I don’t know anything about electric guitars and bass, so the Joe Meek might be good for that. There are plenty of GearSlutz threads on Joe Meek and FMR products, so the opinions are out there.
That being said…I took Nowaysj’s advice and I usually record everything with a little compression. I think it makes a pretty big difference, just a little squeeze on the way in ;p
I had a JM VC3 years ago- one of the stranger bits of lower-end gear out there. mic pre, opto compressor, high-end distortion “exciter.”
the one thing thing it did well was tabla-- the exciter really brought out the harmonics, and the compressor did nice stuff to the low end.
I sold it for what i bought it for, as it seemed i’d grown out of it-- but damn, i’d totally use that all the time these days on anything thats’ mostly midrangey, with transients that need to be tamed but stay present, and could use some low end magic. stabby synth parts especially.
so yeah-- the JM stuff is not “normal” gear, and it’s not really high end, but when you find the sweet spot-- they can be really rewarding.
Thanks for that : ) I’ll give my MC2 a shot on some hand drums and anything mid-range ish. Its going to be an all hardware summer cuz I’m a tnuc like that lol…
You DAW boys will have me beat for mix downs…but I’ll be sweatin’ and jamming having a good old time
I think I’ll get a RNC just becuase it’s probably all around more useful and I can run two signals thru at once. The Joe meek may sit in my book marks tho cos I’d like a little opto compressor
the biscuit is a beast…it’s going to be pretty pricey for most people…it has a vibe all its own…now it also has an 8 bit synth mode…which I have never explored…surprisingly good delay…all the distortion options and bit crushing…it really wants to be tweaked live rather then “set and forget” though you can easily use it that way. also the step filter is a beast for making midrange growl sounds
most of the demos are on drums…but I rarely use it on drums myself…not that it doesn’t sound great on drums…just prefer it on synths
any of you guys use guitar pedals in your set up, what kind of input box would you need to use that with ableton in a laptop? got a bunch of stuff like tube overdrive, delay, big muff fuzz, flange kicking about at home from my guitar days that i’d like to use in the future
You’d need an audio interface ofc and ideally a DI (direct inject) box (for guitar) to get the signal/impedence up to line level. If you plan on using these pedals to affect sounds already within ableton, obv you’d have to go out of the lappy, through the pedals and back in again, so you’d need an interface with external sends/returns or inserts