CA-X Guitar Pedalboard FX Chains

Figure 66. CA-X Guitar Pedalboard FX Chains.

The new CA-X Guitar Pedalboards collection introduces 8 plug-and-play FX chains that let you drag a produced, ready-to-go guitar sound right into your project.

There are two basic pedalboard types: Clean and Crunch.

Crunch pedalboards:

Crunchy Rhythm. Great for bluesy, vintage-sounding chord riffs. It's well-suited to all pickup combinations.

Rock Lead. Processed, smooth, highly distorted lead sound. The character is quite different depending on your pickup choice.

Power Rhythm. Lets the rhythm guitar chords dominate their space. Works really well with the neck pickup and humbuckers.

Raw Lead. An unpolished, dirty type of lead sound that is optimized for the bridge pickup.

Clean pedalboards:

Basic Rhythm. Basic rhythm guitar sound that works with any pickup combination.

Chimey Arpeg. Optimized for arpeggiated picking, and gives a really sweet sound with the bridge pickup. It's not as well-suited for playing full chords as the sound is somewhat thin.

Jazz Rhythm. A full, more muted sound that is optimized for the neck pickup.

Pure Lead. A clean, bright lead guitar sound. The bridge pickup is recommended for this preset but feel free to experiment. It also works well with single-coil pickups.

Clean and Crunch pedalboards are identical, except that the Crunch pedalboard has a fuzz module with bypass switch, while the Clean pedalboard incorporates the Vocal Mode button from the CA-X Acoustic Piezo Amp (see CA-X Acoustic Piezo amp) along with a Bass tone control. The differences among presets for the two types are in the control settings, not the pedalboard modules. And of course, you can modify the presets and save them to create custom sounds.

CA-X Guitar Pedalboards FX Chains contain the following controls:

Gate. Enables/disables a gate.

Sustain. Affects the compression Threshold, Gain, and Attack to increase the sustain amount and character as you turn the control clockwise.

Brighten. Adds a high frequency boost and midrange cut.

MorphTone. Increases the high frequency response and dips response at 1.2 kHz when rotated clockwise, with the reverse response when rotated counter-clockwise.

Chorus On. Enables/disables the chorus effect.

Chorus. Controls the rate.

Echo On. Adds a 250 ms echo effect.

Reverb. Increases the amount of the reverb effect when turned clockwise.

ADT On. Enables/disables the doubling/widening effect.

ADT. Sets the amount of the ADT (doubling) effect.

Fuzz On (Crunch only). Enables/disables the fuzz effect.

Fuzz (Crunch only). Adjusts the amount of distortion.

Vocal Mode (Clean only). Compresses and lowers the level of the midrange in the vocal range.

Bass (Clean only). Bass shelf control that boosts or cuts 9 dB starting at 300 Hz.

 

See:

Using FX Chain presets

Effects chains

FX Chain module

New features