On Red Shift, also a controllable multi-band parametric to set up curves specific to the guitar being used (and save as presets). Lots of headroom gain to turn up the heat into HeadCase. This then only short of a killer compressor on the front end to have all the magic contained in one box. John

Ken,

Understood that they're two units. A parametric like the HC tone correction on the output side of Red Shift would be ideal to define an input signal into HeadCase. Included presets would be bypassed if needed and new ones added from custom curves on the parametric.

John

I will make sure we get back to it for sure..
On a side note. I was playing with the R&D version of Redshift II today! OMG not even optimized it had somewhere near 100 pickups, they sounded waaay close, and it ran at 2% CPU!
Thats the kind of upgrade we've been trying for. The list of features for Redshift II is pretty much complete, as was said earlier things have been up in the air for the past couple years with it. Not knowing which way to go, do we include materials, or do we concentrate on its real job in the first place. Its real job is to replace your pickups first, once that is as accurate as we can get it, then sure lets look at materials. You know, we decided to go the pickup route and skip all the bells and whistles. Concentrate on the main issues with it, Accuracy, CPU Usage, and GUI. So RedShift will not contain any materials this time, but will contain a rock solid, low CPU usage replacement engine. I didn't want to stop playing with it...I had a 59 gold top PAF in my old samick and its was like, oh yeah! One switch to a 1967 Fender Strat single coil...
 
 
 

Yeah there's a lot of work going on thats for sure. Amit and I as well as the guys at AmpSkins.com have been burning the midnight oil a little too much. The problem is that a lot of people wanted the graphics changed, which I was against in the beginning, but whats the point of having people around if you don't listen to them. I knew how much work the graphic changes were going to be so I started pulling double duty to make the deadline, and we're close, really close. Maybe not on the 8th, but very close to it...I believe the Asylum website (Head Case's home) is on schedule though, whether we launch that on the 8th or wait for the whole release is up in the air though...

For all the software out there that has been shoved out the door to meet a deadline, I'm glad to wait until you have the release you feel good about. Most understand that quality can take time. It was evident that a lot of unexpected issues came up at the last minute that will take more than a couple days to fix.

Well I sat down finally this afternoon to play with HeadCase and I kind of hit a brick wall on it. I was trying something a bit novel but straightforward.

I recorded a waterfall in stereo and then wanted to play that audio track through HeadCase as an effect on the track. I added the effect and was playing around in HeadCase but I could not get any sound out of the effect. I bypassed it and put Guitar Rig 5 on the track as an experiment and was able to hear the output crunched up per expectation.

I added HeadCase Suite 1.5 Stereo as my track effect in the effects bin. I am sure this is embarrassingly simple to remedy but it was not obvious to me. I was just trying to wander around in the interface to see if there was something obvious. I did come across a page for inputs with levels but there seemed to be nothing I could do to modify the entries other than changing the names of them.

All help welcome.

Ken,


This thing screams. Guitarists can download the free Shred and some of the independent heads on your website. These freebies give a view of what HeaCase delivers.  History is being made guys, check all this out.

http://www.acmebargig.com/
 
May our mighty beloved Lord Hare Krishna give you the power to pull off the pending release.
 
John

On the final release we'll set it up so that it has a default volume. I don't know if you have had a chance to read through the beta forums very much Inaheartbeat? Probably not as I know how busy you are. In there I detailed the reason why it didn't work straight out of the gate. It was because the input level setting was new code and if we defaulted to a set level then a lot of people would have just went with that and never run the new code. I do some things so that certain parts that need to be tested will get tested, and if you want to play with the beta version then you had to run the new code to get sound. Guaranteed, if the new code had issues, I would have had the information given to me. So no worries, the final version will run right out of the gate.

Having said that, even the default setting that it will come with will still not be tailored to your guitars, so to get the best from Head Case, you still should run the set level..

Yeah, I know, but I'm glad that my "beta" install didn't do that to you...haha
Sorry I shouldn't joke at a time like this, but I just couldn't resist...If your drinking Scotch, Chivas is the only way to go...

Hey I just had an Idea...When I hit Boston, because I will, ...Chivas and Fried Chicken with some of my new Hot Sauce...If you like culinary rarities, that hot sauce I think will be unlike anything else. I took a Page from the Niagara Wineries for it. (I'm right near that area)
The story goes (one of many), so I've heard anyways, that one year a grape farmer fell sick and lost his farm, the farm was sold in the winter time with the harvest still on the vines. The new owners who knew nothing about farming harvested what was on the vine to see if they might still be able to sell it, they couldn't. Anyways, they had bought the farm so they could make wine so they thought, lets parctice for next year's harvest with the frozen grapes we harvested now. To their surprise, the wine came out as thick as syrop and they called it ICE wine. There are other stories about the origins of Ice Wine, but thats the one that I like the best. It's a huge thing now (I can't stand it personally.)

So I decided to do that with my Cayenne peppers from my garden this year, organic of course. When they are frozen solid I'm ging to harvets them and make a Frank's RedHot style sauce...OMG I can feel the hangover already!
:)