Silent recording and speaker simulation

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Like many, blasting my amp at all hours of the night is not an option.

When recording, I usually plan for when I have the house to myself so I can crank my amp and mic it.

But for composing and practicing, I still like to get a good tone.

Right now, for playing at night I am pleased with the results I am getting with my current method, though I am always trying to make it better.

WIth my current method, I primarily use my Mesa Electradyne hooked up to a THD Hotplate. I set the hotplate to LOAD so it acts like a power soak and no sound comes from the speaker.

I then take the slave out from the ElectraDyne, run it into a digitech RP250. The RP250 has a setting for mixer which has some type of EQ compensation when pluggin directly into mixers. I also setup the speaker simulator on the RP250 to vintage 4x12. I then add a touch of room reverb, and run the stereo out left and right to two seperate channels on my mixer panned left and right. I can then listen to the guitar through headphones and play over any tracks I have recorded.

The results I get IMO are pretty impressive. It is not near as good as when I mic the amp, but it's much better then the native sounds I have heard from any modeler I have tried.

My question is, are there any other pedals out there that are specificaly made for speaker simulation?

Also, does anyone have any recommendations that they use?
 
I used to record at the bass player's house and he had an attached garage. We'd put my amp in the back seat of his buick regal with a microphone and closed the doors.

Another place I lived had an old refrigerator still in the corner of the kitchen. I shut a little peavey practice amp in there with the mic and it recorded like a marshall stack.

I'm sure there are more elegant solutions, but I'm always looking for the opportunity to educate the masses on appalachian engineering.
 
I'd recommend looking at using impulses to simulate the speaker / cab / mic combination... convolution stuff. This generally turns out to be far more realistic and gives you the flexibility of chosing from so many different virtual cab/mic options.

Take a look here...
http://www.guitarampmodeling.com/viewforum.php?f=32
 
cephus said:
I used to record at the bass player's house and he had an attached garage. We'd put my amp in the back seat of his buick regal with a microphone and closed the doors.

Another place I lived had an old refrigerator still in the corner of the kitchen. I shut a little peavey practice amp in there with the mic and it recorded like a marshall stack.

I'm sure there are more elegant solutions, but I'm always looking for the opportunity to educate the masses on appalachian engineering.
Click to expand...

Actually some cool stuff there.
 
Maybe not a pedal per se, but a good DI box might work, like a Hughes & Kettner speaker simulator or some kind of Radial DI box?
 
thanks for the suggestions.

I have heard of the impulses thing, but don't know much about them. I will check it out.

My only issue with it would be mainly that my understanding is that it is added after you record.

It would be nice to hear it at the same time with the cab simulation.

But I will check it out.

I will also checkout that speaker simulator from HnK
 
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