What’s The Best Way To Record Great Tone?
A few issues back in 479 I set out to do a shootout test of the best way to get electric guitar tone down on recordings in a home studio. A few years ago, mic’ing things up the old-fashioned way was still your main option. These days, however, the boom in modelling devices that emulate authentic amp tones as well as reactive load boxes – posh attenuators married to Impulse Response technology – offer the guitarist some excellent new ways to record great guitar sounds in a small studio.
In order to conduct a longterm shootout test on the pros and cons of each approach, I assembled a pile of cutting-edge gear including a Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Captor X reactive loadbox and a Neural DSP Quad Cortex digital modelling/ profiling floorboard. I’ve also got some other nice gear from profiling amp pioneers Kemper and British valve amplifier supremos Laney to try out, too.
“It all starts with the thing all the others are trying to sound like…”
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