Compressing/limiting DI's prior to reamping?

[Jaymz]

Im reamping an EP worth of guitar tracks and have been thinking about processing the DI's in a way to keep the consistancy flowing. The guitarist got more and more confident in his playing as we got further through the tracking so the first song is "fairly" weaker than the rest of the tracks and im finding I have to turn the gain up on the amp for that song or specific sections.

Is the DI compressing/limiting a smart move?

I don't have time to "test" the method properly when it could lead to any un-desireable effects....so I thought id bring this up on here first

Cheers!

Jaymz

 

[aramism]

once in a while i've found the need to slightly eq and de-ess guitar tracks. never really using pure compression though. worth a try though who knows, there's no rules. if it sounds good then so be it. the dessing helps if its not played cleanly or there's serious string stuff going on like really annoying "clank"

 

[Jaymz]

Not too many problems EQ wise, if anything I take a TINY bit of low end out on the DI but I leave the rest. Its the dynamic consistancy thats the problem.

 

[Wolfeman]

You are gonna raise the noise of those DI's to an unbearable level if you mess with the dynamics on them. Even just bumping the send level a tad will give you more noise at the amp. If it was clean guitar you could probably get away with it.

 

[Jaymz]

Righty ho, cheers!

 

[Finsmi]

Why would you want to de-ess the DI's?

 

[Jaymz]

Why would you want to de-ess the DI's?

To keep the top end under control

 

[jimwilbourne]

To keep the top end under control

really? interesting.
I've only found the need to LPF and/or shelve the high end.

sometimes if you're using too much presence in the guitars, the high end can be a bit unreasonable.

 

[BLUElightCory]

Why would you want to de-ess the DI's?

Try to think of it as compressing the highs (rather than outright reducing/eliminating highs) and this technique makes more sense.

 

[dale_a_smith]

I'd be tempted to simply increase the level of the quieter track before re-amping. just up the gain of the DI track by a few db's, until its in the same region as the louder tracks.

 

[Jaymz]

I'd be tempted to simply increase the level of the quieter track before re-amping. just up the gain of the DI track by a few db's, until its in the same region as the louder tracks.

Exactly what I did & it turned out well

 

[dale_a_smith]

 

[lolzgreg]

Andy told me once he was using a transient designer on a guitarist's DIs to help with poor picking strength.

Raising the fader for the mono out that the DI was on was your best bet, and you did it.

 

[Trevoire520]

I've messed about with limiting DI's a little before, never had any problems with it to be honest.