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Post by sozocaps on Dec 21, 2016 9:30:56 GMT -6
I'm about to embark on a GUITAR Re-amp shootout...
Here is what I am going to try.
I have these DI's options available to me.
I have an Apogee Trak2
Great River MP-2NV
Avalon 2022
Heritage Audio 1073
Agular Tone Hammer
Old Sanasamp
Radial J48 into preamps
Radial J48 into a Power Injector(Phantom for the J48) with mogami XLR to TT to go straight into the converter bypassing any preamps...
All will be played back through a Radial X Amp to the amplifier.
Any suggestions ?
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Post by svart on Dec 21, 2016 10:44:08 GMT -6
My typical setup is to DI before the effects, and record the clean DI as well as the effected amp.
Then when/if I reamp, I can just do the effect again. More often than not, I reamp to reduce the amount of effect. Usually the artist overcompensates with the effects..
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Post by ericn on Dec 21, 2016 11:09:09 GMT -6
My typical setup is to DI before the effects, and record the clean DI as well as the effected amp. Then when/if I reamp, I can just do the effect again. More often than not, I reamp to reduce the amount of effect. Usually the artist overcompensates with the effects.. Artist over compensate , Nah that never happens! |
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Post by sozocaps on Dec 21, 2016 12:02:10 GMT -6
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Post by svart on Dec 21, 2016 12:02:57 GMT -6
I've also started doing DI for ALL amplified instruments. I've found that it helps a LOT during mixing so I can change the amp sound without resorting to a lot of EQ and editing.
I also found that for bass guitar, I scoop the mids out of the DI track and use the recorded amp as the mids. That way I can control the amount of mid growl in relation to the clean top and bottom. Bass guitar does not gain anything by distorting the lows, it just creates a muddy low end that you can't really get rid of. This has really stepped up the sound of my bass guitar in mixes.
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Post by gouge on Dec 21, 2016 16:14:48 GMT -6
my suggestion is to buy an mw1. an amazing piece of kit not only for reamping but for tracking guitars in general. especially if you have an iso booth or run long runs.
it also has an impedance knob. having control over impedance when reamping is where the magic is.
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Post by Guitar on Dec 21, 2016 16:46:44 GMT -6
I'd be interested to see what you find sozocaps I have found DI quality to be astoundingly different from one to the next, to the point where some of the cheap options sound un-usable. Sounds like you have a lot of good options though. Specifically I bought some cheap BBE DI boxes and they sounded so bad they made me angry, I had to send them back immediately. The Behringer BDI 21 is just barely tolerable, that would be my entry level DI box. Everything else I've tried on the higher end of things has been satisfactory, yet varied in sound character. I almost would count a DI box as having the sound quality of a guitar or bass amp head, if you want to get geeky about it. There is that much difference to my ear. I just listened to Dan Deurloo's ZOD ID DI vs the REDDI and I was once again flabbergasted at the different sound of each box. |
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Post by gouge on Dec 21, 2016 17:22:27 GMT -6
I've also started doing DI for ALL amplified instruments. I've found that it helps a LOT during mixing so I can change the amp sound without resorting to a lot of EQ and editing. I also found that for bass guitar, I scoop the mids out of the DI track and use the recorded amp as the mids. That way I can control the amount of mid growl in relation to the clean top and bottom. Bass guitar does not gain anything by distorting the lows, it just creates a muddy low end that you can't really get rid of. This has really stepped up the sound of my bass guitar in mixes. I started using a rusty box a few weeks back. prior to that I was having the same outcomes as yourself. there is something very nice going on with the rusty box. the right mix of grit and punch. once I hooked it up it had "that sound" |
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Post by sozocaps on Dec 23, 2016 19:25:47 GMT -6
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