Questions about reamping and takeing a Di from my amp.....

Hi all

So Today I treated my self to a BlackStar Ht-5s Vintage limited Edition
http://www.guitar.co.uk/a...ition_valve_mini_stack
I managed to get the rig for £399 so made a bit of a saveing

I also bought a SE R1 Ribbon Mic
http://www.seelectronics.com/R1_Ribbon.html
I managed to get one new for just £ 145 !!!!!!!

I hope its good for recording the new amp..... I guess I will find out tomorow haha

I am one happy Norrie  and excited to try them

With all that said I have 3 questions I hope you can help me with

I have bought this amp and mic and useing a Sm57 aswell I plan to learn to mic it up as I have never miced up guitar cabs and recorded before untill now I have always recorded useing pod farm guitar rig 4 or my Vamp pro recording a dry signal then sending it to the Vamp and  so I can tweek the settings till I find something I like then freeze the track and so on.

So I have a load of songs I have ben working on that I can take the freeze off and be left with dry guitar tracks so I would love to re amp through the BlackStar and learn to mic them up

So Question 1 - is it safe to just go from an out put of my VS-700 with a guitar lead and run it straight in to the BlackStar HT-5 ?

Question 2 - The HT -5 has a cool feature that will let me use the head on its own and has a line out for recording with a 2x12 and a 4x12 amp emulation. When I take the conection from the amp to the line in on my VS-700 do I need to adjust the pre at all ? or do I just sadjust the setings to get the signal right at the amp head and also do I have the -20 pad on or off ?

Last Question is about the place ment of My SE Ribbon what distance should it be from the amp face and again should I be working with the -20 pad on or off when recording through the Ribbon going in to my Pre on the VS-700 ?

Thanks for all help on this I really apreciate any info on al of this

I am sorry if any of this comes across as stupid questions to you guys but I am a bit of a worrior and dont want to do anything that could cause harm to any of the equipment and have no experiance in this type of thing at all so just reading through the forums trying to pick up tips and asking here in this thread for any help on what Ive said above :)

Thanks to every one for any help you can give me

Norrie

Thanks Mike your a star!

I guess I just like to plan ahead and have Ideas rather than going in blind. ( That and I think abgout what I am doing far to much over cautious realy )

I have a friend comeing up tomorow so I can do just what you talked about hes going to play and I am going to play with tones and mic placement of the SE and see what I can get out of it it should be a fun day :)

So in Question 2 with the emulation I should try with the pad on and just drive the amp to find the tone and signal I am looking for and if thats not geting it use the pre to make the signal hotter or maybe try takeing the pad off and the pre down ? I would be on the right track trying that type of thing then ? Just always makeing sure the signal isnt to hot of course.

I dont have a re amp box at the momment but its on my shoping list I think a palmer but cant remember the exact one .

So for the momment you think It will be ok to try straight out the VS -700 and straight in to the guitar input of the amp but just be care full my signal isnt to hot before it hits the amp and I should be ok ?

You were saying about a Xlr to Quarter inch cable ? The VS-700 outs are just Quarter inch jack outs and the input of the amp is going to be a guitar in so would a guatar cable be ok ? Just to try reamping untill I get my hands on a reamp box. I think thats my only option at the momment untill I get a box ?

I am really looking forward to learning all this now tomorows going to be a fun day !

Thanks again

Norrie

"So for the momment you think It will be ok to try straight out the VS -700 and straight in to the guitar input of the amp but just be care full my signal isnt to hot before it hits the amp and I should be ok ?"

You'll be amazed out how much you have to turn everything down... so start with every turned way down. Other than that you'll be able to work without hurting anything.


"You were saying about a Xlr to Quarter inch cable ? The VS-700 outs are just Quarter inch jack outs and the input of the amp is going to be a guitar in so would a guatar cable be ok ? Just to try reamping untill I get my hands on a reamp box. I think thats my only option at the momment untill I get a box ? "

If you have 1/4" outputs on the VS-100 I imagine they are balanced... so your best bet is to go from balanced to unbalanced. It's not really a good idea to shove a TRS into the guitar amp... it might be ok and just cause some signal loss... or it might hurt something on the VS-700... so I'd recommend some sort of balanced to unbalanced adapter or adapter cable.


best regards,
mike

I also ment to say the amp has a Effects loop with effects level switc....... Is there anyway to use that to Re amp ?

Sorry if this comes across as stupid I just dont know that much about this type of thing

Thanks again

Norrie

Awesome the -20 pad and cranking the volume works a treat we playedwith the 1x10 emulation mode and was quite nice and bright the 4x12 was a very big sound and very impressive just for emulation.

Let me know when you have had a shot of the one your friend owns and what you think of it :)

Could you recomend a reamp hook up for me to buy if thats the price ?

Thanks again!

Norrie

Or something like this:

http://www.hosatech.com/p...S_to_14_in_TSF%2C_6_in