by VoodooJeff Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:54 pm
Yep, H9 is in the loop. The midi programming was easier to have the loop switch on and off with the presets that needed it or not than it was to have the H9 active or bypassed. The short version for me is like this: I use the built in delay for rhythm tones, the H9 delay for lead, built in chorus for subtle clean sounds and the H9 for more of a sound effect depth chorus. I don`t use phaser or tremolo often enough to have it in use, and of course the H9 handles all of the pitch shift/harmony effects (and with those I use the built in delay because the H9 doesn`t do two algorithms at once, so if I`m using a harmonizer I can`t also use the H9 delays). I use the Behringer FCB1010 midi controller and it controls the amp and H9 simultaneously. When I switch to a given preset on the amp it also switches the H9 to the corresponding preset (sounds complicated but it was incredibly easy. I`m no midi guru by any stretch of the imagination). I`ve got it worked out to where bank 1 (1 -10) are my "normal" guitar sounds for typical rock band stuff. Banks 2 and 3 (1 - 10 on both) are more sound effect-ish for my Satriani/Buckethead styled pieces.
I`m really quite the minimalist and didnt want to lug around a bunch of crap to get the sounds I wanted, not to mention I didn`t want to be forced into having a completely foreign tone if something in the signal path failed during a show and I had to play without it. I can make do as long as the tone is predictable