[linux-audio-user] Direct In

[Burkhard Woelfel]

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On Friday 25 July 2003 16:31, John Bleichert wrote:
> Direct does have it's uses, but for a metalhead or hard rock
> fan I can't see the use in playing clean into a PC and then adding effects.
> If it's not crunchy while I'm playing, I'm not entertained, [...]

Crunchy licks don't "feel right" if they're played without overdrive, don't 
they?

I had some horrible latency with my old Microbloat system once. Playing guitar 
through that setup was impossible.

I plugged the guitar into my mixer and routed the signal into the PC as well 
as into a distortion pedal and my amplifier. I didn't tune that amp chain 
much to make it sound exciting, but at least there was no latency with that 
crunchy "monitor". It worked quite well actually, the clean signal that I 
recorded got its overdrive and other effects afterwards. 

I came across that idea when a friend of mine showed me his bi-amp guitar 
rack. Most of his overdrive sounds use a clean setting of the second amp.

A little amount of clean signal can add a lot of punchy attack to distorted 
guitars, but it's not that easy to mix the two signals smoothly.

- - Burkhard W.

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