So my guitar player wrote songs in a low tuning and I’m trying to find the best way to record wet/dry tracks for the songs.
The tuning is G, G, C, F, A. I have 25” scale Lakland 5 string bass. No other options. So I have my bass tuned to standard but I drop the 130 gauge B string an octave below my E string. E, E, A, D, G, Then transpose 3 semitones up to G to try to keep as much good tension on the tuned down B string as possible. OY I know.
I’ve managed to do this by recording with the transpose block on my wet track, then re-amping the dry signal through the transpose block on my QC.
It seems I get the best transposed sound/options through the stand alone Parallax X plugin. I’d like to use the stand alone plugin to record wet/dry tracks. Is this possible? Or any other suggestions for my predicament. Thanks!
Re: this question… “Or any other suggestions for my predicament.”
There are a number of routing options, assuming you have more than 1 channel on your interface. Utilizing a DI before the interface would allow for you to send a clean signal somewhere else (external device, DAW, garage band ipad/phone, or even an old tape deck lol) to then reamp post edit.
an in-expensive one… (I do not own one of these nor am I recommending this)
The Parallax plugin can’t record, you need a DAW for that. Also, and this might just be a wording issue or me not understanding you correctly, once you transpose your bass signal, it becomes a wet signal and isn’t a dry signal anymore.
It should sound the same through a DAW.
What exactly is the problem you are running into? Sounds to me like you already solved it?
The whole point of a plugin is so you can have a dry signal in the track, and load the plugin as an effect. If you record through into a DAW you’ll be able to have the dry signal…..
Confused by the wording here. OP has a QC and the Parallax X plug-in, and prefers the plug-in.
No big deal, just record a completely dry track into your DAW. From there you can add the Parallax plug-in (which has transpose) and/or set up a bus to do any kind of processing you want.