Splitting my guitar signal correctly

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hey everyone , I have a pretty quick question about splitting my guitar signal into my amp then having a line going to my pre-amp.

The reason I need to do this is because I am doing a recording session with the band and I want to get as many tracks as I can. Im heavily into amp sims but I dont want to only have that one track , I want a clean one to put into the files just in case I want to re amp.

Im recording through a jsx 2 x12 with considerably heavy material , but I am working collaborative with others so i would like some stuff clean that runs into my creamware project card (im planning on actually taking that one signal and routing it to a clean track and doing three others with on the fly amp sims....sounds crazy good).

So my main question is .... What do I need to split my signal from my guitar to my amp as well as to my mindprint envoice mkII pre amp with just the clean sound , without degrading my signal strength.

Cheers
Neil
The Little Studio
 
Broken_Hal0 said:
hey everyone , I have a pretty quick question about splitting my guitar signal into my amp then having a line going to my pre-amp.

The reason I need to do this is because I am doing a recording session with the band and I want to get as many tracks as I can. Im heavily into amp sims but I dont want to only have that one track , I want a clean one to put into the files just in case I want to re amp.

Im recording through a jsx 2 x12 with considerably heavy material , but I am working collaborative with others so i would like some stuff clean that runs into my creamware project card (im planning on actually taking that one signal and routing it to a clean track and doing three others with on the fly amp sims....sounds crazy good).

So my main question is .... What do I need to split my signal from my guitar to my amp as well as to my mindprint envoice mkII pre amp with just the clean sound , without degrading my signal strength.

Cheers
Neil
The Little Studio
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Does your preamp have a balanced input? If so, use a direct box, high Z out to your amp, balanced out to the preamp.
 
Maybe this would work.

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As ggun said, use a direct box. It has to be one with a thru on it, althought most do. Run the thru to your amp and the balanced output to your preamp
 
I just read Geoff E. (Beatles fame eng)...recording notes that he always does this with the bass...amp and di...... said DI alone is lazy, and having the tones of the amp add positives.

i di mine, and I'm lazy maybe and don't have an amp for bass.
 
Why not play clean to start with?You can always dirty up the mon mix w/o
effecting what is being tracked.
 
If you are using passive pickups, you will want to use an active direct box.
 
If you are using passive pickups, as Farview says, you need some kind of buffer amp to keep from loading down your pickups. It can be a simple buffer box, or it can be built into either your splitter box or your guitar. The only ones I'm personally familiar with are ones I've made myself (there is a good overview HERE, or HERE) and the ones Bartolini makes (which are built into your guitar). The Bartolini ones are killer, but you can make a really nice one for much less money, and you can build it into any box you want. There are, of course, a lot of other buffers out there, but I'm not familiar with them.


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