Udderkuz03
61 posts
Jan 20, 2015
11:59 AM
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Does anyone have the experience of clearing up multi effects pedals sound with the harmonica through a mixer?...There's a Guy on YouTube if you Google saxaphone with digitech 300 that claims he solved some type of roughness in sound by using a mixer...p.s. it's a video by gear wire..Yakuza...running the mixer before the digitech 300 vocal...
Last Edited by Udderkuz03 on Jan 20, 2015 12:10 PM
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HarpNinja
4004 posts
Jan 20, 2015
2:19 PM
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What I like to do is run a dynamic mic into the pedal with a clean signal. There are many ways to do this.
What are you trying to accomplish and what are the current issues you're having?
It is pretty normal to want some sort of eq or compression with effects. I find using a bullet mic very limiting with modulation effects, but YMMV.
I've really downsized my rig as I consider myself semi-retired, lol. That being said, I like to ideally run a clean signal to effects and run that in parallel with a dirty rig. That way, you can have sweet distortion without impacting the modulation effects.
That being said, I typically run everything in series as I play mostly clean anyways.
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Udderkuz03
62 posts
Jan 20, 2015
3:00 PM
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No harpninja I wasn't having too many problems running a bullet Dx and a 545 into various transformers,di box, Behringer equal izer into my digitech 355. They just aren't ideally matched all the time for all patches or my own made up ones...I was thinking that a lot of the bad sound I end up with like unwanted distortion or clipping from the harmonizer or weak sounding effects could be taken away by the mixer..at least according to what that saxaphone player says...he says the Mic and sax overload and cause distorted sound but after tweaking the mixer(patched in before the rp355)it smoothed things out...(he's on YouTube) ...
Also I'd like to know if a mixer could stop the chord notes from interfering with one another when playing chords on harp..like polyphonic play chords good and the rp355 is not polyphonic ..
Last Edited by Udderkuz03 on Jan 20, 2015 3:11 PM
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HarpNinja
4006 posts
Jan 20, 2015
3:33 PM
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The mixer can probably only add eq, gain, and compression. It would not necessarily smooth out the sound, and it would certainly not help with polyphonic playing on a monophonic pedal.
Two things are going on with your pitch-based effects...
1. They are tracking an input that has a dynamic range that brings out sounds you don't like via mic choice, effect order, and gain staging.
2. They are tracking to the best of their limited abilities, and even with a well suited mic and effect placement, are limited to their design.
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Mike
My Website
My Harmonica Effects Blog
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Udderkuz03
63 posts
Jan 20, 2015
5:13 PM
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The rp355 has three compressors, equalizer with five parameters and separate gain for almost all presets, ampmodels and tone bank tones...so I suppose I'm already fixed there and should explore elsewhere for "cures" for ill tones?..thanks for the info....
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