How does one Reamp?

[paulwillson]

Ok I know a reasonable amount about recording and stuff, but I know sh*t all about re-amping somehow so I would love to have it explained to me as I intend on doing a recording of my band in about a week or two and would like it so I could record and then work on the tone from my axe-fx without a guitar in my hands.

The gear I have now is;
Guitar
Axe-fx
Edirol UA-25
Mac 27" thing
Cubase 6
erm, can't think of anything else I need to say?

Ok cheers guys

[paul_5]

record the guitar through a DI box, it'll sound rubbish, but that won't matter.
when you come to focus on the guitar then send the recorded, unprocessed signal out through its own channel to the box of your choice (amp / simulator) and tweek to taste. *You may have to create a mono output for this in Cubase*
Record what's coming out of this box back into your sequencer, in Cubase don't record this with the 'little yellow speaker' monitor button activated- you'll get some horrible noises...

Hope this helps. Paul

[Noisyjon]

I thought to do this properly you need one of these? - [url="http://www.radialeng.com/re-prormp.htm"]http://www.radialeng.com/re-prormp.htm[/url]

[WalMan]

[quote name='jonthebass' post='1157597' date='Mar 11 2011, 07:39 AM']I thought to do this properly you need one of these? - [url="http://www.radialeng.com/re-prormp.htm"]http://www.radialeng.com/re-prormp.htm[/url][/quote]
You would if you were actually going to send the basic signal back out to a real amp and record that to another track.

I think ofen nowadays with digital amp modelling software on the computer it means what Paul said it means what

[cheddatom]

If you want to record some clean guitar, and then play it through the axe-fx, you will need some impedence matching equipment as linked to make the line-out from your computer/Edirol act like a guitar. Otherwise if you make all your patches for the line level signal, then you plug your guitar straight in, it could sound quite different.

EDIT: having said that, I put line-outs into my pedals all the time, no problem, it's just I wouldn't shape my live sounds based on that.

Edited March 11, 2011 by cheddatom

[paul_5]

[quote name='jonthebass' post='1157597' date='Mar 11 2011, 07:39 AM']I thought to do this properly you need one of these? - [url="http://www.radialeng.com/re-prormp.htm"]http://www.radialeng.com/re-prormp.htm[/url][/quote]

Or a cheap as chips passive DI box run backwards (XLR in, 1/4" out) will work at a pinch if you're going into a 'real' amp. Not ideal, but I've used this method on occasion and not killed anyone. Yet.

[Tuco]

if you are considering re-amping bass using vsts, you should check out TSE BOD

[url="http://www.theserinaexperiment.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68"]http://www.theserinaexperiment.net/forum/v...hp?f=9&t=68[/url]

free and pretty damn good!!

if however its guitar you should check out the links i posted in the Free vsts sticky

amplitube/guitar rig/overloud can all do one as far as im concerned while there are free vsts like this that do a better job!

that is providing you were actually considering the software route..

just my $0.02

Edited March 25, 2011 by Tuco