Reamping worries

[light40]

I am recording a band that will be borrowing a very expensive Mesa Boogie for their guitar tracks. However, because they don't want to have to keep the amp here longer than it needs to be I figured I could just track the guitars DI and reamp them the day they get the amp.

I am using the AUX send on my mixer to do all my reamping. Usually I do it into a 30WATT Marshall practice amp, so I'm not too worried about breaking anything. However, I do not want to do anything that will hurt the rig they are bringing in.

SO, my question is, when I send the dry guitar track though my AUX send directly to the amp, can it damage the amp in any way?
I don't know how the signal strength of a guitar compares to my AUX send.
In the manual it gives me this:

AUX sends
Type 1/4" TRS connector, unbalanced
Impedance approx. 120 Ohms
Max. output level +22dBu


Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I have no knowledge of electrical currents and don't want to damage anything expensive. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[chamelious]

It should be fine. However im not sure i'd do it, especially on an aux send, the result just wont be the same as if the guitar were plugged in.

Personally i would say them keeping the amp is not your problem and it needs to be kept as long as it takes for them to play their own guitar parts, what are you talking anyway a few hours differance? Surely cant matter that much.

 

[Sonixx]

you're not going to anything more than drive the amps input too much.

you should consider getting a reamp box

 

[light40]

They are recording 8 songs. It will probably be the difference between a few days or about 1 hour for the amp.
I know it would be better to actually have the amp the whole time, but thats just not an option.

Thanks for your advice.

 

[andydeedpoll]

I've been interested in the same thing, actually.

It'd be good for hiring out amps - difference between having to get it for a week and for a day, I suppose, especially if you want multiple guitar tracks and you've got two guitars and only one amp, maybe, and want to get a sound requiring two amps. Maybe I'm listening too hard, but it always seems very obvious I've used a Peavey Classic 30 for all my guitar tracks

 

[tbone88]

when you plug a guitar or bass straight into an amp, the amp "hears" the signal differently that when you run a DI recorded signal into it. when plugged straight in, the amp hears a lot less high end and than when a DI recorded signal is played back through the amp. the solutions are:
1. get a reamp box which does everything to the signal requiered to make it sound to the amp like the instrument is plugged straight in.
2. run the signal through a direct box in reverse-this means the signal goes in through the XLR and out through the 1/4" input jack to the amp. this does about the same thing as a reamp box.
3. if you don't want to get a reamp box and don't have the right cable adaptors to run it through a direct box in reverse, you can do some big time EQ before the signal hits the amp. roll off alot of highs and some of the lowest lows- and fine tune the EQ until the sound coming out of the amp sounds natural, like a guitar is plugged into it. then you are set to mic up the amp and reamp!

if you don't do one of these three things, the sound will be overly bright and jangly. not good.