Re-recording or retake from loudspeaker.... Bizarre idea

[@cidvertigo]

Yesterday i have recorded with my group a stereo track named: "remember what you have played in this hour" on a laptop computer in a acoustic treated room.

The microphones were connected to a mackie mixer and the tape out of the mixer to the laptop. The other outs from the mackie mixer follows the chain: crossover ----> Amplifier ----> Very big Loudspeakers.


Now.... listened.... and liked.... very strange!!! The sound is better than recording take by take with my computer (better dynamics... better reverb... better spatial soundstage..... very strange.

I think that the microphones (For example the microphones on the drum) have captured the sound of the loudspeakers giving a pumping sound.

Now i like this effect and ask you if anoyne has tried to re-record a track (For example a drum track) with a microphone in front the loudspeakers...

Anoyne has tried this "strange" technique?






p.s. One day I will learn english!!!! Iìll promise you!

 

[scrubs]

Yes, it's called "re-amping." Often, it's done for guitar or drum tracks (running them through an amplifier or PA system) to give a different sound.

 

[boomtap]

It is true that there is nothing new under the sun, and this is another example. Glad it worked for you though. I have heard people get great drum sounds this way. It is common place in many large studios that have the space to bring in a big PA.

 

[Track Rat]

I believe the Metalica black album drums were done that way. They ran them back through a concert PA and miked it.

 

[Ronan]

Some of the Tool drums were recorded with a small PA behind the drummer sending the mic drums out into the PA while the drummer played.

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

Anoyne has tried this "strange" technique?

Yeah, all the time. It's an old trick. I know Eddie Kramer has done it in the past.

 

[Track Rat]

Try this sometime. Lay a speaker on its back, lay a snare drum face down over it and send the snare track back to this speaker and put a mic on that. Or send the entire drum mix to a dirty guitar amp ala Savoy Truffle.

 

[gordyzens]

Placing a microphone to pick up a speaker sound while recording was done back in the 1950's. I believe Buddy Holly's producer placed a speaker and a microphone in the attic of the building at varying distances apart to get a neat delay.

 

[boomtap]

How about hooking up electrodes to a monkey while he is on the drums, and giving him a shcok when you want him to play, then mic that, send it through a PA, record the PA, and then play that through a ghetto blaster and then record that.

 

[Baron Von Marlo]

Yes, it's called "re-amping." Often, it's done for guitar or drum tracks (running them through an amplifier or PA system) to give a different sound.

Isn't reamping generally defined as recording a dry guitar track(ie straight to the desk), and then sending the signal to an amp, and fiddling to get the desired sound?