Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Direct In
From: Burkhard Woelfel (versuchsanstalt_AT_gmx.de)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 18:16:17 EEST
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On Friday 25 July 2003 16:31, John Bleichert wrote:
> Direct does have it's uses, but for a metalhead or hard rock
> fan I can't see the use in playing clean into a PC and then adding effects.
> If it's not crunchy while I'm playing, I'm not entertained, [...]
Crunchy licks don't "feel right" if they're played without overdrive, don't
they?
I had some horrible latency with my old Microbloat system once. Playing guitar
through that setup was impossible.
I plugged the guitar into my mixer and routed the signal into the PC as well
as into a distortion pedal and my amplifier. I didn't tune that amp chain
much to make it sound exciting, but at least there was no latency with that
crunchy "monitor". It worked quite well actually, the clean signal that I
recorded got its overdrive and other effects afterwards.
I came across that idea when a friend of mine showed me his bi-amp guitar
rack. Most of his overdrive sounds use a clean setting of the second amp.
A little amount of clean signal can add a lot of punchy attack to distorted
guitars, but it's not that easy to mix the two signals smoothly.
- - Burkhard W.
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