This setup allows me to record different loops with radically different effects on the guitar. The second two tracks are set up to record loops from the live gutar signal that’s coming through track one (“Guitar FX”). There’s more here than I have time to go into today, but if there’s enough interest I can also clean up this template and post it for download… The first track contains my main effect rack which includes lots of delay & grain based effects, mostly built using Live devices, but there’s also Scrubby by dfx in there. The signal then goes into the Instrument input on a Native Instruments Audio Kontrol, and down a USB cable into Ableton Live. an Ernie Ball volume pedal (for swells and driving the effects to create synth-like textures).also, it’s very different to have the overdrive happen before the volume pedal, rather than after it.) a Box Of Rock overdrive pedal by zvex (cuz I still like hardware overdrive better.a Diamond compressor pedal (to control peaks and increase sustain).I use this setup in a variety of situations from studio work, to backing up singer/songwriters live, to improvising atmospheric downtempo with John Von Seggern and Matt Piper as I did this weekend.īefore it gets into the computer, the guitar signal runs through: So today I figured I’d briefly talk through it and give you a sense of how I’m using Live when I’m playing guitar.Įssentially, the setup is based around using Live as an effects box and looper. Since friday night, I’ve gotten a bunch of questions about the live setup that I posted a picture of.
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