How to Reamp Guitar - A Full Tutorial on Guitar Recording in the Studio
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A Reamp box is just a really cool tool. If you have just a hundred dollar reamp box, you can be exposed into any sort of guitar effects that any body would bring into your studio. You can also borrow guitar amps from your friends and borrow effects pedals that you do not have now but maybe you could borrow one or something and reamp into them.
It just opens up the possibilities of all the effects that you can do.
There is some real key advantages to knowing how to reamp your guitar tracks. Obviously the selection of the tone is one. It is great. If you do not know what you are looking for then you can always decide later. You can set up something that is a safe bet for you to play to, for you do just make the music feel good. If you do not always know what tone you want, you can always change it later.
Secondly, if you are in a live situation you can always reamp and get a better tone in the studio in a controlled environment with really good microphones.
Thirdly, if you do not have a guitar amp that you really like, you can reamp later with something better. If you have a friend that you will be seeing two weeks from now and you can ask him to bring his amp. I want to play my tracks through your AC-30 or something. You can actually take your tracks, play them through a better amp owned by someone in your network of friends or whom you have played shows with. You could help each other by using each others gear to reamp your guitar tracks.
Of coarse you can send anything in there. You can reamp drum tracks into a guitar amp, you can send vocal into a guitar amp.
A few episodes ago I did a episode on purely sending a vocal into a reverb of a princeton reverb so it had a great lush reverb and I want to tap into that. So I used the reamp box to get into that amp.
In general, if you can, be tapping into that direct signal after your performance based pedals. After the specific delay pedal, after any sort of wha wha pedals or anything that is very much attached to the guitar players foot when he is playing that guitar you wanna keep in dry signal. You really should be recording this as much as possible. Unless the DI Box is degrading the signal. Always do an A to B check to make sure that it is not doing something wierd, but if it sounds the same then go for it. Go ahead a track that dry signal and track the amp with a microphone. And hopefully you will be able to keep that original guitar amp because if you can get tones that you like at the beginning when you are in the moment of the song creatively and in that headspace then awesome. You will be able to make decisions that are good for that song. But if you are just confused. If the session is fast paced. You get flustered and you are not sure of your guitar tones and your decisions. Then go ahead and track that direct signal and it can really save your butt in the future.
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Reamping is completely new to me. This video is superbly informative and most interesting. Can't wait to try it out with my DAW and amp. I can also see another useful thing out of this, and that's to adjust the amp while the guitar is playing back, rather than just playing a few notes then adjust a knob over and over. Rather like someone else is playing the guitar and I'm looking for that sweet spot on the amp.
Ryan, this reamping video tutorial is the most concise and informative I have found on TH-cam. I have been playing guitar for 20+ years, but never did much recording, personally...and certainly I didn't know a thing about reamping. Thank you so much for your video and the excellent overview of this process. I recently purchased a Kemper Profiling Amp (which I absolutely love), and am going to dive into computer/DAW recording. So, this reamping process, now that I know and understand it's benefits and possibilities...is absolutely the Cat's Meow. Well done, mate! Thank You.
Deuterium2H Hey thanks for letting me know this was helpful. I never know until I hear feedback from my viewers. Yeah those Kemper units look really cool. I follow and respect Michael Wagener for guitar recording, and he does a lot of reamping, and seems to speak positivly of the Kemper Profilers.
Wonderful video, thanks for all the hard work going into this tastefully executed tutorial.
thanks!
You're a good teacher. Keep teaching
You have a sweet amp collection!!
+Thomas Denux Thanks!
Very informative...Thanks for your time!!
+hbrookes Sure thing!
Good video!
Thanks for the Vid man, twas great!
Damian Brady Thanks for being a fan!
I picked up a vox Vt50 at at pawn shop. It is working and I think it will be a great addition to the studio with the 22 amp modeling simulations. I intend to reamp the dry signal however I will be using plug-ins and maybe korg nano pad to act as a footswitch for Amplitube. The thing I assume I need to be careful of is to make sure the amp cabinets in the plug-in software is turned off. Should the amp heads be shut off too? Or can I use a very clean basic preset on the Vox running amp head simulations from my plug-ins? Have you re-amped using a hybrid setup like Amplitube or guitar rig? The Vox VT50 does have a footswitch for sale but as of right now I do not have one. I'll also be sending to an external cabinet I custom built with an Eminence GA-SC64 from the Vox 8 ohm output. Great video. I'll certainly be adding a like.
What’s the signal path out of your DAW / hardware to the live room?
Are using an Apollo ect. Coming out quarter-inch to a snake that converts to XLR? Etc.
Thanks much!
Hey do they have digital mixers where you can route certain channels to a output for only guitar.I think they do Because I seen this digital mixer that say assignable sends.I was wonder for instance like if you have 8 inputs and 8 channels right you assign the first three input to be routed to channel one and then route channel 1 to one of the assignable sends so it wont be mixed with other instruments like the drums. The tascam dm 3200 has this feature I think just trying to make sure.
great video!
Thanks!
hi, i'm getting a lot of feedback when i try to monitor my reamped signal, what am i doing wrong?
im sending the signal out of the left main of a presonus studiolive into a reamp box, then the amp, and recording it into the studiolive again. i'm new to audio so i'm not really sure, how could i solve this? thx a lot
I'm confused about the line out cable from the interface into the reamp box. Do I need a female mono 1/4" jack to male XLR adaptor? Or stereo?
Also, should the line out cable into the reamp box adaptor be a normal instrument cable or speaker cable? Could I just take the line out from the interface into my DI box then take the balanced signal out from the DI into the reamp box?
amazing!
Thanks!
I have a Radial JCR reamp and a UA apollo twin. I recorded the dry guitar signal via the apollo DI. To route the signal back to my guitar amp, the male XLR goes into the reamp, but there is nowhere in the apollo to put the female XLR... do I need a male to male XLR cable? Or does the female XLR not go into my Apollo?
it may sound wierd but everyone must do with what he has access to so my question is can i use a line signal (jack1/4 unbalanced (audiocard with servo automated in /out to use trs or ts ) on send return (in my audio card ) send it to a head (engl invader 100 + Palmer ) then back to my daw just to experiment with impulses (for cabs+micing) ?? if i dont have a di box or a reamp box how can i do it (if i can do it at all)??
Hey great vid. Quick question: do I need a direct in box to record the DI track, or can I just plug straight into my interface? Not sure of the advantage of using the direct in box. Thanks!
telestory Yeah, you do, but some interfaces have a DI box built in to them. You're looking for a "Hi-Z" input or "instrument" input. The advantage is tone preservation among other things. Some plug into the line inputs on interfaces, and that is not ideal. You can do it, but it won't be the best results compared to having a DI box or Hi-Z input.
Do you use that control surface much? I love faders & Jog wheels.lol
Yeah, I really do. Emagic Logic control. Mackie makes a new one now.
Ryan I have a question, when your recording, let's say Ive got a wah and I want to use distortion, could you put a DI box before and after wah and just record two tracks? Cool video 👍
+Travis Hendricks Yeah, great question. I always use the wah as an example. I would put the DI AFTER the wah, so that you capture the performance of the guitar player and his foot. Then you can switch out the overdrives, distortions, and other stuff later. It'd be hard to do the wah during a reamp!
Hi Ryan, thank you so much for all the great work you've been doing! I really appreciate all of it! Let me just ask a question (it seems to me that once you mentioned something about this but I might be wrong): does the guitar audio file need any kind of post-production before it is played out of the DAW and into the reamp box?
Ideally no. You want that guitar DI signal to be just like it came out of the guitar (Or the last pedal you wanted to capture) and then the rest of the pedal chain (Or just the amp) goes on as nothing ever happened. However, when you have the signal, it does present an opportunity to fine tune a compressor (Within the DAW) on the signal before it hits the amp. Or use virtual guitar pedals, or even use the UAD Space echo virtually, which was originally a guitar effect that would be out by the amp.
Understood. Then I guess I was wrongly remembering. Thanks a lot man! :)
creativesoundlab thanks a lot man! i use Line 6 pod studio ux2 for audio interface , it has left and right analog outs. do i need a pre amp box? or i can just use either left or right analog outs
Hi Jefferson, you really need a reamp box to convert the signal from line level to a guitar signal. Some people will plug in a line level signal into an amp but this doesn't always work very well, and it can sound really bad. - Imagine your amp at 2 and it sounds like it's starved for power.
hy man
first of all nice vid ;) really interesting :))))
the second one, I got some questions for you... :P
the first one: well I understand that a DI box use to capture the dry signal, but does it work also if I got a POD HD500 from Line6? I mean, when I record a track, and just connect the guitar into the DI box input --> then into my audio device then the POD, on my monitor I will listen the wet and dry sound?!? Or only the wet sound??
the second one, shhh for the ramp box. Also with the POD. I saw you plug into the amp, the ramp box. But... does it work for the POD too?? I mean, i just should connect the ramp box to the guitar in from my POD?!?!? And then, after that, I could modify my tone, during it's playback?!?
Tnx for your answer :)
waiting for you, tnx :)
+Pablus Nsalata What I do when recording, is use a small amp or POD like you have to give the guitarist something to hear himself with. You connect the through jack of the DI to the pod input and get a tone that works for you. You listen to one, but record the dry DI sound. You can also record that POD sound so you have at least something that sounds normal until you get around to reamping it. For your second question, I don't think you need the pod for reamp unless you want to use the pod as your amp. The pod is like the amp in my demos, so use one or the other if the pod is giving a tube amp tone...or use it if you are using the pod for the pedal settings and stuff. Once you use a reamp box then you can do into any guitar pedals or amps from there.
Thanks for this tutorial dude! Really helped me.. I have just a question, im not sure if you can help me because you own a different mixer.. but i own a mackie onyx 1220i and i'm using cubase 5. The question is.. how do i set up my DI out in cubase and what output should i use? I only have two visible outputs in cubase L and R. I would like to be able to listen the re ampling return and the drums for example, and then move the mic to choice a nice position. Any idea?
Thanks!
Yeah, basically unplug one of your monitors and use it to feed the DI out to an amp. It sucks, but it does work. Pan everthing to the side that you are listening to except the DI signal.
Damn that was smart! haha Soo I just pan all my mix to left and the DI to the right, and that's the signal im sending to the amp. it would be awesome to have more than just a stereo out. like an independent mono out to do this kind of things. Thank you a lot bro!! I just love you!
Awesome channel, just two questions, can I use a Boss GT-100 through the Line Output as a DI box? And also, can I reamp from it to the amp and micing?
Not really sure what you mean. I see it's got a effects loop, and I'm sure that it's designed to be hooked to an amp. You could be a DI box after the GT100 if you wanted, or perhaps get your signal from that effects loop...really don't know.
Hi Alex! Yes you can! I've tested it in a GT-10 and, if you have stereo output on the GT100 you're good to go. Just use two signal chains on the GT. Route the guitar in your first chain to one of the outputs and plug it to your guitar amp. as usual, set your stomp, efx, etc, etc and the other signal chain, make it go without anything, even no preamp on the GT and route it to the other output. You have there a dry signal of your guitar flowing throug that output and you just need to plug it on your interface input (with your selector in Instrument) and there you go.
In one GT output you will have your guitar tone with your amps sims. fx and all that stuff on your guitar amp and on the other one you have the dry signal.
Record it and then play it through your GT input. and have fun with tone changes.
Make sure you use unbalanced cables and also check if your interface have unbalanced output (this last is just for the reamp phase)
Hope it helps!
Thanks for the tutorial! How do you choose at which level to play a recorded DI signal into an amp?
Others may have a different technique, but how I determined the level to play a recorded DI into the amp was to play a guitar into the amp with no pedals, and compared that to the signal I was feeding it via the reamp box. Most likely you'll turn it down, but where you turn it down is the key. I decided to retain lots of headroom on my line output so I make the adjustment on the track that's sending the direction out. This ends up being that I am sending a signal out of the line out at about -18 or maybe -15dB, giving the most dynamic signal and doesn't stress my converters. Then I leave the reamp box wide open, so that it attenuates the least. No point in stressing your converters when you will just attenuate it down at the reamp box.
creativesoundlab Thanks!!
so when you initially plug the guitar into the countryman DI and you have instrument cable TS going into the DI and TS instrument cable going out from DI to XLR into the amp ?
im guessing that makes it balance signal di? the mic is plugged into interface miked up to the amp?
Close, the through jack sends TS back out to the amp. The DI is acting like a splitter and gives TS for the amp and XLR for recording. You can also mic the guitar cab so that other people can have the amp sound in the headphones.
I preferred the Scout and the Pro Junior.
Good point at the end. I was thinking the dry track would be great as a sort of backup if the original amp track was later determined to be undesirable. It doesn't make much sense not to capture it if you have the ability. It is like you said, a great tool to use, just not in every scenario as that subtle live interaction with the amp is something that gives many players their unique style.
Kevin McGrath Yeah the interaction/feedback/ect with the amp is the one draw back of reamping.
What mic is being used on the amps? The white one with pink tape around its base.
It's a Sennheiser MD 421-N from the 1970s.
the scout wow!
Yeah it's a killer amp. The Oxford speaker adds a lot of color to the sound too.
My set up is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB interface. I will plug my guitar straight into the interface on the FIRST channel to get the clean signal that i'll be using for reamping. I'm pretty sure its okay right?
Now,recording a clean guitar signal straight is kind of boring especially on the overdrive/distortion parts. So I'm thinking, can I use my interface AS A DI box?This is what I mean:
(Assuming my guitar is already on the FIRST input of the scarlett 2i2..)
I will use one of the outputs of the scarlett 2i2 TO the input of my amp.
then FROM the output of the amp,
TO the input of Mesa Cabclone(loadbox),
from the line out/direct balance out,
TO the SECOND input of the scarlett interface.
by doing this,I can also record the process signal right so if i playback i can hear it(for tracking) and at the same time, captured the clean signal that will be used for re-amping.
Is this okay? :) Thanks for your reply.
+Kervy Quitane you can use distortion plugg inns (just to hear the distortion while you play) but you're actually tracking the clean signal, what I would do is: The 2i2 interface only has 2 outputs R/L, you pan your clean guitar signal 100% to one side let's say L, and your whole session to R (Plug your headphones to the R out so you can hear what you're tracking). Plug a 1/4" cable to L out, then use a 1/4" to XLR adapter and plug it to the reamp DI (re amp DI has XLR input), from there to the amp and you can record up to 2 mics with the 2i2. (Don;t forget that For monitoring purposes, when you're tracking send both mics to the R, in this scenario) Hope it helps!
man that Pro Junior was maybe my favorite sounding one. Is there any added overdrive or boost going into that or is it just the amp dimed? Also is there anything especially special about it being a 90s one?
Nope, no extra pedals or anything in front of the amp. I forget why, but my friend seemed to think that the 1996 Pro Junior was the best.
did a bit of research. Seems like the ones from the 90s are American made, and quite a few of the older American made ones have Alnico Blues in em.
Thank for this video, I have a question for my personal set up :
I use a Tascam US-1200, and I only have L and R monitors outputs at back : How woulb it be possible to fit in a single reambox input like yours ?
It looks like that Tascam has has +4dBU so it's a professional line level, verses the line level on the back of a CD player or something. All you need to do is run one of your outputs to the reamp box instead a monitor. You can solo the DI guitar track and pan to one side, or (if using multiple 2+ outputs...not your tascam) set an output for that track so that it only plays out of the jack you have the reamp box connected to. You'll have to monitor with just one monitor to see what kind of sounds your getting, but this is only for 15 minutes as your capturing guitar tones. You can set it up so all other tracks are left, and guitar DI signal is panned Right in your DAW...or just solo, but you won't be able to hear other tracks as they are playing. This same issue of going down to one monitor is also true when using your monitor to play the sounds, instead of using a guitar amp. Sometimes it's nice to "reamp" vocal but not through a guitar amp, through your studio monitor, and this would be to capture a cool room reverb that you may have in your room (I have a video about reverb chambers). My point is to get use to moving things around, and know that your tools and line out puts are adaptable for many uses.
creativesoundlab Wow many thanks for that informative reply ! I was really concerned about reamping with this particular device,and beacause I will probably upgrade to a Tascam us-1800 with the same output situation : monitors L R out (this one as 16 inputs and midi IN OUT instead of 6 inputs) Like you said it's not a BIG problem to have only one monitor when recording (Especially in my present situation : I record my dry guitar home with headphones and plug ins, and now that I know I will be able to do it : I will go to my band music-local for the reamp session and then do all the mixing editing work back home with both monitors)
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how do you run from logic daw installed on logic to the reamping box?
Hi Matt, I just run a quarter inch cable out of the audio interface into the reamp box, which converts the line level signal to a guitar like signal.
Does this DI-Box records the dry signal inside the device? because I don't see a third send where you plug the dry signal to recording.
sorry if is a dumb doubt, I don't actually know much about it, just trying to find a way to solve tone issues recording for my band.
+Rodolfo Alvim Yeah, the dry signal goes out the back via the XLR connector to a preamp. That gets recorded. The amp is fed by the "through" jack on the DI box.
When you said to record the dry sound at minus 20 did you mean that the highest db of the guitar should only peak at and not surpass minus 20db and if your DAW has a hi-z input do you still need a DI or do you still recommend using a DI or use the DI with the hi-z on????
+Troy Howard If your interface has a Hi-Z input, that's the same as a DI box. A DI box lets you pass signal through to an amp, where a Hi-Z input is used if you have a amp sim pulled up in your daw to hear the sound of your guitar. For recording levels, yes record soft when it's just dry guitar because there's nothing to compress it. Anywhere from -20 or as loud as -15 would be ok.
Quick question since I've never done any re-amping, what exactly is the signal flow out of the DAW to the reamping box. Like how do you setup the output of that track so it gets sent? I use a firestudio project to record. I thought maybe it would be a general output??? any help would be awesome. Thank man. Really loving the videos.
+Cayce Woodard Yeah, great question. Bascially most DAWs will have a direct out for that channel that you can set, or you can even just solo the DI track. Direct out for the channel is best. Set it to any quarter inch out to make it happen. To use the main outs, you will have to pan to one side. I need to make a video about this and update this tutorial.
awesome thanks! Great tutorials. I've been watching them all day.
Unrelated question but I keep thinking it: what's that great shaker sound in the transition music at 2:38? And how did you record it?
It's a gord shaker, about the size of a football. Sometimes you can see it on the coat hanger hanging there with the other cables behind my desk.
That thing sounds incredible!
How did you record it? LDC? SDC? Ribbon?
What kind of pres are you using? I see you have the motu 24i/o, amazing affordability and low latency i/o. Subbed.
+andYz00m For this video I was using SCA T15s, but I currently use the Warm Audio TB12s.
+creativesoundlab Interesting, thanks!
Hey, I own an Allen and Heath qu16, a vox ac30, and a radial pro ramp box. I sent the output from logic to the boards aux out and sent that to the reamper. Somehow after i reamped one DI signal it lowered the volume of my amp dramatically. Which has happened before to my amp which turned out to be a tube problem but that was fixed. So do you have any idea how did this to my amp?
Thank you if you read this.
btw: already tried different cables and etc.
FalconsPrey Band Hmmm, does the amp work ok with just a guitar pluged into it? Really not sure. I've had a bad capacitor and when if failed the amp got real quite. Do you know how loud the signal was going into the amp when you tried to re-amp? Using a re-amp box is usually pretty solid and doesn't cause any issues in my experience because you are using tools designed to do what you are doing.
yeah it still bad with just guitar plugged in. I'm not sure what volume on the reamp box I'm suppose to put it at so i put it to little before max. I had all faders on daw and mixer at 0 DB.
FalconsPrey Band I've never been able to "break" an amp with a re-amp box. I've pushed all sort of signals through them for my "Do You Need a Reamp Box" episode, and didn't break anything. I've even forgoten to hook up an amp head to a speaker cabinet before, and stuff still worked after. I usually have a DI signal going out to the amp at -12 or so from unity (faders would be still set to 0 in your case, and signal would be still going out at -12 ...built in headroom), and the reamp box is mostly all the way up. I think I started using this setting after I tried with a guitar and noticed the types of volumes it was delivering to the amp, and havn't given it too much though as long as I don't drive the preamp stage too much for desired tone. I think I have the same box you do.
Recently, I've been recording DI tracks using a Warm Audio Tone Beast then direct into my focusrite saffire pro 40. I noticed after my session that I had the low end scoop button engaged on the Tone Beast. This is something I'm kind of concerned about because I want to have the low end for some heavier kind of fuzz tones to mix with some Marshall-esque type tones that I also recorded during that session. I'm planning on getting a reamp box this month so I haven't yet been able to see how it will actually sound once I begin reamping. Have you noticed a difference in the presence of the low end while reamping after you've tracked DI guitars with that low end scoop button engaged on the TB? Kind of a funky scenario but just had to ask.
+BlownSpeakerGospel You might hear the difference, but I wouldn't redo the tracks just yet. I think that if anything, the tracks with that high pass engaged could punch a little harder for you, and it might sound really good. Try adding some lows at the amp tone settings, or even tweak the DI tracks with a small amount of EQ before they go out to the amp. Don't forget you can also compressed the DI tracks which will make them stronger sounding and let them sit in the sweet spot for gain once you find it.
+creativesoundlab I noticed you did that compression technique re-amping and it looks super cool! do you just run TRS to WA 76 then TRS from there to the re-amp box? only wish I had two WA76's now to compress going out to re-amp then recording back in!
+creativesoundlab I noticed you did that compression technique re-amping and it looks super cool! do you just run TRS to WA 76 then TRS from there to the re-amp box? only wish I had two WA76's now to compress going out to re-amp then recording back in!
+BlownSpeakerGospel Yes, if the TRS you mentioned is line level. I run line level to the WA76, then patched it to the cable that goes into the live room, which goes into the reamp box. From there the mic can be compressed again with another WA76 if it needs it. Compressing before the reamp box gives you more control of the overdrive, and after the amp gives a more traditional role for outboard compression.
+creativesoundlab Thanks for the info man! Great stuff! You going to be at NAMM?
My digital board is a Presounus 1602 - it doesn't have outputs for each channel- only inserts. Could I use a TRS (lets say left) monitor out - pan the line level gtr signal left and send that to the reamp box? If so - how can I monitor the returin mic'd gtr signal? See, I usually use the mixer as my zero latency monitoring while I track - I don't hear the actual signals from the DAW (I use the headphone out from the mixer) which is great - the drawback is I can't hear any of the processing that's taking place inside the DAW while I track. If I need some verb or something the mixer has it's own FX and I use those - those FX are not recorded though. I have tried reamping in the past with this rig - If I allow the DAW signal into my monitor I get feedback loop howl in a reamp situation - if I mute it it records o.k. but sounds phasey and weird. How are you monitoring your reamp sgnal??
Promot Ed Ok so you have the right idea, your just missing the last part. What I do is take that track and pan it left so it is only going out of your main output 1 (left). Unless you solo your DI track, or mute everything else, you will have your main mix left channel still going out and it'll go into your guitar amp. The solution is to take your mix, make it mono (with a plug in or panning) and pan that mono mix right. From here you will have your mix on right, and the left monitor won't be doing anything. Now just turn on the monitoring for that guitar amp microphone and pan the monitoring right (not sure if the presonuse has a DSP mixer or not that you adjust on computer screen, but there's gotta be a way to monitor in stereo or pan stuff around in the monitoring mix). You have to treat the track as it's own thing, and the mix as it's own thing. For monitoring, just make sure it's only going to your right (channel 2) ouput. A lot of times I will use a direct out for a track - it will never go through the master fader.
creativesoundlab Wow thanks my friend - I will give that a try and report. I search around a lot looking for advice on the net and your vids are some of the very best. Thanks for all this incredible work you do. I'll spread the word.
I'm very new to guitar signal routing and all. I honestly do not like the idea of recording dry and then manipulating sounds later and I don't want to lose the sound of the idea that I have in my head. My question is, it possible to record with all the effects I want through DI box, as if in a performance scenario?
Perhaps maybe if I could double track record the DI signal and the reamping signal? Or is it supposed to be done separately? Not sure if this is possible
@@alexthomas7556 DI boxes usually have an output and a "through" (so that you can plug one into a snake at a show, etc). You can run the through to your amp/effects, and send the output to the interface. I always record 2 tracks with a DI simultaneously, but I run one straight into my interface and use the through to send the signal to an amp that I mic up.
Can I reamp guitars(with re amp box) but with no physical speaker cab? Only using a speaker cab simulator software on the computer? Or will something start smoking? Lol
why would you need the reamp box to do that?
you don't need to reamp to do this, you just put the plugin for the amp sim on the DI guitar track homie.
Do i need a DI box if i run my electric guitar in an Apollo twin solo in the HZ input .Just purchased the JCR radial reamp box, and wanna put it to use
Sure you could see how it sounds compared to the built in DI in the twin solo. Just go out of the DI box, and into the preamp input. I often will use DI boxes so I can place it close to the guitarist by the amp. For small studios or if you track guitar by the mixing desk, then it may not make much sense except to see if you can get a better sound. I often think it would sound better.
thanks for the reply, great videos by the way.
Dean Massicotte I have the twin duo and the radial reamp kit I only track with a di (radial j48) when I want to record clean to the daw and monitor through an real amp at the same time otherwise it's pointless, if you have anything like guitar rig or amplitube you are reamping when you change patches after you record in the box, you can even send that clean signal out into a real amp with a (radial x-amp active re-amp box) box and truley "reamp" but obviously you need the amps
I've had a heck of a time trying to reamp. I keep getting feedback big time. Not quite sure what the problem is but I'm trouble shooting it.
Ok, check that hardware monitoring is off, and that no other signals are going to the amp except the DI guitar track that you are trying to reamp. Also check that the microphone that is recording the amp isn't going back into the amp. If needed, pan the microphone signal that you use to hear the amp, to the left and the DI guitar track to the right which goes to the reamp box. Some ideas, hope they helped....
creativesoundlab thanks, I think I ended up muting the fresh track (the one that was mixing the guitar amp). I'm using Logic Pro X and an Apollo Twin and have searched the web far and wide to figure it out. I swear I have the weirdest problems with gear, lol. Using a pigtronix keymaster for my reamp box.
When you are re-amping, Does the XLR cable come from the Mixer/ interface to the re-amp box? and do you just set up a mic connected to the interfacer, to record? You don't have to play the guitar, it will record what you recorded already?
+Mitchell Martinez Yes, the cable that plugs into the reamp box comes from the line out of the interface. It can be a mixer, like a monitor send, or an output from the interface. Yeah, I just set up a mic once I have it playing and I record the mic on a new track below the track with the DI guitar. Yep, just play the guitar once, and rerecord a million times.
Wow, I have a lot of new plans now. That is pretty cool.
+creativesoundlab What do you think about the Black reamp box by radial? JCR Passive Reamper, compared to the blue box you have in your video?
+Mitchell Martinez The black reamp box by Radial is the original design from 1993, which Radial bought the design in the past couple years and started making. I haven't had the chance of hearing it yet, but I'm sure it's better.
+creativesoundlab I've been trying to figure out why there is an Input next to the output. why is it there? is the XLR not where the signal goes in? or is the 1/4 " input also where the signal goes in?;
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Great and effective video. Rhyan, thanks for all this information. My name is Omar, I wrote you and email to have your free guide. Thanks for all.
REamp an DI boxes are different.
How to get the signal out of the daw? (where does that xlr cable come from? i didn't get that) Thanks to anyone who awnser me
Amon Foratto Hi Amon, sorry if I skipped over that part. You can get the signal out of your DAW with any line level signal. I have a MOTU 24io which gives me 24 outputs, which is 1/4 inch jacks. I use a cable to get me from the TRS to XLR. The reamp box takes it from there, from ballanced XLR to TS. At a minimum, if you have a stereo output for your monitors, you could even use the "left" or "right" signal if you had nothing else...But this would mean that you would be running on one monitor while your reamping of coarse. Some line outputs are lower level (-10) which won't be a problem, as the job of the reamping box is attenuating (lowering volume) anyhow. -Most reamping boxes have volume knobs on them, so you would just have it attenuating less if your output is of the -10dB type, verses the +4dB type.
i have a m-audio fast track pro. Can i get this signal out?
Amon Foratto Yes, look on the back and you'll see on the right at the top you have TRS outputs. Do not use the "inserts" below, these are wired totally differently. One of these TRS outputs is what you need. The reamp box is taking that TRS and converting it to a "TS" cable, meaning Tip and Sleeve...only two wires/connectors...ballanced to unballanced. All you need to know is that you'll have to unplug a monitor/speaker for a few minutes as you use that output for a reamp guitar out. Or perhaps see if your monitors will accept that 3/4 RCA style jack/output, and then specificy this output in your DAW so that your master output is 3/4 instead of 1/2 TRS jacks.
oh, i see. Thats what i thought. Thank you!
I have a similar question. I have a Radial JCR reamp and a UA apollo twin. I recorded the dry guitar signal via the apollo DI. To route the signal back to my guitar amp, the male XLR goes into the reamp, but there is nowhere in the apollo to put the female XLR... do I need a male to male XLR cable? Or does the female XLR not go into my Apollo?
Would this technique rid you of the dreaded 60 cycle hum?
+Troy Howard Hum has to do with more fundamental things, like good AC power and wiring within the guitar. If you record the hum, it'll go back out during the reamp with the hum. You can edit the dry DI track though during portions they are not playing, but hum will still be there during the playing portions.
+creativesoundlab thanks for the tips. Your show is great, especially at explaining things for everyone to comprehend especially newbies like myself.
tell me about the mixer. Is that kinda midi controller for Reaper?
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creativesoundlab thanks!
May I advise to move the mic out from the close micing technique traditionally reserved for live recording. Yes the room, mic and preamp need to be good and driving it can add something to the tone. Requires good isolation to monitor it. Basically you are going for detail in the capture of the amp rather than loudest bass heavy with added proximity effect. The added advantage is you can really drive the amps and have the mics capturing a little room if required. Otherwise you tend to have to attenuate all the way back into the recording which is antipathetic to what an amp does! "Amplifies"
Great tips!
"You don't wanna clip these signals."
Depends on the style ! Joey Sturgis actually clips his DI guitars because it sounds already more compressed when hitting the guitar amp afterwards.
I don't say I would clip my DI, but at least that's interesting to know.
Yeah, I think that's one of those things that is just wrong to do. I just don't believe digital clipping is ever good. Perhaps if it's a plug in that simulates certain clipping or a bit reduction type thing for a glitch techno thing.
I guess these metalcore/hardore genre mixers love clipping.
I've heard it about guitar DI and percussive elements (mainly snare drum). They would clip the snare drum with a classic clipper plug-in to avoid the transients being smashed at mastering.
I'm not a fan of these kind of techniques, but it's understandable that they use it in mixes for such loud and violent music genre.
Also, what do you think about clipping or multi-band soft clipping at mastering ?
(Thanks for answering that fast to my first comment, it's pretty rare :) )
Digital clipping results in pops and clicks and other artefacts, true circuit and analog clipping is naturally smoothed and adds harmonic distortion. Software clipping is designed to emulate analog clipping which sounds good too but literally clipping a signal by pushing the headroom on a digital interface is just hurting your signal. There's clipping and then there's _clipping_, I think you're getting the two mixed up FSBass but I mean no disrespect, words are thrown around without proper use a lot these days and it hurts everyone.
So basically, if you are recording your guitar DI into an interface and its going into the reds, thats bad. But basically any other type of clipping (software transient smoothening, analog tape clipping etc) can add a lot of character without damaging your signal and your gear. If Joey is doing it, he's either using some sort of limiter to subside the artefacts of digital clipping, or he's just doing a bad thing (on paper its bad anyway).
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Hi, wich is the peak lvl recommended to record guitars via DI Box? I'm recording with a -6db peak level and my question is: how do i send the same amount of db via my Audio interface, trough the reamp box and to the Amplifier? My reamp box has a Volume knob, but i'm not used to do Reamping so much so i have lots of doubts .. Thanks!
I would have a peak for a clean guitar at -18 from digital clipping. Clean guitar is very dynamic and it's important not to clip it. For setting that volume knob on the re-amp box, I would do a quick test and record your guitar strait in, and then record using the re-amp methods I described. Bring the volume knob on the reamp box to a similar volume. For mine, I usually have it about 75% of the way up.
thank u! i will try that. Keep on doing videos c:
Unfortunatelly Radial PRO-RMP just does not work for recording Metal or high gain guitars. It reduces drastically the gain of the signal. In other words: the signal coming from the reamp box is significantly weaker than my guitar signal. I recorded a DI into my DAW via my interface. My virtual amps sound perfectly, the guitar directly plugged in the amp sounds loud. But the DI recorded track loses loads and loads of gain through the reamp box.
Some people suggest a mod on PRO-RMP with resistors removal to this work correctly.
+mbsilveirabr That's really interesting. Which pickups are usually used? Some of them are super hot signals, so yeah, that makes sense that your not getting the signal that you need.
I used EMG 81/60
+mbsilveirabr Very cool.
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carnt beat the real amp though can you
it is the real amp...