Distortion for Drummachine

[Mikefoundahobby]

I am looking for a distortion pedal or multi FX for my drummachine.

I want to distort the analog sounds (kick and snare).

Does anybody have experience with this or can anybody point me in the right direction.

TNX

 

[jake-owa]

Unless you have individual outputs on your drum machine it will just distort the whole mix which can sound very bad. I would stay away from pedals and look into a simple rack effects unit. Digitech makes some good ones with decent distortion presets.

 

[mekkab]

If you have stereo outs on your drum machine, you can pan the kick and snare hard left, and everything else right. Then, only use your pedal on the left output.

The above trick is also good for hi-low sounds- pan the kicks and toms left, plug the left into a bass amp, and pan the snares and cymbals right and plug into a guitar amp. A cheap hi-pass/lo-pass filter!

I've had some success using pedals and even built-in amp distortion with my drum machine.

 

[frederic]

Unless you have individual outputs on your drum machine it will just distort the whole mix which can sound very bad. I would stay away from pedals and look into a simple rack effects unit. Digitech makes some good ones with decent distortion presets.

Since drum machines are controlled by Midi...

Mute all the bass/snare drum notes, record the rest clean and dry.

Then rewind, mute the entire drum track minus the bass/snare, add distortion, and record on another track.

Assuming one has multiple audio tracks of course.

Of course individual outs is easier.

 

[Mikefoundahobby]

dist.

Good tip mekkab simple and very usefull TNX m8.

Since I just want to distort Bass and snare (hihat in the future maybe) mekkab awsome tip!.

Very good cause I could do this stuff on on a tiny KB-mixer and run it into a bigger mixer with full panning!

Groovy!

Thanks again!

 

[bedbug]

My method is a bit more retarded. What I did was loop the bass and snare drum, plugged the machine into an old 80s four track and pushed the reds for that analog distortion sound, and then ran that into a digital 8 track. Then I overdubbed the hi hat/ride/crash hits onto a cleaner track. I was going for that Ringo/Flaming Lips loud bass drum kinda feel. Don't know if I got exactly that, but it was a bit more "live" sounding then my other forays into drum machining.

 

[mekkab]

My method is a bit more retarded. What I did was loop the bass and snare drum, plugged the machine into an old 80s four track and pushed the reds for that analog distortion sound, and then ran that into a digital 8 track. Then I overdubbed the hi hat/ride/crash hits onto a cleaner track. I was going for that Ringo/Flaming Lips loud bass drum kinda feel. Don't know if I got exactly that, but it was a bit more "live" sounding then my other forays into drum machining.

Thats what I love about boards like this- everyone has 18 different and neat-o ways to do something; each adds something extra. I might try that (just to get some use out of my ol' cassette tracker!)

 

[Naghorvik_Soran]

MAKE EVIL

Ive tried with a zoom 128 Drum machine using the following into live PA.....

Origional Tube screamer=i didnt like it the snare made that dumb "boop" sound too much

DOD FX86 Dethmetal=HE HE HE HE HE HE SATIN LIVES was absolutly brutal noise when used with the acustic samples when used on the 808 knock off very reminicent of old Brap era Skinny puppy or converter

MARSHALL MG100 HEAD and Hughs & Ketner CAB= Harsh!!! but a little stale and cold... good snares Kicks did indeed kick....

MESA BOOGIE TRIPLE RECTIFIER= Too much mid range Snare went Boop again

Pod Line 6+ you can get this to work good but you have to fiddle Crank the mids all the way down avoid the effects as they just make a mess and avoid the black face, tube preamp, and brit high gain settings they didnt work for me at least.....

If you have a comp try recording in clean and then using plug ins on each individual drum......

mu thoughts for the day