Thank you, Glenn!!! I have had somewhat lackluster results reamping metal guitars for years. It never occurred to me to change the output level on my RME Fireface from +4 to "hi gain," but that made a HUGE difference. My guitars went from anemic to aggro! Thank you so much for that key detail. Love your channel, dude! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go re-reamp every note I've ever recorded.
I know you not a huge fan of modeling amps like the Kemper or Eleven Rack, however for bedroom, and home studios these boxes also have great options for Re-Amping with On Board hardware that makes the process easy, and the possibilites remain close to just as endless! Cheers from South Dakota!
I've always understood reamping, but I have two lingering questions since forever. Probably two noob-ish ones, now that I think of it. 1) When reamping, how do you replicate _exactly_ the same guitar pickup level that you had initially? Because it sounds like you may end up with a different input level going into your "new" amp, possibly driving it harder or easier than before. 2) Perhaps related, amp inputs interact with pickups in certain ways. Won't reamping possibly remove certain dynamics because the amp's interaction to the D.I. box's impedance will be different than that of the pickups? Again, these are maybe silly questions, but I've always wondered about them.
1.) most reamp boxes have an output volume knob for that reason, so you can adjust how hard the guitar is hitting the front end 2.) a reamping box matches the impeadence to that of the input on your amp. it won't be exactly same but its as close as you can practically get. they might make reampers with a variable impeadence but ive never seen one so i can't be sure, it doesn't seem too farfetched though
Here's a long one Glen. What do people have against running a distortion in the front of an amp into a clean channel? This is something I'm just now hearing a fuss about. I've been playing for 22 years and have always done this. Right now I have a dead Stock JCM-800 running into the front of it is my rack unit, a couple Furman PQ-4 one for clean one for dirty, a multi FX unit, rack wah, power conditioner, sonic maximizer and tuner. Its a lot more simple than it looks with all its pretty flashing lights. I've gotten a chunky sound out of this using a simple distortion in the multi effects and also a very clean sound. The trick is for me is I don't crank the distortion/gain too high, I let the amp and PQ-4 do the work for tone and eq. Maybe it's no huge secret not to do that but I get a hi gain sound from doing this without saturating the signal and boosting the shit out of things. I'm also a fan of the scooped mids. I don't 100% scoop them out but somewhat close. Why are people trying to get away from this sound lately? I love those heavy scooped sounds of old testament, Metallica and Pantera Albums. Thank you Glen, a fan of the show for three years now, Cheers from the San Bernardino Mountains
The biggest reason you need a reamp box is a little more complicated than that. A signal has two components - the voltage and current. The relationship between those is called the impedance, and they also control how much power the signal is providing as well. DI and reamp boxes make sure that the amp, interface, etc. are receiving the correct voltage and current relationships they're supposed to. Without them, you might be getting the correct voltage (aka volume), but you might not be getting the right amount of power.
That was almost right until you said volume is voltage. But no. Volume is power and power is current * volume. Hence if you rise up voltage, current, or drop down resistor with a potentiometer you end up with the same result: more power (until amplifier saturate).
@@Kataklysme666 Yup! I was just trying to keep it simple and try not to throw out too many variables. But yes, for non-power situations I should have said "signal level" instead of "volume"
Nice video Glenn, I was listening through not very good headphones and I could still tell the difference on the produced track, really brings home the amount of possibilities this has if you don't have the room for umpteen different cabs, pedals and amps.
Thanks for the info Glenn! I heard you can also use any BOSS pedal as a reamp box as they all have buffers . I'm going to try this , but want to know your opinion on this claim.
Glenn, you gotta review the Little Labs Redeye 3D DI/Reamp box. I love mine absolutely to death. It's stunningly clear, super easy to use, and is really good value for what you get in the unit.
Glenn, the more I watch your videos the better I love your channel. You explained this in such accurate and straight way I cannot believe it. Have you watched other videos on youtube regarding this matter? The ones I saw (I'm not saying all of them) must've been recorded by an evil bass player with serious traumas... You went straight to the point. Can you do it? Yes, but you'll get noise. Why? Because of THIS, and now let's get into the details. Well structured, better explained. Thank you so much. \m/
Very cool little tutorial. As a Tech that in the 80's cut his teeth in training balanced lines for long distance transmission of audio signals, The bit about the Balanced from the sound card and the balanced in to the amp. The explanation about the earth was a little off. It is true that they both have earth's and signal and they both transmit or are a conduit for signals but that is where the similarity's start and end. It is how they deal with noise. One tries to hide the signal from noise and use its ground as a Zero reference and then act as a return from the signal, Where the other rejects the noise at the signal transmission path the ground and screen are used for different reasons. Unfortunately most here will not know the why and the wherefores, Some will know a bit, some will no more the rest are just working on uninformed opinions. The 17 year old boy in the 80's could only dream of what we can do now, He has seen the failures of the next big thing and seen the rise of the underdog technology. Keep it up Glenn or should I say "FUCK YOU Glenn!"
I'm not Glenn, but i'm using Mics on bass rig :D If you have all tube amp and want to have distorted tube sound, you can easy go with SM57, i use it for gigs with Ampeg SVP PRo and Dynacord Imperator as Tube Power Amp. Eventually for non distorted tone any kick mic will do the job (AKG D112, or if you really hate mid tones - Audix D6). Check out my channel for some of samples. Got Rode Nt2 a for some time, gotta try it on bass cab :D But if you play a lot of live gigs, it will be much easier to buy sansamp, for live sound guys, mic for bass rig is like spanish inquisition :D They don't expect it.
One thing to note: Re-amping works well for amps [which usually have a very high input impedance], not so much for certain guitar effects [which some have a low input impedance] that load the guitar's coils down. Some old school fuzz effects, wah pedals, volume pedals, etc won't give you the same exact sound as if the guitar is being played into them.
I thought the whole idea of a reamp box was to transform the low impedance line output (balanced or not) to a high impedance output mimicking a guitar pickup
Oh, i'll sum it up for you. How to be a good piano player in a band (a tutorial): 1. Make sure to turn up the low frequencies. Your keyboard doesn't have an EQ band for nothing. 2. Always use the lowest 2 octaves of the keyboard, so that the bassist gets the support he deserves 3. With your right hand, make sure to play the vocal melody to also give the singer a good support, he also won't have to worry about changing the melody because you already laid the ground for that. 4. You don't need to be able to keep tempo. In classical and baroque solo pieces, tempo changes help with expressing emotions. It works in Bach's Cello suite no.1, so it will also work in a full metal band context. Follow these simple rules and you'll be good to go.
I'm not sure where I'm going g wrong in the routing... I can get the signal high enough for proper sound but when I arm the track for the reamped guitar for recording I get feedback. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong at, please help!
Have you ever checked out the Redeye 3D Phantom from Little Labs? It sounds like a great piece of gear, being both a direct box for active and passive pickup guitars as well as a reamp box. Would you say it's a good all-in-one solution, or do you recommend having separate DI and reamp boxes?
THIS glenn is why i subscribe to your channel. I learned a shit ton about re amping. It basically sounds like all you have to do is record the clean track of your guitars then send the signal back out to an amplifier and well its like recording guitars all over again. Are you opposed to just recording without re amping? Like just recording the raw signal that comes out of the amp from the cabinet? I've been doing that for years and sometimes i get great results and others idk i just get frustrated with the tone.
(don't mind my cheesy user name please ) I love your tutorials Glenn ! Whenever you teach something it's very clear and give the right advice for people that don't know these technics at all. Even for me it's always useful to watch your videos again and remind what are the good practices. Hope we will get more in the future, I personnaly prefer this type of content where your "kind" side shines through (even tho I like your runnning gags about musicians in the studio ).
Hey glenn wanna say that i record DI guitars but i dont use a direct box. I connect the quarter inch guitar cable directly to my scarlett 2i2 n for output i use my amp. But i dont get any noise through my amp n i dont use any direct box or reamp box. But the thing is i add a noise gate to the guitar track.
This is a great tut. I do something a little different sometimes, and maybe with slightly diff results. I use an MXR EQ that has two outputs as a splitter. I use this and send one out to my physical rig and the other to the instrument-in on my DI. This lets me record a dry signal for re-amping while playing through my amp and pedals with zero latency issues. Down sides are (1), the MXR Eq *can* add some noise to the signal sometimes and (2) the re-amped sound in software will almost surely sound much different than what I heard while playing, but I guess that's partly the point eh? But I don't do this all the time, and have mixed feelings (no pun intended) about splitting my guitars' signal right out of the gate that way. Any care to comment on this methodology and whether splitting the guitar signal via the EQ pedal should have any impact on recording quality? In the end, I guess if it sounds good...
When I was experimenting in studio, I have tried to record and reamp with Microtubes B7K Darkglass pedal. Of course, disabling all drive options :) Result was surprisingly good - DI signal came up like from hi-end DI-Box; reamped signal was clean from noises. If your bass player has this pedal, borrow it and give it a try. I am sure it is as useless for him as he is for band :D
Great job Glenn. Clear and to the point, while being entertaining. I love the more in depth descriptions of the products and their functions. Sorry I have to ask, but what was it like being the President of the fan club for The Sex Kittens? Just playin' Dude. Love your guys' work. Have a good'n.
Hi Glenn, Not sure if you will see this, but you preach the importance of vocals. Vocals vocals vocals. Is it possible we can see a tutorial and how to record heavy and melodic vocals? It would be nice to see how engineers approach it, to get that heavy wide smooth sounding vocals that sit well in a mix. Thanks.
Hi, i done everything you said but when i try to adjust the gain on my SM57 plugged into my interface i get a very high pitched noise from my reamp box. Its a radial x amp. Any help please!
Hey Glenn, weird question, but it somewhat has to do with tracking bass: Would you still use bass traps when recording the guitarron, the bass instrument in the mariachi? It doesn't have the same frequencies as the typical bass, but do you have any expirence with this?
Hi Glenn. I've got a question. You've mentioned that If I want to use efects I should connect them between reamp box and amp. Does that apply on amps that allow you for the 4 cable technique? I mean those amps with fx loop connections?
Glenn, don't know if someone asked this...but do you send a test tone through the amp to see if there is any latency, and then adjust the waveform if needed?
Hey Glen, since hysteria by Def Leppard turned 30 this year looking back at the recording technics used by Mutt Lang where he would make them play one note at a time, and record them over each other. What are the benefits of doing that and have u ever came across a situation where that has happened to you? Do u think you can answer this question on your next viewers comments video?
The Roswell Delphos is cooler than the sm57... but is it $800 cooler? Yeah, in this case... I think it is. It's 9 times as expensive and I'm all but convinced it sounds 9 times better.
Great video, but can you do a tutorial on the best way to get DI guitar recordings? I use a POD HD500 and want to figure out the best way to get true DI recordings with it for reamping later?
The routing thing... that'd be nice to get an explanation for. Especially for rerouting drum plugins such as ez drummer. I only want to get my demos to sound a bit better (i.e. less fighting for frequency between guitars and drums), but fuck I don't get the individual drum sounds to have their own tracks so that I can actually eq them properly.
You ever do that video with the two notes reload? Would you happen to have any experience with the OX or two notes studio to shoot out which is the best value?
I've got a countryman 85 that I usually use for recording DI into my DAW and then use amp sim & cab IR. But I am now trying to record an actual amp and then use an IR on that. I'm very confused if, once the DI has been recorded, can I then use the Countryman to reamp the signal into an amp? Or do I need a whole other different box? There is an AMP output on the Countryman but looking online I see only that it is used for DI. In the manual it seems as though you can plug the instrument or pre-recorded DI into the amp, then use speaker mode to route that sound to a cab. But since I will only be using the signal from the amp direct and then use a cab sim in my DAW, is there a proper way to do this? Can this be done with the COuntryman 85 or do I need to buy a dedicated reamp box? And is there a risk of me blowing up my amp or interface if I do any of this wrong? I've watched a bunch of videos but I am still very confused, please help!
Metal Arcade, yes they’re different, the “ DI Box “converts instrument level ( From Your Guitar ) to mic level, so you can plug it into your interface for direct recording to your computer. The “ Reamp Box “ converts a line level signal ( From Your Computer ) to instrument level so you can plug it into the front of a guitar amp, as if it were a live guitar being played and plugged into a guitar amp.
i use Guitar rig 5 for just practice. as far as i know you can record with a basic recording setup and when recording you can hear yourself playing with effects but the program only records the signal without effects wich in turn you can loop back for reamping. hope that helps.
ildur Actually, I've been doing it a few times. I use Ardour 5 and guitarix and I haven't been mixing for very long. Why is it better to export the track ?
Don't even need to import it, Amplitube has a VST version. Record your dry guitar to a track, add some FX and you're golden. If you have too many tracks/FX and it's skipping, REAPER (and most other DAWs) can render a track's effects to a wav file, so you save CPU cycles. It will always keep a dry copy in case you want to change anything. Although I've had 16 track sessions with 3 instances of Amplitube and a drum sampler, where almost every track has multiple VSTs on, and my PC seems to be beefy enough to handle that without rendering anything out beforehand. Laptops might struggle to keep up though.
Hello, Glenn! Quick question: When you're reamping the guitars, the sound is raw and harsh (because there's no Cab). Can you record the sound like that (raw) and then, after recording the amp, insert an IR Loader and try out different IR's? Or is the Raw recorded sound so bad that no IR will "repair" it? Thanks!
Hey Glenn, awesome video. Reminded me of a question I wanted to ask: How would you get by to pass a signal straight out of a sound card and into a cabinet (and then mic the cabinet up for tracking)?
This is my major complaint with allmost EVERY SINGLE TRACK featured on SMG. Either the guitars, the drums or both are played in a rather sloppy fashion. When Glenn is on guitars and Cam Fleury on drums, it sounds particularlily out of sync. The only exception I can currently think about, that was SUPER SMOOTH, was the REVV 740 demo, with Liam Jon on guitars and bass and Jackson Ward on drums, those two actually know how to play PERFECTLY on time
Hey Glenn, when using an active reamp box with active pickups, will it drastically change the original signal? Some say that active boxes should be used for passive pickups. Just wanted to get some correct information. Thank you.
Nice video, but I still missing the info when you use Active or Passive DI box and when u use Active or Passive Re-Amp Box. I have both passive and active guitars. It doenst make sence for me. Otherwise there are lot of useful advice in the channel. Thx
Hey Glenn, I've noticed the amount of reverb on your toms has greatly reduced. I personally really like dry toms so this is a nice change of mixing. Also, are you switching to the CAD mics on your toms permanently or are you still just experimenting with them until you switch back to the 421's?
I have a doubt. my audio interface has only jack output but the camp has a xlr input. do I need a di box to convert the signal from jack to xlr (basically from the exit of the audio interface to the reamper)
Yeah, direct signal from recording interface to amp, been there doing that, now i've got reamp box created by friend engineer, for about 100USD. Best buy ever.
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Holy fuck that coffee cab with the roswell is one of the best tones I've ever heard.
Realy apreciate that you like our cab :) facebook.com/CoffeeCabs/
Holyshit, the configuration with the Harley Benton and the roswell mic was awesome
Thanks for the shout Glenn!
Glenn, your simplest advice is your best advice. “Don’t over think it!” So true.
FINALLY!!!! Some usefull stuff!!! Glad you are still making theese videos!
Cheers from Hungary!
OH FUCK YES THE TUTORIALS ARE BACK
No hate on the other content naturally, I dig that shit, but this type of shit is what I subbed 3 years ago for
Thank you, Glenn!!! I have had somewhat lackluster results reamping metal guitars for years. It never occurred to me to change the output level on my RME Fireface from +4 to "hi gain," but that made a HUGE difference. My guitars went from anemic to aggro! Thank you so much for that key detail. Love your channel, dude! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go re-reamp every note I've ever recorded.
I know you not a huge fan of modeling amps like the Kemper or Eleven Rack, however for bedroom, and home studios these boxes also have great options for Re-Amping with On Board hardware that makes the process easy, and the possibilites remain close to just as endless! Cheers from South Dakota!
That Coffee Custom sounds insanely good.
I've always understood reamping, but I have two lingering questions since forever. Probably two noob-ish ones, now that I think of it.
1) When reamping, how do you replicate _exactly_ the same guitar pickup level that you had initially? Because it sounds like you may end up with a different input level going into your "new" amp, possibly driving it harder or easier than before.
2) Perhaps related, amp inputs interact with pickups in certain ways. Won't reamping possibly remove certain dynamics because the amp's interaction to the D.I. box's impedance will be different than that of the pickups?
Again, these are maybe silly questions, but I've always wondered about them.
1.) most reamp boxes have an output volume knob for that reason, so you can adjust how hard the guitar is hitting the front end
2.) a reamping box matches the impeadence to that of the input on your amp. it won't be exactly same but its as close as you can practically get. they might make reampers with a variable impeadence but ive never seen one so i can't be sure, it doesn't seem too farfetched though
@@owenandrew8108 hey, thank you so much for the info. That makes a lot more sense now!
You are a LIFE SAVER. You uploaded this right when i needed it. Thank you so much
Here's a long one Glen. What do people have against running a distortion in the front of an amp into a clean channel? This is something I'm just now hearing a fuss about. I've been playing for 22 years and have always done this. Right now I have a dead Stock JCM-800 running into the front of it is my rack unit, a couple Furman PQ-4 one for clean one for dirty, a multi FX unit, rack wah, power conditioner, sonic maximizer and tuner. Its a lot more simple than it looks with all its pretty flashing lights. I've gotten a chunky sound out of this using a simple distortion in the multi effects and also a very clean sound. The trick is for me is I don't crank the distortion/gain too high, I let the amp and PQ-4 do the work for tone and eq. Maybe it's no huge secret not to do that but I get a hi gain sound from doing this without saturating the signal and boosting the shit out of things. I'm also a fan of the scooped mids. I don't 100% scoop them out but somewhat close. Why are people trying to get away from this sound lately? I love those heavy scooped sounds of old testament, Metallica and Pantera Albums. Thank you Glen, a fan of the show for three years now, Cheers from the San Bernardino Mountains
The biggest reason you need a reamp box is a little more complicated than that. A signal has two components - the voltage and current. The relationship between those is called the impedance, and they also control how much power the signal is providing as well. DI and reamp boxes make sure that the amp, interface, etc. are receiving the correct voltage and current relationships they're supposed to. Without them, you might be getting the correct voltage (aka volume), but you might not be getting the right amount of power.
That was almost right until you said volume is voltage. But no. Volume is power and power is current * volume. Hence if you rise up voltage, current, or drop down resistor with a potentiometer you end up with the same result: more power (until amplifier saturate).
@@Kataklysme666 Yup! I was just trying to keep it simple and try not to throw out too many variables. But yes, for non-power situations I should have said "signal level" instead of "volume"
Nice video Glenn, I was listening through not very good headphones and I could still tell the difference on the produced track, really brings home the amount of possibilities this has if you don't have the room for umpteen different cabs, pedals and amps.
Thanks for the info Glenn! I heard you can also use any BOSS pedal as a reamp box as they all have buffers .
I'm going to try this , but want to know your opinion on this claim.
Thanks Glenn, I just bought a Radial Reamp box and have been playing around with levels etc and this video helped alot!
Glenn, you gotta review the Little Labs Redeye 3D DI/Reamp box. I love mine absolutely to death. It's stunningly clear, super easy to use, and is really good value for what you get in the unit.
Glenn, the more I watch your videos the better I love your channel. You explained this in such accurate and straight way I cannot believe it. Have you watched other videos on youtube regarding this matter? The ones I saw (I'm not saying all of them) must've been recorded by an evil bass player with serious traumas... You went straight to the point. Can you do it? Yes, but you'll get noise. Why? Because of THIS, and now let's get into the details. Well structured, better explained. Thank you so much. \m/
Thank you for mentioning the stereo/mono output problem! Got weak signals for a long time and this was one of the sources...
Very cool little tutorial. As a Tech that in the 80's cut his teeth in training balanced lines for long distance transmission of audio signals, The bit about the Balanced from the sound card and the balanced in to the amp. The explanation about the earth was a little off. It is true that they both have earth's and signal and they both transmit or are a conduit for signals but that is where the similarity's start and end. It is how they deal with noise.
One tries to hide the signal from noise and use its ground as a Zero reference and then act as a return from the signal, Where the other rejects the noise at the signal transmission path the ground and screen are used for different reasons.
Unfortunately most here will not know the why and the wherefores, Some will know a bit, some will no more the rest are just working on uninformed opinions. The 17 year old boy in the 80's could only dream of what we can do now, He has seen the failures of the next big thing and seen the rise of the underdog technology. Keep it up Glenn or should I say "FUCK YOU Glenn!"
Thanks, Glen. I had been wanting to learn a little bit more about the re-amping process. This pretty much puts it into perspective for me.
The CCC and Delphos, HOLLY BALLZ, it's freaking amazing!!!
Nice, well done !! Like the Coffee custom with the 57, definitely you cant go wrong with a 57!
well Glenn you're a help full little book of goods. I know nothing of recording sound and I just learned something.
I know that you usually don't mic up bass amps, but if you would, what mic would you use?
Ive seen a lot of people use kick mics like a beta 52 and a 57, and I've also seen some use condensers.
A Beta 52 would still work just fine on a bass amp.
I'm not Glenn, but i'm using Mics on bass rig :D If you have all tube amp and want to have distorted tube sound, you can easy go with SM57, i use it for gigs with Ampeg SVP PRo and Dynacord Imperator as Tube Power Amp. Eventually for non distorted tone any kick mic will do the job (AKG D112, or if you really hate mid tones - Audix D6). Check out my channel for some of samples. Got Rode Nt2 a for some time, gotta try it on bass cab :D But if you play a lot of live gigs, it will be much easier to buy sansamp, for live sound guys, mic for bass rig is like spanish inquisition :D They don't expect it.
I'm well aware of that.
Why would I say to use a kick mic on a kick drum... pretty sure that's obvious.
One thing to note: Re-amping works well for amps [which usually have a very high input impedance], not so much for certain guitar effects [which some have a low input impedance] that load the guitar's coils down. Some old school fuzz effects, wah pedals, volume pedals, etc won't give you the same exact sound as if the guitar is being played into them.
I thought the whole idea of a reamp box was to transform the low impedance line output (balanced or not) to a high impedance output mimicking a guitar pickup
Thanks, Glenn.
Easy, useful, also for the lazy ones there are links in the description.
Awesome.
Coffee & Shure SM 57, excellent technique
Another great reamp box is the Palmer Daccapo, I really enjoy mine!
Little Labs IBP also does a great job for this. Can also be used as a high quality active DI box with phase alignment!
Awsome dude ive learned more in this video than i did in years.
Glenn please do how not to be a shitty piano or synth player in metal. PLEASE!!!! (Im the bass player so you know this is urgent)
Grab another instrument lol
(only joking, have a lot of synth stuff on my music).
SahharBM I don't play piano its for the piano player in my band.
Oh, i'll sum it up for you.
How to be a good piano player in a band (a tutorial):
1. Make sure to turn up the low frequencies. Your keyboard doesn't have an EQ band for nothing.
2. Always use the lowest 2 octaves of the keyboard, so that the bassist gets the support he deserves
3. With your right hand, make sure to play the vocal melody to also give the singer a good support, he also won't have to worry about changing the melody because you already laid the ground for that.
4. You don't need to be able to keep tempo. In classical and baroque solo pieces, tempo changes help with expressing emotions. It works in Bach's Cello suite no.1, so it will also work in a full metal band context.
Follow these simple rules and you'll be good to go.
@@doboykid262 Tell him to watch Jordan rudess from dream theater
I'm not sure where I'm going g wrong in the routing... I can get the signal high enough for proper sound but when I arm the track for the reamped guitar for recording I get feedback. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong at, please help!
Have you ever checked out the Redeye 3D Phantom from Little Labs? It sounds like a great piece of gear, being both a direct box for active and passive pickup guitars as well as a reamp box. Would you say it's a good all-in-one solution, or do you recommend having separate DI and reamp boxes?
Really cool way to layer up different tones.
THIS glenn is why i subscribe to your channel. I learned a shit ton about re amping. It basically sounds like all you have to do is record the clean track of your guitars then send the signal back out to an amplifier and well its like recording guitars all over again. Are you opposed to just recording without re amping? Like just recording the raw signal that comes out of the amp from the cabinet? I've been doing that for years and sometimes i get great results and others idk i just get frustrated with the tone.
Didn't like the tone of the Joyo too much (on the line 6 wireless system review), but at 4:10 that's a killer tone. Seriously dude, congratulations.
(don't mind my cheesy user name please ) I love your tutorials Glenn ! Whenever you teach something it's very clear and give the right advice for people that don't know these technics at all. Even for me it's always useful to watch your videos again and remind what are the good practices. Hope we will get more in the future, I personnaly prefer this type of content where your "kind" side shines through (even tho I like your runnning gags about musicians in the studio ).
The tones from the Coffee Custom Cab are really rippin it off :-)
For reamping, I have used the garageband software to create the different tones. Peace, Flood!
Great tutorial. I been thinking of trying some of these out. Thanks
Is the Radial Pro RMP 1-channel passive Re-Amper comparable to the X-Amp aside from the 2-channels?
do one comparing 2 mics vs 4 vs a full set like 8 mics for recording drums and the differences and how to do with what you got at the moment.
I don't know if you've done any tutorials on mixing heavy guitars but if you haven't, that would be great.
brilliant video thanks for sharing all your invaluable advice
FINNALY! Waiting for the Harley Benton review
This is gold! Thanks Glenn!
Finally a tutorial video
Very interesting video. Never knew that someone actually reamps the guitars.
Hey glenn wanna say that i record DI guitars but i dont use a direct box. I connect the quarter inch guitar cable directly to my scarlett 2i2 n for output i use my amp. But i dont get any noise through my amp n i dont use any direct box or reamp box. But the thing is i add a noise gate to the guitar track.
thanks for including the harley benton cab
Loved this. Gonna try these out. Thanks.
Awesome videos. Do you use your direct in box in your effects chain while your playing live too,, or just for recording?
This is a great tut.
I do something a little different sometimes, and maybe with slightly diff results. I use an MXR EQ that has two outputs as a splitter. I use this and send one out to my physical rig and the other to the instrument-in on my DI. This lets me record a dry signal for re-amping while playing through my amp and pedals with zero latency issues. Down sides are (1), the MXR Eq *can* add some noise to the signal sometimes and (2) the re-amped sound in software will almost surely sound much different than what I heard while playing, but I guess that's partly the point eh?
But I don't do this all the time, and have mixed feelings (no pun intended) about splitting my guitars' signal right out of the gate that way.
Any care to comment on this methodology and whether splitting the guitar signal via the EQ pedal should have any impact on recording quality? In the end, I guess if it sounds good...
When I was experimenting in studio, I have tried to record and reamp with Microtubes B7K Darkglass pedal. Of course, disabling all drive options :) Result was surprisingly good - DI signal came up like from hi-end DI-Box; reamped signal was clean from noises. If your bass player has this pedal, borrow it and give it a try. I am sure it is as useless for him as he is for band :D
That 1x12 sounds sick!
Glenn, can you elaborate on that "hi gain option" (4:10) a little bit more, I didn't get what is this about at all. Thanks!
Great job Glenn. Clear and to the point, while being entertaining. I love the more in depth descriptions of the products and their functions. Sorry I have to ask, but what was it like being the President of the fan club for The Sex Kittens? Just playin' Dude. Love your guys' work. Have a good'n.
Excellent video Glenn - thank you!
Hi Glenn,
Not sure if you will see this, but you preach the importance of vocals. Vocals vocals vocals. Is it possible we can see a tutorial and how to record heavy and melodic vocals? It would be nice to see how engineers approach it, to get that heavy wide smooth sounding vocals that sit well in a mix.
Thanks.
+l23 O24 Yes! Shooting that in two weeks
Excellent can't wait. Love the videos.
Is no one seriously going to mention the robot micing the cabinet?! AWESOME.
Need Coffee K100 IR's for Helix, that is the best metal tone have ever heard!
Thanks for the Dummies guide ..some of us needed it !
lovely drum sound
Hi, i done everything you said but when i try to adjust the gain on my SM57 plugged into my interface i get a very high pitched noise from my reamp box. Its a radial x amp. Any help please!
Hey Glenn, weird question, but it somewhat has to do with tracking bass:
Would you still use bass traps when recording the guitarron, the bass instrument in the mariachi? It doesn't have the same frequencies as the typical bass, but do you have any expirence with this?
The drums in the demo song is awesome...
that Harley Benton Cab sounds great
Any chance of the rest of how to mix heavy drums possibly?
Alex Rooney ya it's only been like 2 years
that harley benton cab sounded great... not as great as the revv cab, but what, its a 14th the cost?
Hi Glenn. I've got a question. You've mentioned that If I want to use efects I should connect them between reamp box and amp. Does that apply on amps that allow you for the 4 cable technique? I mean those amps with fx loop connections?
Glenn, don't know if someone asked this...but do you send a test tone through the amp to see if there is any latency, and then adjust the waveform if needed?
Hey Glen, since hysteria by Def Leppard turned 30 this year looking back at the recording technics used by Mutt Lang where he would make them play one note at a time, and record them over each other. What are the benefits of doing that and have u ever came across a situation where that has happened to you? Do u think you can answer this question on your next viewers comments video?
The Roswell Delphos is cooler than the sm57... but is it $800 cooler?
Yeah, in this case... I think it is. It's 9 times as expensive and I'm all but convinced it sounds 9 times better.
The 57 sounds great, but the Delphos is out of this freaking world.
Thanks Glenn great content 👍
Great video, but can you do a tutorial on the best way to get DI guitar recordings? I use a POD HD500 and want to figure out the best way to get true DI recordings with it for reamping later?
The routing thing... that'd be nice to get an explanation for. Especially for rerouting drum plugins such as ez drummer. I only want to get my demos to sound a bit better (i.e. less fighting for frequency between guitars and drums), but fuck I don't get the individual drum sounds to have their own tracks so that I can actually eq them properly.
Nice info on this. I need to practice this!
You ever do that video with the two notes reload? Would you happen to have any experience with the OX or two notes studio to shoot out which is the best value?
Is it ok to just run your signal directly back into your interface using only pedals?
I've got a countryman 85 that I usually use for recording DI into my DAW and then use amp sim & cab IR. But I am now trying to record an actual amp and then use an IR on that. I'm very confused if, once the DI has been recorded, can I then use the Countryman to reamp the signal into an amp? Or do I need a whole other different box? There is an AMP output on the Countryman but looking online I see only that it is used for DI.
In the manual it seems as though you can plug the instrument or pre-recorded DI into the amp, then use speaker mode to route that sound to a cab. But since I will only be using the signal from the amp direct and then use a cab sim in my DAW, is there a proper way to do this? Can this be done with the COuntryman 85 or do I need to buy a dedicated reamp box? And is there a risk of me blowing up my amp or interface if I do any of this wrong? I've watched a bunch of videos but I am still very confused, please help!
Metal Arcade, yes they’re different, the “ DI Box “converts instrument level ( From Your Guitar ) to mic level, so you can plug it into your interface for direct recording to your computer. The “ Reamp Box “ converts a line level signal ( From Your Computer ) to instrument level so you can plug it into the front of a guitar amp, as if it were a live guitar being played and plugged into a guitar amp.
Hi, and how about a tutorial about software reamping, using Amplitude or GuitarRig?
I know how to use a virtual FX on channel. Im wonder how its possible to get right tone, not the "fizzy" one
i use Guitar rig 5 for just practice. as far as i know you can record with a basic recording setup and when recording you can hear yourself playing with effects but the program only records the signal without effects wich in turn you can loop back for reamping.
hope that helps.
Dial out the fizz using the amp sim's controls. Try turning down the gain and lowering treble and presence. Are you running cabinet IRs?
ildur Actually, I've been doing it a few times. I use Ardour 5 and guitarix and I haven't been mixing for very long. Why is it better to export the track ?
Don't even need to import it, Amplitube has a VST version. Record your dry guitar to a track, add some FX and you're golden. If you have too many tracks/FX and it's skipping, REAPER (and most other DAWs) can render a track's effects to a wav file, so you save CPU cycles. It will always keep a dry copy in case you want to change anything. Although I've had 16 track sessions with 3 instances of Amplitube and a drum sampler, where almost every track has multiple VSTs on, and my PC seems to be beefy enough to handle that without rendering anything out beforehand. Laptops might struggle to keep up though.
Great info thanks!!!!!! I was considering doing this for my recordings!!!!
Harley Benton's 1x12. Sounds killer.
Hello, Glenn! Quick question: When you're reamping the guitars, the sound is raw and harsh (because there's no Cab). Can you record the sound like that (raw) and then, after recording the amp, insert an IR Loader and try out different IR's? Or is the Raw recorded sound so bad that no IR will "repair" it? Thanks!
Hey Glenn, awesome video.
Reminded me of a question I wanted to ask: How would you get by to pass a signal straight out of a sound card and into a cabinet (and then mic the cabinet up for tracking)?
is it me or is that a pretty sloppy played di track?
Yes, it's terrible. Sound also.
This is my major complaint with allmost EVERY SINGLE TRACK featured on SMG.
Either the guitars, the drums or both are played in a rather sloppy fashion.
When Glenn is on guitars and Cam Fleury on drums, it sounds particularlily out of sync.
The only exception I can currently think about, that was SUPER SMOOTH, was the REVV 740 demo,
with Liam Jon on guitars and bass and Jackson Ward on drums, those two actually know how to play PERFECTLY on time
So one of the cables goes from the front of the Scarlett to the re amp box?
Hey Glenn, when using an active reamp box with active pickups, will it drastically change the original signal? Some say that active boxes should be used for passive pickups. Just wanted to get some correct information. Thank you.
Did you ever use that reamp box Richard from Airis made for you? I bought one from him years ago and still haven't used it much
Thx for the vid. You cover this topic in your ProMixAcademy course as well - awesome btw :) - but here I find it easier to follow you. :)
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Glenn!
Nice video, but I still missing the info when you use Active or Passive DI box and when u use Active or Passive Re-Amp Box. I have both passive and active guitars. It doenst make sence for me. Otherwise there are lot of useful advice in the channel. Thx
How about a tutorial on how to have a good mix of bass guitar and kick drums in a mixing session?
Hey Glenn, I've noticed the amount of reverb on your toms has greatly reduced. I personally really like dry toms so this is a nice change of mixing. Also, are you switching to the CAD mics on your toms permanently or are you still just experimenting with them until you switch back to the 421's?
Could you do a tutorial on how you record BIAS and EQ?
I have a doubt. my audio interface has only jack output but the camp has a xlr input. do I need a di box to convert the signal from jack to xlr (basically from the exit of the audio interface to the reamper)
Yeah, direct signal from recording interface to amp, been there doing that, now i've got reamp box created by friend engineer, for about 100USD. Best buy ever.
Super useful!!!! Thank you!
I'm wondering would it be possible to reamp AFTER using software pedals ie podfarm then run the signal out to the amp.
Wtf the harley benton comes out on top??? Insane value, sounds wicked as hell