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Unusual use of an RC-2 this weekend


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My band was filming a video and no one had a copy of the song, or a laptop, or a cd player to play the song so we can film along to it. So anyway the director of photography had a copy of it on his phone, someone else had an adapter, so I uploaded the song onto the RC-2 and then ran it into the mixer, and left it by my drummer to trigger it for takes.

 

What an increasingly awesome pedal.

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I disagree. I've done some dam fine high gain recordings through my RC-2 without any issue.

Maybe your version of "high gain" is just incredibly insane?
:lol::freak::cop:



i'll take that as an insult :cop:
maybe i dont have the volume loud enough? i just find it fizzy.

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I found it a lot easier to stop and tap tempo with an external footswitch. I never seem to be able to get the rythm right by pressing the button on the pedal. But this only really applies to syncing up the tempo of prerecorded stuff while playing live, something I don't really do.

 

The quality of recording and playback isn't studio hi fi, but it's far from bad either.

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I disagree. I've done some dam fine high gain recordings through my RC-2 without any issue.

Maybe your version of "high gain" is just incredibly insane?
:lol::freak::cop:



i have problems with multiple high gain tracks, for example if i record one big mufferized track to the RC-2 and want to play another big mufferized part over the top. it seems to struggle and the parts start fighting each other, like it wobbles between which frequencies are in charge or something. it might just be that i don't have a high enough quality cable from RC-2 to amplifier, though, and it's the cable that can't handle it. no way for me to tell really.

anyway, it's an awesome pedal. i like sending mp3s into it for drum patterns sometimes.

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if i record one big mufferized track to the RC-2 and want to play another big mufferized part over the top. it seems to struggle and the parts start fighting each other, like it wobbles between which frequencies are in charge or something.

 

 

Thing is, how many layered big muff guitar parts do you ever hear in a recording, maybe that happens in the best of situations.

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i have problems with multiple high gain tracks, for example if i record one big mufferized track to the RC-2 and want to play another big mufferized part over the top. it seems to struggle and the parts start fighting each other, like it wobbles between which frequencies are in charge or something. it might just be that i don't have a high enough quality cable from RC-2 to amplifier, though, and it's the cable that can't handle it. no way for me to tell really.



i dont think you can have several distorted muffed up signals running through the same amp without them being affected by each other.

the RC-2 is a great pedal though.... so small....so useful.... so versatile.... :cool:

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fist and lanefair - valid points both. while i think it's a problem with high gain tracks more generally than just the muff-specific example i gave, i think you're probably right to some extent at least.

sometimes i like the burbling chaos, anyway.

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sometimes i like the burbling chaos, anyway.



:thu:

Sometimes i just put down a simple clean riff and maybe something layered over it, then mess with EQ and effects and see how crazy i can get it to sound

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