Octatrack and Guitar

I’ve dusted off my old bass guitar, plugged it in my OT and… FUCK YEAAAAAAH IT WORKS! Sound is a bit meh, I have to crank input gain to the max, but my bass is alive and kickin’, running through bit reduction and delay.

Oh the possibilities… Shitty post-punk one man band, here I come!

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There is also VOL, and I recommend compressor as first FX, unless you push hard LOFI or Filter distortion ! :content:

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I’ll try that!

The jack I was using must be busted, I had a nasty buzz going on in the background…

I have an Art Tube MP Studio V3 (blue), but no love for it (only eq presets). I recently bought a 2U Art Pro Channel II, for vocals. Should be nice for bass too.

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I used to own the Pro Channel. Really good for the money. They also have a tube compressor that sounds pretty good. Question @sezare56: So if I’m just monitoring and haven’t started sampling yet, the VOL control in the Amp section will increase the gain? I thought that was for after you have the sample in the buffer. If I can get more gain with that, I’ll be very happy.

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With Pickups, REC SETUP 2 AB/CD ? Unfortunately it seems after AMP page.

It’s possible to monitor with Flex, including Amp page while recording, or recording constantly with rec trigs. Change pattern to stop recording (no rec trigs).

I would be using Flex. Thanks!

hey there! very interesting sounds!!

You had a flex track with trigless trigs doing all the modulation here? LFO’s pitching up, long delay tempos?

The destructive part comes from a pickup machine with the gain lower than middle right? But a pickup machine alows you to place trigs in the sequencer?
Thats what Im not getting… How to you get that all that, what seems to me, trigless trigs activity but with a pickup machine due to gain < to middle?

Or your loop comes from a neighbour machine delay FX with high tempo and feedback?

More information in original thread…

God… another rabbit hole: Octatrack + Electric Guitar

No preamps or anything.

This thing rocks, literally.

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Guitar straight into OT.

No preamps or anything.

1 Through track + 3 Neighbor tracks, emulating classic guitar amplifier gain staging filtering and send effects

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Amazing 90’s sound!
Just to find out how to get more feedback when getting closer to the OT and that will be perfect :wink:

OT does feedback delightfully but I didn’t crank up the volume on the JBL used for monitoring because the neighbors.

It goes full Nirvana.

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If you feel like sharing the settings of the tracks for the sake of educating ourselves, that would be most welcome :wink:

Say no more:

Mix input gain +63 for guitar in

T1 - Thru fx1 Compressor to lift up (preamp like) fx2 classic guitar effect (chorus or flanger, turn off for Oasis cover)

T2 - Nei - fx1 and fx2 LoFi

T3 - Nei fx1 Filter and Equalizer

T4 - Nei fx1 spatializer and fx2 reverb or delay

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If you split the guitar signal you could run it to inputs A AND C, and get two channels like yours which you could cross fade between.

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2 Lo Fi slots? Just to crank the distortion or?
I have to say from experimenting i prefer the lo fi one than the filter one on guitar. Almost like a dirty big muff.

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What’s the goal of doing so?

Gain staging with more control, like RAT into a Tube Screamer

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You have an octatrack and ask such a question? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
One thought is you could have a modulation frenzy on one side then find a blend with your 90s sound using the crissfader