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

James Stone jamesmstone at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 11:24:46 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 12:57 PM, Brett McCoy wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's common practice in the metal world afaik. One of my bandmates has a
> little (Reaper) based homestudio and virtually all metal bands he
> records are re-amped through his collection of tube amps.
>

Interesting - but that's still a home studio. Is it common practice in
pro studios that record heavy metal bands?


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