Humbucker mode iOS guitar effect

wingwizard

Is there one of these as a setting in one of the guitar/amp/fx apps somewhere? I’m sure I remember seeing one but can’t think where it was now or if I imagined it. No comment on how well it works I’d just like to try, see how well it thickens/flattens my casino.

JoyceRoadStudios

Yes, Bias FX2 has the “guitar match” feature, and the free version of the app comes with a humbucker match. It seems cool in theory and the match process is interesting, but it works terribly. It’s really just an eq shift on an already mediocre sounding app. Try it and let us know what you think.

wingwizard

@JoyceRoadStudios said:
Yes, Bias FX2 has the “guitar match” feature, and the free version of the app comes with a humbucker match. It seems cool in theory and the match process is interesting, but it works terribly. It’s really just an eq shift on an already mediocre sounding app. Try it and let us know what you think.

Thanks, not really sounding that tempting haha. I’m thinking maybe just eqing and compressing or finding some sort of thickener type app. I don’t need humbuckers exactly but would like sometimes to raise the shoulders of the sound a bit

JoyceRoadStudios

Well, I’d still try it to see if it does anything for you, but it’s kind of a gimmick. I tried it with a Les Paul to single coils, regardless of the result it’s the app itself that doesn’t cut it for me.

Casino has a P-90 right? Generally I have found that going up a string gauge, and raising the pickup by 1/32 can get me a thicker sound. A p-90 on a hollowbody sounds quite woodsy, and I’ve enjoyed the deeper sound from getting the pickup a little closer. But not too close so it’s not muddy. Depending on how the pickup moves you could raise it for the low strings and not the high strings so the balance becomes more bassy. You could also adjust the action so the strings have the exact same clearance top to bottom, rather than progressively lower for the high strings. Anyway I don’t know your set up, sure a compressor plus boosting the mid knob on the amp could work.

wingwizard

@JoyceRoadStudios said:
Well, I’d still try it to see if it does anything for you, but it’s kind of a gimmick. I tried it with a Les Paul to single coils, regardless of the result it’s the app itself that doesn’t cut it for me.

Casino has a P-90 right? Generally I have found that going up a string gauge, and raising the pickup by 1/32 can get me a thicker sound. A p-90 on a hollowbody sounds quite woodsy, and I’ve enjoyed the deeper sound from getting the pickup a little closer. But not too close so it’s not muddy. Depending on how the pickup moves you could raise it for the low strings and not the high strings so the balance becomes more bassy. You could also adjust the action so the strings have the exact same clearance top to bottom, rather than progressively lower for the high strings. Anyway I don’t know your set up, sure a compressor plus boosting the mid knob on the amp could work.

Thanks for that. I actually love the p90 sound on my casino (recently sold ten guitars and it made the cull as my favourite) so I wouldn’t want to go to much effort to change the sound. It’s just the one guitar I miss, aside from a Gordon smith - love les Paul special types - is a Yamaha sa2000 MIJ. Just for how sweet and relaxed the tone is but I know from exp this is an endless hole haha. So I’d just like to eq it and wondered if there’s any other app related thing I could do to flatten and fatten it

jolico

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gain-stage-vintage-clean/id1508081069

wingwizard

@jolico said:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gain-stage-vintage-clean/id1508081069

That was it! I wonder if the humbuckers setting is meant to help make single coils sound that way. Thanks