delirium trigge
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Okay, I know that the tube screamer has more options than just boosting the level of your guitar. That's essentially what it's doing, especially in simulators like amplitube. But, while it does that, it also slightly changes the tone even if the drive is kept all the way down and the tone knob down or in the middle. So, say you have an amp sim you are recording, in order to get a lot of the amp sims in amplitube, or any other plug in sim by any company is to have a strong guitar input, almost to the point of clipping, especially on amps with distortion.
I can achieve that by turning the pre amp up which makes the guitar signal stronger so the gain sounds like it's supposed to. But I can achieve the same thing by keeping the pre amp turned down more and putting a tube screamer in it, and turning the level of that all the way up. The advantage tube screamer seems to have, is it doesn't make it clip quite as easily, as it the pre amp does.
I'm also using real amps not just sims, and a real tube screamer. I've wondered with the real amps if I'd get the same result by running a small pre amp, before the pre amp of the amplifier or just run the tube screamer.
They both essentially are doing the same exact thing but one of them is not changing the character of the amp as much as the other. For example, the tube screamer tightens up the bass, the pre amp doesn't, and sometimes I don't want it to, I want the low end.
Just wondering what you guys do, in recording, not in live situations for tonal reasons. But in recording to get your real amp/amp sim to sound right. Turn the pre amp up until it's at the right level? Or keep it down and use a tube screamer and turn the drive on that up until it's at the right level?
I can achieve that by turning the pre amp up which makes the guitar signal stronger so the gain sounds like it's supposed to. But I can achieve the same thing by keeping the pre amp turned down more and putting a tube screamer in it, and turning the level of that all the way up. The advantage tube screamer seems to have, is it doesn't make it clip quite as easily, as it the pre amp does.
I'm also using real amps not just sims, and a real tube screamer. I've wondered with the real amps if I'd get the same result by running a small pre amp, before the pre amp of the amplifier or just run the tube screamer.
They both essentially are doing the same exact thing but one of them is not changing the character of the amp as much as the other. For example, the tube screamer tightens up the bass, the pre amp doesn't, and sometimes I don't want it to, I want the low end.
Just wondering what you guys do, in recording, not in live situations for tonal reasons. But in recording to get your real amp/amp sim to sound right. Turn the pre amp up until it's at the right level? Or keep it down and use a tube screamer and turn the drive on that up until it's at the right level?