ToneDexter tips for cheaper guitars

[Temcat]

I was struggling making ToneDexter work for me with my inexpensive guitar, and the trick that mostly did it for me was to record a WaveMap with a soundhole plug installed. I had to tweak the tone using the Notch and Bass knobs as well as blend in a tad of the piezo sound, but the end result was way better that what I was getting without the plug in terms of eliminating the unpleasant lo-mid components.

In addition, I've found that EQing the baseline piezo tone does help, despite vaguely remembering someone say it shouldn't matter as TD would make that correction automatically in the course of WaveMap recording.

[shufflebeat]

I do all my training, for live work at least, with the soundhole plug in. The resulting W/Ms are more consistent, particularly in the mids where the TD isn't trying to recreate complex resonances with lots of peaks and troughs but just a good solid note and percussive top end.

If you cut some top end on the pickup sound then the TD will over-compensate to match this dull thud to the sharp mic sound. When you then play back with the pickup flat there wil be extra top end in the sound.

This also works for adding some harsh mids for a more scooped/softer result, depending on what you add in training.

All of this, in my experience, is subject to the roll of the dice which is TD training. I'm probably hitting the mark three times out of five now.