Ensure this track is sent to your speaker output and NOT to the output that's connected to your amp via the re-amp box to avoid a feedback loop. Position a microphone to record the amplifier and connect this to an available input on your interface (screenshots use input 1 as the example).įinally, in your DAW, create a new track with the correct input assigned. In Focusrite Control, this setting is defined on the Device Settings page.Ĭonnect this output to your re-amp box to take the signal from a 'balanced line' to an 'unbalanced instrument' level (the level your amplifier is designed for), then connect the output of the re-amp box to your guitar amplifier. In Scarlett/Saffire Mix Control this is accomplished by holding shift & clicking the box on the right side corresponding to that output to turn it grey. If you're using an interface that uses Scarlett Mix Control, Saffire Mix Control or Focusrite Control, assign 'DAW 3' to the physical output you will be using.Įnsure you don't have any Direct Monitoring/Low Latency Monitoring enabled and that this output is set to full-scale (not controlled by the software volume dial). In your DAW, set the output of the track you have your dry signal recorded to an output NOT being used by your speakers (e.g. Note: It's not possible to monitor while re-amping with the Solo or 2i2 since the headphone output mirrors the line outputs, so you would just hear the dry signal through one side of the headphones and nothing else. If you are using a Scarlett Solo/iTrack Solo then you will need to disconnect your speakers and use an RCA to 1/4 inch jack cable in order to connect to the re-amp box. If you have a Scarlett Solo, 2i2, 18i8 (1st and 2nd Gen) or an iTrack Solo you will need to disconnect your speakers while re-amping. This means you won't need to sacrifice having speakers connected for monitoring while performing the steps below. This works best when you use an interface with more than 2 line outputs. Alternatively, you can use a DI box with a mic or line input to record the dry signal. All current Focusrite interfaces have at least one 'instrument' input so that you can connect a guitar/bass directly and record the dry signal into your DAW. Re-amping is the process of taking a dry, direct recorded guitar signal and passing this through a guitar amplifier. The end result will not turn a DI guitar track into a track that sounds like it was recorded with a Neumann U47, but it can create a track that blends into the mix much better, has interesting character and sounds a whole lot less like a demo tape.This applies to the Scarlett, Saffire, Clarett, Forte and Red interfaces To warm up the DI track, I EQ’ed out some honkiness with the stock Pro Tools EQ, and compressed and saturation it a bit with the Kush UBK-1 plug-in. Probably not enough to use for the whole track for fine for a few bars. Of course I checked the mono compatibility and it held up OK. The natural latency of the re-amping made a nice stereo spread. Most of the mixed just used the re-amp track, but a couple spots I used the DI guitar and the re-amp track panned hard left and hard right. I would never record with levels this hot!!) Here is the original DI guitar (all levels have been bumped up a bit for the online samples. The SM57 went into an A Designs Pacifica, then compressed a bit with my LA-2A and back into Pro Tools with my Agogee AD-16X. We miked it with a Shure SM-57, but not too close because I wanted to get some air into the sound. Then into my Rivera TBR-2SL tube guitar head out to an old Mesa-Boogie 4×12 cabinet. We ran out of pro tools into an original REAMP box. I have no details about how the guitar was recorded except that is was direct. Several people on facebook asked for info about the re-amping, so here it is… Overall the production of the album was great, but they had a logistics issue on this one song and had to do the guitar direct for one song, so they get a pass. I almost never record guitars of any sort direct, but I was just mixing this track. Ugh -( I was trying to breath some life into it. Yesterday I posted on my Facebook page that I was re-amping an acoustic guitar that had been recorded direct.
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