effects & DIs

[pakos69]

Hello guys!
I have a question about effect chains & DI recording...

As I know the signal from the guitar goes to the DI where it splits and one cable goes directly to the pres of the soundcard (for the "clean" tone that would be later propably be reamped) and the the other cable (from "thru") goes to an amp for monitoring.

The problem comes when you want to add effects. The most effects come after the amplification stage, so they are "done" while reamped. However, when somebody wants to use effects that come before the drive section such as wah or whammy do they aply them when the reamp takes place or do they connect the guitar to wah-whammy and then to DI while recording?

Further, if I connect the guitar to a wha and after to a DI, would I have signal lose? Is there some relation to this with whether the pedal is true bypassed or not?

Thanks!
All the best!

 

[XnaySaturo]

I don't know about signal loss or anything, but I recently reamped a wah solo, and I just played the wah when reamping. I've seen that done in a couple of studio vids too. I guess it's a question of preference: if you have to get the DI with the guitarist because he won't be around for reamping, then just do that, but if you're doing everything yourself, the benefit is that if you mess up with the effects only, you can just reamp through them again without having to track.

 

[pakos69]

Well, I searched a bit the net and found this:

http://ortizaudio.blogspot.com/

look at the "Tracking for third party mix(Part 1)", the guy uses many DIs!!!

However, I think his method is good if you are going to sent the tracks for reamping somewhere you can't go and "play" the effects yourself.
On the other hand, what you mentioned is what I had allready seen. My concern though for my question was:
1. What you do when you aren't around when reamping
2. a.What you do when you want a "fast" tracking
b.and you want your full concern on the sound you are looking for when reamping and don't want to mess with effects "playing" (that goes for the wah/whammy)