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SELF PROMOTION / FAN FICTION:

« on: August 18, 2011, 06:09:06 pm »

FAN FICTION: Andrea Bonino, Christian Zollner, Mysterybear, Mystified, simulacro:

http://www.archive.org/details/rlva01lp

Acoustic guitar + ebow and drones from several artists. Hope you like the music.

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Re-amping

« on: July 16, 2011, 04:33:53 pm »

Very good! Now you are ready to go.

About the guys not playing OK: if you are good at editing you can do multiple takes and comp a master take with the good bits of each one. But it's better to tell them to do their job good

About switching on/off the amp with the cables attached:

sometimes when you switch the amp you can hear a "pop" in the speaker, in the worst case scenario that pop is also sent to the input of the amp and can damage the output stage of wathever is connected to. To avoid this use the common sense:  switch everything on with the volume at 0, plug your gear, turn the volume to the correct level and play. When you are done playing, turn all the volumes to 0, unplug and switch off. I believe that if you have a quality amp you can stop worrying about this issue but I wouldnt take chances with a PC connected directly to an amp or a mixer. On the other hand the Palmer DI must have a transformer at the output and those can block the current spikes, any way... read the manual carefully.

The impedance matching stuff is really cool, you can read about it in wikipedia:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Impedance_matching
An example is when you connect a mike directly to an amp and it sounds ugly and then you connect it with an impedance matcher or DI and sounds fine. The solid state amps can use a wider range of impedances than the tube amps.

About ground loops: always check the ground of a plug with the chassis of the equipment with a multimeter when you have different power circuits (basically the voltage between the 2 equipments you are using should be 0V). Maybe its not your case, but if you are using big amps it's better to do it.

Good luck

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Re-amping

« on: July 15, 2011, 04:31:56 pm »

Love my pod X3 and the plugin
All the guitars and bass were reamped with it on this album
http://www.deezer.com/fr/music/that-summer/near-miss-610020

Wow! Quite a sound!

I used the POD Farm plugin and got this (warning: it's thrash metal):
http://www.archive.org/details/rlsm01ep

I used a kind of "reamping" to get the guitar feedback:

http://flspectro.blogspot.com/2009/03/la-tecnologia-de-simulacro.html

I plugged the headphoes output from the interface to an amp and attached the speaker to the back of the guitar.

PC -> headphones out of the interface -> parametric eq to add a little resonance -> amp -> speaker -> strings ->pickup -> interface -> PC

So... back to the question: if you really want to reamp with the gear you have you can try to plug the headphone output of your gear to your amp's input and record the speaker output acoustically. Please check you don't have ground loops and DON'T SWITCH ON/OFF ANY PART OF THE CIRCUIT WHILE THE CABLE IT'S ATTACHED, I repeat: DON'T SWITCH ON/OFF ANY PART OF THE CIRCUIT WHILE THE CABLE IT'S ATTACHED. If you don't know what does it mean a ground loop don't try it and go with the plugin alternative, it's easier and you will have greater control of the final result. Or follow the advice of sublamp and make a DI box with a real transformer.

UPDATE:
1. The setup I used worked because I used a solid state amp. If you use a valve amp you can have impedance missmatchs that can introduce unwanted noise to the signal if you use the headphone outputs.

2. Actually, since you got a POD X3, you got it real easy: use the X3 as a DI audio interface! That critter even has the right outputs to plug it directly to your amp. Just read the manual and set it up. Remember: record dry, playback dry, setup your amp tone, record.

3. Post here your findings

Good luck.

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Re-amping

« on: July 08, 2011, 06:06:43 pm »

I really like the POD plugin. It doesn't sound as "stereodized" as Guitar Rig or Amplitube, its more dry and solid ("monoized" , but since it has a lot of different models you can place the sound in the mix with many colors.

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Re-amping

« on: July 07, 2011, 05:39:34 pm »

Common BE more specific! I think that you really want to do that

Although i get the main picture.

I won't tell about it because software reamping is "ugly" in some circles. But, you're lucky: if you have the POD X3 you can use the POD Farm plugin free. I use it and it's mega cool.

http://line6.com/podx3/recording.html

To reamp just record a stereo pair with the dry signal in one channel and the effected in the other, that way you can reamp the clean one with the POD Farm. I'm pretty shure I saw this setup detailed in the manual or in the recording how to.

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: PhantomPower guitar ?

« on: July 05, 2011, 10:54:44 am »

You will never need to phantom power your guitar. Try using the eq in the "STOMP" slot before the amp model. Try several shapes of eq and different gain settings. You will discover a lot of beautiful tones. Try reading: http://www.amptone.com/

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Re: Re-amping

« on: July 05, 2011, 10:49:41 am »

You don't lose a thing if you experiment reamping inside the daw with the free versions of Amplitube, Guitar Rig or Pod Farm + an impulse reverb. I won't tell if you don't. 

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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: CDs are dead (almost)

« on: November 17, 2010, 07:06:58 pm »

Just thinking:

a CD is a material object, vinyl also. A label gets money selling physical media filled with music or transmiting digitally the music.

Then:

What are the material objects that kids value the most?
What if the record look and feel like those sexy things that kids like?
Would I buy a black monolith that plays music?
I would not buy it if only plays BEP all day, but what if only plays InsertYourFavoriteMusicHere?
How could I tune that forbidden channel X that only broadcasts once every 5 years?

Having a million hours of audio in you HD is cool... but it's not sexy. LedZep didn't sold their albums in white labels after all. Make it massive, but sexy & cheap or expensive, exclusive & classy.

I think ipods can play wav files...

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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: Promotional Work

« on: November 17, 2010, 11:34:20 am »

http://www.musesmuse.com/col-virus-onlinemarketing.html


Bassically it says that getting a little personal with the reviewers is tha way to go. It sounds logical  to me but...