I’ve just been having a look through the Katana manual and on page 19 it is taking about a guitar sim. I’ve had a quick look on the Interweb to see how you use it and I cannot find anything about it and it doesn’t say how you use it in the manual either.
Please could someone let me how to use the guitar sim?
GUITAR SIM Simulation of the characteristics of particular guitar components such as pickups and different guitar bodies allows you to switch among a number of different guitar types all while using a single guitar. Parameter Value Explanation TYPE Selects the type of the guitar simulator. S0H Changes from a single-coil pickup tone to a humbucking pickup tone. H0S Changes from a humbucking pickup tone to a single-coil pickup tone. H0HF (HALF TONE) Changes from a humbucking pickup tone to a single-coil pickup half tone. S0HOLLOW Changes a single-coil pickup tone to a hollow body tone with the body resonance added. H0HOLLOW Changes a humbucking pickup tone to a hollow body tone with the body resonance added. S0AC (ACOUSTIC) Changes a single-coil pickup tone to an acoustic guitar tone. H0AC (ACOUSTIC) Changes a humbucking pickup tone to an acoustic guitar tone. P0AC (PIEZO 0ACOUSTIC) Changes a piezo pickup tone to an acoustic guitar tone. LOW -50–+50 Adjusts the low frequency range tone. HIGH -50–+50 Adjusts the high frequency range tone. BODY 0–100 Adjusts the way the body sounds when TYPE is set to S0HOLLOW, H0HOLLOW, S0AC, H0AC or P0AC. The body sound increases as the value is raised; reducing the value produces a tone similar to that from a piezo pickup. LEVEL 0–100 Adjusts the volume of the effect sound. AC. GUITAR
I’ve been having a play to get a sound for a song that I’ve been having a crack at. Now I’m quite happy with the sound but there is quite a bit of fuzzy coming out of the amp. Is there anyway I can calm this a bit?
I’ve included a picture of the settings. I mean we all like a picture don’t we.
Is this with a guitar cable or guitar plugged in? Is the guitar volume turned up?
From what I could tell, you have overdrive set with a fair bit of gain. Any time you use a lot of gain you are going to get some noise as any electromagnetic noise from nearby mains cables, microwaves, fluorescent lights, phones, etc. that the highly sensitive amp input receives will be amplified and made 1,000 times louder. And, unless you live in a perfectly grounded Faraday cage, you will have this sort of background EM noise.
This is especially the case with a guitar with single coil pickups as they pick up a lot more stray electromagnetic noise.
Once you start playing, the sound should drown out the background noise.
One thing you can check is whether the noise suppressor is engaged. This is the box marked “NS” between “EQ2” and “SEND/RETURN”. Make sure this is enabled and play with the settings to reduce the level of background noise when you aren’t playing.
