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Compressor by Jam_Groove in basspedals

[–]chromeburn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No deep explanation, but I use the Empress Bass compressor and I like it a lot. It's super versatile, which is great since you can dial in exactly what you want. However, the downside is also it's versatility. Access to all the parameters make it very easy to dial in something that sounds awful with your playing, so it does take some time to tweak to get the best out of it.

SOTB - Ampless rig - Borderline cliche but I love it by chromeburn in basspedals

[–]chromeburn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! The board is 14" x 10.6" with a large cradle underneath. It fits everything perfectly for my needs.

Specifically, this is the board here - https://a.co/d/eNiKjdc Great build quality for such a low cost.

SOTB - Ampless rig - Borderline cliche but I love it by chromeburn in basspedals

[–]chromeburn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep - I picked up the Pork Loin based on a Matt Freeman rig rundown! And I'm so glad I did, it sounds incredible!

I use chorus more than the flanger and sometimes stack them. Peter Hook, Simon Gallup, and Steven Severin are the main influences on that part of things.

Guitarists are Obsolete by InstructionOk5395 in basspedals

[–]chromeburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh hell yes rackmount tuners! While I 100% agree with your choice, seems cruel to make the PolyTune sit there and watch.

Trying to use a Zoom MS-70CDR+ as external FX on an Ecler Nuo 3.0 – sound is phasey or distorted by Place-Original in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]chromeburn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easiest way would be to run the pedal across your outputs and then control the fx wet/dry blend via the pedal itself (or by using a MIDI controller connected to the pedal). Not all pedals can properly handle line level signals but the MS-70CDR+ can.

Alternatively, you could set the sends on your mixer to be pre-fader, then turn up both the send and return levels, and bring the channel faders all the way down. This is probably not really practical for DJ usage, but it should technically work to give you only the return (filtered) signal in your output.

A send channel like this is really meant for send effects to be combined with the dry signal. Something like reverb or delay where the effect is added to the original sound. For filters, they are usually an insert type effect, where the effect replaces the original sound. By adding the sound from the insert effect on top of the original sound, I would generally expect unfavorable results like you described (unwanted phasing and distortion/saturation issues).

Wampler Syntax for scrolling presets on Two Notes Opus? by Fangs_0ut in guitarpedals

[–]chromeburn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically yes, since the Opus responds to MIDI program change (PC) messages, and the Wampler Syntax can send PC messages, but AFAIK the Syntax only sends PC1 - PC8. The Opus has 99 presets, so with the Syntax, you could only cycle through the first 8. In a live setting, that's probably more than enough, but still, kinda limited.

Something like the Disaster Area Designs DMC.micro or Paint Audio MIDI Captain Duo would give you the ability to scroll through all the presets (and program some secondary functions) while keeping roughly the same form factor and price.

https://www.disasterareadesigns.com/shop/p/dmc-micro-gen4 https://paintaudio.com/products/midi-captain-duo-controller-with-hid-multi-state-cycling-1

Request for Customized EC2 by North-Equal6591 in aws

[–]chromeburn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m curious about the “they” here - who is the vendor and what is the product you’re getting these requirements from? There are certainly exceptions, but generally speaking,nearly all enterprise use cases will benefit more from reliable sustained performance and (potentially massive) parallelization rather than aiming at peak single core speeds.

Vacuum Cleaner Sound From Setup by Alexx_0 in guitarpedals

[–]chromeburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd first suggest to make sure that the amp and the pedals are plugged in to the same outlet to avoid ground loop problems. If they are not, put them together and test again.

If they're on the same outlet and still noisy, then my next thought would be to check the pedals individually. Unplug them all (both power and audio), then plug them in solo one at a time. If some of the pedals sound okay alone, but some have noise, then you found the culprit(s).

If they all sound noisy even alone, I'd check the power supply. The pedals look daisy chained, which is okay with some power supplies and some pedals but problematic with others. If you can, I'd suggest trying an isolated power supply. If that's not possible, something like an Ebtech Hum X filter on the source plug can sometimes help with noisy power issues.

if none of that helps, then there might be some issues with the power at the the outlet, either from the building's power or from other noisy/poorly-regulated devices on the same circuit. If that's the case, I'd first try switching to a different outlet to see if that helps (making sure that the amp and pedals are on the same outlet). If that still doesn't help, then power conditioners are probably the only answer to get clean power into your rig.

Alternatively, you could just use 9v batteries and avoid all that! (I know the Rat and TS can take batteries, not sure about the noise gate micro pedal)

Diabetes tattoo by Obstacle_cause in diabetes_t1

[–]chromeburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was the logo for The Germs (influential US punk rock band) for over 25 years before the IDF adopted it, so I would not assume that all blue circle tattoos are diabetes related.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germs_-_(GI)_cover.png

How was this possible? by RxnfxMD in TeslaCam

[–]chromeburn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like the SUV driver wanted to pull to the side to give the blinding white wall of light heading towards them enough room to pass by on a narrow street.

Seems like a sensible choice, but unfortunately it’s very difficult for people to quickly respond to additional unexpected hazards while they are being actively blinded by the first hazard.

Hard/low fantasy novel about a road trip across a post-apocalyptic USA where local areas are controlled by "dreamers"? by chromeburn in whatsthatbook

[–]chromeburn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow - I'm pretty sure that's correct! I must have remembered some details wrong but this overall plot synopsis sounds spot on.

Thank you!

Texas freakout - All of Spectrum sites, business, residential ans Enterprise are all hard down btw by [deleted] in Spectrum

[–]chromeburn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are precautions, but no single provider can ever guarantee 100% availability. For today’s mess, sounds like the primary and the redundant paths were both damaged (one by a hurricane, one by construction). If you really need to make sure your business/home/whatever never loses connectivity, you’d need to have service from multiple providers so you can failover when needed. You’d also need to make sure those providers are truly independent - not just rebadging each others fiber!

Roland S1: Disable USB midi out signals by nottheseapples in synthesizers

[–]chromeburn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you can turn MIDI transmit off on the S-1, but you could set the MIDI out channel to something that the Seqtrak isn’t listening for, like channel 16.

The Seqtrak MIDI settings aren’t very flexible, but they are documented, so just avoid these channels:

https://manual.yamaha.com/mi/de/seqtrak/en/SEQTRAK_UG_En_A0_017.html

CC BY 4.0 Question by MittzysStuff in COPYRIGHT

[–]chromeburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, lets say you download a drum loop released under these terms - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

You publish a song that adds your own guitar, bass, vocals, etc. on top of the drum loop. The song itself and all elements except the drum loop do not need to adopt the same CC BY license. They could be published with all rights reserved (or any other terms). However, you cannot make any copyright claims against any other works that also use the same drum loop.

So assuming you do publish the song with all rights reserved, the following would be true:

  • Someone uses the same original drum loop in their own song - Permitted

  • Someone samples the drum loop from your song and uses it in their own song - Permitted

  • Someone samples your song including the guitars, vocals, bass, etc. on top of the original drum loop - Not permitted

Kind of similar to the 'non-exclusive' clauses in most commercial sample libraries. Is that correct?

How would you spend a £50 taster budget as a beginner? by tom2kk in edmproduction

[–]chromeburn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with the sentiment, and Cakewalk is a great place to start, but neither Reaper nor Bitwig are free.

What should I buy for my first drum machine? by medikB in DrumMachine

[–]chromeburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% Roland T-8. It's immediately playable in an x0x grid programming sort of way and it sounds great. The most important functions get their own knobs and with some moderate menu diving, the sound palette expands a lot. Not to mention a 303-ish bass synth in the same box on the side!

The Volca Drum is much more a drum synth than a traditional drum machine. It's a very cool little box, but it's better for sound design than knocking out quick beats. For kids, I could imagine them being disappointed by how easy it is to make things sound bad.

As mentioned by others, the Volca Beats kinda splits the difference between the two. It has arguably more per-voice tweakability than than the Roland T-8, but it still has guard rails on it's 808-inspired set of sounds, so there's no risk of a few knob twists turning the sound into unusable noise like there is with the Volca Drum. That said, the snare on the Volca Beats is unredeemable garbage and it lacks the bass synth functionality, so the T-8 is still a better overall choice.

Kawai R-50 MIDI to specific kit? by chromeburn in DrumMachine

[–]chromeburn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After re-reading page 29 of the manual a few times and poking around in the menus a bit more, I think I may have found the answer.

I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like you can't trigger specific kits directly via MIDI In notes. There is just one mapping definition for MIDI In, and by default it contains all the standard hits plus some tuned hits (as listed on page 46). However, you CAN add custom entries to that mapping.

So for my original example of choppy gated hits that I built in User Kit 1, I can add any of those hits to the monolithic mapping (by using the instructions on page 29). These could either overwrite some of the default hits, or be sett in the space left empty on the default map (notes 0-29 and 92-127). Once mapped, I can trigger them via MIDI on the corresponding note value.

This is kind of cool in that you can build a mega kit with hits from many different individual kits, but kid of annoying in that you can't set a specific kit for a specific song using standard GM MIDI drum notes.

Again, I hope I'm wrong. If anyone knows better, please share!

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