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

Renato rennabh at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 14:12:08 UTC 2011


On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:13:01 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> James Stone wrote:
> > 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?
> >   
> 
> A somewhat-related anecdote: In one of his short
> films-about-film-making Robert Rodriguez demonstrates how he records
> some of the music used in his soundtracks. He obviously gets a kick
> out of being able to apply any variety of effects - including some
> impressive distortion - to his cleanly recorded guitar. It's all done
> with PT, of course, but it's a good demo of the utility of recording
> clean.
> 

hello, what's PT?

renato


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