Advice on recording........

SeanHurley

An electric guitar part soaked in reverb (think Sigur Ros vibe). Is it better to record the guitar dry and achieve the sound I am looking for with plugins later or get the sound I am looking for at source and record it.

I can see positives and negatives for both options.

Obviously recording the guitar part dry gives you the most flexibility when it comes to mixing, however, in my opinion you get a much nicer take playing with the effect as it creates a vibe and definitley influences the playing of the part.

Recording the guitar part wet as previously stated gives you the vibe while you are playing and also the cabinet that you are using can colour the reverb in a really pleasing way and make the sound seem cohesive i.e. a unified single sound that sounds organic rather than a sound + an effct. Obvioulsy with this approach what you have is what you have and come mix time there isn't much room for change.

I know that a lot will say record both and re-amp but what with the recession and all I can't afford a re-amp box and I am not sure that putting a line level feed into an amp is the best option for this. I am using PT LE as well so means monitoring with any decent effect on is a no go due to latency as in low latency mode cpu heavy plugins are disabled.

Any advice guys?

Aridstarling

I'd say go for source first. With that kind of sound you have to know what you're playing with to get it right. Doing it dry wouldn't really work for me anyway.

SeanHurley

yeah that is what I am thinking, I know exactly what I want it to sound like plus I think as you say you have to know what you are playing with to get it right.

Thanking you.

violent*sky

Put a DI in line and record the dry and the wet signal for the same take.

SeanHurley

violent*sky wrote: »

Put a DI in line and record the dry and the wet signal for the same take.

Is it possible to re-amp with out a re-amp box? How do you get over the impedence issue?