If I unplug the guitar lead from the HX effects and plug it straight into the PA the acoustic guitar sounds great, and is 3x louder (whether thru a DI box int the PA or direct) Just putting the acoustic through the HX without any of the panned setup sounds awful.

It doesn't matter what input and output from the HX effects I use (I've tried every combination) the sound is equally bad on acoustic and great on electric. The acoustic guitar into the PA sounds awful, truly dreadful, thin, characterless and quiet. The electric guitar into the amp sounds great

(I had thought about left and right inputs with two leads but I really want minimal number of leads about, they always get tangled - I did try it but it made no difference to the sound) Then I could unplug the acoustic and change to electric, select another preset with distro, delay etc and that would output hard Right into my guitar amp.

A preset for acoustic guitar would have a little chorus, a tiny bit of reverb and maybe even a Professional IR from an acoustic guitar to offset the piezo duck quack and would route hard Left. Out of there L and R (via a final pan block) into guitar amp and PA respectively (either direct into PA or via a DI box). So my plan was to have the acoustic guitar and electric sharing a lead into the HX FX.

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