Red Panda? TL;DR buy a Particle

[JonnyAngle]

I'm a bass player, mostly vi. I've been getting into reverb pretty hardcore recently. Now I'm all about that delay as well.
I have a ct5, fuzzrocious anomalies, tonal recall for delay
I have a Topanga, fk CNCR, and a bit quest as well

I've got this burning sensation that can only be cured by a particle, raster, and or context. Am I going to just duplicate what I already have or will I get a new wet spot if I go into red panda territory?

[UglyCasanova]

I play bass, mostly VI. Particle is rad on bass. Context cuts a bit of lows and there's a volume drop with it. Haven't tried the Raster.

[psychic vampire.]

The Red Panda Particle is good on everything. It makes great "granular" repeats, terrifying PS-2 style infinite feedback pitch shifts, weird choruses, and infinitely repeating bass drops in the buffer. I use it everywhere.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah the particle is like whaaaaaat. You'll probably love it, such a variety of cool and crazy sounds. As UC sad if to rad on bass.

[Invisible Man]

Particle would be something new. The others...would be different, but probably not different enough to *justify* them.

[JonnyAngle]

How would you describe "granular"???

[UglyCasanova]

Cuts up your signal into tiny pieces and does stuff to the pieces. Pitch shifting, shuffling, reversing, stretching etc.

[Chankgeez]

Cuts up your signal into tiny pieces and does stuff to the pieces. Pitch shifting, shuffling, reversing, stretching etc.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7061dWIgg[/youtube]

[JonnyAngle]

I was trying to make up my mind before watching the knobs video. Well then I watched the video. Now I need a particle

[coldbrightsunlight]

Fuck yeah you do. Having big flipping regret right now.

[sylnau]

Never tried the Particle, but heard it is very trebelly. Any feendack on this?

[psychic vampire.]

How would you describe "granular"???

I would describe granular here in not the buzzword guitar world sense, but in that it actually does very simple granular synthesis to your signal, as UC said, it cuts your signal up in to little pieces (whose size you can control) and then rearranges them.

The Particle is something is waffled on for the longest fucking time, got a CT5, mostly bc of the recommendations on here. Then got a Particle because #fuckit/yolo/whatever and decided i like the Particle WAY better. It's not even close, for me. Also, expression control with a toggle to decide which parameter the expression is controlling. One of these days i'm going to get an 8-Step Program or something with a expression splitter and plug them into my Particle and Timebender and be in joyous washes of bullshit sounds forever.


Sylnau: i don't know what trebelly means, exactly. I can tell you that doing the LFO-Delay Mode, catching a sound in the freeze buffer and having feedback all the way up, i'll then play with the delay time until the repeats sound somewhere between a bass drop and getting run over by a motorcycle. It's heavy as hell.

Buuut, when i'm just doing the straight ahead granular sliced up delay repeats, granular synthesis, by its nature, has a tendency to sound kind of noise-y and weird and more clear in the treble range. It is what it is.

[UglyCasanova]

That sounds lovely, psych vamp!

Never tried the Particle, but heard it is very trebelly. Any feendack on this?

That really depends on mode and setting, so yes and no equally. I already play a VI most of the time, which doesn't have the lowest of lows, but the particle can really fatten that sucker up. If you go high mix and pitch shift up, then sure, it'll have highs, but using it wisely will do the opposite. Control the beast, conquer the lows.

[Chankgeez]

Never tried the Particle, but heard it is very trebelly. Any feendack on this?

That really depends on mode and setting, so yes and no equally.

That was probably from me. I borrowed jrmy's Particle and what it did, but thought it sounded overly bright at most settings.

Tone knob definitely woulda helped.

[UglyCasanova]

Maybe it's time for a bass demo?