Rectifier Recording PreAmp . . . good for DIRECT recording??

[rotaryunison]

Preparing to Google "Reamp Box" . . .

Here's a link to their site:

http://reamp.com/

Radial makes one too.

 

[Jhon]

I have always wondered why we couldn't just record the signal that comes directly from the guitar and then just tweak the amp sounds later by running that signal into whatever amp we wanted.

I guess somebody that knows alot more about technology must have wondered that too, except he also built the thing and sells it!!

This message board is getting very expensive for me. ha ha ha ha

-J

 

[Jhon]

SO! What we can do is play guitar into a POD with a drummer, so that there's no amp bleed in the room with the drums in it, AND THEN we just run THAT EXACT SAME PERFORMANCE OUT OF PRO TOOLS via one of the outputs, INTO an amp/cabinet of our choice, and it sounds good?

That, I gotta try. (let me know if I'm stupid and don't actually understand what it does . . . I think it's a good idea . . . )

When I was at a larger studio in New Jersey a year or three ago, the engineer actually ran a WIRE to the guy's pick-up and recorded THAT signal for later use with other amps . . . I guess this kind of eliminates the need for that kind of surgical manuver, eh?

-J

 

[myqqy]

I don't play or record metal- but I have used the recto preamp in the studio on a cd recording these past few months. I used the recto preamp with my 50/50 power amp and mesa speaker cabs, as well as direct and direct with my eventide- it worked well in each case, and gave me some awesome clean and crunch sounds. I used it direct for a couple of lead tones, and the engineer was impressed with the sound quality...

 

[Jhon]

Do you have it on MySpace or something so that I can hear what you did with it?? I've been trying to hear SOMETHING with the Recto Recording Pre but so far, nobody's posted anything. -J

 

[Jhon]

It just occured to me that I never seem to feel comfortable "printing" my own guitar tracks because it feels difficult sometimes to say "Yeah, THAT'S the SOUND I WANT THE WORLD TO HEAR!!" and then actually play the **** parts with the kind of style and energy that I'm looking for . . .

What this REAMP thing would do is eliminate that concept and allow me to ONLY worry about the physical playing part, the energy and the timing of everything . . . . not the usual "I wonder if that's too much gain" or "should I have NOT used that Modulation Modeler?" or whatever . . . It's a CONDOM for the guitar!! ha ha ha "We won't have a baby until we WANT ONE!!" ha ha ha- I think I'm going off the deep end.

Rock On People . . . . Jhon

 

[rotaryunison]

It just occured to me that I never seem to feel comfortable "printing" my own guitar tracks because it feels difficult sometimes to say "Yeah, THAT'S the SOUND I WANT THE WORLD TO HEAR!!" and then actually play the **** parts with the kind of style and energy that I'm looking for . . .

What this REAMP thing would do is eliminate that concept and allow me to ONLY worry about the physical playing part, the energy and the timing of everything . . . . not the usual "I wonder if that's too much gain" or "should I have NOT used that Modulation Modeler?" or whatever . . . It's a CONDOM for the guitar!! ha ha ha "We won't have a baby until we WANT ONE!!" ha ha ha- I think I'm going off the deep end.

Rock On People . . . . Jhon

^That made my day.

Anyway, first you'd take a direct signal from your guitar into Protools via a direct box (if you find one that has multiple outs, that's even better because you could run the signal to an amp as well), then from Protools push that signal out and into the Reamp. The signal coming out of your interface is not a Hi-Z output, hence the need for the Reamp. Voila! Magic! Now, you can audition amps!

Reamp's site explains various other setups as well.

 

[tony777]

I also have the reamp box, and it's very conveniant, not only for reamping your signal, but you can do high end FX, for instance an eventide, in front of a guitar amp, for some bizzare effect stuff.

And when you're recording guitars, make sure you ALWAYS record a dry signal, it is WAY more easier to edit a distorted guitar with the dry signal.

 

[rotaryunison]

^+1

 

[Jhon]

[quote/]Anyway, first you'd take a direct signal from your guitar into Protools via a direct box (if you find one that has multiple outs, that's even better because you could run the signal to an amp as well), then from Protools push that signal out and into the Reamp. The signal coming out of your interface is not a Hi-Z output, hence the need for the Reamp. Voila! Magic! Now, you can audition amps![/quote]

I need to read it all again. I was under the impression that when I PLAY for the first time, I'd be recording the guitar's "output signal" directly into Pro Tools, AS WELL AS another signal that would be running to a Pod, or an amp, or whatever we used. . . . this way, I'd have an "amp sound" of some sort to hear while I performed the initial takes, but still have the chance to "change my mind" and "Re-Amp" later. (I guess I thought Reamp worked as some kind of "splitter" device)

Does the Reamp only come into play AFTER you've already tracked the guitar sound directly into Pro Tools? If I have to record guitars with essentially "no amp sound" on the performance take, then I don't think this would work for me. Hopefully I just need to read it all again and I'm confused. It's cool though, I've been here many times. -J

 

[Jhon]

Sorry . . . I was trying to quote Rotary up there but it didn't totally work right. Hopefully I'll figure that part out.

 

[Areola]

then just get a splitter box

 

[Jhon]

(I'm working at the moment but... I just wanted to toss this out there)

Would using a splitter box (which we don't currently have so I have no experience with them) distribute the signal equally between the to lines without being "less signal" than it would be just going in direct?

I wanna look into this but I'm doing vocals for the next four hours on a rap project . . . I've got the laptop here but it's hard to concentrate on two things at once.