticed yesterday that when using the SG, the input lights only just turned orange when I strummed hard (giggidy). The other two 'tickle the red' - but even if I turn the input up to 100%, the red isn't tickled. Is it worth using input 2 just for the SG and set the input higher, and use input 1 for the Les Pauls (with input around 50%)?
2. I'd like to use an expression pedal to control the delay; I know one of the guides in the manual (see, I DID read it!) mentions about setting controllers on the mix and feedback; is that generally suggested to link the two? Or would you normally have just the mix affected by an expression pedal?
3. As I'm in a couple of cover bands, I'd be looking to get the same kind of effects etc. you hear in the song (i.e. the drone in Wanted Dead or Alive, the solo effect in I Want to Break Free etc.). I'm assuming the best way to do this is just via experimentation? There isn't an online library or guide for particular songs?
4. Would people tend to prefer running reverb and delay in parallel, with the dry signal in the middle? I'm assuming that's a almost a pseudo wet dry wet rig?
I'm sure I'll have more to come...
Thanks all, and have a great Christmas!
Finally had some time to play around with the new AFX3 (and FC12). I've got Austin Buddy's Live Gold pack, which has really helped me learn things, but I have a few separate questions, more to do with 'best practice':
1. I have three guitars - a Les Paul Standard with Slash pups, another Les Paul Custom with Bare Knuckle Rebel Yells and an SG with the stock humbuckers. I noticed yesterday that when using the SG, the input lights only just turned orange when I strummed hard (giggidy). The other two 'tickle the red' - but even if I turn the input up to 100%, the red isn't tickled. Is it worth using input 2 just for the SG and set the input higher, and use input 1 for the Les Pauls (with input around 50%)?
2. I'd like to use an expression pedal to control the delay; I know one of the guides in the manual (see, I DID read it!) mentions about setting controllers on the mix and feedback; is that generally suggested to link the two? Or would you normally have just the mix affected by an expression pedal?
3. As I'm in a couple of cover bands, I'd be looking to get the same kind of effects etc. you hear in the song (i.e. the drone in Wanted Dead or Alive, the solo effect in I Want to Break Free etc.). I'm assuming the best way to do this is just via experimentation? There isn't an online library or guide for particular songs?
4. Would people tend to prefer running reverb and delay in parallel, with the dry signal in the middle? I'm assuming that's a almost a pseudo wet dry wet rig?
I'm sure I'll have more to come...
Thanks all, and have a great Christmas!