I have been experimenting with using different MG3 trackers with my main instrument (a Mexican “fat Strat” FWIW, tuned to Guitar Craft standard CGDAEG). My interest in using these trackers is 1) to extend the low-note range to allow my low C2; and 2) to use with instruments like SWAM strings which are “only” duophonic.
They both work, for sure, but seem to have quirks–the most significant being that they both seem to produce more “false” notes, for me, than the basic guitar tracker. (JTBC, it’s not that many; I seem to be able to aggressively mute around most of them, but still, it is…more than the guitar tracker.) And it made me wonder what the expectations should be. After all, I believe that the cello tracker was originally intended to listen for an actual cello being played into it, not a guitar whose lowest strings happen to match the cello’s pitches. (Ditto the bass, which is probably “expecting” a bass guitar instead of a standard guitar.)
Anyway, I’m currently on the fence about whether it’s better to use, with SWAM cello and double bass, the guitar tracker, and transpose down an octave, or to use the cello tracker instead, with its apparent limitations. The difference for me is that with the guitar tracker/transposer, I lose the lowest octave on the physical instrument, which seems a shame somehow, with me being pitched the same as the cello. (Oddly enough, this doesn’t seem to bother me at all with the SWAM woodwinds–psychology is weird.)
Has anyone else confronted this before? And, if one is going to use an alternate tracker with a guitar instrument, is there any modification to the usual setup that would be worth doing?