Re-Amping?

Trev M

Something Ive recently gotten around to doing with teh line 6 gear box plugin . Very handy in so far as you can monitor wet and record a dry track then try different set ups with the plug in.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the real deal so to speak outside the plug in experience and what has your approach been?.

Im due to start an album soon, there will be a lot of guitars involved, a lot of amps involved so Im thinking rather than spending hours tracking each guitar across multiple set ups the possibility of re amping might be a means of saving a bit of time. Recording and monitoring is fine, no problem, its post take and sending to the actual amps, what would people recommend in line to the head for example ? I cant imagine a direct out to the amp head is the way to go?

unclebill98

I've recording dry bass and re amped into a tube head.. Only thing was latency with the returned signal, so as long as you can compensate for that it should be good fun to experiment with.

DAW to bass head and bass head DI back into DAW. Would like to try mic the cab, but I did not get around to trying that yet.

I've re patched vocals through my Voice master pro, very easy to do.

So direct out or mic it, would be fun to mess around with it.

studiorat

I do it all the time, vocals, drums the lot.
To do it properly though you need a re-amping box, to match the impedance of
the signal from the DAW to something that approximates a guitar. That way the amp shouldn't sound to choked and your gain structure should be somewhat normal.

Try a google search for a Radial X-Amp.

trackmixstudio

Hi Trev, fancy meeting you here!
There is a radial x-amp in the studio and it works great!

unclebill98

Radial X-Amp you say.....emmm interesting..

studiorat

Radial stuff is the dogs! DI sounds great too. I was finding that by using a little EQ or compression before sending out to the amp I was getting a better sound that straight from the gtr.

One of these helped too Guitar Amp Porn

Trev M

trackmixstudio wrote: »

Hi Trev, fancy meeting you here!
There is a radial x-amp in the studio and it works great!

Handy ! Will have a scope next time Im in so

Cheers for the feedback (har har) oh and the sexy link , pricey little feckers eh !

Seziertisch

Yeah, have heard good things about the Radial.

Most important thing is that you have some way of changing from balanced line level signal to unbalanced instrument level. I use a Sansamp Bass Driver DI for both recording the guitar track DI and then converting it to instrument level on the way back for reamping (I don't have the actual preamp part of the pedal on just using the DI capabilities it offers). For the reamping I send it out at around -20db or so from the workstation, as this is about what a guitar signal would be.

Also I found that I got better results by using a DI box for converting to line level for the recording of the initial guitar signal.