I work in almost a similar fashion, except I would map the track, and retime the riff, and then redo the mapping until Im satified with how both sound. It is probably a much longer way around, but it feels like I have more control over how the melodic portions of the track plays out.V8 wrote: Heish, mapping it out sounds like hard work ?...I was just thinking of running some drums loops at the BPM of your original riff and jamming the riff over it until you found something you liked, then re-record/re-track the guitars.
Sure the riff might change a bit (it usually does when I do it), but I find that it helps me groove with the drums.
Just a thought on the Octaver effect - when I was using a POD X3, I had the ability to run two separate set's of amps + FX. I liked having one amp setup with drive + cabinet (guitar sound) and the other amp with the octaver (octaver sound) then I'd blend in the output of the two amp's with the footpedal until I thought I could feel the octaver yet still hear the guitar.
Dunno if your tools can do the same? I replaced the X3 with Guitar Rig which can do something very similar, and get even more intricate.
I havent worked with VoxJam for very long, so Im not sure if its capable of doing that, although it sounds like a brilliant idea.