The 303 is the soul of acid – but another important part is effects.
This video, via acidoo.com, explores the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver + Bass Bot TT-303 combination, exploring tweaks from the subtle to speaker-shredding.
Technical details:
- Boss BD-2 Blues Driver
- Bass Bot TT-303
- Valhalla Vintage Reverb
- Mackie 820i
- Ableton Live
Very cool, sounds great – thanks for that! Now… Time to hook up some pedals.
Acidvoice steady claims TT can’t take FX pedals … Time to dig out the ol BD-2
why wouldn’t it work with effects pedal?
Thank you moderation for making me look like I said the exact same thing as Astro Boy. I did not want to look like I copied his comment, but I guess these things happens when my comments are approved only 4 hours after I wrote them. I may have to completely change my identity which I’ve been using for over 5 years just because of that because I’m getting tired of being “moderated” for a complete year.
Why wouldn’t the TT “take” pedals? I never understood this.
Even if the TT is quieter than a line-level signal, that’s what guitar pedals are meant to process.
Acid Voice’s distortion box tests sound appropriately crunched up to my ears.
And the Blues Driver sounds great! Really brings out the snarl while preserving the accent dynamics.
My friend got a TT and he uses it with a Death by Audio Soundwave breakdown fuzz, it’s a real killer now 🙂
best sounding way of distorting a 303 or clone is through a mackie desk with the gain control on full and the use the volume slider to mix the signal. Overdrive the signal, saves money and sound very raw and powerful…
I just confirmed this…it’s def an option (altho ‘better’ isn’t the best description)…but it works!
any analogue desk will do, not just mackie. in fact youre going to kill that channel by overdriving it, so I would buy a cheap desk to use for that purpose, the older and grimier the better.
Yea but all desks sound different, and I dont think that hurts the Electronics in the Channel
Sounds fantastic. I was hoping a big fat kick drum would come in at some point 🙂
My thoughts exactly. And a guy chanting ‘confusion’.
Mix the Teenage Engineering video to it! 🙂
Well there ya go! Excellent job! I saw guys complaining about recent Roland emus of the TB-303 and was reminded that this super excellent clone is already in existence. Great demo btw!