HCSE echo adjustments

[mikeab]

Now the initial excitement over my HCSE has settled down ( only a bit) I'm starting to do what I've always done with previous Echo devices - namely trying to get a slightly 'wetter' sound on some of the specific echoes (ie a little more sustain). I've always suspected I do this firstly to help gloss over some of my playing deficiencies, but also maybe because I have my bridge set a little tight to help tuning stability and this might reduce the echo sustain.

Anyway a typical example of what I've done so far is to take the Atlantis echo and edge it towards the TFYL echo - by changing the TRIM setting from -11 to -10 (TFYL is -9 and I have a -6 setting for it's string damped section).

I have no idea what I am actually doing though.

I did a similar move on the P12/13/14 sequence setting the TRIM set to -9 - then spotted that happens to be P!5!

What mods are others making - if any? And is the TRIM the best way to do what I'm after?


Mike

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Mike,
Trim settings are for Echo output level and also for Feedback level. Note also that the P programs cannot be changed permanently with editing, but P programs can be edited and then saved in the User Bank as U patches.
I think it would be easier and more appropriate to put everything back as it was (the easiest way would be to perform a reset) and simply turn up either the Echo Level control or the Echo Drive control and think of those settings as your personal ones, at least with the guitar and amp you currently use. Echo Drive will tend to blur the echo more, particularly on notes that are picked hard so you might want to try that first.
Regards,
Charlie

[mikeab]

Thanks Charlie - I was of course experimenting with making my own 'U' settings and referring to them, but I will try what you suggest as well. I have copied my most used 'TFYL' type echoes to the very high U60's so I don't have to scroll too far to get to the vital P1-4 echoes. Works for me!

Mike