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Anyone play with looping multiple instruments, possibly with multiple amplifiers as well? I'd love to hear how you're routing your gear.
I'm currently building a set with the Boss RC505 with guitar, bass, and an SM58 running into the Boss RC505's inputs, and running that into a single full frequency amplifier. Pretty pleased with it, so I want to keep any tweaks minimal until I'm actually performing, but here are some ideas. Anything sound cool, or terrible, before I get too in the weeds with it?
Idea 1 - get a little 4 or 8 track mixer to put between the instruments and the looper. Use the mixer to optimize volume, gain, and EQ for each instrument. Pan will allow me to record hard left and hard right, which will allow to me route different loops to different amps using the stereo outputs (like a clean rhythm guitar into a clean amp while ripping distorted leads on a distorted amp) Bonus if the mixer has built in FX, but not necessary. Low signal to noise ratio is crucial.
Idea 2 - same as above, but then put an FX processor between the mixer and the looper. This would probably be my pedalboard, which really only has a guitar multifx, a 10 band EQ, and a preamp. Adjust FX for each track on the fly. All instruments could utilize all the FX
Idea 3 - optional addition to put my vocal processor right after the mic. This just cleans up the EQ a bit and has the option for vocal-specific Reverb and Delay. Could do this with or without the pedalboard or mixer.
Thanks, just thinking out loud. A little mixer is probably the first step. Like I said I'm getting decent results without one, but it would be nice to have gain levels and EQ set beforehand. The RC505 has all these controls, but you can only play with one at a time, so layering instruments with the desired EQ and levels takes a bit more trial-and-error than I'd like to do in front of an audience. And then it's easy enough to try running the mixer into the pedalboard and playing with that.
I'm currently building a set with the Boss RC505 with guitar, bass, and an SM58 running into the Boss RC505's inputs, and running that into a single full frequency amplifier. Pretty pleased with it, so I want to keep any tweaks minimal until I'm actually performing, but here are some ideas. Anything sound cool, or terrible, before I get too in the weeds with it?
Idea 1 - get a little 4 or 8 track mixer to put between the instruments and the looper. Use the mixer to optimize volume, gain, and EQ for each instrument. Pan will allow me to record hard left and hard right, which will allow to me route different loops to different amps using the stereo outputs (like a clean rhythm guitar into a clean amp while ripping distorted leads on a distorted amp) Bonus if the mixer has built in FX, but not necessary. Low signal to noise ratio is crucial.
Idea 2 - same as above, but then put an FX processor between the mixer and the looper. This would probably be my pedalboard, which really only has a guitar multifx, a 10 band EQ, and a preamp. Adjust FX for each track on the fly. All instruments could utilize all the FX
Idea 3 - optional addition to put my vocal processor right after the mic. This just cleans up the EQ a bit and has the option for vocal-specific Reverb and Delay. Could do this with or without the pedalboard or mixer.
Thanks, just thinking out loud. A little mixer is probably the first step. Like I said I'm getting decent results without one, but it would be nice to have gain levels and EQ set beforehand. The RC505 has all these controls, but you can only play with one at a time, so layering instruments with the desired EQ and levels takes a bit more trial-and-error than I'd like to do in front of an audience. And then it's easy enough to try running the mixer into the pedalboard and playing with that.
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