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It's a small difference but it makes the sound more enjoyable for me which means I play for longer. Theoretically that should mean I get better, but really what tends to happen is that I stay the same but just enjoy it more
For great overdrive out of a Hot Rod Deluxe, cut the bass on the amp and push the mids. Then stick an EQ in the FX loop and do the opposite there. Sounds like a Marshall...
When playing with a bassist - cut your bass.
I tried a couple of options for running a bass through software. You can make this work like a stomp box if you have a loop switcher (preferably with blend for reasons discussed later).
Compressor > Loop switcher > rest of board
You then connect the loop send into your laptop audio interface and then the laptop output goes to the loop switcher return.
If you are used to DAWs it is also easy to have a midi button or foot switch trigger laptop patch changes.
I tried a prototype with MIDI Bass (a mono version of MIDI Guitar 2), and driving a couple of VA synths. I also tried it with Guitar Rig.
At 128 samples of buffer (or less), guitar rig is very usable. At the same buffer size, there is noticeable lag using MIDI Bass. If you are playing fairly straight time, you can compensate, and the tracking is otherwise accurate and copes well with fast playing. What you won't be doing is playing Tool, Dilla beats or anything African or Cuban, because the lag will do your head in. If you reduce the buffer size it doesn't pop and click, but the tracking gets less accurate.
I am told that blending the instrument direct signal with the synth is one way to deal with the lag. I didn't get around to testing that, but that's why you may want a loop switcher with a blend control.
Conclusion: adding Guitar Rig is a good way to add creative stuff into your chain, and is easy and solid. Using MIDI Bass and synths produces awesome noises, but either needs a very fast laptop and careful setting, or is better saved for atmospherics and SFX
There's a new version of MIDI Guitar coming out soon, so that may sharpen up the timing. We'll see. They are up against the basic arithmetic of sampling and interpreting low frequency signals.
Because nothing else will work.
My trading feedback: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/210335/yorkie
Back to FX topic : +1 for all the EQ pedal tips above. To add mine - get a Boss EQ200 so you can apply EQ presets pre or post the next pedal at a step of a footswitch. It's effing amazing.
A whammy + Miku pedal + digital delay sounds like a scene from an Anime porn movie.