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

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On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:32:21 +0200
Renato <rennabh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:14:17 -0400
> Brett McCoy <idragosani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Renato <rennabh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >> 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?
> > 
> > ProTools. Some random audio app used on one of them other operating
> > systems. :-)
> > 
> 
> ah yes, think I've read of it somewhere... it must be one of those
> mainstream things :)
> 
> renato

Being both poor and unprofessional, I bung the guitar direct into the soundcard
(oh OK, via a plain little pre-amp), then, via JACK, have one path directed to
rakarrack and another to timemachine.

rakarrack kindly connects itself to both the input and the output and loads my
preferred effects - so that nice and quick, and timemachine has that lovely big
button.

Instant 'full' sound and at the same time clean recording. Never noticed any
latency when playing, and I actually have no idea at all what it's set to in
qjackctl - once set, totally forgotten :)

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Will J Godfrey
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