dobro effect?
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
with all the amp sims and such I wondering if there are any pluggins that would give an acoustic guitar that resonator sound of a dobro guitar. I realise with a little filtering it might not be all that hard...still a plugging would be cool...
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- KVRAF
- 9220 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Pequot Lakes, MN
You just mentioned how to do it, Hink- run it through a resonator. With a little playing around, ConcreteFX's BrushFX can be used as a resonator- I'm sure you can do the same with the other comb filter plugs out there with a little work. Reaktor's got a couple nice resonators, Absynth's got an excellent resonator and there's got to be some more out there.
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
Comb filters are probably the best way to go. Take a listen to the second track I posted here as an example. It is drum samples fed into a comb filter, and sounds vaguely like a strummed string instrument.
I prefer 12th floor's Chromadelay, which is freeware but sadly no longer available on the web. There are commercial alternatives, not sure about freeware. An excellent and relatively cheap alternative would be to buy a copy of Computer Music magazine and get Ohm Force's Ohmygod.
Another way to get something useful would be an effects chain like so:
feed signal into to a highpass filter
filter out most of the signal
feed the highpassed signal into a short simple digital delay (ie no signal loss/distortion) with at least a few echoes in the feedback
mix the delayed signal in with the original dry signal
That way you should get a high frequency buzzing added on to your original signal. You could even low pass filter the delayed signal, just to blend it a bit.
I prefer 12th floor's Chromadelay, which is freeware but sadly no longer available on the web. There are commercial alternatives, not sure about freeware. An excellent and relatively cheap alternative would be to buy a copy of Computer Music magazine and get Ohm Force's Ohmygod.
Another way to get something useful would be an effects chain like so:
feed signal into to a highpass filter
filter out most of the signal
feed the highpassed signal into a short simple digital delay (ie no signal loss/distortion) with at least a few echoes in the feedback
mix the delayed signal in with the original dry signal
That way you should get a high frequency buzzing added on to your original signal. You could even low pass filter the delayed signal, just to blend it a bit.
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- KVRAF
- 9220 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Pequot Lakes, MN
Another way that could work is using reverb. Use only the early reflections with no predelay and make the room as small as possible. Damp both the high and low frequencies, and you have a bandpass resonator 
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- Rad Grandad
- Topic Starter
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
thanx guys, but thb I was just curious if anything was in the plans for the future. We have modeled amps, modeled mics, when will we be able to model acoustic guitars as well? (please don't say vari-ax, I'm not ready for a guitar smarter then me) Could be an interesting slant to the amp sim race...
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 8099 posts since 12 Dec, 2003 from Canada