Hey guys! As promised
akbeda and I did some reamping yesterday.
Unfortunately the results are somehow confusing and showed us that we haven't had any clue about reamping at frist.
In the end we discovered that you just can't compare the boxes just by pluging in, setting the output level to -3dB and leave all other parameters the same. The outcome of that were realy crappy samples. Once we came up with a decent setting on the amp for one reamp-box it sounded awful on the next one.
Our signal chain was as follows:
Audio Interface (Creative X-Fi Elite Pro) -> Reamp Box -> Maxon OD808 -> Marshall 30th. Anniversary Head
1. -> V30 -> SM57
2. -> Line Out including Speaker Sim
After all we ran out of time for further testing so here's my impression. Please take it with a gigantic grain of salt because I'm sure we've made some major mistakes here and there
Radial JDI:
Noisy and fuzzy as hell. We didn't engage the -15dB Pad because we think the signal should be as loud as if you would plug your guitar. We checked the level by sending the signal directly to a Hi-Z input after the reversed DI-box. Are we mistaken here? Sounds like "overdrove" the amp. Maybe actually we did that.
Redeye 3D Phantom
Better, but somehow around 6dB less level than all the other boxes. Sound OK, a little compressed.
Palmer Daccapo
OK'ish. Completely different flavour of sound.
Millenium DI-E
Again different flavour, surprisingly we liked that one the most. Almost no loss of output level.
I'm going to do a new Line-Out / FX-Send Reamping Test this week, but I have to sort out some problems first.
So here I am with more questions than before, hopefully some of you can help.
A) How do I know how much output level I should send into the Amp? We tried to have a level equal to the output level of the guitar, but that did not work for every box. What can I do if I can't get up to the original Instrument level? Do I even need to?
B) We encountered realy serious noise problems while reamping. It's almost certainly a problem between PC and the input of the amp. We checked the amp by simply pluging a guitar instead of the reamp chain and it was dead silent.
Our solution was to apply the built in gate in cubase to the reamped tracks, but I doubt that's optimal.
How can we deal with that? Insert a noisegate into the reamping chain?
BTW: Did anybody try to reamp one my DIs?