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Pro tools will make you sound pro.
Or like a complete tool.
Pro tools will make you sound pro.
Though not with sims, I always thought that's what re-amping is. And you'd not know exactly what the end result would be until it was !Yeah, it would. But I'm pretty sure I've read a few people saying they record a clean, direct guitar (even solos) and then apply sims after. I never knew if they meant that they're literally recording a clean guitar without hearing what it will sound like distorted. That always seemed just weird to me.
Though not with sims, I always thought that's what re-amping is. And you'd not know exactly what the end result would be until it was !
Even with re-amping you still record an amp'd signal, or at least listen to one while you record the raw direct signal through a DI box.
You go from guitar to DI or re-amp box. From the box you run a cable to the amp and one back to the interface for the raw signal. Then later you can kick the raw signal back out into the re-amp box and run it into the amp as if a guitar is actually playing. I think that's how it works anyway. I've never done it. It's a totally gay process that sadly has become very popular.
Re-amping is for people that suck at tone or recording tone.
I thought it was sending the raw signal out of your daw into an amp and recording?!?!
Sure.It is, but you gotta get it in there first. Recording a direct guitar doesn't inspire most people to play the part properly so you run the guitar into a splitter basically so you can hear the amp but record the raw signal.
Isn't the point of the re-amping just putting a straight sound from a guitar into your recorder/DAW, to be manipulated afterwards anyhow you like ? That's when tones, mic placement, pedals and the whole shebang weaves her 'magic'. You just send that clean straight guitar, whether it be originally DI or whatever, out of the recorder, to the amp, then you mic it and perform all manner of 'alteration' from thereon.I thought it was sending the raw signal out of your daw into an amp and recording?!?! Don't you still have to go through the process of dialing in the tone, mic selection etc etc ?
While that has some truth to it, it can also be a lazy person's thing. But I suspect the tone suckers and lazy bods aren't by any stretch of the imagination the only ones that reamp. Over the decades, many players with no problems in achieving tones they like have reamped. Like many things in recording, it's part of the experimental bent that many people have and it can go both ways. It can either be part of the rich and varied tones available once in a while or it can become the kind of default procedure which, personally, I think makes music creation toytown. I kind of feel that way about drum sample replacement. It isn't the existence and use of it, it's when it becomes the default position. A bit like how in the early days, you only ever put one mic on the whole kit or never turned a guitar amp beyond '6' or whatever.Re-amping is for people that suck at tone or recording tone.
Especially if you are a one man operation. Reamping would allow you to focus in on the recording without being worried about performing. .
it can become the kind of default procedure which, personally, I think makes music creation toytown. I kind of feel that way about drum sample replacement. It isn't the existence and use of it, it's when it becomes the default position. A bit like how in the early days, you only ever put one mic on the whole kit or never turned a guitar amp beyond '6' or whatever.
I disagree. I, and tons of others, do the whole thing ourselves without problems. The performance is key, and to me, that's the fun part. I can see some merit in saving the "perfect" take or whatever, but I'm of the opinion that if you're good you can do another perfect take with no problem.
Or you could just go there with your guitar, plug in, and do it for real, like a man.
Yes, but if I have the performances I wanted, why would I pay to try to recreate them???
I agree. I enjoy experimenting. Sometimes, just to see what will happen. I've just got a thing about certain 'default' positions though. And the music thing, whether pro, am or home or whatever is notorious for that. There's a difference between reamping every now and then and reamping being the only way you record instruments.I think some fun could be had there without jeopardizing the integrity of the art of recording.
Is re-amping free?
Your buddy at his pro studio is gonna let you hog up studio time and equipment to experiment with re-amping for free, but he's gonna charge you to bring a guitar in?