My Acoustic Guitar Pickup Sucks - This Fixed It! (ToneDexter II)

[@rossthemusicandguitarteacher]

I use this for my cello it is MAGIC

[@stephencoakley]

What an interesting concept for a pedal!

[@Herfinnur]

It costs more than my acoustic guitar (wich sounds beautiful, btw), but that is some impressive technology

[@cfibanez]

I’ve used the Tondexter (Mk1) for a long time and it is amazing. It does a great job to create very natural sounding tones from a variety of acoustic guitar pickups.

[@TheClosetGuitarist]

It should sound good for 600 bucks.

[@codycreepcore]

I had the original and upgraded to the ToneDexter2. Man oh man what an upgrade. AMAZING. You can EQ the sound and then bake in the EQ and eq again and again and again if you want. The recallable gain is amazing too, as I play multiple instruments with different outputs

[@smandez2023]

It definitely sounds way better with the signal trained. It sounds more complex; like some good compression and saturation thrown in, especially the low end. I like it!

[@tommyleebaker1]

I use the TD II for fiddle and mandolin and am very happy with it, when you hear the WaveMaps made with a good condenser mic you will not want to go back to your pickup alone sound. (You can also A/B the WaveMap v. pickup only by holding down the tuner button. )

[@portuguesepossum3165]

Mike Dawes recently did an interview/ tutorial on “Music Is Win” channel on how he mics his guitar. It is a MUST watch for acoustic guitarist!!! This product (and review) is great, but it will not fix the sound of a crummy pickup.

[@RadityoPramAdi]

I think this is pretty similar with capture technology such as Neural DSP's quad cortex or Amplitube Tonex Capture.. Sounds great, and the dry blend helps bring clarity when using effects..

[@waltimedes]

Very cool, I wasn't really sold on it until I heard it with the 10% mix you settled on. Also had to remember you were using a baritone. How do you feel about this versus something like acoustic IRs? I think you did a nux pedal a few years ago.

[@chordsoforion]

IMO, this is a better solution than IRs. I feel like it is more akin to the tone modeling feature like the ToneX etc. It sounds way better than the NUX.

[@scottymac3634]

For those of us 'on a budget' (salesperson talk for 'broke') a fairly narrow cut at 800 Hz can help. A lot of the problem though is that the under-saddle pickup is distorting. I don’t know how to fix that. It’s been a problem for decades.

[@martinlindsay579]

That sounds a great pedal. Could well bring new life to a lot of players instruments. Like the way it can be blended and mixed. 👍

[@essencerecovery6657]

Are you plugging in your other pedals through the send and receive from the tonedexter?

[@chordsoforion]

No. For this video, just added them to the output of the ToneDexter. If I was setting up a real pedalboard, I would likely use the effects loop as you suggest.

[@Fl4ppers]

So this is applying IR technology to your piezo? I've seen this on a few KZbin videos with the Helix and others. One guy used some kind of open source software to do as this pedal does and turn it into an IR.

[@chordsoforion]

This is not an impulse response, but more like tone modeling from ToneX, etc.

[@genepozniak]

IR = "Impulse Response." Had to look that up because I was wondering how "Infrared" could be used here. 😄

[@Fl4ppers]

@@chordsoforion ahhh right. Like the Cortex.

[@Fl4ppers]

@@genepozniak coming from a photography hobby background I can see why you'd think that 😎

[@CoreyMcConnell]

IRs are also wav maps. Pretty sure “impulse response” is the literal definition of this technology within the wider field of physics/acoustics, whereas all these other types are proprietary brand names of the same underlying technology.

[@sawdustcrypto3987]

Sounded good, however when you blended the two 55:50 it seems there was some sort of phasiness happening (I am listening on a mono speaker, but I don't feel like that should matter for something like this)

[@chordsoforion]

yes - there was definitely some phase cancelation happening with the 50/50 mix. Positioning the mic a little differently when in training mode may have reduced the cancelation.

[@birdsofvyraj92]

Cool stuff but very pricey. :(

[@HotPink90sSun]

baritone then capo

[@chordsoforion]

partial capo.

[@CoreyMcConnell]

Millennial perspective: there seems to be a huge market/demand for expensive, analogue form-factor, solutions to the electrical/digital problems of guitar tone. Considering murphy’s law, my smartphone now has more DSP than any of these products these days. So why haven’t more people switched over to say…Ableton and all of the open source, free, plugins? It seems industry-wide. “tube amps” vs modelers has been a debate since, what, the 90s? Wood vs carbon-fiber, etc It’s 2024 guys