Creating a Vox Chime preset in Bias X, Hogwarts AND Hog Warts

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28 Sep 2025 — 1 min read

Bias -X Vox chime preset

Quick review of both the magic and the warts of Positive Grid's Bias-X. We chase a single sound a couple of different times using the new AI feature, along the way finding out where Bias X still has far to go. The sound we are chasing is a classic Vox Chime. For more on that, and how the Vox chime differs from the Fender jangle, see this livestream: https://youtu.be/5k74DFYpzJo?si=I_OEhMy8pTtYcdvY.

The Magic: AI really is fun to dial in sounds with as long as you are good at a little prompt engineering; It sounds great.

The Warts: CPU hog, need to be connected to the internet, so MS, Google, FB, and everyone all want to call home and glitch out your audio, unreported latency

key words: Digital Guitar, Bias X, AI, Vox, AC30, latency

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Rainy Day #2

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