Sampling rhythm guitar riffs live...how?

[GabeFry]

So I've got a question. How would I go about sampling my other guitarists riff's live? He's not coming through, and my band is already coming off a 2 month hiatus. Were tired of waiting around. Whats a good practice for just basically sampling the other guitar players riffs like through a cab or something? It's progressive metal so I will need plenty of streaming time or hard drive space or however you want to say it. Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

-Gabe

 

[Torniojaws]

I reamp a backing guitar live:

laptop - daw - di signal out - reamp - amp

Edit:
but this is of course because of monitoring reasons (no drummer either )

 

[GabeFry]

Interesting, although it would be real nice to be able to do it by footswitch.

 

[arv_foh]

or you could just record the track with a 57 (since that's what most engineers will mic the amp up with anyways) and send that signal direct out to the PA and ditch the amp. You could even use an iPod or something, but keep in mind your drummer will have to play to a click so the whole thing syncs up perfectly. There have been multiple threads on live backing tracks on here, just search for "click track" and you should find them

 

[GabeFry]

or you could just record the track with a 57 (since that's what most engineers will mic the amp up with anyways) and send that signal direct out to the PA and ditch the amp. You could even use an iPod or something, but keep in mind your drummer will have to play to a click so the whole thing syncs up perfectly. There have been multiple threads on live backing tracks on here, just search for "click track" and you should find them

Awesome, thanks dude!

 

[GabeFry]

Ok, so I tried this out last night and I wasn't getting hardly any volume. I went from my laptop, into my toneport, and from the right output into my cab. Didn't hardly get any volume, so a fellow musician who's practice space I had it setup at, plugged into his bass rig then it worked great. So basically we couldn't figure out exactly what I needed though. A preamp, or a poweramp. Or could I just use a powered mixer?

 

[arv_foh]

2 things.. A reamp box to correct the impedance coming out of your interface and a power amp to amplify it

 

[GabeFry]

2 things.. A reamp box to correct the impedance coming out of your interface and a power amp to amplify it

How about a radial passive DI box? And would a powered mixer work or no?

 

[colynomial]

You'll need a power amp or powered mixer to work with your cab. Powered mixer is just a mixer with an integrated power amp.

And you wont need a reamp box unless your going into the guitar input of an amp. Most dedicated poweramps are going to have line level inputs, which is what your Toneporrt is outputting. If you're using some modeling software for your guitar tone you should just be able to turn off the cabinet simulation and send that signal to the power amp and then onto the cab. Otherwise you should just ditch the guitar cab, record the extra guitar tracks with distortion and everything, then send that out via the tone port directly to the house speakers.

 

[GabeFry]

You'll need a power amp or powered mixer to work with your cab. Powered mixer is just a mixer with an integrated power amp.

And you wont need a reamp box unless your going into the guitar input of an amp. Most dedicated poweramps are going to have line level inputs, which is what your Toneporrt is outputting. If you're using some modeling software for your guitar tone you should just be able to turn off the cabinet simulation and send that signal to the power amp and then onto the cab. Otherwise you should just ditch the guitar cab, record the extra guitar tracks with distortion and everything, then send that out via the tone port directly to the house speakers.

Cool, yeah I just want to be ready in case we play a show where we can't go into the pa or something cause we are a very lead base band, so it would be so empty without the other guitar.