I've been playing with my latest toy, a Zoom R4 recorder.
I made a quick multi-track of a new song with guitar and vocal so my playing buddy can work on his harmony vocal and octave mandolin parts, doing it as a Youtube video for him.
Now the bass content.
I play bass, but instead of pulling out my normal bass I thought I'd try using the bass strings of my nylon strung guitar, sending it through the built in polyphonic pitch shifter that's built in to the R4. I set it to an octave down and 100& wet signal so none of the original guitar could be heard.
I was astounded at how much like a good upright bass the resulting recording sounded like. I waited for 30 seconds before playing bass notes so the result could be heard. The last note of the recording also has a good clear note to listen to.
I made a quick multi-track of a new song with guitar and vocal so my playing buddy can work on his harmony vocal and octave mandolin parts, doing it as a Youtube video for him.
Now the bass content.
I play bass, but instead of pulling out my normal bass I thought I'd try using the bass strings of my nylon strung guitar, sending it through the built in polyphonic pitch shifter that's built in to the R4. I set it to an octave down and 100& wet signal so none of the original guitar could be heard.
I was astounded at how much like a good upright bass the resulting recording sounded like. I waited for 30 seconds before playing bass notes so the result could be heard. The last note of the recording also has a good clear note to listen to.
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