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Originally Posted by Heartfelt  sorry but I must not be communicating my thoughts well. I will just drop it. Thanks for your patience. |
I think it's just miscommunication over terminology. Reamping usually refers to the process of taking a bass or guitar track that may or may not have been recorded direct and then putting through an amplifier and mic'ing that and bringing that back into the mix. I suppose you could consider what you are suggesting to be a kind of reamping as there are amplifiers involved in preamps and compressors, but it's done all the time. Most studios, in fact, will do this while mixing and it's more commonly referred to as an analog insert effect or something like that. As long as you keep track of the delay created by the d/a and a/d process, you will have no trouble at all doing it.
One of the earliest examples of classic reamping I've heard of was when the Grateful Dead were working on Europe '72, recorded in the spring of 1972 on the road in France, England, Germany, Holland, etc. Since they had notoriously "charming" intonation, they wanted to fix their background vocals and some of the less well intonated guitar parts. However, they were not comfortable doing it in a studio as it tended to make the vocals very sterile and obviously overdubbed. So, they set up their entire concert stage and ran the tracks through all the amplifiers and ran their normal monitor mix. Then, they sang along with that through the PA. The resulting vocals sounded live because they were in essence in the same environment as the original vocals would have been. Pretty forward thinking for 1972.
I do reamp bass tracks a lot as I tend to take a DI and often a bass amp track will provide a better space for the bass to sit in mix nicely.
Edwin