Bison,

thank you for your helpful advice. I will try it.

Best regards, Andi

I for one appreciate your tweaking of said puzzle because it has given me a wonderful launchpad to sort out how to craft this instrument tone into a useable voice.



I have also found the Mandarin model to be incredibly useful on the melody side. I was smitten with a video I saw months ago of Tony Rodriguez providing a demo of the EPI and Rumble Seat by Analog Alien. What I have discovered is that the preamp section of that model just lights up my ACTV-2 pickup.

What I have learned about this in the past few months is that I was afraid of the high gain amp models because I didn't know what I was doing. Now that I know which sliders to move it is pretty easy to get a nice sound out of most of them. It still requires quite a bit of tweaking simply due to my active pickup AND the tapped string causing a rather audible THUD in the mix but after reading all these posts and checking out the bass player you recommended I have learned a lot about crafting the sound.

Michael

Thanks, guys! Happy to help out in any way I can.

I, for one, am very grateful to be part of one of the most supportive and helpful musical communities out there. We are, for the most part, a group of lovely people who are all very passionate about the Stick, and the wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and experience available here is second to none. Not to mention that Emmett - the creator of the Stick and the Free Hands playing method - is here as a regular contributor, along with many of the titans of the Stick world like Greg and Steve who both offer so much to players of all levels.

We're a lucky bunch.

That we are, sir. I have been a member of many forums and communities and this is the only one I am still involved with. Even as a lurker, I gain many tips and inspirations.

Michael

So how is everyone getting along with running a Stomp with stereo amps & cabs?

I run my stick mostly clean but I’d still be concerned with running out of DSP.

I don’t use the cabs or even IRs typically. The ACTV2 sounds really good direct, so I’ve just been using an SVT-Pro and an Orange preamp models in a split chain with some effects. The thing that eats up the DSP is the stereo reverb.

MM

In this screenshot, I'm playing the bass side into the Princess (Fender Princeton model) preamp block, into a 10-band graphic EQ, and going out of the Main L/R. In this case it's mono, but the way I route my Stomp, I have both the L and R at my disposal should I be using stereo effects on a different preset.

On the melody side, I'm running through the Heir Apparent distortion block, into the WhoWatt (Hiwatt) amp/cab block, into a mono Ducked Delay, a 10-band Graphic EQ, and then a stereo Glitz Reverb, going out through the Send L/R.

I occasionally have to get creative with what I can and cannot use within the parameters of the 8 blocks of DSP but it almost always works out. And having those limitations is all part of the fun!

Pretty complex signal chain!

I love how Bizon says, "Occasionally, I have to get creative..."

As if there was another way he managed to figure all this out.

MM

Haha, fair enough, MM!