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Post by Charles on Mar 7, 2017 12:33:02 GMT -6
Perhaps it would be cool to share guitar recording techniques. How are you guys doing it? Are you using a DI box and amp sims? Are you putting a real mic on a real cab connected to a real amp? Are you using reamp techniques?
I use real amps and cabinets with mics, but I typically do it on a reamp type workflow.
So, I start by plugging my guitar into a DI box then run that into a preamp, usually a Presonus Eureka or one of the RME Fireface UFX pre's, or sometimes even the Art MPA II.
Then after recording my performance, I run that clean DI track out from my system into a ReAmp box to convert the impedance to what a guitar amp would expect to see.
From the ReAmp box, I run the signal into the guitar head.
I play my performance, move a mic around the cab searching for an acceptable tone, and record it on a new track.
My typical chain is simple... Shure SM57>Preamp (Eureka, Art MP II, or RME Fireface UFX)>DAW
I have Pro Tools 12, Presonus Studio One, and SONAR Platinum. 99% of the time I am in SONAR Platinum, my main DAW of choice.
I have something called a Dynamount. That allows me remotely move the mic to control my mic placement while I stay in the control room. This allows me to hear the effect of different mic placements in real time as the mix plays. That helps me use context to settle on mic placement.
What about you guys? What are your work flows and techniques?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 14:35:24 GMT -6
*Moved to Instrumentation and Theory*
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Post by Charles on Mar 7, 2017 15:26:34 GMT -6
My apologies. I didn't see this area of the forum. I should look over this whole place before posting anything. I am now just realizing that this topic has already been covered. Feel free to delete this. Remember, I am new and not very experienced with forums and things like that.
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Post by exo on Mar 7, 2017 15:55:06 GMT -6
Don't worry about starting a new thread, man.......the older ones aren't very active anyway.
My recording setup is ridiculously simple: guitar---->iRig HD2---->iPhone/Mac running GarageBand. No room/too many kids to make micing up viable.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 16:16:51 GMT -6
My apologies. I didn't see this area of the forum. I should look over this whole place before posting anything. I am now just realizing that this topic has already been covered. Feel free to delete this. Remember, I am new and not very experienced with forums and things like that. You're good, dude. We don't mind duplicate threads as long as the old one hasn't been bumped in a while.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 4:40:18 GMT -6
My recording setup is ridiculously simple: guitar---->iRig HD2---->iPhone/Mac running GarageBand. How do you like GarageBand? I have started working with it a few days ago as I was looking for something to just save some of my ideas. My connection is Guitar -> Apogee -> iPad -> GarageBand. Unfortunately, I find it quite difficult to find the right tone for guitar (currently using the "Blackface Combo" in GarageBand); and I find it quite difficult to put simple drum lines beneath my guitar ideas :-( But will dive deeper into GB later on. No room/too many kids to make micing up viable. Yeah, exactly the same with my two kids (5 and 2 years old) :-D
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Post by exo on May 26, 2017 6:16:21 GMT -6
My recording setup is ridiculously simple: guitar---->iRig HD2---->iPhone/Mac running GarageBand. How do you like GarageBand? I have started working with it a few days ago as I was looking for something to just save some of my ideas. My connection is Guitar -> Apogee -> iPad -> GarageBand. Unfortunately, I find it quite difficult to find the right tone for guitar (currently using the "Blackface Combo" in GarageBand); and I find it quite difficult to put simple drum lines beneath my guitar ideas :-( But will dive deeper into GB later on. No room/too many kids to make micing up viable. Yeah, exactly the same with my two kids (5 and 2 years old) :-D For basic guitars and bass, it's fine. If it's capable of doing drums to suit my style of "net exactly blackmetal", I haven't figured out how. I don't know what type of tone you're going for.....in my case, I'm using sometimes as many as 4 rhythm tracks(1 ea panned hard left and right, 2 more at 75-80% each) 2 different amps, and boosting/ hating the bejeezus out of them to get a gain level that sounds right. Typically, I'll run the fake Marshall hard R and 75% L, and the fake Boogie hard L and 75% R. My starting point for both amps tonally is pretty much the classic Marshall "everything on 7" sound, and fine tune from there. Pedal signal chain is the same for both amps. Guitar-->Hi Drive treble booster (level about 2 o'clock, switch set to "treble")-->Vintage Drive (gain pretty low, like 7:30 on a clock...level about 2 oclock, tone maxed, fat switch down). There's probably some very light reverb applied at the track setting as well. Where there's a harmony, it's typically done on the 75% pan tracks, and any lead work is an additional track. Using a set of headphones or monitor speakers that don't color the low end is really helpful too. My experience is that it is REAL easy to get muddy sounding with the garage band amp sims under hi gain....
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Post by exo on Aug 19, 2017 15:04:34 GMT -6
Recording attenpts are about bout to get a bit more "real"......
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Post by Borndead on Aug 19, 2017 18:11:24 GMT -6
Ooo nice, be sure to share your thoughts on them. Just a few weeks ago I´ve got some jbl lsr305 & the sound quality is on a new level
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Post by exo on Aug 19, 2017 19:05:39 GMT -6
Well, i don't have anything to compare them against, really. this will be my first experience using actual monitor speakers. i did the mix on my track on The Blackest light vol.1 comp using a couple of different sets of headphones and my car stereo.....
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Post by Deepfriar on Sept 17, 2017 9:17:17 GMT -6
Back when I was thinking about playing around with recording I got a cheap FocusRite Scarlett 2i2 and free trial of Reaper DAW lol. Amazingly, I feel like I could have made it work and gotten a good enough sound out of it (good enough for BM standards) and the full Reaper license for individual w/less than $20k annual revenue is only $60. Real life things got in the way of that project though, maybe I'll revisit one day.
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Post by Deepfriar on Sept 17, 2017 9:19:18 GMT -6
Oh, I was playing around with AmpliTube for guitar processing, though. I had heard it had limitations in sound quality but once again, I was planning on playing around with BM which doesn't require a polished, overproduced sound.
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Post by exo on Sept 17, 2017 9:31:20 GMT -6
Amplitube is a workeable sim, and Reaper is almost as good as it can get, especially for the price.
I've finally got a tone I am honestly, truly happy with running my POD HD500 into the FX return of my Peavey Windsor halfstack. Hoping it sound just as awesome into Reaper via USB on my MacBook....almosnall the tones on my SoundCloud page, including the TBL track were all IOSGarageBand.
It's just outright AMAZING what one can do digitally these days.....
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Post by Deepfriar on Sept 17, 2017 9:39:39 GMT -6
Yeah, I am just an Android guy and don't have a lot of Apple hardware. It's probably the best indie recording set up though.
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