Fix Your Acoustic Guitar Tone

[@jamzammo22]

I totally agree!! I was just telling my buddy this. I saw you in Nashville . I own a Tommy E. Maton and also a Maton mini. My main guitar is still my old school Taylor 614ce. Fishmaan pickup.

[@carlwockner]

Lovely mate:) great choices there sir! those matons will be stage beasts and the old Taylor must be a nice studio guitar for sure!

[@rudals1281]

I regret selling my 614ce...😢

[@Irv123]

@@carlwockner what do you think about acoustic amps? Are they worth the money?

[@kelmusic1689]

​@@carlwocknerhello sir if ok to you pks send me a percent of the rigth adjustment of treble, base😊 and med thanks sir

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

He’s a scholar and a gentleman, he’s a man of the people, his music lifts us up, like the sunlight on the steeple. He plays the songs that we love, the classics and the popular, let us all raise our glass and toast to Carl Wockner! 🍻

[@cruzzer52]

Thank you. Love your explanation

[@rowjadetv2107]

I agree . My guitar now is only 150$ but when you plug in direct to sound sytem when I'm in gig lot of people telling that my guitar tone is so good and they are saying that my guitar is expensive that's why it's sound good haha but when I say it's only 150$ they say really its like more the a 150$ tone very nice hahaha.

[@ariakiss]

Maton has the best pickup preamp system. Period! Great tutorial, mate. Thank you 👍🏻

[@Alemski]

Love your videos.. I have ebg 808 and mini maton diesel.. the only issue I have with the small one is tuning the.small thing.. it is often going out of tune especially when I use capo.. can you give some thoughts about it? thanks.

[@carlwockner]

Nice! Yeh the trouble with all shorter scale guitars are the intonation. My advise for the mini is to ensure you use 13-56 gauge strings (the tension will feel like 12-53’s on a mini) and check out Thalia capos. Then match the radius of the neck on the mini with the Thalia capo insert. I think the mini neck is a size 12. Also - always tune AFTER you put the capo on. No matter what guitar u use:)

[@danlee0]

Vital information! I use the preamp on my guitar effect and set the EQ there. Then there's no need to touch the guitar EQ away from flat!

[@colleenvarlowmusic1463]

Hi there, thanks for that. I have a washburn with a contour slider as well. Have no idea about that, so I keep it at 50%

[@407Swashplate]

Hello again Carl! Can't wait to see the video on acoustic tone. Just wanted to say hi first! 👏😊

[@savankumar]

It was nice and simple tip, this was helpful thanks 🙏

[@1267cando]

I have a Yamaha with eq, using a combo of a compression pedal, chorus, echo/reverb. Sometimes all on, sometimes one or two. Downloaded 3-4 tracks from my logic software to a boss looper pedal that holds 3 hours of music. Only have 12 songs with the looper right now. The other 25 or so are the pedals me and my female other half of the duo. Got the looper idea from you Carl when I saw you at Acme in Nashville.

[@brucemcnutt1695]

Very helpful, thank you for this..

[@spectorfriend]

I always love your advices Carl !

[@407Swashplate]

Great video! I like your approach to obtaining a live sound. Do you have a community Discord server?

[@arnelyruma3900]

Sweet sound like it

[@chrisannablemusic]

Some great advice! I would love to hear your take on the AP5 Pro (with Mic). A lot of people seem to have different opinions on how much you should dial in the internal mic. Keep up the awesome content!

[@carlwockner]

Thanks mate:) I love the mic on the AP5 pro! For any standard acoustic player I think it’s great to have the Piezo set to 100 and the mic set to around 10-30%. Warm and crisp. However, for looping, or any overdrive tones etc, the mic is a bad option. It will pick up ambient noise easily which gets added to the loops and quickly becomes a problem - and you are always fighting overdrive or harsher FX if you have a pickup with a mic for acoustic. Basically it all just depends on how u use your guitar:)

[@chrisannablemusic]

@@carlwockner Thanks for that! I agree about the ambient noise - the mic also puts out a "hiss" when recording at higher levels. Nice to add the mic "sparkle" but in moderation. Keep up the awesome work! Hope to see you back here in Australia sometime soon 👍

[@spectorfriend]

@@carlwockner I agree. I never put any mic for my loopings. I dont use soundhole cover.

[@bionicmark]

Hi Carl! I was looking at your rig during the floor shots.. what happened to your Boss RC 300? What are you using now for looping? Thank you for your videos. 👍🏻

[@carlwockner]

Hey mate:) I’ve done a new rig rundown vid:) check it out there’s some cool new changes! 🤙🏼

[@HUHWHATHOW]

The problem i'm having until now is that mine sound too bright even if i turn the highs to zero. I'm using a fishman presys which has piezo and mic. I couldn't use the mic as it get so bright that it hurts my ear.

[@stevenwithaph9785]

So I understand you EQ the guitar first does that mean you have your PA system set flat and then you EQ your guitar to the preferred tone

[@mubianamusole1838]

This was helpful thanks

[@wallacenock7423]

Cant beat the sound of an EMD 6 love mine, just ordered the Messiah

[@izy_cool]

thanks for this new knowlegde bro. big help :)

[@AViancourt]

When you say flat for pre amp. Do you mean all the way off of starting at noon ?

[@josealcocer7373]

Great vídeo! What about adjusting guitar volume vs amp - mixer volumen vs pedal volume?

[@tozguitar]

Is that the Ap5 pup? Sounds fantastic even on it's own without any effects

[@carlwockner]

Yessir, I love it!

[@tozguitar]

@@carlwockner Is it a piezo....has a bit of quack but not too much which is a good thing. greetings from ireland!!

[@carlwockner]

@@tozguitar yes this model is Piezo only - most of them come with a combo mic version, but I don't like the mic from my setup and tone with the overdrive etc... And if I was just going acoustic only, id probably dial back the mids a bit. But Ive made a pretty deliberately flat tone so I can use different parts of the freq when I loop.

[@tozguitar]

@@carlwockner Thank you so much for that reply man!! :)

[@badronster]

What guitar is that? Make and model?

[@0713mas]

Awesome! Any tips for getting rid of vocal feedback?

[@carlwockner]

In the loop mic? Feedback or noise? If it’s feedback then you’ll need to find a way to tune the problem frequencies out or reduce your stage volume - but if it’s just reducing noise in your loop then definitely get a mic mute switch:)

[@josealcocer7373]

So, you always keep your guitar preamp volume all the way up?

[@aqualane1]

My concern is the volume. Will Turing the volume to 10 give me more sustain or compression. Where do you leave your volume at?

[@carlwockner]

I’m not sure what you mean? Input volume is setting the gain for your instrument. Sustain and compression are 2 different things to adjust dynamics on a channel with separate hardware or a plugin.

[@santamaya8869]

Bro can you tell me.. What Is your guitar equalizer name ???

[@Hrcak1]

Playing in small space for only few friends and family. I need speaker for vocal and acoustic guitar using mic not pickup, any advice? Thanks

[@carlwockner]

Just mic your guitar:) Good luck mate!

[@nlf1233]

Can you please tell me which brand guitar is this?

[@carlwockner]

@@nlf1233 Maton EMD6 ❤️

[@bigbrothergaminghyperion-r4195]

that's the sound i've been looking for about 80% of it at the very beggingging 00:00:01 to 04

[@jorgetejera6752]

Porq cambiaste la RC 300?

[@peaceman7321]

Carl, WHAT kind of stand is that guitar sitting on over your right shoulder?

[@carlwockner]

hey! this is a super old video, its just a normal folding stand on a table haha

[@peaceman7321]

@@carlwockner Ok - i see it now - thanks!

[@RichiePhillipsmusic]

Not only are you a rad musician, but you play golf too? Let's have a round one day!

[@DodsonDodsworth]

What are the amp settings? When my acustic is plugged in and I adjust the EQ like you did, it totally messes up my amp EQ sound. Do you adjust the amps bass, mids, and treble first with the guitars EQ settings all the way up and then adjust the guitars pre amp EQ??

[@carlwockner]

I don’t use an amp:) it’s all just direct tone from my guitar preamp into the console/ P.A. system❤️

[@thebossman60]

I do not have any amplification on my guitar but I still think it sounds too bright. Any recommendations thank you

[@carlwockner]

If you're unhappy with the sound of your acoustic guitar unplugged, the only real thing you can adjust is the brand and gauge of strings. Otherwise you might need another guitar that suits your tone style.

[@kkdeveauxgue2784]

Depends on the guitar body

[@tattlerman8953]

Havent think bout balancing guitar eq for not interupt vocal. Use an old Seagull S.M 6 modded with two more mics; one trancducer for rythm and one Fishman dynamic along with piezio in bridge --> effectboard --> RC300.

[@HunkOfBurningLove1]

you trying to make a hair fashion bahahahahahaha

[@Ray_Wood_1984]

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