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Two Notes Together Odd or Unnatural Distortion [Over Over Driven]
Hi,
I have a LR Baggs piezo pickup on my violin. I run it through a Zoom U44 audio interface into my iPad and use Loopy Pro as my host or "pedalboard" if you will.
On the attached recording I am using Eventide Crush Station AUv3 for my distortion effect. The effect is fine when I play a single note.............. however...............when I bow 2 notes together I get this "extra" and "unwanted" buzz or distortion - you can hear or tell. I recorded it directly in Loopy Pro.
PLEASE FORGIVE me if I've asked this already (I thought I may have asked here on the Loopy Pro forum)
If I am running other fx clean, chorus, delay, etc. - I do not get unwanted audio side effects, when playing two notes together; it seems only when I use a distortion plugin.
Any thoughts?
Do I need a different pickup system?
Thanks!!
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Comments
That is perfectly natural. Any kind of distortion amplifies any dissonances. That's why guitarists resort to "power chords" that focus on the root and 5th only. Embrace it!
It has nothing to do with your pickups. You might be able to tame it a bit with careful use of compression. I guess you can't really do palm muting on a violin like us guitarists can.
Great playing btw.
I agree with @wim - that’s a totally normal effect of adding distortion.
@Vmusic : There is a reason a lot of guitarists try out a lot of different amps and/or pedals before settling on something...and then spend a lot of time refining how they play to work with their equipment. Distortion adds harmonics and different distortion effects add different combinations of harmonic and non-harmonic distortion. This can result in some combinations of notes clashing that otherwise don't....and different effects will affect things differently . There is a lot of craft in using effects.
Distortion will also call attention to pick and bow noise in ways that require adapting one's technique.