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Darin
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 11/12/2004 : 1:13:36 PM
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A little random, but, does anyone know of an octave pedal with true bypass? By "octave" I mean a pedal that takes the note played down an octave, not up.
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Darin
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kahealani
Akahai
USA
64 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 10:09:18 AM
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An octive pedal with true bypass? I haven't heard of it.
Have you checked out the Line 6 stuff? They produce many types of effects, so maybe they might have something like that.
Hope this helps! |
Brittni Paiva
www.brittnipaiva.com
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Darin
Lokahi
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 11:21:07 AM
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Hi Brittni,
Unfortunately, Line 6 doesn't make an octave pedal. Their stuff is great, and they do have true bypass on most items. Hopefully they'll come out with an octave pedal in the future.
By the way, congrats on your cd! That's quite an accomplishment! |
Darin
http://www.hawaiiguitar.com/ |
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kahealani
Akahai
USA
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 8:41:08 PM
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| While we're on the subject of Line 6, their acoustic Variax allows you (among other things) to drop the bass strings down an octave through onboard software. I'd be very interested to see if anyone has tried this for slack key. |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
826 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 09:36:55 AM
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Craig,
The Variax is interesting. Yes, you can do any tuning you want in software (actually hardware) but you have to turn your amp up to drown out the standard acoustic sound coming off the guitar. It's quite a head twister if you don't. Also with the Variax you can MIDI into notation software and have it write the tab (or notes) as you play. I haven't tried it with TabEdit, but it works quite well with Sibelius G7. I don't own a Variax, but I do have a MIDI pickup on an old junk guitar that I sometimes write with and was looking for a better alternative.
Sorry I'm a little off topic, but the thread did go this way.
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 2:27:07 PM
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Hey Dave, actually the sonic manipulation is all done in software onboard the Variax. There are individual piezo pickups for each string and the output for each is sent to an onboard processor that does waveform shaping to apply the characteristics of the emulated guitar to the pickup signal. This approach allows you to get every sound out of the Variax you can get out of a regular guitar, including slides, bends, hammers, muted strings, etc.
Because the software is directly modifying the waveform rather than doing pitch analysis, however, the Variax doesn't do MIDI unless you add a MIDI pickup.
I have one of their electrics...it's a lot of fun! |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
Edited by - cpatch on 11/15/2004 2:34:24 PM |
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
826 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 3:28:15 PM
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Craig,
You're correct. The one I beta tested was modified for MIDI.
Mahalo,
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Stringbreaker
Akahai
USA
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 07:25:44 AM
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| The Variax can a problem hearing the notes from the strings and from the amp being at odds. A better solution, if expensive, is to be found at www.transperformance.com. This is the self tuning guitar that you may have heard of. Currently for electric (although an acoustic model was developed with Michael Hedges in mind) we are still waiting for a less expensive model. But for a player of tunings, the ability to accurately retune the guitar to any of hundreds of thousands of tunings at the touch of a button [even while playing for a slide guitar effect] could really make a difference. I am hoping that a slack key virtuoso will find a way to take advantage of this device. I have heard it played and this is an instrument that is waiting for a virtuoso to rise to it. I haven't heard whether it is adapted for midi, but that seems more than likely. Also, any traditional guitar effects processor or amplification setup can be used with it. |
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`Ilio Nui
`Olu`olu
USA
826 Posts |
Posted - 11/16/2004 : 07:57:12 AM
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Patrick,
Cool stuff! Mahalo.
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