Mixing and Recording Techniques | Guitar Re-amp setup
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2019
- In this video I'm going to answer a few questions that I've received recently about setting to re-amp guitars and how I configure the Radial EXTC-SA to use pedal while mixing.
I'll quickly walk you through the re-amp signal flow so you can get started with your own today!
To demonstrate I'll use the Little Labs Red Eye and the @radialengineering EXTC-SA.
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I’ve watched easily 10-20 of these videos. In the first 3 mins I learned more from you than anyone else - thank you for explaining every part (including that tip to stay away from 0db!!!)
Been using a Radia EXTC Stereo for a few weeks now and it's FANTASTIC!!!
So much fun being able to use pedals like The Boss Waza DimC and the like in a mix 😁
YOU are the ONLY guy who shows us HOW to connect this. THANK YOU! Yes, I did Like AND I've been Subscribed.
Happy I could help! Thank you for watching!
The best video explaining these products I’ve seen
Thank you!!
Thank you for the video, great explanation and illustration ...
Thank you for this. Very clear and simple!
Cool video, thanks. I love Radial pedals. They’re very reliable and solidly built.
Thanks for the video. Been thinking about this box for a while and I think I'm gonna pull the trigger on your recommendation.
Perfectly explained! Thank you so much!
This video was super helpful. Thanks so much.
Great vid, learning heaps here
Dude this is the first video of yours I watched and I saw awesomeness happen. Subscribed!
Need this....Looking on Reverb right now. Thanks for the video.
I really like your intuitive explanation. I am a sound engineer just starting out. The direct cable connection instructions were very helpful to me. Especially English UA-cam that only explains with speaking is a little difficult for me who living in Korea, . The cabling in the video you described is very intuitive to me. thank you.
Really helpful! Thanks
How do you avoid white noise on the ramped signal? It seems like there’s always a hiss from the line out on the audio interface whether you’re playing the track or not. Seems to be a common issue from searching Google.
Thanks for the great video! Does this work only with a mic'd amp? I don't want to record with a mic from an amp... will the Radial EXTC-SA allow me to send from my pedal the desired efx back to my DAW? In other words, can I send a dry acoustic track out through the Radial, into a compression or drive pedal, then back into my DAW without using an amp???
thanks for the video man! i really appreciate you taking the time to show this. My only question is: does it matter if the re amp box is passive or active to feed the output of it back into your interface to record to tape/DAW and will there be any latency issues? i ask because I'm also on the fence as to which kind of re amp box i'd like to get.
I am getting noise when I reamp.. what could be the issue? I'm using the correct cables.. balanced into Little Labs then tr into sansamp pedal.
what buttons on the little labs should I have pushed in on the little labs?
I've been trying to reamp with the little labs redeye 3d....the DIs sound great, but when I reamp there is a lot of hissing in the background. Should I be unplugging the guitar and the line level in cables when reamping? Pls help!
Great video! I may have missed it or misunderstood something, but if you ARE using one of your monitor outputs, about where should the volume knob be in order to be similar to what would be coming out of the line-out, which is not controlled by the volume knob?
Can I use a mono guitar pedal with that like the MXR Carbon copy analog delay or does the pedal have to be stereo in only ?
I do not have an amp I am recording quietly directly from guitar to my Apollo twin to MacBook...
Hey Bro, howdy? i am quite new to the whole DI/Reamp thing..you could tell me what id need to to do route in a chain of analog pedals, so i can use their signal on an existing DI track wich is being amped by a plugin ? I`ve got a little bit confused about this....mean.. i can easily do the Wet/Dry tracking with my amp plugin...but i`d like to be able to add FX from external physical pedals, in a re-amp track.
Thank you !
Hey… I know you posted 3 years ago, but could you try tell me how you set it up with a mic through the pedals, then plugged into a 4 channel audient id44? I’ll be recording the drums live with the fx. Thanks
So if I did this can I run mic that's on my room amp already into front input interface?
Thanks guys ☺️
Awesome video! How do you deal with stereo pedals or fx pedals. From my understanding most reamp boxes are mono. How would you manage stereo returns from a pedal or fx pedal?
the extc can do 2 outs for stereo.
Do you know if the Radial EXTC-SA uses transformers? Or ICs? Great videos, thanks!
I am trying to connect my EXTC Stereo to my patchbay. You mentioned that you have yours connected to your patchbay. Can you explain how you have yours hooked up to your patchbay? I understand how a patchbay works, but I cannot for the life of me figure out which I/O to connect to the patchbay to and from the EXTC.
Here's a question I've put on five or so videos with NO RESPONCE ? On radial XTC ..
Can this orange box be used as 2 DI boxes as well?
So if I'm recording bass and guitar at the same time. Can I plug each of their cables in to the XTC and record a DI signal and also send the signal out to an AMP to be recorded at the same time?
#UltimateStudios,Inc I've gotta question...if all you've got is 1 JDI DI(API 312 preamp, Audient 880 preamps, Urei 1176 Rev A Blue Stripe, DBX 160x American), Motu 192 BLA Modded interface, and a Mackie 1604 mixer for live jams.....which reamp box would you get? The Radial EXTC-SA, Little Labs Redeye 3D Phantom, Rupert Neve Designs RNDI Active Transformer DI, Telefunken Active Stereo DI, Thermionic Culture The Robin DI Box, Teegarden Audio Magic DI, Phoenix Audio Nimbus DI, Smart Research Deluxe D.I. Box, Spectra 1964 BB-DI Passive Direct Box, Two Notes Torpedo Captor Reactive Loadbox DI and Attenuator - 4 Ohms, Avenson Audio IsoGtr, Traverse Analogue Mass-DI? Or that DI that the canadian numnuts was talkin bought, with the Pultec cut boost 25hz trick built into it? And why? It would mostly be used for guitar, but would also be used for bass cabs/effects/amps as bass is more important than guitars to me! Thanks for your time!
So, I can't use the guitar effects with the Little Labs unit like you can with the EXTC?
Good thing about those underwhelming and small radial boxes is, that i can get away with telling my girl that it just cost $20 ;)
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Can you please make a tutorial video on how to use the orange reamp box? I didn't get how should I plug the pedals on I/O -> reamp -> I/O signal chain.
Are you talking about the Radial EXTC box? If you are there are 1/4" send and receive loops in the back of the unit. That is where you plug the pedals in. The "send" and "receive" knobs on the front let you attenuate the input and output volume to and from the pedals. Think of it as gain staging.
Once the pedals are plugged into the back the rest is exactly how I showed in the video.
@@Ultimatestudiosinc Yes, that was my question! 🙂 Thanks for the reply! I appreciate your help! 🙂 Take care!
I have a radial kit it came in a nice zebra case it has as you probably know the J48 active direct box (phantom powered) and the X-amp dual mode amp driver, I bought it with hopes of keeping my amps relevant, mostly combos-Marshall’s jcm 800 &900, Mesa Roadster, Mesa DC3, Fenders Twin, Hot Rod Deluxe, Bassman, Roland Jazz and cube, GK and Vox stuff, blah, blah etc..but honestly the radial kit is still in plastic wrap going on 6 years and my amps are stacked and covered in a sad little corner of a nice sized home studio, anyway I’m getting good tone and amazing flexibility in the box using Guitar Rig and Axe FX 2 as I’m primarily a guitarist,so to the question,,,,do you feel in your experience that the reamping route provides superior sound even after it enters back into the digital realm of the DAW? I got the gear and it seems a sin not to use it but I don’t want to “just because” but I don’t dump gear to often because I get the feeling I’ll regret it, (8 years home studio exp, 23 years touring and recording musician)
Todd Anthony Let me buy a couple of your amps!!😂. Tbh, if you don’t have great cabs/mics/mic pres, it can be hard to compete with great amp sims. Definitely worth experimenting though
Very good explanation, you got my return to your channel since I haven't used UA-cam too much, almost none.
Thank you for actually showing the signal chain. I swear most don’t realize people just want to know the routing. For stereo pedals you would need two reamp boxes for left and right sides?
I have a Radial EXTC-SA and my DI is not hot enough when I try to reamp it into guitar pedals. The distortion pedal isn't even distorting and the resulting guitar sounds weak. What is causing this and how can I resolve it? Thanks!
Struggling with weak signal too. Any thoughts? You mentioned having yours setup in your patchbay. How are you doing routing in daw? Tried bus, direct, and randomness, but not yet having success getting a loud enough signal without a lot of volume manipulation in the mixer and it doesn’t seem right. Thanks much, channels great 👍
Would you need 2 of these for stereo pedals?
Yes. A stereo one is coming out soon
so where do u input the guitar ? directly to the audio interface already?
The guitar signal come from a pre recorded track fcapture from a DI box at the recording session.
- Gtr into DI box Input
- DI box XLR Output into Interface Mic Input.
- DI Throughput into fx pedals and amp (if a real amp is use or just route the interface Input in your DAW to an amp sim as a reference track)
You can then edit the DI guitar track as needed. At post production(mixing stage), if you realize the tone you have recorded don't fit the song (too much gain, not enough gain, bad EQ choice, cheap amp, too much fx etc.)
You can then send the DI track to a reamper as shown in this video and re-record the song with a tone that better fit the song as the mix is getting more complete. You wont have to replay the same parts a second time or ask the artist to come back to your studio and redo his work cause the amp was not set properly.
Very usefull to record with headphone and an amp sim at night then reamp when you can crank a real amp tge next day. You can also record the GTR DI signal and hire a pro studio to reamp it with high emd gear and know how without paying the hours you took to record the album.
I hope it answer you question. Sorry for my english, it is not my 1st language.
Im new to re-amping. My question is this. can i re-amp with pedals only (and the re-amp box). Example- I have a pre-recorded "clean" guitar track. I run the re-amp to the pedals and the pedals direct to my Focusrite. When I try this it sounds awful. It seems i either need A.- a D.I. box to covert? or....... B.- re-record with lower levels? I tend to record a bit hot but I am always in the green. The goal is to not use and amp/mic set up if possible.
Unfortunately re-amping straight to the pedals isn’t going to yield the best tone. A standard re-amp box usually goes from line level to instrument level only.
You could try doing that with a Radial EXTC which converts your line level signal to instrument level (to use your pedals) and then back to line level to go into your interface but you still will probably not get a very nice tone. Without the use of an amp.
There are a few different routes you could go but you might want to take a look at some of the gear from 2 Notes Audio. Something like their Torpedo C.A.B might work for you. A few other companies make similar devices.
Do you think the Radial is worth the extra cash compared to the Little Labs?
Great video!
Thank you for watching! I really like how the Radial sounds. But you can't go wrong with the Little Labs either. For mono the price difference is only about $30. The stereo EXTC is great bang for the buck since you get 2 channels for only $430. The stereo can be used as dual mono (I do all the time) but it's only one set of controls.
My only complaint with the Radial is there is no ground lift. And while it is quite rare that I need one it would be nice if they added it. The Little labs Red Eye has one. The Radial is built like a tank and is rack mountable which is awesome. I have a mono and stereo version mounted in my FX rack right next to the console.
Im not able to set properly my Reamp box..
A/b comparaison not exactly the same (Reamp vs live recording)
Missing little bit of gain and add little bit of noise...
Scarlett 2i2 mk2
Radial X Amp reamp box
3' Balanced cable 16awg
Marshall jvm205c
Fender Telecaster FSR
Not peaking in my DAW
Never see the redlight clip on the reamp box
So sad.... Think to sell it
My DI is a Radial J48
The Little Labs Red Eye 3d (shown in this video) has an instrument/reamp level knob that allows you to match levels between going straight into the amp and reamping through it (you can toggle between both with the "di/re-amp switch).
I can make both tones identical very easily (and it has "earth lift" and "re-amp polarity" switches too, and inputs for active instruments or for passive instruments).
Where are you using your 3' balanced 16awg cable?
Funny thing is, the Rey Eye does exactly the same thing ;) The EXTC is great, but if you already have the Rey Eye, you don't need it. Just use both portions of the box, plug your pedals inbetween, good to go.
The Red Eye doens't convert back to line level like the EXTC does. It's only a DI OR a reamp box. The EXTC takes a signal from line level to instrument (so you can use with pedals) and BACK to line level. The Red Eye does not do that. There is Line In, Instrument In, Thru and Mic level out. The Red Eye is awesome (sounds great!) but it's not the same as the EXTC.
@@Ultimatestudiosinc That is not quite correct - Little Labs themselves state otherwise, they even have a diagram up for exactly that use case (pedals as inserts). Maybe you have an older version of it and they added that in later revisions? I don't know, however, you can now run signals both ways with pedals.
Nice video, but too much options can make one crazy.. I prefer the old school way of commiting to a sound once recorded.
Just saying, DI have been there since the 1960's from what I know and re-recording signals from the 1930-1940's. To me, it is pretty much the definition of old school. Don't get me wrong, I get your point and agree at a certain point.
A bad judgement call at an early stage of a session can badly hurt a final mix. Capturing an incredible artistic prestation is worth having a back up to me. I'm far from beeing a pro engineer, but the more I learn, the less I "hope".
Even for us drummers learnable, but never ask a guitarplayer to set up our drums, also our girlfriends....OMG!!!