[LAU] Applying effects when recording electric guitars: before or after recording?

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 10:57:39 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 12:40 PM, Brett McCoy wrote:
>> A professional guitarist would use effects pedals or an effects
>> rack... effects are rarely ever added in post.
>
> There are professional guitarists that record everything clean and
> everything gets processed afterwards. Ruud Jolie of Within Temptation is
> a good example, he recorded all guitar parts for his most recent album
> clean at home and everything got processed somewhere else.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Adrianus_Jolie

That's a strange way to do it... there are some techniques that
require sustain and distortion or they won't sound right, even if
added in post-production. But like I said, it's rare to do it this
way.

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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