DogTag wrote:http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/th … -the-world
Electric guitar with distortion, if I remember well. It sounds awesome : D
I have to try out ukulele. Its lack of bass could be an advantage...Is there any tutorial out there to this?
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For that song the guitar was actually clean and recorded through a DI box. The compression, EQ, and 4-bit sample quality make it sound kind of distorted, haha.
This song had a piano kit in it: http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/your-stars-at-dawn
Piano definitely is much easier to work with than guitar. A sound with more definition works better, in my experience. Bass sounds don't work very well, and highs don't fare very well. In my experience you're best sticking to mid-range sounds. It helps to EQ out some of the bass to make the sound clearer. EQing out some of the highs seems to help reduce that DMG-bit-crush-hiss sound.
The sound is definitely lo-fi, but I think it has its own charm. I'm actually working on some new tracks that heavily use this idea, haha. I was literally about to make a kit of e-piano chords! ^_^
The best thing to do is just experiment with EQ/Compression and different instruments. It's a bit of trial-and-error but you might find a sound you like!
Edit: for preparing and loading samples into an LSDJ ROM, I originally used little-scale's tutorial. I used Audacity though.
This gives me some nice ideas to work with! Love that track with the piano. 