using v-vocal to edit acoustic guitar

teeroy


i just upgraded to cakewalk producer and am trying to learn the v-vocal feature.
i play acoustic guitar and am most curious about using v-vocal to edit individual guitar notes/strings. i have one string in a recent recording that is a little too heavy and would love to tone it down a tad.

i've played around with it and watched some videos but i haven't been able to figure how to use it for the guitar.

thanks very much.

troy 

I doubt V-vocal will do the job. First of all it is designed for fixing out of tune notes, not for affecting the volume of specific EQ ranges accurately. Secondly it generally only works on monophonic signals (one note only), if more than one note is playing at the same time, like a chord, V-vocal gets confused. V-vocal will change the pitch of a note but not the volume.
 
If I get you right, by heavy you mean one string comes out too loud. Likely the best way to try to fix this is with an equalizer. You need to figure out the frequency range of the "heavy" or boomy notes and the perform a "cut" to lower those frequencies. For example, the A string (fifth string) is a frequency of 110Hz so if you wanted to lower the volume of notes on the A string you might cut the frequencies between 110Hz and 150Hz a little to see what happens.
 
It might also be fixed with a multi-band compressor but those are a little more complicated to operate if you're not familiar with one. Of course "now" is always a good time to start learning :-)
 
You can play with things all you like and as long as you don't save the results it's all non-destructive.

thanks for the redirection, guys.

Johnny brings up a good point - how are you recording your guitar? Via a pickup or are you sticking a mic or 2 in front of it?

This is the type that are almost always unbalanced from string to string

V Vocal will only work on monophonic signals, not poly, so I think this option is ruled out.