-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 July 2003 16:31, John Bleichert wrote: > Direct does have it's uses, but for a metalhead or hard rock > fan I can't see the use in playing clean into a PC and then adding effects. > If it's not crunchy while I'm playing, I'm not entertained, [...] Crunchy licks don't "feel right" if they're played without overdrive, don't they? I had some horrible latency with my old Microbloat system once. Playing guitar through that setup was impossible. I plugged the guitar into my mixer and routed the signal into the PC as well as into a distortion pedal and my amplifier. I didn't tune that amp chain much to make it sound exciting, but at least there was no latency with that crunchy "monitor". It worked quite well actually, the clean signal that I recorded got its overdrive and other effects afterwards. I came across that idea when a friend of mine showed me his bi-amp guitar rack. Most of his overdrive sounds use a clean setting of the second amp. A little amount of clean signal can add a lot of punchy attack to distorted guitars, but it's not that easy to mix the two signals smoothly. - - Burkhard W. - -- GNU/Linux in Education Wiki Project: http://book.schoolforge.net public key ID:0xFD82303B - hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de FP:0A65 5E83 F44F 47A5 3DFC 19C5 7779 E411 FD82 303B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/IUnCd3nkEf2CMDsRAmqbAKC+LUsZrBX7BifKzZRkc+krMyXsuQCgxCD7 usbGOhvohOwPDWnp5go0Ljk= =b0FT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
