Gear Heads: Is a device like this necessary?

[Patrick Kane]

Been producing some stuff for the past year or so on Ableton Live 9 and a small midi keyboard and recently started getting into some gear. A lot of the sounds I'm going for is hip hop based meshed in with some soul/electronica/bit of rock and messing with my vocals for my recordings. It's completely experimental and sounding pretty bad for the most part but in my head it sounds amazing and I have the vision, melodies, and sounds that I want to incorporate into my music. How useful would a device like this be? I've been reading about it online and it says it has a lot of reverb, multi-tap delays, looping and of course physical knobs but couldn't I do all this in Ableton? What advantage would I get from using this hardware? I distort and compress the fukk out of my voice for a lot of the melodies, could this help with that? I'm totally ignorant and completely lost when it comes to hardware as I've only used plugins and filters in Ableton. Would anyone recommend this or incorporate a device like this for their production?

 

[ibrokemyneck]

No but it looks fun

 

[Why-Fi]

what do you plan to send thru it?

 

[Patrick Kane]

what do you plan to send thru it?

guitar? only thing I had in mind

What else can I play through it? Can I put anything through it?

 

[Why-Fi]

guitar? only thing I had in mind

What else can I play through it? Can I put anything through it?

if i had it i would try to put a cheap synth thru it, but im a fukking dork like that

 

[Patrick Kane]

if i had it i would try to put a synth thru it, but im a fukking dork like that

Yeah I was thinking that and also just putting vocals through it but I'm thinking, couldn't I just use a plugin and get the same effect? I might just rent this piece and mess around with it. I want the vocals to be really lush and spacey and I was thinking this could help with that, just not sure how necessary it is if Ableton can do the same thing

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Plugins probably can do the same and are easier/faster in the process of making your music i think.

 

[Wildin]

Been producing some stuff for the past year or so on Ableton Live 9 and a small midi keyboard and recently started getting into some gear. A lot of the sounds I'm going for is hip hop based meshed in with some soul/electronica/bit of rock and messing with my vocals for my recordings. It's completely experimental and sounding pretty bad for the most part but in my head it sounds amazing and I have the vision, melodies, and sounds that I want to incorporate into my music. How useful would a device like this be? I've been reading about it online and it says it has a lot of reverb, multi-tap delays, looping and of course physical knobs but couldn't I do all this in Ableton? What advantage would I get from using this hardware? I distort and compress the fukk out of my voice for a lot of the melodies, could this help with that? I'm totally ignorant and completely lost when it comes to hardware as I've only used plugins and filters in Ableton. Would anyone recommend this or incorporate a device like this for their production?

its definitely not necessary but it would be fun. Learning to tweak on actual gear versus plugin will give you more control as you experiment with sound. Its like driving stick vs automatic. If you learn to drive a stick, driving an automatic is literally a cake walk. As a piece of gear vs a plugin you are going to have limits (1 piece of gear vs plugins that have multiple emulators) but learning to experiment and work with that gear is worth it and then you can always use plugins.