The Official Guitar Thread

I've had an Eleven Rack for a few years. The best use I've found for it is in my pedal board filling in as a midi controllable reverb and delay and distortion pedal. It has a huge variety of pedals that it emulates, and a lot of them sound great. One of the "distortion pedal" settings (the DC Distortion) is actually 100% an original creation that doesn't exist anywhere other than the Eleven Rack and as a software plug-in, and I use it side by side with half a dozen boutique and vintage distortion pedals, and it holds its own. I really like having a midi controlled spring and plate reverb and tape delay; having a bunch of different settings that are perfectly dialed in for the sound you need is a million times more convenient than using the real thing.

The biggest down side: there's something fundamentally incorrect with the way this thing is grounded. There's background noise that shouldn't exist. It's not a deal breaker by any means, it's about as noisy as you'd expect a high gain distortion pedal to be, you know? But it's not the same kind of noise, it's like a "digital machine going a little bit off the rails very quietly" kind of noise. The design has been updated a number of times in its lifespan, and I haven't ever heard any boxes other than mine, so maybe they got it cleared up eventually? Idk, I can only guess.

The other downside worth mentioning is that the amp emulation is crap imo. I don't use it at all. The speaker cab emulation is crap too. Turn that shit off. The built in noise gate that exists in every patch is garbage. It's honestly a bit annoying when I set up a new patch and I have to disable a million settings just to turn off all of the bullshit so I can use that one single pedal all by itself. But then it's super easy to copy that one patch and make a million variations with slightly different settings. So the learning curve at first is exactly what you expect from a piece of gear this complicated.

I used to record in cooledit which I guess became adobe audition. Been a long time since those days.

I have all the stuff - mics, interfaces, 5150 because I'm not a fag. But with two young kids there's not time, space, or desire to get back in yet.

It's weird because leading up to Halloween I play a fuckton of guitar and have gotten a lot better.

Solo recordings is what I meant. I have all the tools but haven't been into it for awhile.

I understand that it's a great solution for a lot of people, but I will never lose the love for a tube amp and the sound it produces.

I just started playing for a about 2 months now and there's one thing I keep fucking up. When I lift off a string and I don't use/mute the string for the next chord I always play the lift-off note no matter how hard I try not to. help.

The art of muting strings is often understated to beginner. It's something you'll want to, like anything with guitar, practice slowly. Ideally what you want to be able to do is lift up enough to quickly mute the string while not forcing it to ring out. It's a finer touch you'll need for it.



It's the same thing when people learn to sweep pick. Play slowly, with lots of gain to hear every mistake.

Maybe I'm pressing down too hard then? What I mean is when you take your finger off the string it plays the open note once.

I wouldn't really measure action like that, typically when I do a setup I just check the high where it meets the body on the baritone side (with first and last free depressed )

It's a good idea to get it setup though. I'd assume it hasnt been