Octaver / Pitchshifter idea

[Art288]

Hey all,

Myself and a guitarist just split from our previous band, and we're looking to get a power trio happening. The problem is that a lot of the music requires two guitar parts.

We had another guitarist in the band, but he wasn't a very strong player.

My idea has been for a while to duplicate my bass lines an octave higher, and put distortion on the shifted output only, then combine the two signals and bypass as I need to.

I was just wondering if anyone else has tried this and if so, how it worked out for you.

 

[bongomania]

Sure, and there are a variety of ways to go about it. The most straightforward is the (discontinued, but still findable used) Akai Unibass pedal. All analog octave-up pedals are also distortions, in that they use a type of distortion to create the octave-up tone. And if you search on "blender", you'll find the method most of us use to create split and layered sounds such as you describe.

 

[fokof]

The VB99 is very good for that.
On a couple of songs I split my bass as the lower three strings as a bass sound and the upper two a guitar.
Or you can put the two sounds together.

Very flexible tool.