After 3 weeks of email correspondence I’m returning this for my Eurorack interface. Had to pay $27 to ship it to UK and guy barely believed me that it didn’t work and spent a bunch of email back and forth telling me it was my pc and shit. I love their products I have but the support is very meh.
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I’m a guitar player but decided to start learning how to play bass the way bass players usually play, without a pick. I can now do the bassline to Muse’s Hysteria at 90 percent speed. Pretty proud of that. But it’s a different set of callouses needed and I’m not sure bass fretting callouses aren’t gonna interfere with my guitar fretting callouses. But I haven’t played my electric guitar in months so I guess who cares. I wanna play bass in a band someday. No fighting to stay in tune, no distortion to contend with live. Would be nice.
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The Kurzweil K2000 is a classic powerhouse synth from the early 90s. To my ears, it has a lush, dark sound for a digital synth and is capable of producing some downright scary tones. I was determined to post by Halloween:
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Update: Dude has had this for 5 days now and apparently hasn’t even tested it. This guy.
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I got VCV installed and was playing around. I assume there are a bunch of presets I can download and not build everything from scratch?
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There is a way to set each module setting you like as a preset too and I’m gapping out how because I never really use it.
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Plateau is awesome af. Chronoblob also.
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What are they?
Plateau is reverb and Chronoblob is the delay on that photo it’s the top two modules for aux sends.
The thing I’ve been playing around with is convolution reverb and IRs. You know anything about that?
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Not really. I usually go to the Valhalla reverbs when I work in Ableton. It’s a VST or native to a DAW? Valhalla has some great free reverb VSTs.
ETA: I googled it. So that’s different than an algorithmic reverb I guess. Nope. Not sure if I’ve used one or not.
Running my external hardware synths through that Plateau is so great. It’s why I want that ES-8 sound interface back so bad lol. If I treated my customers like this dude is acting I’d have negative reviews all over my business pages.
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Did you figure out how to add all the free modules from the VCV Rack page? Just add every free one available to your library imo.
Nah I only played around for like 10 minutes so far. Was just opening anything and everything in Linux to see which one could pick up a MIDI controller.
I would get all the free modules and then watch a few of Omri Cohen’s videos or playlists. He has walkthroughs of a ton of modules where he just makes a patch featuring them and he has playlists like a Beginner’s playlist for people absolutely new to VCV Rack. You will want to set up something similar to my template right away. Then, once that’s set up and you get how things flow you will be able to figure out everything and experiment I’m sure.
I’m not sure if the Audio-64 module I’m using to connect to my interfaces is available on the library. The others didn’t have enough ins/outs and the guy had it on his github when I downloaded it but it wasn’t in the library. You won’t need a big one anyway until you know what’s up and start mixing VCV with your hardware stuff.
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Oh, depending on your audio interface you may not be able to send gates and V/Oct signals out or in and only audio can go in or out. You will need DC coupled ins/outs. A lot of interfaces don’t have DC coupled ins/outs. You can still send your synth or guitar audio in to those effects or VCV sounds out to any external hardware you want but not gates and v/oct signals.
I’ve been trying to see if it’s possible to cop an EJ tone using free amp simulation and effects. Pro audio is a nightmare on Linux and this has taken forever, but I finally got something to track.
I’m cheating a bit here: I have a 57 Reissue Strat up to Ah Via Musicom specs with the DiMarzio HS-2 in bridge and the tone control wired to it. I also have a BK Butler Tube Driver and set it to whatever the internet says EJ uses. I tried to recreate the rest of the signal chain digitally.
57 RI Strat →
Tube Driver →
Echo →
Pre + Power Amp →
JTM 45 tone stack →
1960 Marshall cab IR →
Lexicon 480L Plate IR
I think it’s fairly accurate in the midrange but it’s missing some bottom end and more notably the glassy top end that I think comes in part from real amp feedback. Not sure how to simulate that part.
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This is orders of magnitude more than I know about how to create tones, but it sounds very nice. Especially on those arpeggios. Maybe a touch ‘sharper’ (a little less underwatery) and ever so slightly less ‘spacy’, but to underline, I know nothing, this is close.
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That is the Lexicon 480L “guitar plate” IR as convolution reverb you’re hearing. Yeah it’s really muffling the top end I need to find a better IR and do some post EQ.
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Any strong opinions on monitoring headphones? I already have a good pair of open cans for critical listening. I need a closed pair with good attenuation from outside noise, would ideally be able to use them for casual listening when I don’t want to disturb people. Prefer over the ear to on ear. Usual recommendations are
Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
Beyerdynamic DT 770
Sennheiser HD 280
Sennheiser HD 25 (on ear)
Sony MDR-7506
Do you all have experience with any of these or others?