Re-amping

[Blor007]

Hi,

What do you need to re-amp a guitar and will it be a bottleneck on the overal quality?
I'm thinking of recording a perfect take and then sending it to a professional studio to re-amp the guitars.

Do you think that that's a good idea?

 

[metalhead28]

If you're not doing the re-amping, all you need is a direct box (assuming you have a pre-amp already). You just need to take care to capture a clean and pure signal from the guitar.
If you're doing the re-amping, you need a re-amping box which will bring the line level signal to instrument level for feeding it into an amp. You can get a dedicated box like the X-AMP from Radial Engineering, or a few others.
You can also use a passive DI box in reverse, but an active box is best for recording the DI so it's not a good idea to try and kill 2 birds with one stone.
It is not a bottleneck in any way. It's the same quality you would expect from mic'ing an amp the first time around, provided you do everything right.

You can get guitars re-amped by Michael Wagener (Ozzy, Metallica, etc, etc.)...He's offering that service now.

 

[Blor007]

Hi,
Thanks for the explanation

I have this: http://www.zzounds.com/a--2676837/item--BEHDI100
And an Gyraf Gyratec with Line input. (pre-amp)

My main concern about the gyraf is that the tubes alter the sound?!
And my main concern about behringer is that it's behringer !

What would be the best use for those to track down a clean signal?

 

[metalhead28]

You shouldn't have any problems using the Behringer DI box.
For that matter, the tube pre would probably be fine too if you kept the signal as clean as possible.

 

[SBax]

Do what Gilmour did. Rent a stadium and blast the track through the PA system. Set up 14 microphones and re-record.

 

[mikeh]

I tried the stadium thing....highly overrated. For the amount of effort required I thought the sound was no better than running direct through a POD