Electric guitar tone

 
   I've been trying to come up with a more of a plug and play
setup for electric guitar (for recording). IE already comped, verb'd etc.
It would be in a way similar to a "live" setup as far as the guitars
sound goes. Of course this setup (for a live application) would need
some form of power amps and speakers. Right now I'm at 4 rack spaces
with this setup and just getting the basics worked out. In other words
the basic clean tone first. 

   In this example I'm using a:

    SP VTB1 Mic Pre (replaced the tube)
       It's insert is routed to a 2/3d octave eq

    Out of the mic pre to an (autocom) (the older one)
   The autocom is of course two comps in a one space rack unit
   so I'm using two comps in series.

  From there into (a second) 2/3d octave eq and then into an
  old rack verb which comes out as a stereo send to be
recorded.

  The guitar tracks are recorded as a stereo signal. It's only
stereo in the since that the verb as touch wider. The goal
or idea was to see if I can lay down the tracks, set the levels
and be done with the mix. No plug ins, no eq, no comping
not even any master bus effects. The backing rhythm guitar
is the same setup as the lead guitar.

  The backing guitar is the only guitar with any type of plug added,
just a touch of widening. I played all of the parts and the drums
are just a simple kick and snare just to see how things turn out.
The goal here is to in a basic since just see how it sounds to just
play and set the levels and that's it.

  The lead guitar is (one take) IE no over dubs or punch ins.
I normalized the mix to -3 and faded out the ending and that's the
extent of anything done to the mix. What this has done for
me is to bring back the fun in simply just laying down the tracks.
No headphones, just hearing all that being done in the
monitors as it gets recorded.

      Here is a link to the "soundclick" site.

         the song is called "Guitar Test"
          http://soundclick.com/share?songid=9507126

 

  

RLD


That sounds real nice Jimmy. Good playing bud!
So it appears that this is a direct signal, git into pre..no guitar amp, right?

    Yes that's correct. No amps, this setup was intended
for a plug it in (to the interface) and record with effects
already printed like eq, compression, verb etc. I've plugged
this into two guitar amps as well to see how it would
work out doing it that way as well and that worked out
good too. I just have to use the guitar (amps) with less
(highs) than would normally be done (for obvious
reasons). And by the way, I've heard your playing
before and  you play very good, and I like your tone.

  Thanks RLD