Anyone play in Gb Db Ab Eb?

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For low bass notes it takes digital pitch widgets a while to parse pitch and transpose it, so they're often just a little bit slow and glitchy on transients. This is much less of a problem with guitar or vocals, hence why bass synthesizers using pitch conversion all suck blue putty balls, pretty much. And of course many people actually like distortion on bass, in which case all bets are off. ;)
makes sense.
 

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For low bass notes it takes digital pitch widgets a while to parse pitch and transpose it, so they're often just a little bit slow and glitchy on transients. This is much less of a problem with guitar or vocals, hence why bass synthesizers using pitch conversion all suck blue putty balls, pretty much. And of course many people actually like distortion on bass, in which case all bets are off. ;)

Distortion after pitch, before time :)
 

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The Digitech Drop works great for what my application...

We're an underground punk band, we play 40-50 tunes, and two of them are dropped tuning. I dont notice any degradation or synthetic properties during the performance... but in a room by myself, its prevalent
Real punks don't give a rip about how anyone else in the band is tuned, just sayin'.
 

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i wonder if making a preset pedal for each band would sell. clone the sound of the band you were trying to play? yes this takes the talent out of the equation but would it sell? i bet im late to the party on this. maybe for beginners?
 

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I HATE detuning. In 40 years of playing in bands, Ive gotten in more fights over it, than anything else, by far.

IMO, it changes the feel of the bass... and now looking back, it probably never mattered much, but I guess I always had a subconscious issue with the motivation behind it.

I can play the same notes in standard tuning as I can in drop, so? I guess they dont like my octaves
Yea same here. The strings lose a lot of tension and fundemental just so that the guitarist can have an easy time on his already easy to fret instrument lol. That's one issue I have with joining bands, they always wanna down tune
 

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The Digitech Drop works great for what my application...

We're an underground punk band, we play 40-50 tunes, and two of them are dropped tuning. I dont notice any degradation or synthetic properties during the performance... but in a room by myself, its prevalent
I use an octaver to get extra oomph outta my sound. I figure rather than just tuning to the same pitch as my bass VI, which I use as a guitar, I have that octaver on my bass adding just a little bit of sub harmonic character to the song

Did I say that right? I'm repeating some phrases I heard a few times but never researched lol

Edit: I guess I should mention I do this because a lot of bands would normally try tune down to E0, which is insane. Why do that when I can pitch shift
 
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I use an octaver to get extra oomph outta my sound. I figure rather than just tuning to the same pitch as my bass VI, which I use as a guitar, I have that octaver on my bass adding just a little bit of sub harmonic character to the song

Did I say that right? I'm repeating some phrases I heard a few times but never researched lol

Edit: I guess I should mention I do this because a lot of bands would normally try tune down to E0, which is insane. Why do that when I can pitch shift
Im a fan of subharmonics and they do a nice job of synthesizing bass, which isnt really there.

That being said, in a mix, they work well... alone, they sound synthetic and/ or apparent.
 

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Im a fan of subharmonics and they do a nice job of synthesizing bass, which isnt really there.

That being said, in a mix, they work well... alone, they sound synthetic and/ or apparent.
Yea it's what I been noticing as well. They sound amazing in the mix. A great way of adding lower octaves if your guitar and bass are tuned in the same octave.

But by itself? Not so great
 
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