Healthily drive the amp during reamping? What exactly do you think your recording level has to do with that? As far as I can see thet's totally dependent on the maximum level that your DAC can supply, which has nothing to do with the input level to the ADC. I think the importance of pick up load, and how it can drastically change in these DI type of scenarios, sometimes gets overlooked and may be responsible for some of the tone suck people talk about when using DIs. ![]() It's pretty great for splitting into two isolated signals (and then sending one or both to a DI) and it also has a drag control so you can load the pickups up however sounds best. I've also been using a Radial Twin City for doing these splits. But in practice, I didn't know if it mattered THAT much and I haven't ever gone to great lengths to try.Īs for FX, I also try to do what you do as well but I'll generally err towards taking the DI of the FX over the naked guitar tone if I have to pick one due to running out of available AD channels, especially if it involves any manipulation of those FX during the take. I mean, the idea of re-introducing the naked guitar track to the amp in an as close as possible manner to that in which it originally came from the guitar (or guitar with FX) makes sense, at least in theory. I just had to wonder if it could be even "better" running through super clean gain. The makeup gain for my DI channels has generally been whatever is left and I haven't been too worried about getting uber clean gain. Yeah, your post pretty much sums up the approach I have been taking. Who here really strives to follow this approach and who doesn't? I can see both sides of the discussion, and I've always generally been in the color camp myself, but I am curious about what I might be missing by not running my DI reamp tracks through really clean gain. I'm basically talking wire with gain (clean DI to clean preamp) to achieve an eventual signal at the amp (when reamping) that is as close as possible to what the amp would see if the guitar were plugged directly into it. We're not talking a bass track through a Reddi and then a cranked Neve to add some hair here. I've never worried about it too much in the past but I have been curious lately about what I might be losing (or adding in a negative way) by not running those DIs through a really clean preamp when the intention is to reamp those tracks at a later time. That being said, none of those preamps I've been using in these situations are what I would call super clean. I generally try to do this with whatever preamps aren't being used on something else at that time and try to keep the gain staging on those preamps from dirtying up the signal anymore than possible. ![]() I get the obvious reasons to want to use clean (or at least as clean as you have available) preamps to add gain in this scenario. I'm sure this may bring people down on both sides of the issue but I've been considering getting four channels or so of SUPER clean preamps to run my already clean DIs through when tracking guitars/bass to later be reamped.
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