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mcphoto · 25th November 2008

I followed Craig Anderton's re-amping advice and skipped buying any more gear for it.

Created a send in ProTools, assigned it to output three of my hardware, dropped the fader all the way down, plugged it into a Peavey Classic 30 with a vintage cab.

Brought the fader up slow until the amp seemed about the same level as an actual guitar. No undue noise, no smoking transformers. Worked just fine (with a 12' cable that is. Amp near my mixing desk, speaker isolated in a distant closet - kept the high-Z cable runs down).

I had recorded a Strat straight into ProTools and mixed a song using Line6 emulations. Bypassed the plugin so the untreated sound was going to the amp, mic'd it back in with an ADK A51, which is a warm & smooth mic.

Did the same for a second track, but... forgot to bypass the plugin. So the Marshall plexi emulation with chorus, delay and reverb went into the Peavey with the gain cranked for some grit and the spring reverb at about 70%.

I gotta say, it was one really crazy, hellacious metal kind of sound... but had a nice smoothness to the distortion, and the Peavey's preamp sort of crushed/compressed the effects from the Line6 plugin. Not what I needed for that song, but something I will definitely, definitely play with in the future... cool, heavy, mean, yet pretty and spacey at the same time. FUN!!!

25th November 2008	#6
mcphoto Gear interested Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 26	I followed Craig Anderton's re-amping advice and skipped buying any more gear for it. Created a send in ProTools, assigned it to output three of my hardware, dropped the fader all the way down, plugged it into a Peavey Classic 30 with a vintage cab. Brought the fader up slow until the amp seemed about the same level as an actual guitar. No undue noise, no smoking transformers. Worked just fine (with a 12' cable that is. Amp near my mixing desk, speaker isolated in a distant closet - kept the high-Z cable runs down). I had recorded a Strat straight into ProTools and mixed a song using Line6 emulations. Bypassed the plugin so the untreated sound was going to the amp, mic'd it back in with an ADK A51, which is a warm & smooth mic. Did the same for a second track, but... forgot to bypass the plugin. So the Marshall plexi emulation with chorus, delay and reverb went into the Peavey with the gain cranked for some grit and the spring reverb at about 70%. I gotta say, it was one really crazy, hellacious metal kind of sound... but had a nice smoothness to the distortion, and the Peavey's preamp sort of crushed/compressed the effects from the Line6 plugin. Not what I needed for that song, but something I will definitely, definitely play with in the future... cool, heavy, mean, yet pretty and spacey at the same time. FUN!!!