Considering an AH+FX ... FX vs analog boxes

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hi guys

owner of AR, A4 and digitone2 here. I really enjoyed the AH+FX videos by ooramusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3xrymOuLQ

Are the digital FX basically the same we already get on the digi and analog boxes? Or is that missing the point as the AH+FX has more chain flexiblity and you’re applying the FX to the whole song therefore creating the ‘mood’ of the song vs boosting an individual element/track

thanks

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I am no expert as I only just got one, but I can help by giving you a new user perspective.

  1. Yes the FX are the same delay / reverb as the DT1 I own, so I am assuming the same for the ones you own, with more effects added as well as envelopes and all the other stuff you’ve probably read about.

  2. Others seem to use the box as an end of chain, but I am personally now thinking the AH+FX is better as the gritty central core of your tune. I wrote some music this weekend using 6 outputs from an MPC Live 2, putting the AH+FX on the main outs, sending only the bass synth / edm style kick to it. The result with Saturation and Enhance was absolutely huge - a massive sound stage that I built everythng around. I then smashed it all and sampled it into loops with high levels of distortion. I surrounded it all with an SH101 arpeggio but the core of the build was the AH+FX. Then I could high pass filter the low end and really jam it out. It was a lot of fun.

I think its weakest use (for me and others may disagree) is on the whole mix. It seemed to initially convince me that it was great until I listened to it on my monitors, where it lost some fidelity and stereo width.

BUT there are many uses for this box and I am only just at the beginning. I am going to try it solo with the Machinedrum next.

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I came here after watching that same video and basically have the same question, so curious to hear if there are any other opinions on this… :thinking: