recording guitar...

[pinc666]

ok here's the deal:

I have no problems recording guitar through mic placed in front of a box.
But now I'm trying to get more gear for the studio i'm building and I don't wanna spend so much many for guitar amps. So I decided to get some guitar preamps(Mb triaxis, ampeg bsp-pro -> that sort of preamp)
Do I just have to plug them into an power amp(any kind) and record them through mic placed in front of the box?
I was thinking of buying 2-3 preamps and just one power amp -> is this ok?

re,pinc

[pinc666]

I meant I have no problem recording guitar thorugh a regular amp...

re,pinc

[Halion]

Your not there yet. With what you propose, you could get a broad range of very nice guitar tones, but you haven't said anything about how your gonna get them into your recording workstation. The mic(s), placement and mic preamps are at least as critical as the amp itself. I'd spend some time learning what works when recording guitar and what doesn't. Then you might concider buying for instance, 2 mics and a mic preamp, instead of 3 guitar preamps and a power amp.

[riantide]

Instead of getting a fleet of expensive preamps, you should look into getting a fleet of very small (6-20 watt) tube combo amps. Fender Vibro-Champ, Blues Junior, Princeton Reverb, Traynor, etc. You can also check out pawn shops and thrift stores, sometimes they have super old tube amps for $10 that you can then take to a tech you trust and put $150 into making them sound sweet (Newcomb is one pawn shop brand that I've had luck with).

Anyway, you can get a range of tones out of low-wattage tube amps that I think you would find more rewarding, classic, and unique than the preamps you mentioned. Best of luck!

[Nate74]

I swore for years I'd never join the modeling crowed, but after a recent experience with a Bass POD XT and Guitar POD XT I had to rethink it. It was a tracking session where we were interested primarily in getting the drums recorded well, so we didn't bother taking our amps to the studio. The engineer had us plug into these funny kidney bean shaped things instead.

Long story short, even though these were just "scratch" tracks, the tone on the guitar and bass was very usable. Our guitarist used a Blackface preset and I used a basic SWR type preset. I'm thinking I'll be doing the album with that sound, and our guitarist is toying with the idea too.

I've since purchased the Bass POD XT for myself. An easy decision when I found out they're only $300.

Just something else to consider...

[Rokket]

I got some really great tone playing through the 10 watt practice amp that came with the Yamaha starter set up I bought my nephew. The whole rig came with the guitar, amp, cheap patch cord, a tuner, string winder and a set of strings for less than $150.00. The amp only has two settings, clean and distorted, and you can't adjust the distortion, but it has a killer tone when you record it. I haven't touched my $1000.00 Fender since...




Nah, I take that back. I haven't really recorded much lately.