my guitarmaking thread

paulmcevoy75

I have been messing around with the IR thing for a while with some frustration at getting something that worked with minimum feedback and weird extraneous noises. I feel like today I'm pretty close to what I was hoping it would be.

Of note this video sounds very boomy on speakers in my kitchen (where it was recorded) but I think that's because the room seems to stack up the bass pretty badly. I don't really hear it on earbuds and live in the room it doesn't seem noticeable.

I haven't really been happy with the NVTone mics I have been trying. They seem to feedback at minimal volumes. They do seem to add some nice body to the sound but haven't been worth it so far.

So this is just the K&K clone piezo inside the guitar going to the Sonicake Smartbox running the custom IR, I have an EQ in the pedal rolling off all of 125k and most of 400k and some reverb.

The real secret though is the Alto TX410 powered PA speaker. I've been trying it with the ZT Lunchbox and just don't get nearly as nice results. The PA speaker seems resistant to feedback and really sounds great.

Perhaps not perfect but I think this is very useable.

I am somewhat confident that I can vibecode an IR loader that can run full length acoustic IRs onto a pedal, but the ultimate goal is that it's onboard the guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQe0rQghYYE