To “impede” is to get in the way of something, to hinder the progression of something, and impedance (written Z in electrical equations) is a measure of how much a signal is hindered in getting through a circuit. There is a magical love relationship interaction between an electric guitar and a guitar amplifier. Not only that, but there is another problem, which is that your USB interface and your guitar amp don’t love each other in the same way that your guitar and amp do… The line-level output of your interface is way louder than the output of your guitar, so you are going to have to turn the output level way down to avoid overloading the input of the amp into extreme distortion. You might think all you have to do is plug your guitar into the 1/4″ input of your USB interface, record it, and then connect the 1/4″ output of the interface to your guitar amp, but it’s not that simple.
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The name’s trademarked, but it has now been associated in general use with the reamplification process. Nowadays, Radial Engineering owns the Reamp name with the blessing of inventor John Cuniberti (who still has a cool history/applications site at ), and sells products based on his original designs.
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For now, though, we’ll concentrate on electric guitar.īy the way, the word “reamp” comes from “reamplification” and was the brand name of the first device specifically designed to do this, which we’ll discuss below.
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How about bagpipes through a 100 Watt Marshall head with full stack?GWAR does that. You can also reamp bass, of course, and why stop there? You can reamp any track: vocals, horns, acoustic guitar, whatever.
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Or, if you’re not very confident of your engineering skills, you can record direct guitar at home and then bring the tracks to a pro studio with great amps, great mics, and great engineers. At 4:30 AM, once you have your golden tone (aggressively hopped), you simply record the result to a new track or tracks, and you’re done! You can play your pre-recorded guitar track over and over again, trying different amps, miking techniques, and brands of beer to your heart’s content. After the session, when the guitarist is at home in their jammies, you can run the recorded direct guitar signal back to the amp, or to a different amp, or to a bank of 27 amps. Reamping can help you in these situations! In reamping, you record your usual guitar audio track, along with the direct output from the guitar before it gets to the amp.
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On a slightly more serious note, I have on occasion realized too late after the session that the guitarist got so excited during the magic take that they played harder and harder, and the track has ended up way more distorted than I realized. The problem with trying all those options is that your guitarist is itching to shred, and might not want to play the same old Yngwie Malmsteen licks over and over for 25 minutes while you decide whether fresh or flat beer has more “sparkle”. We’ve suggested comparing different mics, combining mics at the front, back, and even inside the cabinet, trying mics at different distances, mics pointing away from the cabinet, mics submerged in a mug of beer, mics swung vigorously in a circle above your head for a Leslie type effect, and on and on. Over the years this magazine has featured many articles on guitar cabinet miking, and there are a lot of articles on the topic in this online library. The down and dirty details on the gear and the science of sending recorded guitar tracks back out to an amp