The thread about matching a viola has got me thinking about what kinds of other crazy stuff you can use TM'ing for.
What I've thought about:
1) Tone matching old strings to new strings? Record a DI track of your guitar with new strings and after you think the strings have lost their newness, tone match your dead strings to your recorded DI track - the TM block would obviously go first in the effects chain. This probably won't replace new strings, but maybe it will give it some of that twang and sparkle that only seems to live for the first few hours after restringing?
2) Tone matching pickups? Again, same principle with matching DI tracks. If I want my Seymour Duncan's to sound like a set of BKP's I could find some DI tracks made with the pickup I want to match. Over at SS.org there's a thread dedicated to compiling DI tracks of various pickups - they have most BKP's and a lot Dimarzios/Duncans/etc! (I guess you should adjust input trim if you match lower output pickups to higher output pickups and vice versa, though?). This may or may not work well with different kinds of pickups - humbuckers to single coils, etc.
I haven't tried these, so they are simply guesswork, but tell me what you think and what other ideas you have thought of
What I've thought about:
1) Tone matching old strings to new strings? Record a DI track of your guitar with new strings and after you think the strings have lost their newness, tone match your dead strings to your recorded DI track - the TM block would obviously go first in the effects chain. This probably won't replace new strings, but maybe it will give it some of that twang and sparkle that only seems to live for the first few hours after restringing?
2) Tone matching pickups? Again, same principle with matching DI tracks. If I want my Seymour Duncan's to sound like a set of BKP's I could find some DI tracks made with the pickup I want to match. Over at SS.org there's a thread dedicated to compiling DI tracks of various pickups - they have most BKP's and a lot Dimarzios/Duncans/etc! (I guess you should adjust input trim if you match lower output pickups to higher output pickups and vice versa, though?). This may or may not work well with different kinds of pickups - humbuckers to single coils, etc.
I haven't tried these, so they are simply guesswork, but tell me what you think and what other ideas you have thought of