Hello you happy reapermen guitar players!
What do you think about recording guitars with external preamps, then mixing with a power amp and cab IR?
I have'nt seen a lot discussed about this in the forum and I'm wondering it's wether a possible improvement or not (I asked this same question in the french part of the forum, but there was no reply...).
I have a couple of guitar preamps that I use for live playing (Palmer MKII, Marshall JMP1) and I found it's difficult (but not impossible
) to make them sound good in the daw.
So I just try an experiment yesterday :
- I plugged a guitar in the Palmer Pocket MKII (a Sansamp clone), which is connected to the input of my JoeMeek 6Q preamp
- the 6Q preamp is connected by Spdif to the interface (Motu Mk3 Ultralite), wich only serves as a transport for the very good 6Q AD convertor
- on a reaper track, I put a VST Pover amp sim (Ignite TPA-1) and an IR Cab loader (Ignite Nadir) with a cab Ir I got from Seacow (
https://seacowcabs.wordpress.com/201...ll-v30-custom/)
Sounds good! (at least played live out of a mixing context). I need to make more comparisons in the future, but while it seems good, it is not soooo good that I will change all my habits at once.
I found a lot of informations on this website :
https://overdriven.fr/overdriven/ind...ponses-part-4/
It's mainly high gain and metal oriented, and I'm not sure it's relevant towards the sounds I'm looking for (clean, bluesy, light crunch, etc.).
It seems quite complicated et asking for a lot of tweakings, and I am asking to myself wether it worths the time spent or not.
I must precise that I am not looking for advices in recording guitars. Having doing that for more than 15 years, I'm quite satisfied with the way I do that today, either recording live my tube amp or using amp sims in Reaper.
But as I see all this IR stuff growing every day, I just wonder if it is now the time to explore new ways.
Any thought? I'd like to hear from you about your own experiments.
Cheers !