I use guitar and pitch down, it is doing the job in the mix with an EQ de la muerte.
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Thanks for the advices, guys! I will indeed try to record it directly before spending some money !
@FlexMundo funny that you say that, because what I have in mind is clearly on a noisy / hardcore / post punk tip.
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Quick recordings, rusty playing of 6 strings Harley Benton bass, passive mode. Cheapest with drive : American Tone, paid 25 € new.
Straight in OT
American Tone
American Tone with drive
Mooer Radar
So @Kuro with limited budget I’d go Harley Benton American Tone, big sound palette with eq, voicing, drive…
Or other Tech21 / Sansamp clones.
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Fuck yeah, sounds good (to me, at least). Thanks @sezare56 !
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160€ 6 strings bass and 25€ for the American Tone, new. Good price/sound ratio imho!
Harley Benton stuff. Some people may be horrified by it, but they can make unbeatable things, like my 8 strings Fanfret, 139€…
The American Tone is the same as Joyo American Sound, based on Fender amps simulation.
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Keep it punk!
I have a Yamaha bb404 bass guitar, not exactly a legendary model… so yeah, keeping it low cost and dirty might be the best scenario.
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I go from guitar (or bass) into the HX Stomp, and have its stereo output head right into Octatrack’s AB inputs.
I recorded loads of music this way, but the Stomp obviously isn’t in any way necessary. I prefer it to entering the Octatrack directly though, because of the sound adjustments that are available to me.
Instagram sometimes messes up the sound quality, it’s perfect when hearing it out of the Octatrack.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAgiY99gaSH/?igshid=hfxwku9x34sj
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Budget: American Tone works great. I use one for battery option with uke bass and sp-404 when day drinking on the deck. Props to @sezare56 for recommending it a while back. For the price it’s a no brainer.
Used one for years, paid $30 on sale, still have it somewhere. Great to get started but man are they noisy.
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Agreed. They do get noisy. Most of the time, I just use a direct box with bass straight into OT. I bought one of the ART preamps to get guitar into MPC but returned my MPC so now I have an unused preamp just taking up space. Maybe I can sell it. Won’t get much for it unfortunately.
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Exactly what I used mine for, guitar to MPC/OT till I upped my preamp game. I’d keep it, nothing wrong with a cheap small preamp to help in a pinch.
True. Especially when I want to use a condenser mic for acoustic guitar or ukulele and don’t want to mess with the audio interface.
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i have a very basic question:
seem like the obvious use case is sample mangling… but the OT works as just a tracker, right?
i’d like to add guitar & bass to my electro, not thing too exotic, and i’m really turned off by daws. multiple bar parts, not necessarily looping.
is OT good for this or will it frustrate me?
i’m thinking i’d like to record (possibly live via trigs) with the hx stomp in the fx loop. so sample clean then possibly bounce dirty back to another buffer (i think this is what they are called). would this work?
thanks!
I just picked up a neve preamp, and against all popular opinion, it’s going straight into my octatrack for bass guitar DI 
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Absolutely possible. It will only be an enjoyable process once you are very comfortable with how record trigs, record buffers, saving samples etc work, though. That can take a while.
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Exactly as @brisket mentioned.
Compared to a DAW, the Octatrack is a bit cumbersome when you want to lay down a riff and need eg. seven takes – but I used it exclusively for this purpose last year. It works.
You need to understand the maximum step length of the specific recording you want to record, then set the recording trig, arm the track, and you’re ready to go.
I think you only learn this by doing it. If I could do it, so can you 
Be careful with how you use the word “tracker” here. The experience of using an OT is not the same as using a Polyend Tracker or M8 Tracker, both of which are considered “trackers”.
People here have a fairly specific understanding of what a “tracker” is. It’s like asking people about “guitars” but what you really had in your mind was a ukulele
Both!
It can be frustrating at first as a basic looper, especially if you want to loop with unusual length, without previously fixed length.
It’s a super recorder : 8 recorders with different sources (A/B/C/D - Tracks 1-8 - MAIN - CUE)
Recordings can be played on any track, any step (different recordings on 1 track possible).
Recordings can be mangled on the fly, even pitch up / reverse if delayed. They can be sliced are randomed. Possible to freeze audio with timestretch. Possible to resample with feedback, pitch up.
Max recording time : 8m28s (with empty RAM)
Stereo only.
Destructive loop with 8 strings guitar + 3 drums sounds.
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This is lovely! I’m not sure it could’ve been created outside of the Octatrack. Thanks! <3
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This is fantastic
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I’d like to see more live performances of an OT with a guitar.
I repost these ones:
Of course there’s @AldoVino:
Seems this guy is using it as well:
In some cases, it is hard to say what’s the role of the OT.
If you have any idea/link, i am hungry 
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