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Thanks and I totally agree. There are so many companies developing IR tech for electric guitar amp simulators but only a handful for the acoustic guitar.
Dear Aaron some time ago, I did some extensive research about this topic, using IRs in my Kemper and later QuadCortex to enhance the Piezzo Sound of the under saddle pickup. Then also Fishman Aura. What I realised is that if you compare the processed sound of the Guitar, the natural sound of the Guitar while playing makes it impossible to distinguish correctly. It adds what's missing in the Piezzo sound. Guess that's why your Guests liked the Piezzo sound in the beginning. One solution is to use a looper pedal between Guitar and Tone Dexter to compare the "dry"sound with the processed sound. Or the guitar player has to be in another room. Anyway, great video, thanks for the explanation. Would be interesting to see/hear a A/B comparison with the Aura Spectrum DI, which was the winner in my tests. cheers
I always use a looper when testing these pedals but in this studio the speakers were so loud that the undersaddle pickup tone was clear. I have a comparison video on my channel of the Aura, NUX etc.
Yes the mic captures the ‘air’. Some of that can be brought back with the built in EQ. It would be good if the IR could somehow capture or simulate that as well.
@@aaronshortmusic yea realized. So much more tweaking can be done. Def using this live on Sundays and it’s taking a bit of tweaking but sounds pretty good once dialed in
Awesome review! Personally i always play a bit of all openstrings and then move a barré Chord up the neck just so thank the overtones change and cover more frequencies. And there is a a cool thing you can do by buying one tonedexter and two small IR loaders Just make the wavemaps, capture the IRs and import it inot small ones and then you have for cheap a stereo setup, a slightly different sound on the left and right is enough the live it sounds wider and makes a bit more space in the center ... of course you can simply buy two tonedexter but that works also ^^
This might be the answer to all the ES-2 Haters out there. Would love to see you demo this use-case....Could be a major fix for those fighting the Taylor Pickup/Pre-amp battle! Great video Aaron, Thanks!
@@aaronshortmusic I am a big Taylor Fan and owner. I have personally struggled with ES-2 getting a sound that doesn't have the "harsh brightness and Quack" sound. I am using a separate EQ pedal and have tried the TC Helicon Play Acoustic, but still haven't got to where I will gig with them. I will be following as always!
So glad to see how the ToneDexter is evolving! While I‘m not currently in the market to buy any kind of IR unit, if and when I ever am, this looks like a definite winner. I have remained unconvinced about this technology for years, now, and the TD II seems to have nailed it with their blend and EQ options.
I think deep in a mix (either live or on record) you might struggle to hear a difference but solo the IR is truck loads nicer sounding than the DI. IMO.
Thanks, Aaron. It would be great if you made a video so we could hear a sample of the "best" sound you got after extensive tweaking, using the the full tone-shaping power of the Tonedexter II. I just picked up an LR Baggs voiceprint di and I really like it, but there's a lot of tweaking you can do to shape the tone and I've noticed that the final sound also depends on the speaker/amp you run it through (I use it live though, either an EV Evolve 50M or a Yamaha or EV 8" or 10" speaker and each voice print needs to be tweaked accordingly).
