Rinzler im a bit confused are you using your field recordings by running them through the OT inputs or by loading them as .wav files into the machine itself?
I’m only asking because i too do not always enjoy the OT sound and sought many different ways to neutralize it because I enjoy djing with the OT and use either the pioneer fx on the club mixer or my own guitar pedals on send return if i want to alter the sound of professionally mastered tracks.
So again - if you are playing .wav files you’ve loaded onto the OT via disk mode and you turn timestretching off the OT does not, to my ears, colour the sound whatsoever. I really enjoy how clean it makes my samples sound for this reason.
But if you use the inputs - the OT will impart a sonic signature. You can hear it quite distinctly if you switch from DIR monitoring to a thru machine.
And often its not bad at all, but it can mean that I need to adjust some of my bass and synth lead patches if i take my gear out from my studio mixdesk and plug it into my OT inputs when playing a live set.
the only reason i ask is that the OT workflow can be opaque and confusing. I couldn’t make my OT sample for the first month I owned it. But having stuck to the device i am much happier that I invested the time in this machine rather than Ableton or a DAW as it really opens itself up as a live instrument and can quite easily put out a polished and professional sound. I played inbetween a traktor dj and a vinyl dj last weekend and my machinedrum kicks and tempest basslines were on par with everyone else.
In fact in the end it was the guy running his ableton live rig that had problems with sound quality because of his cables or soundcard etc etc…