Re-Amping?

[natenatenate]

Hey guys, I picked up the new As I Lay Dying CD the other day. In the section where they tell you who engineered it, it said Andy Sneap: Re-Amping. I looked it up on wikipedia and all over the internet and couldn't find nothing that really made me understand whta excalty they were tlaking about. So what exactly is reamping?

[Gitarted]

reamping...

taking an already recorded track and running it through an amp. then you can mic the reamped track (to change of correct the sound of the track without re tracking it) there is a lot of variations on this technique, but that is the general idea.

you can do this with any instrument, not just guitar.
it's a very cool little trick...workes great with drums as well.

hope that helps

D

[natenatenate]

Originally Posted by Gitarted

reamping...

taking an already recorded track and running it through an amp. then you can mic the reamped track (to change of correct the sound of the track without re tracking it) there is a lot of variations on this technique, but that is the general idea.

you can do this with any instrument, not just guitar.
it's a very cool little trick...workes great with drums as well.

hope that helps

D

alright!! Thanx!!

[brandondrury]

Yeah, more than likely, the band recorded a DI track and then just sent him the DI tracks.

This is not a bad way of working. You can seperate the performance from the tone, somewhat. Of course, feedback and stuff that like will have to be done differently.

Michael Wagener was planning on doing something like this last year for $100 per song or something like that. Not a bad way to go if a person doesn't have the gear.

Brandon

[DT Chris]

What's the purpose of re-amping though? Is it supposed to fatten the sound or something?

Would you use it with a distorted guitar track, and re-amping it distorted or clean?

[brandondrury]

Re-amping comes in a few variations, but in many cases, Re-amping IS the sound.

So, let's say you want huge sounding guitars and you know how to play pretty well. You can sit down and record your track DI (clean...straight into the computer) and then send that to whatever simulator you want just so you can play with distortion or whatever on.

Then, you send these clean tracks to robo mega guy. He then hits play on your clean DI track and sends them through an impedance matcher and into a Hughes and Kettner Triamp ($3,000) or through some Engl amp ($3,000) or maybe 10 of each for all I know. A robo producer type guy essentially gets your guitar sound....at least the best he can with your playing on it. So he then sends back the tracks that sound like they recorded in a $2 billion studio. That's the idea.

Of course, you can reamp already recorded guitar tracks too. You can never make them cleaner than they were, but you can dramatically change the character of them. So let's say you've got nothing but fizz coming out of your Line 6 amp (that you may not own). You can take that recorded track and run it through a Marshall again (with the Marshall very clean) and that will knock a lot of that fizz off and get your closer to a real tone.

Brandon