This is the acoustic guitar patch I use on my HX Stomp. The chain is a compressor, an EQ, two delays and a reverb. The delay and reverb are on all the time, and the footswitches change how much of each you hear.
Every setting listed here is the one showing on the HX Stomp screen in the video. The patch is a free download you can load into your own HX Stomp.
The patch starts with an LA-2A type of compressor right out of the gate, so it controls the dynamics before anything else touches the signal.
The settings in the video:
My pickups aren't the best, so the next block is a Simple EQ to get the most out of them.
The high band settings aren't shown in the video. If your pickups sound different from mine, start with these numbers and adjust by ear.
There are two delays in the patch, and one footswitch flips between them.
The first is a quarter note delay with the tempo set by tap tempo. It's subtle: you don't notice it until you stop playing. Most of the time I'm on this one, and I tap in the tempo of the song and leave it on.
It's an Adriatic Delay block with these settings:
Hit the footswitch and it switches to the dotted eighth delay. I set this one up to sound like a Phil Wickham style delay. If you've ever seen him play acoustic guitar with a delay, that was the vibe I was going for.
It's a Simple Delay block:
I don't use this one much, but it's fun to have on there.
The last block is a Double Tank reverb, and it's always on. I always have a little bit of reverb on the acoustic guitar.
The base settings:
Footswitch 2 is set to Latch and assigned to three reverb parameters: Mix, Mod (modulation) and Decay. Press it and all three go up, which adds more ambience to the reverb. In the sound samples at the end of the video you can see the decay up at 5.5 and later at 6.5.
So if I want the acoustic a little more present with more reverb, I press the switch. If not, the reverb stays subtle.
If you want to try it in your own HX Stomp, the patch is free. You'll find it with everything else on the free resources page. The video ends with sound samples so you can hear it before you download.
I use an LA-2A type of compressor as the first block in the chain, with Peak Reduction at 8.1 and Gain at 5.8.
I use a dotted eighth Simple Delay with Feedback at 35% and Mix at 40%. That's the setting I built to get the Phil Wickham style delay.
On my patch it does. I always run a little reverb on the acoustic and use a footswitch to raise the decay, mix and modulation when I want more.
Yes. It's on the free resources page.
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