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Definitely. I use a Berhinger FCB1010, plugged into
the FireFace. I also use an M-Audio Axiom 25 via USB to control soft
synths. Right now I am using Ableton Live as my host, with VSTs and
Reaktor insdie of it for effects, synths, and percussion loops. I ditched
Max/MSP. I don't have time for all the programming.
To me the computer really isn't that different than
the hardware. It's all just hardware and software, right? The
difference is that when you buy a particular hardware effect, you are
stuck with that software. Whereas with the computer, you use one piece of
hardware to host as many different forms of software as you like.
Once you go to the laptop, you are just tweaking virtual rater than hard
knobs....and some even get hardware controllers to controll their virtual
effects, so they still have that sense of using hardware. There are
pieces of hardware out there that I have found to be more intimating than using
a computer. What's it like programming an Evantide?
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At
risk of sounding way dumb, do you use a midi controller or something to
trigger the loops? I am not very old (31), and do well with technology,
but the playing with a computer thing intimidates me.
Right now, I
could do my effects in stereo or pan an effected signal from the Bass Driver
DI with an uneffected signal (which probably doesn't make sense). I can
probably use an A/B box to pan some of my signal as it hits the looper too,
but that makes for a bulkier rig (hence the allure of the HD500 as it would
mean less gear and more stereo options).
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Kris Hartung <krispen.hartung@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, it's easy when you are all laptop:
Guitar -> RME FireFace 400 -> Computer -> RME
Fireface 400 -> PA
Once it gets to the laptop, it's all true stereo from
that point onward. I can't image not playing in stereo.
Reverbs decay in stereo. Delays are varied with different L/R times,
chorus is stereo, all of my Reaktor ensembles (instruments and effects) are
in stereo.
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I am curious as to how others are using their gear to great
stereo separation in recordings or on stage. Right now, I run
everything mono, but like the idea of going stereo.
My
rig:
Mic
Chili Dog Octave Pedal
Line 6 M13
Boomerang
III
Sans Amp Bass Driver DI
PA
Vids of my rig:
http://youtu.be/SZEiGB5AzsU
http://youtu.be/2bv4nKoqI3o
I play harmonica, hum
bass lines, and beatbox into this rig. The M13 and Boomerang are
stereo, but I run them mono. I like the idea of having the "bass"
coming from one side and the rhythm parts on the other. The
beatboxing and lead playing would be from the center.
I am also
thinking of using something like POD HD500 in place of the M13 and Bass
Driver DI to allow me to pan patches. Not only that, it would let me
use different patches for each "instrument" before hitting the
looper. Right now, everything gets the same eq, etc, via the
DI. It works ok, but I have to compromise the tone of all three
parts - harmonica, humming, beatboxing. The HD500 would let me set
up a harmonica patch, a bass patch, and a beatbox patch with only one
stomp (which I do all the time to cycle effects from the
M13)
Thanks for your thoughts!
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Fugazzi
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