![]() The connection from the Tascam to the amp looks very much like the connection from a pedal to the amp - such that a pedal between them is redundant.So i’m fortunate enough to be able to plug my live rig directly into my interface and use cab IR’s to get my live flavour silently. Impedance is important on the input side because of the way that passive guitars are so sensitive to load impedance. All that really matters is that the reamped signal sounds good in the mix anyway, right? Plug it in and turn the knobs till it sounds good. To a certain extent you have to ask yourself how much you care if it sounds exactly like the guitar into the amp. But if you're trying to record the original DI guitar signal at "proper" levels averaging around -18dbfs, you're probably adding 10-20db, which is quite a hell of a lot of gain, and will be noticeably different from plugging straight into the amp. Then as long as you set all the faders in Reaper to 0 (unity), you have exactly the same signal coming out as going in, give or take a few db from the balanced>unbalanced connection.Ī couple db here and there isn't really an issue, you'll probably adjust for that at the amp itself, and if that doesn't work, you can always go to the controls in the DAW. An buffered pedal - powered but bypassed - between the guitar and the interface will completely alleviate that issue. If you've already got that T knob all the way down, you won't probably notice a difference, but for most things you will probably not like what it does to the tone. If you plug a passive guitar into one of these lower-Z inputs, it'll be very much like turning down the T knob on the guitar itself. All of the rear inputs are always at that lower impedance. If you push the switch in to Guitar, it adds like 9 or 10db of gain, and also changes the input impedance to 1M from 10K(? I'd have to look to be sure). The ones in the back are always at unity. ![]() The ones in the front have gain knobs, with all the way down being unity. ![]() The inputs on the back are exactly the same as the inputs on the front when those switches are set to Line. It is only essential to make sure you are feeding the exact amount of signal the guitar puts out if you only have the one guitar sound that you have setup on your amp and you are trying to match that. This is because you will dial the right amount of gain into the amp as you are fiddling with it, trying to get the perfect sound for the part. If you are one of those people who is constantly fiddling with the knobs on the amp, you can get away with recording the guitar with a good healthy signal and feeding the amp line level. This is very usefull with super high gain guitar sounds. That is the other reason for reampers, you record a loud signal, the the reamp unit attenuates it to a guitar level signal, attenuating the self noise of the interface at the same time. ![]() Whether or not it works for you depends on how noisy the interface is and how much gain you use on your amp. That is a good way of trying to give the amp the same signal level the guitar would be giving it, but you run the risk of a high noise floor because you are recording a very low signal. The only downside to plugging right into a line input would be the possibility of noise when you try to reamp. This will really allow me to record whenever I want. So often, I want to do guitar tracks but can't because it's too late. Is it just a matter of sticking a mic in front of my amp and sending that into REAPER? Will I not get a feedback loop of some kind? If it's this simple, why do people talk about "Re-ampers" and all that? Seems pretty simple to me. What I did was take an output from my interface (US-1800), into the amp, and was able to audition different amp settings, etc.I haven't tried recording yet, though. So, this morning I was trying to figure out how to get that direct signal to my amp so that I can mic it. ![]() But, I didn't record the distortion, I just recorded the direct signal. But I really felt like recording, so what I did was get a cheap distortion plug-in that allowed me to get SOME sustain and actually play guitar parts with some feel. But I couldn't blast the hell out of my amp. Last night, I was up late and wanted to do some guitar tracks. Never thought I'd be asking a question about re-amping, but here goes. ![]()
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