![]() ![]() According to my rating system, AcouFiend gets a 5 x 5 – after five drinks at five in the morning, you can still figure it out. I believe in reading manuals, but to gauge a product’s user-friendliness, I also believe in just trying something out until I get confused. (And if that’s what you’re using, you really need to consider that it’s time for an upgrade!) However, if you want to use AcouFiend live, you’ll need a VST hosting program because it doesn’t run stand-alone. According to Blue Cat, it will even run on a Pentium 4 Windows machine running 32-bit Vista. The good ol’ Ebow, still one of the coolest inventions for guitar.īut now we have Blue Cat AcouFiend…so let’s find out if it really works.ĪcouFiend costs $79/€79, and in typical Blue Cat fashion, supports pretty much anything-VST, AU, AAX, and 32- or 64-bit host software.It’s pretty cool, but a little picky about playing style, and doesn’t work with chords. Layer a faux feedback sound with the guitar, like by transposing the note up by an octave and a fifth, and fading it in at the end of notes.Driving the guitar into feedback with the amp was captured by the DAW’s audio track. Split the guitar into an amp and the computer’s audio interface. ![]() Until this came along, I had four choices to generate feedback with plug-ins. And now, we have a plug-in that generates acoustical feedback, like what happens when you hold your guitar close to a speaker, and play really loud. As it so happened, it does a lot more than I thought originally.Įvery now and then, something comes along that violates the laws of physics-like when Melodyne showed polyphonic pitch correction, or Studio One added harmonic editing that generated chord tracks if you played chord progressions on guitar. AcouFiend definitely falls under the “why be normal?” category, and when I first saw it at the 2020 Winter NAMM, I couldn’t wait to check it out. I like off-the-wall products, plug-ins for guitar, and feedback…so here we are.
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