The easiest way to do this is to get an ABY Box. In this case, it’s a tonal safety net in case the tone doesn’t end up working down the road. It’s often done to “punch up” lethargically timbred guitar tones. If that tone doesn’t end up working in the track, I have a duplicate performance recorded as a dry signal that I can re-amp.įor those of you not familiar with that term, re-amping is the process of running a pre-recorded guitar signal through an amplifier (or modeller) and recording it.but that specific tone might not work in the mix. If it’s a solo, this might be a take with some verb and delay to fill out the tone. I can get a tone happening that I like and am comfortable with.With both of those observations in mind, I try to track things with a dry signal (i.e. Also, until you’re actually tracking things – it’s often difficult to know how your tone is going to fit into the mix overall. It’s difficult to track something if you’re not happy with the tone. Lesson 2: Whenever possible, have a plan B.

I had gotten a little tunnel visioned on how we were going to track and in doing so forgot to set up direct signals. Lesson 1: Be willing to take your own advice!!īack in the Laptop Guitar rig/AU Lab posts – I had talked about the necessity for setting up multiple guitar tones for multiple occasions. As the Atomic Amp I use (more info below) colors the sound (less highs and more bass), the tweaking I had done to dial in the tones with the amp was now resulting in some tones that were not happening in the headphones. I had eq’d and set everything up for miking an amp but when we went to go track it, Craig preferred DI’ing the POD instead. I was thrown for a small loop when I went to track some Rough Hewn Trio tunes last week. My go to Marshall rhythm sound right now is a JTM-45 with the volume rolled off about 20 %. With the Pod HD, if I have a distorted track and back off the gain – it acts more like a tube amp does and cleans up a little. While the volume lowers it’s tonally the same. There are a number of things I’ve recently noticed working with the POD HD, but the biggest one that’s jumped out at me is how dynamic the guitar gain is now.įor example: with POD Farm, I can dial in a good tone but rolling down my volume doesn’t really affect the timbre of the signal.

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