Direct Guitar Recording

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I am presently recording with my guitar directly out of my Marshall JCM900 head's Direct Recording Compensated output, which goes into a channel on the mixer. The clean sounds okay (not that great) and the distortion sounds awful. It all sounds way too filtered and not lively or real at all. I read up on some of those DI boxes but it seems that you hook it between your head and speaker and then run an XLR out to the board. This is okay, except for the fact that I would still be hearing my amp. I want silent recording because we use headphones and I can't hear with a cranked amp. What do you guys suggest? Should I get a pedal like a Jackhammer or Guv'nor and run that straight into the board instead? I basically want my footswitchable Marshall head clean and lead sound going into the mixer the best way I can.

Thanks!

-SBC
 
There's no way to get the sound of a mic'ed up Marshall except to mic up a Marshall.

The best alternative for the situation you describe, is to use a POD other effects processor into your mixer, or directly into your sound card.

If I need to record direct, I usually go out of my rackmount effects unit directly into my soundcard. The results are OK. It's the best I can do.

Twist
 
One interesting alternative is the speaker-in-a-box trick. Somebody markets something like this. It's basically a 12" in an enclosed small space with an SM-57 mounted inside pointed at the cone. I don't know how well it keep the overall sound levels down, or how the odd shape of the cabinet might effect the sound, but it's an idea...
 
Its randall who amke the isolation cabinets! :D
I have heard they are very good but I dunno how good they would be!
But Im affraid sbcgroup1 the only way to get that sound is to mic up a cab there is no other way to get the true sound!
C ya

craze
 
I wonder if there are any plans on the net to make an isolation cab...now *that* would be cool. :D
 
Actually, Demeter makes a popular isolation cab (box with speaker and mic hookup) for guitar recording. What do you guys feel about running direct into the recording board with something like a Tech 21 TriAC (Sans Amp company)? Their recorded samples on the website sounded killer. Any input?

thanks again!!

-SBC
 
I have both the SansAmp GT2 and the PSA-1. They both sound killer, and IMHO, react to my playing bett than the POD. However, I still prefer my Mesa/Boogie TriAxis. Yet, if I had to record direct, I would use my SansAmps.
 
I would experiment putting the amp in another room while you are playing depending where you are doing your recording it might work. Seems a shame to have to record usuing something else liek a POD when you have a nice amp.
 
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