7 Jul
2011
7 Jul
'11
2:30 p.m.
--- On Thu, 7/7/11, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
From: Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [LAU] Applying effects when recording electric guitars: before or after
recording?
To: "James Stone" <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com>
Cc: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 8:13 AM
James Stone wrote:
Interesting - but that's still a home studio. Is it common practice in
you can do "both at the same time" of course :)
Play your guitar through effects directed to your amp (used as live monitoring in this
case), and record the clean sound at the same time (you need a signal splitter, like a
half-normalled module on a patch-bay for example).
This way you can still have the live feel while playing and recording, and you can reamp
the recorded material later on, fine-tune the effecs a posteriori, etc. You can of course
record the distorted sound at the same time you record the clean one by outputting your
amp output to your recording gears.
Cheers!
J.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jeremy Jongepier
<jeremy(a)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.
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.
OTOH, as a player I sometimes need the sound and the soul
coming out at the same time. Can't wait then. :)