On saturday me and mike decided to try and re amp a guitar that we recorded in the Neve the week before. After both of us were confident in what we were doing thought that it wouldn't take very long to do we ran into a fair few issues along the way that ended up with us not being able to use the reamped guitar at all. However both of us now would be able to do the reamping process in less than 15 mins i believe after all the problems we came across and mistakes we made.
The first of the issues was that when we recorded my guitar and vocals last week we recorded the signal too strong. We should have given it at least 20db of head of extra room so when it played back through the amp it wasn’t too loud. This was a mistake we made while recording as we didn't do enough research about reamping prior to the initial recording. This meant that when we played the signal through the amp it was too strong to sound clear and meant that the effects we wanted to get from the amp and the gain has to be compromised. We couldn't apply the mps reverb or the delay we wanted to use it for as the signal was already peaking in the desk without the addition of these. It also meant we couldn't give the signal into the desk any gain which lead to a lot of ugly frequencies being present in the final production .
The second of these issues included that my guitar was actually OUT OF TUNE in the initial recording. however , there was three of us there all who are musicians who did not pick up on this! If this wasn’t the case we could have probably used this session and still gone back to record but it is what it is. However in the mix we did of the vocals it didn’t sound out of tune im not entirely how this got past us to be honest it's just really shitty!
But, after all this the main thing that went wrong with the reamping process was in fact that we plugged the reamping box into an INPUT. For some reason it just didn’t compute to us that this was the case. So we instead patched in an output from the interface to the live room with a really long extension cord. This worked immediately as we had the session setup correctly.
We created a new track for each microphone first off after we had miced everything up. Then we set up the reamper on a new track also and sent the DI track to this track and all the microphones to their own tracks to record. So we did it correctly apart from we plugged into an input (lol).
So unfortunately this did not go as planned at all because we thought it was going to sound really good. Unfortunately this is just one of the many setbacks im sure ill experience in my career. Here are photos of when we got the siganl flow correct and the session showing we had it correct.
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