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RoboPlankton · 08-30-2014, 04:19 PM

I got to thinking that the following might be of some use....

There are two recordings of mine here at my account:

https://app.box.com/s/tvxqkga3qsfsu7uhi2yq

My guitar has a somewhat weird tone, I'm planning to change the pups soon, but anyway.....

The original recording was me just messin' about with amp sims etc, and I recorded four guitar takes and superimposed them all. They all have the same tone. I used the Mercuriall Tomato pre-amp and nothing else other than a tad of verb and very mild delay (until the end of one take).

I just loaded that file into REAPER and added the Emissary amp, clean channel, all the relevant knobs set to the middle.

I go into the PC mic socket using this neat pre-amp by Don Tillman:

http://www.till.com/articles/GuitarPreamp

The FET he uses is getting rarer, but you'll still find it on the web quickly enough. It's an easy build, I didn't use a circuit board but just soldered the components together 'up in the air'.

So, although the recordings I've linked to will not set the world ablaze, they show that I can get a workable tone for almost no money at all

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Edit:

I have an old Creative Audigy sound card and the Asio4All driver. I set the buffer at 256 usually, but have gone lower. This is all on XP Pro.

08-30-2014, 04:19 PM	#54
RoboPlankton Human being with feelings Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: my space Posts: 932	I got to thinking that the following might be of some use.... There are two recordings of mine here at my account: https://app.box.com/s/tvxqkga3qsfsu7uhi2yq My guitar has a somewhat weird tone, I'm planning to change the pups soon, but anyway..... The original recording was me just messin' about with amp sims etc, and I recorded four guitar takes and superimposed them all. They all have the same tone. I used the Mercuriall Tomato pre-amp and nothing else other than a tad of verb and very mild delay (until the end of one take). I just loaded that file into REAPER and added the Emissary amp, clean channel, all the relevant knobs set to the middle. I go into the PC mic socket using this neat pre-amp by Don Tillman: http://www.till.com/articles/GuitarPreamp The FET he uses is getting rarer, but you'll still find it on the web quickly enough. It's an easy build, I didn't use a circuit board but just soldered the components together 'up in the air'. So, although the recordings I've linked to will not set the world ablaze, they show that I can get a workable tone for almost no money at all . Edit: I have an old Creative Audigy sound card and the Asio4All driver. I set the buffer at 256 usually, but have gone lower. This is all on XP Pro. __________________ You never know what's coming Last edited by RoboPlankton; 08-30-2014 at 05:22 PM.