Ugly Guitar Sounds via DI

[WeHuntKings]

I think a small cheap mixer is in my future. What do the harsh noise guys use?

I don't know but what you are ideally looking for is something that has a Trim knob pre-Fader so you can saturate the channel and then use the fader to adjust the volume of your saturated signal. Bonus is something that has Aux Sends so you could send the signal to an effect (or not) and then loop back into another channel. Scott Ayers from The Pain Teens used to cascade the four tracks of a 4-Track cassette portastudio in this manner and it sounded really good.

I actually have that same porta studio. Maybe I could plug this directly into a mixer and then into the DI box???

[friendship]

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[manymanyhaha]

I actually have that same porta studio. Maybe I could plug this directly into a mixer and then into the DI box???

Try it and see what you think. You might not even need the mixer or you could use the mixer to cascade the signal some more. That's a lot of possibilities.

I had a little Fostex 4 track for awhile and I used to love the saturated signal I got with it and an acoustic guitar and piezo. It was sort of Albini-esque.