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so....... If I understand this box correctly; you sample a guitar using a condenser mic, it saves it as an IR, then any guitar you play after that sounds like the original?
What about for an instrument that I don't own? I have a Cavaquinho (Which is like this):- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbMxuwqWmZ0 I own an acoustic Cavaquinho but it not the best. The one I want a preamp for is a solid neck with a piezo. Would the Optima be the right choice or should I go for the Sansamp Para DI which is all analogue and eq based? |
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If you capture a recording of your guitar on the pedal, then what is output will more closely resemble your guitar if it was mic'd rather than the piezo sound.
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One thing that confused me a bit about this pedal is the display. Sometimes it displays the presets and other times it displays the IRs. Does anyone have an explanation for this and how to engage one or the other?
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These are only some of the benefits of using IR’s and there are many more. I would suggest looking at Cuki79’s work that has been done relating to this. You can find that here: http://acousticir.free.fr/ And maybe he can come on and explain better to you what I am trying to say. If you have a decent computer and recording software (many free good DAW’s out there) then you can actually try all of this for free at home before you decide to buy a pedal etc. Hope this helps….Stratmeister
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Once you get started calculating there are a myriad of choices to be made. Thus ToneDexter, Cuki, jf45ir, etc. don't sound the same. But they all start with a correlated sample of the pickup and a mic. Since the sample has to be exactly recorded at the same time you can't easily use this approach to make one type of guitar or instrument, sound like a different one. With some hand waving (like generating an IR for a drastically over built acoustic guitar) you might get something useful for that same pickup on a solid body electric. And that is the general gist of IRs for transformative, rather than just sound more like a mic, applications. Also, while you might be happy with a stock IR downloaded for your instrument given it was generated with the same pickup you have, I think a custom IR will generally sound much better and you don't need a great mic.
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To switch between the two modes you press the IR foot switch and the AMP foot switch at the same time. I asked about this in the email I just sent to them requesting a bit of clarification on how these work as well. Also I asked if it is even possible to accidentally overwrite the preset IR’s because if so this isn’t good, hence the whole reason I want to know what if and how you can reset to factory defualts. I love the D45 IR and don’t want to loose it.
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Voice chat? Opinions....
Hi, I am willing to set up a samll private free to all Discord channel for acoustic discussion such as this if anyone is interested. I can even set up sub channel's inside the main channel for General discussion, IR, etc. or have the whole channel dedicated for just one thing such as IR. I just deleted an old channel I had for gaming and don't mind doing it. Would make it easy to collaborate or share thoughts.
Let me know if there is any interest.......... ~Stratmeister
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There are few examples of that. Fishman calls it Image Casting for example.
Basically, the Fender Acoustasonic works this way. Fishman captured IR from dread, OM... then they make the acoustasonic sounds like those. Note that is not "as easy as" capturing and play. In an ideal world you have to remove the "character" from the acoustasonic before applying the IR... In the electric guitar world, an Italian company made the SIM1 XT+ If you read the patent you will find they do more than just apply an IR previously captured from another guitar. They actually "shape" the envelop of the sound in order to add or remove sustain for example. That's typically part of the "character" removing I was refering to. If you want a Telecaster to sound like a Les Paul... You will need extra sustain. So you need to shape the envelop so the note actually sustains. 1) IR will EQ 2) IR will adjust phase so the attack of the string feels right. 3) IR can add a "reverby tail" but not actual "sustain". 4) transient and envelop shaping can help in this case. ex: SIM1 XT+
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Having recently spent quite a bit of time with a Jazzmaster Acoustasonic at the local GC, it is IMO a great performance tool but not in the same class as a real acoustic guitar into a matching ToneDexter IR (WaveMap).
When I switch through the various guitar models, I can hear a difference, I can pick out a favorite, but at no point do I think I am hearing the real thing amplified.
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My question: Hi, I recently purchased the Optima Air and am pleased but have had a few problems. I have been talking with others that own it as well and we all have the same question. Is there a way to reset this pedal back to factory defaults? And if so how? It seems that all of us at some point have accidentally saved without selecting a new location to save it to while in manual mode which completely changed the sound of the factory default IR. Does this overwrite the default IR? Directions for the unit don't really explain well how this works and we all want the default IR's back as they are very good. For me the only solution I saw that seemed to work was that I simply updated the firmware again and it seemed to reset it back to defaults but I'm not totally sure if it did or not. Is this the way to do this or is there another proper and correct way to do it? Is there a way to reset to factory defaults at all? They're response: Good day and thanks for getting in touch. # Restore the factory IR profiles: 1. Updating the firmware as you've figured it out. (This works when you completely lost track, and wanted to start over.) 2. Use the revert icon, if the factory IR is overwritten, you'll see a revert icon on the editor software. Press this icon once, factory IR will be restored. # Pre- amp presets Answer: All presets can be overwritten, those are presets made by our product manager. Let us know if you have any further questions. :-) If I had no results Mdfire I would email them. The email info is: [email protected] By the way the revert icon also works if you change one of the factory preset. I personally don't care about the pre-amp presets as I prefer to set those on the fly in manual mode. Hope this helps ~Stratmeister
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Hey guys.
So I've been using the Optima Air for a few months now and overall I'm a pretty big fan. Made my own IRs for each instrument which certainly made a big difference. However I'm running in to some issues with noise. Has anyone else noticed that the unit itself seems to have a very large noise floor? we bought one for our church and some of the guy who have lower output pickups that need to crank the gain internally on the unit seem to raise a ton of noise. And not just a little. A pretty significant amount. Anyone else run in to similar problems and found a good solution? I just bought the parts to build a simple little pre amp/boost to lift the signal a good bit going in to the Nux which I believe will likely fix the issue we're running in to. |