This is the acoustic patch I run on my HX Stomp on a Sunday. Here's what's in it and why.
An LA-2A style compressor at the front of the chain, controlling dynamics before anything else touches the signal.
Acoustic guitar is spiky. You strum hard in a chorus and gentle in a verse, and without compression the sound engineer is chasing you all service. This smooths it out so what leaves the pedal is consistent.
Then a simple EQ to compensate for my pickups, which aren't great.
That's most acoustic-through-a-PA problems in one sentence. The pickup, not the guitar. A little EQ gets you most of the way to sounding like the instrument actually sounds.
Both on footswitches so I can bring them in without looking down.
The first is a quarter note delay set by tap tempo. It's subtle enough that I leave it on most of the time and nobody notices it as an effect. It just makes the guitar sit better.
The second is a dotted eighth, Phil Wickham territory. Rhythmic echo that changes the feel of a song. I don't use it often, but it's nice to have when a song calls for it.
Always on. A little reverb gives an acoustic depth and keeps it from sounding stuck to the front of the mix.
There's a switch that pushes the decay, mix, and modulation up when I want more room, so I can go from barely there to washed out depending on the moment.
The patch is free. You'll find it with everything else on the free resources page.
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