warwickhunt

Several issues could be my lack of experience with Tonex but tbh I dived straight into the TC software/hardware tone editing in the Plethora with very little need to search tutorials. The crashing and reinstalling of software etc is squarely down to Tonex. Without @bnt's guidance on what/how to disable various things to utilise the pedal as an interface when adjusting presets, I'd have put the pedal out of the window. It was infuriating that it wasn't described in a basic guide.

Bolin!

Nothing is intuitive, I had to reinstall twice (in 3 hours), I had to reload models/presets 'purchase' (even though they were free with the pedal) each time I restarted the pedal, I also had to scour tutorials to suss that you couldn't listen to adjustments 'live'. You have to play through an alternative interface or if using the pedal you need to bypass the pedal, disable direct monitoring AND enable a setting in the app... none of which is explained in any lit from Tonex; thankfully helpful people like @bnt et al have been through this and helped.

What is the guitarist doing? I'm fairly sure I'd be negotiating to do one tuning or the other!

Nothing is worth that hassle! TBH I've come to the conclusion that a good analogue preamp is pretty much all I need if I'm going to be sending the signal to a PA or FOH. Speaker IRs, captures etc are all just variations of EQ... so just EQ the bass tone and be done! I wanted to be able to have a good preamp tone with a few effects added for individual songs, all in 1 pedal but it's no big deal if I have a preamp pedal and a good effects pedal; 2 pedals isn't exactly a hassle. Plus I have my IEM transmitter on my pedalboard, so long as they all fit I'm happy.

Ridiculous/Ludicrous system. I decided that as I had a better grasp of this and I wanted to practice what I had learned that I'd apply it to some presets for my acoustic guitar... having none of it and it has asked me to reinstall the Tonex set up! <edit> The software has now crashed 3 times while I've been browsing; laptop is barely 12 months old so not ancient.

Irritating to say the least that when I went back through the settings for a 3rd or 4th time it suddenly had the tonex option in the drop down! I changed zero while cycling through the options but it changed any way! Lets see how we get on now!

That made sense. However, I can't adjust these final settings!

Doing it on my laptop and I've followed tutorials but can I heck as like get it to change any parameter, despite me dragging dials to their extreme!

At the minute I'd like to adjust / manipulate one of the presets but can I hell simply turn settings up/down and hear changes in real time.

Do you have to restore your purchases every time you restart/start the Tonex software? I also appear to have only 15 tones/presets to choose from in the whole library without purchasing add ons?

I'll just be venting my spleen as I go... 'Tonex not responding' is my present vexation!

I'm going to be putting this through the window in a minute! Registered, downloaded, pedal plugged into laptop, open Amplitude 5... instant and continuous feedback loop, which I have to shut down straight away! Totally frustrated with this croc of shyte; it shouldn't be this hard to navigate into a programme and put sounds onto a pedal.

I'm having exactly the same issues right now! Registered the product and then going in circles trying to access/download stuff! I haven't even begun to suss how to open the UI to start loading stuff on the pedal!

When I get the pedal I'll get my head around that! LOL Can you just put 3 presets into the pedal? I know it holds 20 per slot but can I just put 3 in? I can load a different three as and when.

I'd always have 3 presets (max) for either of the bands I am in, so I'd preprog/set them for whichever band I was with.

I've taken the plunge! It transpires that operating the pedal in edit mode you can toggle through 3 'settings'. Hopefully I'll be able to use the 3 main tones that I need, otherwise this will go in front of a Zoom MS60 and I'll do everything from the 2 pedals.

I've been super impressed with the MI-Pro58.

It would be this all day long for me. Easy to replicate without costing a fortune... and looks cool (IMHO).

I did a 'blind' test re 10" 12" 15" speaker cabs(and multiples of) and posted my recordings on BC asking for educated guesses on which was which and nobody was able to correctly identify which was which. Not a criticism at all but a lot of folk will make sweeping statements about speaker dimensions and tone!

You mean like play an active bass and turn the treble down a smidgen? 🤣

Ah OK. I know it was £18.99 for a TWIN pack of 4 strings!

£28.99 for the 5 strings according to that Amazon link.

Not all rechargeables are created equal! Get a very good brand and they will match the best + you don't have to last as long if you have 2 sets and swap them out.