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Weird flanging effect with TC-Helicon Play Acoustic
Dear all - I have a TC-Helicon Play Acoustic which I absolutely love. It makes my little baby Martin (LX1E) sound like a dreadnought and does great things to my voice without sounding over the top.
I recently acquired a Tanglewood 12 string and tried it out with the P-A. It sounded just great... until I used the HIT pedal. I have this set up for a loose double to thicken my voice for the choruses. It works fine with the Martin 6 string but with the 12 string the guitar tone goes really weird. It seems to flange heavily. I have the guitar FX - delay and uMod (chorus) - on two separate switches on a SW-3 and they are both off. I am guessing that the mic is picking it up but it sounds horrible and I cannot seem to kill it. Any ideas? David |
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I'd wager that the "loose double" on your vocal mic is doing the same to whatever bleed it's picking up from the 12-string. A 12-string doubled with just a smidgen of delay is going to start phase cancellation that will mimic flanging.
My guess...
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Yes I agree. I have a hard time with my Martin dread getting picked up in the mic. I turn the mic gain down below what is recommended. It also depends on how much sound bounces around off walls.
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Thanks folks. All makes sense. Guess I’ll have to do without the doubling when using the 12 string.
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Try to turn down the mic gain first. Maybe try using a sound hole plug as well.
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David,
What kind of mic are you using? I have the same Play Acoustic and am interested if the pattern of different mic's will affect the guitars I will be using. Thanks in advance, frank |
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I have a Shure SM58. I had a reply from TC-H tech support who suggested changing the phase setting on the “guitar anti-feedback” page. I haven’t yet tried this but will report on the difference it makes. |
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distortion, play acoustic, tc-helicon |
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