Reamp recording studio Patch#
Reamp recording studio software#

It actually compared very favorably with some of my best amp software, and it's free! The Emphasis EQ was a little tricky, but once I got the hang of it, I came up with some nice sounds. I was recently pretty impressed with the Voxengo Boogex amp sim plug-in.

Reamp recording studio software#

That said, amp software has gotten better. Just make sure you use a load resistor with a tube amp. Then I either mic the amp's speaker, or I use my Palmer speaker simulator, which sounds pretty good too, and it's easier to adjust the tone in your headphones when you're not hearing the amp in the room as well. I compared it with my guitar plugged into the amp, and after I adjusted the DAW output volume to match the output of the guitar, I don't hear any difference. Direct track recorded to my DAW, sent out the ULN2 through a guitar cable into my amp. I believe there is a huge argument why these are actually needed.īut this works for me, might not suit everyone.I do the same thing with my ULN2, and it sounds fine. Works an absolute treat, tones are great and I've never had an issue with clipping or over distortion. I've never actually used one, i go straight out from my liquid saffire 56 output 5 (switched to pre master volume) and dropped 15db. But at this point, the main reason I can see for building an active reamp box is purely because the best design (JCR passive reamp) is patent protected. I would love to hear from somebody who has a good logical reason why active works better for them. The 'best' active DI boxes have a transformer to stop ground loop hum - but that really makes the active side redundant for this simple gain dropping/unbalancing exercise. A transformer can break a ground loop hum. Also - with AC power coming from two different room, ground loop hum is often an issue.

Reamp recording studio Patch#

Sit the reamp box right on top of the amp, with a short patch cable - keeps the unbalanced section to the minimum. If you need to run an audio signal over long cables, a hot balanced signal is much better for avoiding noise problems. One reason why a passive Reamp driven by balanced +4 line level might work in your favor is in a typical studio where the guitar cab tracking room is some distance away from the control room. Since this is all about matching levels, impedance and unbalancing - if your audio interface already does this, agreed - there is no need for one. You've already captured more noise than a passive pickup during the DI tracking process - how much more noise do you want to add (especially in front of high gain pedals and amps). There is no need to use an active amplifer circuit - because no matter how good or expensive an active circuit, it will add noise (just like using an active pickup). which is exactly what the patent protected JCR is. So this is the perfect application for a custom wound transformer with a volume control. Effectively, you want to emulate a guitar pickup (which is a coil of wire being excited by a moving magnetic field). the whole purpose of a Reamp box is to attenuate a strong balanced line level down to a weaker unbalanced instrument level.

Why anyone would want an active Reamp box beats me.