Reamping questions

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So my band is going to start recording again soon and we want to play live, unfortunately I dont have enough good mics to record all the guitars at the same time. I do not have enough cash for a reamp box and this album is most likely going to make a ton of money. Is there a way I could reamp the guitar, some of the supplies i think may be helpful in converting the signal are a mesa v twin pedal/preamp, a fender frontman, a fender blues jr, and a bbe sonic maximizer. If i send the headphone out into the amp in of the frontman would the signal match well or would there be a lot of hum?
 
Why do you want to record all of the guitars at the same time?
 
the whole band playing at once will sound more natural than overdubbing everything
 
I'd be more than happy to reamp (pro bono) if your DI tracks are in good shape and you can supply backing tracks... and you're not in a super hurry... It does take a bit of back and forth with reamps.
 
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JG96 said:
the whole band playing at once will sound more natural than
overdubbing everything
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This is very true. Not that overdubbing is bad. When I'm recording
jazz everyone is recorded at the same time including the solos.
It affords the opportunity for the musicians to play off each other
and contribute spontaneously.

Mind you it's acoustic straight ahead jazz and not fusion.
 
i agree as a bass player it really helps to not only here but see the drums so you know whats coming before it happens. When we overdub it is significantly more difficult for me to record bass tracks.
 
thank you so much, if we decide that going direct would be the best option i will defiantly pm you!
 
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i agree as a bass player it really helps to not only here but see the
drums so you know whats coming before it happens. When we
overdub it is significantly more difficult for me to record bass
tracks.
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Eye contact and body language is the key. Looking around and
focusing on what's happening is crucial.

Hey JG96, what's reamping?
 
I'll explain Reamping.

You record your guitar dry, and by dry I mean you take your guitar cable and run that directly from your guitar into your recording interfaces instrument in jack, or if your using a mixer using a DI box into a mic input.

That dry recorded track is routed to an output on your interface and sent to an amp with a reamp box (X amp, Pro RMP, Reamp V.2, Redeye) in between because the impedance isn't even close to being the same.

When running a Reamp box, you usually go balanced (either TRS or XLR) cable to reamp box, and then use a short instrument cable from reamp box to amp. If you use effects pedals they are placed after the reamp box, again keeping the instrument cable runs as short as possible for the best results.


Experience tip: This has actually been less noisy than recording in real time with the amp.
 
haha I forgot to explain WHY to reamp.

Reamping allows you to hire someone to track the amps without you, you just send the dry DI tracks and he can record the amps and send back the tracks.

OR another reason:

Say you hate the recorded guitar tone. It's really fucking bad, if you have the DI tracks it's as simple as re playing the tracks through the amp with different settings and your good to go with your new tone.

Also, like I said in my experience reamping introduces less noise somehow than playing the guitar through the amp.
 
Thanx to everyone who helped.

I'm going to be sitting in on some recording studio workshops
this semester. Sounds like fun.
 
hahah, i meant to say not. Or maybe u interpreted this as sarcasm!
 
On your obviously limited budget, you'll get much better results tracking things one at a time. It'll leave you with much more options. As for needing to "see the drummer"...what? Are your songs freeform or something? Record the drums to a click, then everything else to the drums. Ignore peoples "the beatles recordings are the best ever made" and various other snobby crap.
 
I have made these work previous to purchasing a reamp box. Around $25.
 

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chamelious-we have both tracked parts one at a time and tracked the whole band at once. Overall it just feels a lot more natural to play with whole band then track things one at a time. From a bassists perspective its a lot easier to play if i can see cues from the drummer; the songs arent free-fourm but its a lot more natural to play along with the drums as they are being played. I just ordered a interface with lots of channels and im not letting those go to waste:D.
Jimmys69-that seems like a good technique, i remember seeing some very similar adapters when i was about 6 i wonder where they are now?:confused:
 
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