My park sessions not only made me the attraction of some little children there (some mothers even allow them to play my bass, which is quite adorable) and a nosy squirrel that jumps around me when I practice, but also I am closing in on a new cover.
I would like to record my cover via my Boss Katana Go.
Unfortunatley I have not found a way to listen to songs (via USB or Bluetooth) and record my bass dry.
There is a trick to record dry - enabling the tuner - but that disables the incoming audio via usb or bluetooth.
Has anybody found a way to do a dry recording while listening to a background song?
Sorry, not familiar with your park sessions (news hasnāt travelled that far yet ) and thus not your setup either, but couldnāt you use a DAI to route signals into your DAW (I am assuming you are recording on a laptop/iPad!?!) and thus have a dry signal from your bass when recording everything? Then you could route (wet) stuff out using your Katana as monitor!? For this to work best, youād need to import the backing track into your DAW as well!
So, use a DAI for input and output; and a DAW for mixing and adding in effects (or not) as well as for recording (which could be as dry as you choose ).
Thatās strange - Kopenhagen is not so far from Hamburg. Maybe ask the local squirrels - I heared they are quite talkative?
So, I am using either Tonelib Jam or Presonus Studio One.
But the challenge lies in the Boss Katana Go, in my opinion.
The only way to record dry (that I know of) is enabling tuning mode. Tuning mode is really just to tune your bass poperly, so it does not let you listen to anything else.
That means I need to use the ānormalā mode - and that activates the whole shebang of Katana Go effects, amps etc.
My goal is to play dry, so I can add my own VST stuff later on in Studo One, if any at all.
This is even more important as I wanted to play half of one song in the park, using my EMG GZR bass and the other half at home, using my DP126 bass - to demonstrate the difference in tone of both pickupsā¦
They stopped taking the train to and from Hamburg - was becoming too unreliable
Yeah, OK. I am, unfortunately, not familiar with the Katana, and so I donāt know whether it has a DI out (which should provide a dry signal).
However, by using a DAI, you - in essence - bypass the Katana (and its effects) and only use it as a monitor. So, even it it doesnāt have a neutral setting for playback (which I find peculiar), what you record will still be uncolored.
Hahaha! You are very right. A friend of mine took the train from Cologne to Hamburg yesterday (after a hard CSD party weekend) ā¦ and the train went all over Germany, to arrive very late. Or as we say here in Germany: āthe usualāā¦
You mean, using a 2nd DAI? I have an old PreSonus AudioBox USB 96 that I could use. But it feels wrong to own a Boss Katana GO and use a ārealā DAI in the park.
Itās not my idea of mobilityā¦
While the Katana has an audio interface that does not mean it is good at it. Why not just get a real interface that is portable for the park? Something like a Zoom AMS-22?
Ah, thatās a nice little device. Functionally itās the same as a iRig USB, right?
I still hope I can (ab)use the Boss Katana GO for mobile dry recording. Itās a very nice device to practice, but for ārealā recording I just donāt want to use its effectsā¦
Also, I would like to avoid getting more devices, to be honest. I already have a Spark GO, a Spark MINI and a PreSonus AudioBox USB 96 that I donāt use anymoreā¦
But IF I would get a new device, it should be as simple as possible, eg plug in directly into my guitar, just like the iRig or Katana GOā¦
Iām not familiar with the USB iRig. The Zoom is simply a bus-powered audio interface. It will record and play back audio just like a desktop interface.
Itās shitware imo. For some reason it randomly connects to my ipad/iphone and it even broke after a few months. I bought it to try with the Tonebridge app
The best way to get a dry signal from the Go is to turn on the Tuner
If you want to track the output of your DAW/modeler via the USB return to the Goās headphone, you will always have the normal Go sound mixed into the headphones. There is no way to disable the Goās signal chain from the headphone out. Itās not so bad if you use tuner mode as that is low volume and is easily masked by the sound from the DAW. It is noticeable on the initial attack of single notes especially on clean presets. I assume this is because the Go sound comes a few milliseconds before the usb looped sound."
But thatās only the internet, not BassBuzz ^^
I use these settings, but it still sounds āprocessedā, compared to the ātunerā workaroundā¦
On the original Boss product page it said: āThe versatile KATANA:GO also functions as a USB audio interface for music production and online content creation on a computer or mobile device. Record professional Katana tones in DAW software.ā
It does. But you donāt find it strange that you cannot disable the whole signal chain if they say it is an āUSB audio interfaceā that can record into a āDAW softwareā?
Iām very happy with everything the Boss Katana Go provides ā¦ but donāt get why I canāt disable everything. Technically itās possible, as the tuner mode proves.
And otherwise itās expected from an USB audio interface, as I learned from @howard that recording is done mostly dryā¦
) and thus not your setup either, but couldnāt you use a DAI to route signals into your DAW (I am assuming you are recording on a laptop/iPad!?!) and thus have a dry signal from your bass when recording everything? Then you could route (wet) stuff out using your Katana as monitor!? For this to work best, youād need to import the backing track into your DAW as well!
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