✅ Buy the Boss Gigcaster 8 / 5 here: amzn.to/43Z0uL5 ✅ Watch my full performance of "Olympian" here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MLFP67WSpKU.html xo
Thank you Laura. I got my GC 8 today and am thankful for your tutorial. I haven’t been able to get my GA-FC footswitch to turn on and off a harmony patch, but that will come with time. I also enjoyed your singing demonstrations and your wit with examples.
Thank you for saying so! People who make these "rules" and complain about things need to put that energy into making their own work, I reckon :) Happy music making to you! xo
I really love that you do these videos of how the recording & livestreaming process works! That Gigcaster looks like such a great tool! Also, you should turn "testing the microphone" into an actual song. 🙂
Know what? ...I think you're right! I keep waking up in the morning singing it...always the sign of a "proper" song. Thanks for your lovely comment and support, I always love to hear from you xo
@@Penfriendrocks Ooh that's so cool! I'm very excited and curious to hear how it will expand and grow. Thank you for making and sharing your music and art!
Hi Laura and sorry for this rather dumb question ! Can i first record with no effects onto the miCROSD and then play it back and then insert the effects. I don't want to commit myself to printing the effect so would rather try the various effects on the dry recording.Thanks and really appreciate your video :)
Hi! Not a dumb question at all, but I'm sorry to say I don't have an answer for you. I sometimes do the recording of my livestreams pre-fader so that I don't have any effects printed on, and then I just add stuff in Logic X when I mix the tracks for release (I release every livestream as a limited edition download on Bandcamp). I'm not aware of being able to add the actual Boss effects afterwards to the recording, though it may well be possible inside the Gigcaster. Here's the manual in case it sheds any light for you: www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=boss+gigcaster+manual&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Thank you, Emily!! In this new house I've mostly done them from my attic music studio, but the first one was from the front room :) I did a fair few in the room in this video (in the last house), previously the attic room there, previously the living room / music room in the house before that, and the studio room in the house before that - ha. Oh, and one from my friend Gemma's living room in Hamburg. That's the long answer, I suppose... Lovely to meet you! xo
Hi! Thanks for watching. I haven't used that functionality yet, but the manual likely has the info for you: www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/gigcaster_8/owners_manuals/
@@Penfriendrocks thanks for the reply. I’ve already checked the manual and it is not clear. Hoping to get an answer from someone who has one and has tried it. I’d buy one if it tracked the guitar chords to create a vocal harmony. All the best.
Thank you! Great question: I can't remember why not. Probably because I'd only just got the unit and was figuring it out. I'm making a followup video soon so will answer this then :)
@@Penfriendrocks Sort of you can say! Im a guitarist and music producer from India and I make guitar backing tracks, record originals and covers and have recently had some collaborations with some brands and i make gear reviews for them as well. I would love to have you over and get your feedback on my content too. Let me know whenever you can 🙂
if they build Looper into the unit that could be used with the sample pads it would be the ultimate musician mixer, Q? why dont you setup the usb output to your computer as a multitrack record into your DAW?
Interesting! So what instrument would you put through an inbuilt looper? I’m so used to using a looper with a foot switch (usually because I’m playing an instrument at the same time or want to be less obvious about starting and stopping it) that I don’t think I’d use that, but it’s cool to hear what other people want to do. To answer your question, I have always veered away from adding a computer into a live environment, when I started out they were very unreliable so it’s just a habit that’s stuck for many years. I’ve been enjoying using the inbuilt multitrack recorder, feeling safe (ish) that I’m not going to lose any files, and importing everything after the show. But it’s great there are all these different ways of using the Gigcaster. Thanks for watching and for saying hi!
I agree wholeheartedly about reserving the right to play along to backing tracks of my own songs. What's the alternative? Play a guitar or keyboard version of a song that you've already fully recorded and produced and 'realised' your vision of a song......only then to try and sell your song by playing a version that has none of the intricacies of the recorded version. Some songs can work scaled down but some can't.
I think this video helped me a lot. I bought it yesterday and I hope it will arrive soon. You have an awesome voice and you’re a very talented musician ✌🏻✌🏻keep going 😁thumbs up
Ciao video molto interessante. Vorrei sapere la frequenza di campionamento minima del gigcaster a 48khz (ad esempio in daw posso selezionare 48khz 32sample oppure 96 sample oppure....?... ., e mi piacerebbe anche sapere quanti input potrei avere nella mia scheda) fornita dal driver asio, e se è una vera scheda audio, da usare online con il pc alla minima latenza possibile. Grazie in anticipo e scusate per il mio pessimo inglese scolastico
Grazie per aver guardato! Here's the manual for you: www.boss.info/us/support/by_product/gigcaster_8/owners_manuals/29c7b3c2-2bb0-4a0b-8471-7ff1593b6b46/
It's supposed to be fine with stuff like that, though Streamyard is a better and more direct idea for that sort of thing (that's how we did our release week livestream). The Gigcaster is certainly designed to be able to have phonecalls patched into the desk, no reason you couldn't send computer audio through to it as well but, again, better to go direct into Streamyard.
Hello Penfriend. Thank you for this great video. I am very interested in the Gigacaster, but I had a few questions. Why do you need your audio interface when using the Gigacaster? I have a Focusrite Scarlett 4i4. If I bought the Gigacaster, could I sell that AI?
Great question, Mike! I plugged the Gigcaster into my audio interface for two reasons: 1) My interface is plugged into my speakers and I have short speaker cables, so it would have been a faff to unplug everything. 2) I wanted to record the two channels out of the Gigcaster in Logic as a backup because I didn't know what the internal recording on the Gigcaster would sound/look like and I was making this video and couldn't gamble with that. Unless I'm missing something, in my limited experience with multitrack recording on the Gigcaster it's not a replacement for your interface. Watch this official Boss video about recording with the Gigcaster: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mihsmeqQrF0.html I need to experiment with the Audio Mode setting it mentions to see if using it as an interface is possible. What I do know is that for the multitrack recording, you press record on the Gigcaster, then you stop the recording and transfer the multitrack recording file from the Gigcaster to your computer hard drive via USB (which can take a while). You then drag that single file into your DAW and it unpacks the multitracks for you as well as the stereo recordings. So it's wonderful for recording live performances, or for experimenting with whatever you're rehearsing/writing live into the mixer - and that's all I was looking for. I was thinking of doing a followup video where I explain the recording aspect of the machine, so let me know if that would be helpful and if you have any specific questions I should make sure I answer. Thanks for watching and for saying hi!
@@45zapatero Huh - there's nothing in the manual about it and I haven't come across that functionality (though I was never intending to use it that way tbh). I'll take another look soon at that!
Now I'm wondering the same! I'd imagine the Gigcaster would prioritise one over the other so you wouldn't get both sounds working at once, but I'll give it a go and see if anything explodes...
I believe you’ll like to run the Valeton GP 200 guitar pedal in as it is by far the best pedal I’ve ever used and affordable tons of RU-vid videos and tutorials to check out and it’s another looper for you to play with too 😊😊
I do like how you address, it’s my music that’s my back up track and I reserve the right to use it that way so I choose! You just forgot to say and F U if you don’t like it! lol I have one of these and love it! I already had the GT-1000 and the VE and everything else under the sun! lol it’s a good video and a good unit! I was surprised that you were surprised that you need at least two microphones! Unfortunately my set up is extremely complicated and all though the boss helped a little bit, between synths, Bluetooth, secondary mixers, I can’t turn everything on and no sound! Or just one, it’s always missing something. You’re fortunate to just sing and play guitar! I wish you the best! Peace!
Thanks for watching! I quickly max out the channels on the Gigcaster too - vocal mic, talking mic, loop pedal, guitar, synth, backing tracks etc - but it's so much easier than what I was trying to do before. I'm enjoying it more and more every time I use it. And yes, well spotted - my "f*ck you's" are usually unspoken...but they're often there! Happy playing.
@@Penfriendrocks lol, I do like this gadget, the size for me. Like I said I already had everything else but twice or three times the size! The RC-300 is ridiculous large, it does a lot of things and I have better smaller ways to do it! I just can’t rap my head around having a $600 piece of equipment collecting dust! Good luck to you!
It is yes! But I've never used it that way because I already have the Focusrite, which I love and am comfortable using. This test was just to show simple live-streaming, I attached the Focusrite to make absolutely sure I was recording audio for the video - I hadn't used the onboard multitrack recording enough yet to know how reliable it was. Since making this video I've captured at least 8 livestreams using the internal recorder and mixed them in Logic afterwards. It's fab!
@@Penfriendrocks uoww amazing! Thanks so much for the lovely video and to reply too, im considering to get one as will help me a lot to live stream and make my own recordings from my looper performances sounds better. Obrigado! ;)
@@utropiks4617 De nada! Check out my channel for examples of live performances recorded on the Gigcaster - I have mixed the multitrack in Logic afterwards but the livestreams sounded great too :) I love this thing!
Great review, best I have seen. Finally someone who uses this unit in a real context ! Now about using your real amp : you could do this " in silence " with an device like a captor x or bluebox ( if you have a tube amp you need a dummy load !!!) These devices take the speaker out signal from your amp and then simulate a speaker and a mic capturing that speaker). Just a little tip ;-)
Thank you for the kind compliment! And yes, I was looking into the Captor X not long ago, but they only work if you have a separate amp and cab don't they? Mine's a Fender Princeton combo, so no dice for me sadly.
@@Penfriendrocks The speaker is connected through an output jack isn't it ? So you could disconnect the speaker and connect the captor x with a speaker cable. Warning though : never put your amp on when no speaker or load ( Captor x with the right ohm resistance) is plugged in.
To clarify: vocal-specific presets are on channels 1 & 2, guitar-specific presets are on channel 1, other effects available on the other channels. In case that makes a difference. I have a pedalboard for my guitar so don't have an issue with plugging into another channel and keeping 1&2 for vocals, so there are always ways around. But I hear what you're saying!
MTK Steam doesnt work for me. Everytime i set it to MTK Stream my PC doesnt Recognize the Gigcaster anymore: An further: even when i set the USB to "Mix Minus" i still get all the Audio from my PC into the Gigacaster
so there is no way to record tracks one by one , [for example metrone, record first track, , record second track. and so on. .]] was super excited to find this only to be seemingly disapointed, with out bpm and metrone, its essentailly a glorified tape recorder, with effects. . :( almost seems to be
For me it's a really easy to use live mixer to make livestreams much easier and higher quality, that also has great recording functionality. You're right, it's not a standalone digital recorder to record layers, but I don't think it's being advertised as that. Let me know what you find that does what you're looking for, I miss my old Tascam 4 track tape recorder sometimes!
@@Penfriendrocks @mikeriverajr4447 I had the same question, and I'm also disappointed to know it's not possible. But it also doubles as an audio interface, right? So I supposed someone could do multi-track one-take recordings onto the SD card to work / jam on ideas, then later use the interface function to track individual parts in a DAW (with metronome, midi clock to other gear, etc.). Right...?
Yes, absolutely they could@@andrew_franz_noise5903 - though if you're going to use a DAW anyway then you might as well use the Gigcaster as your audio interface and record your multitrack directly into the DAW to layer on top of later (unless you're going to be in a different space for the initial recording).
@@Hellohehehe I haven't used the pads myself, but the manual should tell you everything you need to know www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/gigcaster_8/owners_manuals/
Anyone know why Windows would see this but no audio input is coming in? The mixer sees my voice but windows will not. Driving me nuts. Drivers are up to date. Settings are right...
