Just a couple of questions

[fitbass54]

I'm very new in the recording world of music and much of the lingo I don't understand. What does it mean to "print" eq and/or effects.

Also, I heard of a band recently that recorded all of their guitar tracks dry and then later added the distortion by running the tracks through a peavey 5150. How the crap do you route a dry track back through a guitar head to added distortion after tracking it? I's probably the simplest thing, but like I said, I'm new and that concept just blows my mind.

Thank you for any help.

bobbyx

[tINY]

"Print" just means that the EQ/FX are in the recorded track, rather than being added by Sonar (Reaper, Pro Fools, Q-base, etc) on playback.

For "re-amping", you play the guitar into a track using a DI and then use a revese DI to run the signal through your tube amp on a day it decides to sound good...



-tINY

[dbbubba]

What TINY said.

Printing EQ or FX is recording them as opposed to applying them in mixdown.
Analog or digital, it's the same.

It is a good idea to build a track as you go, so proper/neutral EQ and compression should be recorded. Just don't go crazy.
Leave the reverbs, echos, chorusers and flangers until mix unless they add a vibe you need, but even then... record them to a separate track. Cover your bases.

With digital you can get away with NOT printing EQ more than with analog recording.
It always seems lazy to me to not record properly EQ'd tracks.
At least the lazy engineers I have known for years printed w/o EQ.

the other question:
They probably recorded a clean D.I. signal from the GTRs onto their recording medium while listening to something close to the intended sound.
Later you run the D.I. signal back to an amp like the 5150 using your engineering skills or you use something like a Re-Amp box and make it even easier.
You then record the 5150 to new tracks and use them instead of the temp amp tracks..... or use both.... or ALL THREE!

[fitbass54]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

"To route back the already-recording-audio back through a VH5150 amp you would have to use a Digital-to-Analogue Converter (D/A) to go out of your computer and into the amp as a speaker-or-preamp-or both...or microphone. and then all you would have to do is make a new track and solo all the other tracks except for the audio track that is sending the signal out through the D/A converter and recorded back with a A/D converter on the new track you made.

I'll repeat what you said to make sure I understand with clarity. You route the dry track from the computer to the amp using a D/A converter. Then you create a new track to be recorded. Then I you solo all the tracks except for the one sending the signal(this part kinda confuses me, but probably because I've never done this and I don't have a session open in front of me...also I'm very new to recording and trying to learn as much as possible.). And the track is recorded by routing back to the computer from the amp using an A/D converter. I think I pretty get the idea. Thank you.

Next question. I got on ebay and D/A and A/D converters are a bit pricey. I use a Presonus Firestudio as my interface. Could I do the same thing by sending the re-amped signal to the amp out of an output and route it back in through an input. Would that work or do I have to take the D/A, A/D approach?

Thank you.

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by dylansmale

"Print EQ/FX" In my audio mind equates to two things: Printing the effects while bouncing onto the final WAV file [or] Printing a paper, showing the diameters and levels of the effects you used on a certain track (which you hear a lot of questions about too).

The first point - correct.

the 2nd point - no, this is called doing a recall. It's never referred to as printing FX.