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9 GUITARS AND OTHER PEDALS
9.1 H
EXAPHONIC
G
UITARS
You get the best overdriven guitar sound with magnetic pickups. At the moment there are only a
few full size magnetic hex pickups available, made by luthiers and enthusiasts. Notable projects
as of mid 2014: Ubertar and Cycfi.
Probably the most widely used magnetic hex pickup is Roland GK series, either externally
mounting or as a kit. Roland GK sounds very good with Spicetone’s hex pedals. Please mind that
the GK is normally mounted close to bridge, meaning rather thin sound. To overcome this, turn
on our root boost circuit on the hexaphonic channels. Experiment with pre and post boost.
ROOT BOOST PRE
Menu 1 Clock 8: 0Off_16Off (D) 0Off_16On (
G
) 0On_16Off (
Y
) 0On_16On (
R
)
ROOT BOOST POST
Menu 1 Clock 7: 0Off_16Off (D) 0Off_16On (
G
) 0On_16Off (
Y
) 0On_16On (
R
)
Hexaphonic piezo pickups are widely available, too. Most notable are RMC pickups, used in many
Godin guitars. The piezos sound very clear. For best results you might want to engage filter
section to roll off unpleasant high frequencies.
FILTER SECTION
ON/OFF Menu 1 Clock 9 Filter On (
G
), Off (
R
)
FILTER SECTION
Menu 1: Pot 7 Frequency 1 Pot 8 Frequency 2 Pot 9 Filter Output Pot 10
Resonance
9.2 M
ONO
G
UITARS
6Appeal works just fine with ordinary monophonic guitars. If you use MONOGUITAR setting,
then plugging a guitar to Mono In with a conventional TS guitar cable automatically turns off
hexaphonic channels. NB! Disconnect 13pin first.
MONOGUITAR
Menu 10 Clock 1 : On (
G
) / Off (
R
)
You have to turn up MONO POT to hear your monophonic guitar. MONO is a volume knob for
monophonic signals, affecting both dry and driven sound.
Warning! As a rule of thumb, to plug in to Mono In, you have to unplug 13pin cable from
6Appeal. You also have to switch off G-VOL feature in Menu 10 (“Global”), otherwise neither hex
nor mono sound comes through.
G_VOL GK VOLUME KNOB
Menu 10 Clock 6: On (
G
) / Off (
R
)
That being said, with some types of hex-equipped guitars you can use Mono In and 13 pin In
inputs simultaneously, but with many guitar it does not work that way because of guitar’s inner
switching. If your guitar happens to accept 6Appeal’s Mono In and 13pin In simultaneously, you
have to turn MONOGUITAR function off to use that.
9.3 B
ASS
G
UITAR
Unlike common distortion pedals, 6Appeal works nicely with bass guitars, especially the ones
with hexaphonic pickups. First of all there's no low end cutoff in the signal path. Secondly, you
