<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/7 Grammostola Rosea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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I want to record electric guitar chord progression. I've an:<br>
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- epiphone les paul<br>
- little amp, orange 30r<br>
- maudio dmp 3 preamp<br>
- shure 58a beta<br>
- mic stand<br>
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What do you prefer, preamp of mic in front of amp?</blockquote><div><br>I would not use a preamp, unless it's a tube preamp or you don't have a mixing console<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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How do you manage the gain and eq?<br>
- guitar<br>
- amp<br>
- preamp<br>
- ardour</blockquote><div><br> Always ensure that the input signal is loud as possible. If you are going to use a scheme like: mic -> mixer-> sndcard -> ardour then use a lowpass/lowcut on the mixer (usually 75hz) and then compensate with your bass knob (low cut shelving is different from the bass knob one which is a bell). I would not use a low pass filter or a low cut until your sound results in a lot of "rumble", I would prefer EQ.<br>
<br>Compression + eq will help you to achieve loudness. Do not use hard compression or you are going to entirely lose dynamics.<br>Spectrum analyses are very useful (together with a couple of full functionally ears) in order to identify "annoyance" freqs.<br>
Once your signal is compressed then you can boost characterizing freq for your les paul to achieve the sound you want.<br><br>I usually have a 3/4db maximum gain reduction with a slow attack (20-30ms) and release (~400ms) for guitar signal... but of course this is not a standard and is striclty related to your input level.<br>
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How do you mix it?<br>
I've read that it is useful to use an low-pass filter, some compression<br>
and EQ.</blockquote><div><br>As above.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
What are good plugins on GNU/Linux for this?<br>
What goes pre- and what postfader?</blockquote><div><br>Try to do the best before... you can improve a good starting sound (pre ardour) with plugins, you can't do the opposite. <br><br>BTW<br>pre-fader: sc4 mono compressor -> Multiband EQ<br>
post-fader: send_to_bus_with_gverb<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thanks in advance,<br>
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\r</blockquote></div><br>regards<br>raffaele<br>