- Apr 5, 2003
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I am planning to record some guitars in this strange way...
I'm going to go in direct input to start with through a Line6 Toneport (which is basically just an input box) and I'll be shaping my tone in the computer using Gearbox. I've got a pretty nice tone with that, you know, about as decent as you can get with direct input.
The toneport has one output through the headphones and into the microphone jack on the computer. The second signal, which will be through a very small Marshall combo amp, will be sent using a guitar cord from one of the regular outputs in the Toneport and just plugged into the amp - which will be set to clean, so that the distorted DI tone comes through the same as the one going into the computer.
I will record this amp using a Blue Snowball USB microphone... so I'll have one recording through microphone input, and one recording through USB... I know it's a strange way to do things but I don't have any fancy equipment that could "split the signal" or have multiple microphone inputs for my computer.... Just the one mic input... and then the USB...
My main concern at this point is whether there will be lag between the two recordings, but I should be able to move the laggy one over enough so that it fits along with the other in the song. Also drop outs and clipping is a concern, sometimes I get dropouts through the toneport for no apparent reason even when just using the single input.
I have never recorded using an amp before, so I don't know if I'm doing it right or anything. I plan to just sit the microphone in front of the amp - it's probably a foot and a half, both tall and wide, and the microphone sits on a little metal stand and is about the size of my fist. I really hope this will work out and sound nice... Is it possible?
And once I've got the two tracks recorded in the session, do I pan both of them left 100% and use the same equalization for both? Or should I make the amp take a bit more hollow in the mid-section? And should I put amp left 90% and the direct input left 100%? Thanks again for the help guys, this will either be very fun and exploratory, or very annoying and disastrous.
I'm going to go in direct input to start with through a Line6 Toneport (which is basically just an input box) and I'll be shaping my tone in the computer using Gearbox. I've got a pretty nice tone with that, you know, about as decent as you can get with direct input.
The toneport has one output through the headphones and into the microphone jack on the computer. The second signal, which will be through a very small Marshall combo amp, will be sent using a guitar cord from one of the regular outputs in the Toneport and just plugged into the amp - which will be set to clean, so that the distorted DI tone comes through the same as the one going into the computer.
I will record this amp using a Blue Snowball USB microphone... so I'll have one recording through microphone input, and one recording through USB...
I know it's a strange way to do things but I don't have any fancy equipment that could "split the signal" or have multiple microphone inputs for my computer.... Just the one mic input... and then the USB... My main concern at this point is whether there will be lag between the two recordings, but I should be able to move the laggy one over enough so that it fits along with the other in the song. Also drop outs and clipping is a concern, sometimes I get dropouts through the toneport for no apparent reason even when just using the single input.
I have never recorded using an amp before, so I don't know if I'm doing it right or anything. I plan to just sit the microphone in front of the amp - it's probably a foot and a half, both tall and wide, and the microphone sits on a little metal stand and is about the size of my fist. I really hope this will work out and sound nice... Is it possible?
And once I've got the two tracks recorded in the session, do I pan both of them left 100% and use the same equalization for both? Or should I make the amp take a bit more hollow in the mid-section? And should I put amp left 90% and the direct input left 100%? Thanks again for the help guys, this will either be very fun and exploratory, or very annoying and disastrous.
