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I have been dabling in this recently. First there should be a vst instruments config in reaper somewhere. There you will add the vst instrument your are using. Second add a midi track to reaper. On the that track you have to assign an input which would be your controller and also an output...

I personally do the seperate mixer and interface. Mainly for the flexibility. I have a few really good outboard mic pres and I would not want to run those through a lower quality mixing board / interface to get to the computer. I use an old 1602vlz pro and a RME multiface II(pci) for...

People like the rawness and realness of stripped down recordings. It actually makes you listen instead of being spoonfed and taking a nap afterward. I don't think it's going anywhere. I don't think the heavy production stuff is going anywhere either.

1) Are you overdubing or layering the rythm guitar parts? 2) Are you overcrowding a particular place in the stereo field (center pos maybe)? 3) Careful boosting freq.

On a device like that it is like a bonus. It will act as extra I/O in addition to your on board channels. It is real common for 8 channel mic pres to have the adat out option to feed to an interface. So to answer your question it would only help.

I will only add to the above that the bass guitar could be panned slightly off center to provide some room for the kick and snare.

All this Lo-fi vs whatever is proof that people will like the artist/buy the album no matter the recording method / producer. I heard that Bon Iver album. Dude shut himself in a cabin with a SM57 and what ever he had and recorded an album and released it. It sold a shit load. I think it all...

Yes this is true you don't need the mixer for recording, but it is very useful if you have the 8 channels of d/a conversion to route to the mixer giving you monitoring at your fingertips. Not to mention make sub mixes from the daw at mix down.

most of the time it seldom does......

If the lexicon has inserts then thats what you would use (insert the compersosor in the chain). But Compressing on the way in while tracking is usually rare. This method is commonly used on a kick drum and maybe vocals. I use minimal settings (low ratio). Where you may want to experiment is...

Im not saying you cant get a decent sound with what you have, but it is going to be very hard to beat mic'ing a tube amp with an sm57. Your expectations seem a bit higher than what the line6 is going to actually do for you.

Dimmers are the devil. I have to cut the light on the dimmer off before recording any music.

Well I guess that's the difference in listening to spoon feeding cocka (pop) and listening to something real. The wheel was invented somewhere around the 4th millennium BCE. It is still a damn good invention that is well used.

If your playing some go-to-sleep jazz music then I don't think it matters. In the rock arena there is a stigma around the guitar players equipment. If I go to a rock show and don't see a guitar amp matched with a guitar player I am going to feel like a loser for showing up to some lame event...

I have to say the AC4TV was a terrible clean amp. It was a decent overdriven amp, but overall I thought it was way overrated. I ended up with the Champion 600. I mainly wanted it for the cleans and its great for that. I am in the process of upgrading the components in the amp. For $99 is...

I have ordered a new speaker and the zoso tone cap replacements. I have already swapped the chinese tubes with tungsol. Anyone else done this cap and speaker upgrade? I will do before and after samples.

I would buy an older mackie vlz pro (like a 1602 or 1604) with the 300 and save for an 8 channel interface. It good to have a mixer for monitoring as well as mixing. You can always use a mixer. Hell, you could still record to a VCR from the mixer main buss. A VCR is dirt cheap these days.

YEp, midi is control only. Use the stereo outputs to feed your interface.

Another interface with more I/O would supercede your current card.

I will soon record a demo for a local group. They have some mics they would like to use. The Sure Beta 98/S is one of them. Anyone ever use this little thing? Where and How on the drum kit? He has three of them and goose necks for mounting on the toms.