Hey people!
New here, but I've been lurking for months and I gotta thank you all for the insane amounts of info and help you dish out here. Been wanting to post a couple of things but always thought it's better to figure it out on my own and not get flamed and have my blood pressure raised
I have read all the stuff that I could find on reamping and I do have a solid idea about the whole process and the equipment involved, but I have a couple of questions since I'm having this dilemma.
I have a Mackie Onyx Satellite and a Boss GT-10. With careful and thoughtful work on the GT-10 I believe I managed to get tones that rival (if not surpass) the POD stuff from the Boss unit. However I am still experimenting (already memorized the 150 page manual and still discovering new stuff).
The manual assumes that you know what each function "means". So basically it doesn't say whether you're basically getting a DI'ed output from the USB port if you place your digital out at the beginning of the chain or not. So my question is, how can I tell if the levels are correct and true? I would think the DI'ed recording would be all spikey and looks like it's begging for compression, but it doesn't look anything like that if I do the above.
Is there a way to find out whether the signal I'm getting there is good enough for reamping? The cool thing about the GT is that I can reamp with it easily (as the manual says but that's where the info stops) and I really like some of the tones I got out of it, but I am also considering reamping the band's album later on with better equipment if I get any, or if I manage to get nicer sounds from, say, ACME stuff or SoloC. You get my drift there.
The dilemma is the following: Should I just stop wondering and DI the guitars through my Onyx instrument input? Or do you think that doing so through the GT would yield "truer" results for reamping on the same?
The other confusing thing on the Onyx is that even through the instrument input the signal still has a "gain" knob that is tweakable. It's an analogue knob, and doesn't have a clear zero dB level. Should I just eye it through the DAW to a specific level?
I would appreciate the help and apologies in advance if the topic belongs somewhere that I couldn't figure out.
New here, but I've been lurking for months and I gotta thank you all for the insane amounts of info and help you dish out here. Been wanting to post a couple of things but always thought it's better to figure it out on my own and not get flamed and have my blood pressure raised
I have read all the stuff that I could find on reamping and I do have a solid idea about the whole process and the equipment involved, but I have a couple of questions since I'm having this dilemma.
I have a Mackie Onyx Satellite and a Boss GT-10. With careful and thoughtful work on the GT-10 I believe I managed to get tones that rival (if not surpass) the POD stuff from the Boss unit. However I am still experimenting (already memorized the 150 page manual and still discovering new stuff).
The manual assumes that you know what each function "means". So basically it doesn't say whether you're basically getting a DI'ed output from the USB port if you place your digital out at the beginning of the chain or not. So my question is, how can I tell if the levels are correct and true? I would think the DI'ed recording would be all spikey and looks like it's begging for compression, but it doesn't look anything like that if I do the above.
Is there a way to find out whether the signal I'm getting there is good enough for reamping? The cool thing about the GT is that I can reamp with it easily (as the manual says but that's where the info stops) and I really like some of the tones I got out of it, but I am also considering reamping the band's album later on with better equipment if I get any, or if I manage to get nicer sounds from, say, ACME stuff or SoloC. You get my drift there.
The dilemma is the following: Should I just stop wondering and DI the guitars through my Onyx instrument input? Or do you think that doing so through the GT would yield "truer" results for reamping on the same?
The other confusing thing on the Onyx is that even through the instrument input the signal still has a "gain" knob that is tweakable. It's an analogue knob, and doesn't have a clear zero dB level. Should I just eye it through the DAW to a specific level?
I would appreciate the help and apologies in advance if the topic belongs somewhere that I couldn't figure out.
