--- On Thu, 7/7/11, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Applying effects when recording electric guitars: before or after recording? > To: "James Stone" <jamesmstone@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 8:13 AM > James Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jeremy Jongepier > <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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. > > OTOH, as a player I sometimes need the sound and the soul > coming out at the same time. Can't wait then. :) > 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
