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whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:31 pm

I cant seem to find my previous question about the existing-owner discount email, hope its okay to re-ask.

Im an existing customer, but didnt get the discount offer email. I was advised to email support, which I did late Friday, but Ive not had a response yet. Can someone advise?

Blue Cat Audio · Post by **Blue Cat Audio** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:46 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:31 pm I cant seem to find my previous question about the existing-owner discount email, hope its okay to re-ask. Im an existing customer, but didnt get the discount offer email. I was advised to email support, which I did late Friday, but Ive not had a response yet. Can someone advise?

A PM has just been sent. Thank you for your patience!

hve · Post by **hve** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:52 pm

Hi guys, I did the Satriani style and synth demo's with AcouFiend and all I can say is that it can definitely do other types of feedbacks in the style of Jimi Hendrix or whatever you need, it has all the options to achieve this. That said there's a reason why guitarists put marks (X) on the stage floor to reproduce feedbacks and you can either use midi controller or automation to achieve all types of feedback with AcouFiend. Also the result depends a lot of what kind of amp and distortion you use in combination, peace

RafaelMorgan · Post by **RafaelMorgan** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:57 pm

Blue Cat Audio wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:16 pm From what I can see and hear in this particular video, the feedback is actually pretty stable and "clean"! It seems to me that most of what you can hear is produced by Jimi's fingers on the fretboard (note how he plays harmonics on the guitar, that are then amplified by feedback) and the (ab)use of the tremolo bar, not the feedback itself going wild.

By default, AcouFiend will indeed untrigger pretty fast so that you can play naturally even if it's "on" all the time.

To get nice "dive bombs" with feedback that follows wild tremolo movements, even on lower strings, you can just decrease the value of the attack and pitch sensitivity knobs (depending on your playing, below 35% or maybe 25% do the trick), AND increase the detection range (just set the lower bound to C1 to be safe).

Great!

Looking forward a demo video of someone playing AcouFiend in Jimi's style then.

Cheers,

R.

Forgotten · Post by **Forgotten** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:05 pm

I haven’t had much time to play around with this yet, but I did find that certain amp sims work better than others.

I’ll probably records some guitar parts over the weekend and see what I can do in terms of automation of parameters, as I think that is where I will use this most.

Blue Cat Audio · Post by **Blue Cat Audio** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:37 pm

Forgotten wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:05 pm I haven’t had much time to play around with this yet, but I did find that certain amp sims work better than others.

The result indeed depends on the amp simulation (just like it depends on the amp in the real life).

BTW, you may want to set the "oversampling" or "quality" setting to a large value in the amp sim if you do not already work at high sample rates, as feedback generates high order harmonics that may cause aliasing quickly.

Blue Cat Audio · Post by **Blue Cat Audio** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:32 am

It's not "Jimi style", but as you can see here, the plug-in should work fine when you play with the tremolo bar:

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:22 pm

I agree 100% about the randomness. Hope to see it implemented in the near future.

Blue Cat Audio · Post by **Blue Cat Audio** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:10 pm

If you are interested in AcouFiend, it's the last day for the introduction offer, don't miss it!

Blue Cat Audio · Post by **Blue Cat Audio** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:15 am

Here is an insane demo of AcouFiend by Thomas McRocklin:

Meet Blue Cat's AcouFiend, the feedback simulation plug-in: now available!