Fritz

[homemadenoise]

Anyone have experience with Fritz? Can it get musical results? Any tips?

[MrFigg]

Anyone have experience with Fritz? Can it get musical results? Any tips?

Input my guitar through it. Generellt have wet/dry around 10 o Clock.

[Catblack]

I haven't messed with it in years, but remember loving it. I'd suggest tweaking a single thing at a time, or hitting random until you get something good then changing a single thing at a time and figure out what's doing what.

[MrFigg]

I haven't messed with it in years, but remember loving it. I'd suggest tweaking a single thing at a time, or hitting random until you get something good then changing a single thing at a time and figure out what's doing what.

That’s good advice.

[dvdrtldg]

Not sure exactly what you mean by "musical" results, but keeping everything tempo synced and just going for small subtle effect should keep things from getting too crazy

Fritz is a weird device and imo best suited to alien soundscape type action. If it's more conventional sounds you're after, then use it with a light touch, maybe as a sort of textural reverb or delay

Also, RTM

[Loque]

I really like it as a delay or reverb with some shimmer. That is often overlooked on Fritz

[homemadenoise]

Not sure exactly what you mean by "musical" results,

Just that a lot of effects like granular, glitch and other more unusual stuff can really mangle sound and do amazing things but not necessarily things that fit in to a song or fit with more traditional sounds. SUre its dependant on what you create.

[homemadenoise]

I haven't messed with it in years, but remember loving it. I'd suggest tweaking a single thing at a time, or hitting random until you get something good then changing a single thing at a time and figure out what's doing what.

I think that how I am going to approach it. Thanks.

[wendylou]

Anyone have experience with Fritz? Can it get musical results? Any tips?

Input my guitar through it. Generellt have wet/dry around 10 o Clock.

Ditto. I made a cool song with my guitar running through Fritz for effect in the middle of the song, using "Organic Stream" and variable blend automation to slowly fade out the effect. Never got any guitar pedal to sound like that!

[Loque]

Not sure exactly what you mean by "musical" results,

Just that a lot of effects like granular, glitch and other more unusual stuff can really mangle sound and do amazing things but not necessarily things that fit in to a song or fit with more traditional sounds. SUre its dependant on what you create.

All that depends on what you want to achieve or are looking for. Fritz can give a simple delay, smooth reverb, a shimmer reverb, FM and AM sounds, pitch shifting, stereo effects, granular effects, lots of modulation and all that combined. It can give a pad or lush guitar an extra texture, a vocal some shine or make psychedelic weird stuff. It is up to you.

And btw, even a simple chorus or delay can be used in quite more ways as a lot of ppl think of.

[dan_g]

I'm using Fritz mostly for mangling bass stabs and growls for my heavy dubstep productions. so the resulting sounds can be used as fillers and effects together with the other bass sounds. The Random button is really helpfull because you get very intressting results very fast.

i mostly do this mangling as a "Mudpie", so recording the process to a new audiotrack during the experimentation. that way i don't loose antything that maybe sounds good or is usable. also i sometimes bounce the results to a folder for later use in another project.

[gkillmaster]

Input my guitar through it. Generellt have wet/dry around 10 o Clock.

Ditto. I made a cool song with my guitar running through Fritz for effect in the middle of the song, using "Organic Stream" and variable blend automation to slowly fade out the effect. Never got any guitar pedal to sound like that!

I'm trying to recreate this with my guitar but I don't see "Organic Stream". Is it a patch? Do you blend the effect in with Wet/Dry control. Not sure what variable blend automation is. Thanks!

[wendylou]

Ditto. I made a cool song with my guitar running through Fritz for effect in the middle of the song, using "Organic Stream" and variable blend automation to slowly fade out the effect. Never got any guitar pedal to sound like that!

I'm trying to recreate this with my guitar but I don't see "Organic Stream". Is it a patch? Do you blend the effect in with Wet/Dry control. Not sure what variable blend automation is. Thanks!

That patch is in the free Navi Retlav Studio - Fritz collection. And I just used automation for the "Enable/Bypass" and "Dry/Wet" knob to change between full-on crazy FX (no longer a guitar!) to a changing mixture of FX and guitar before fading out completely. It really kicks; never heard any guitar effect like it.

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[gkillmaster]

I'm trying to recreate this with my guitar but I don't see "Organic Stream". Is it a patch? Do you blend the effect in with Wet/Dry control. Not sure what variable blend automation is. Thanks!

That patch is in the free Navi Retlav Studio - Fritz collection. And I just used automation for the "Enable/Bypass" and "Dry/Wet" knob to change between full-on crazy FX (no longer a guitar!) to a changing mixture of FX and guitar before fading out completely. It really kicks; never heard any guitar effect like it.


Automation lanes.jpg


Organic Stream.jpg

Thank you! Really appreciate this. So far, love Fritz as an guitar effects unit too!
That collection is not free anymore it seems but probably worth getting!