silent recording

[greenmario]

Wise and good people of ILF, does anyone do silent recording (direct, might be the word). Was thinking of something I could put after my amp (load box?) and run that to my USB interface for my computer. I have an Apogee ONE for a USB interface and do most demos with Garageband. Would be extra sweet if this theoretical box I'm after could attenuate and let me get some amp break up, but not a must. When I run my pedals into the Apogee ONE it all sounds super harsh and not my bag. Any help appreciated, even telling me I'm a dingus and this has been discussed a bunch of times.

[Nateispro]

I have a baby on the way and needed to get used to silent recording. I picked up a two notes captor. It's a load box and has a Balanced and Unbalanced output to send to a mixer or computer interface. Depending on your amp is what ohm load you should get. They offer it in a 4 8 and 16 Ohm load. It has a built in speaker emulator but I am not a fan of it. It's easier to use speaker IR's to simulate a cab and sounds much better IMO. I hope this helps some!

[greenmario]

I have a baby on the way and needed to get used to silent recording. I picked up a two notes captor. It's a load box and has a Balanced and Unbalanced output to send to a mixer or computer interface. Depending on your amp is what ohm load you should get. They offer it in a 4 8 and 16 Ohm load. It has a built in speaker emulator but I am not a fan of it. It's easier to use speaker IR's to simulate a cab and sounds much better IMO. I hope this helps some!

I checked this out and it looks like it could be perfect. Sounds like I could get speaker IRs through Wall of Sound that work with Garageband. Are you liking it so far? Do you wish there were other attenuator options than -20db or 0?

[DrMabuse]

Yamaha THR10 is worth a look for low/no volume as well. If you use it as an audio interface, you can record the amp'd signal on one track and the dry on another. The amp sounds aren't bad, and they've worked better for me than running a string of pedals into an interface. Run the dry (pedal only) signal into one of the virtual amps in Garageband and mix in to taste.

It's also a great little practice amp at low volume and can run off batteries. Run your phone into the aux input with a drum machine app, find someone busking Jack Johnson covers on an acoustic, and siphon off all their listeners with your sweet techno-doom.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I do a lot of direct recording, just guitar - interface.

Add a cab (and amp, if that's your thing) simulator VST to the recording. This simulates the cab frequency response (and the pre/power amp if you want) which removes the harshness of direct to recording pre-amp guitar. I do plenty of stuff like this that I'm perfectly happy with for records.

[voerking]

I do a lot of direct recording, just guitar - interface.

Add a cab (and amp, if that's your thing) simulator VST to the recording. This simulates the cab frequency response (and the pre/power amp if you want) which removes the harshness of direct to recording pre-amp guitar. I do plenty of stuff like this that I'm perfectly happy with for records.

also, these tracks could later be re-amped, if desired.

i like doing this less because i can't make loud noises, but because i despise pedal clicking sounds (my space is small, so i can't effectively isolate the amp from the room where i'm clicking switches), so i record things direct, then send them out to a mic'd up amp before mixing.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah I'd quite like to get into re-amping. Definitely in my mind.

[moid]

I often record a dry track and play that back into different pedal setups / settings and record each one and then blend between them in the DAW to get the exact sound I want. I rarely record from my amplifier because I don't have great microphones and my amplifier is nothing amazing. Seems to work for my son and I, but most of our recordings aren't fiercely intense rock music.

[Ugly Nora]

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[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

w/o really knowing exactly what u are doing. my first guess would be the microphone. take that out and see if the feedback is still there.

my next guess would be some routing setting in your DAW potentially. maybe you are outputting to interface out and to main out (to speakers) and then inputting back in to main out again?
or something like that.

would just try isolating one thing at a time until it goes away.

[Ugly Nora]

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[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

in my experience, its usually something really dumb that i am overlooking in these situations.

if i'm reading u correctly, the same chain w/ the SP at the source = no feedback
same chain w/ DAW track at the source = feedback

definitely would look at your DAW I/O routing again . what program are u using?

like maybe u are outputting your source track, then inputting the sound back into the DAW and that is going out the same outs back into your chain again?
that sounds like a feedback loop to me if thats the case.

[Ugly Nora]

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[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

good luck!
w/o actually being there i can only guess as to whats going on.

don't assume everything is okay. take a step back & think it through.
maybe try a simpler setup first w/ the DAW and go from there.
can u just go from DAW out back in to interface and record w/o feedback?
if so then add another piece one by one until u get your feedback.

this will help u eliminate or identify certain aspects as the problem.

sometimes drawing a diagram helps me visualize whats supposed to be what.

[Ugly Nora]

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