Hi all,
I'm looking to record a few bits and pieces at home. I'm a complete novice so all I was thinking was a microphone, cables and interface - but do advise if you think there is any other gear that might be necessary. At this point I'm happy to use garageband unless anyone strongly suggests otherwise.
I'm using a Macbook 2019 model, so it's reasonably capable.
Also, fully okay with shopping around for second hand stuff so suggestions can be angled towards better gear at the right price.
I also have a D28 I wouldn't mind recording so bonus if any suggestions would be suitable for this as well, but primarily looking to record my amplifiers.
Cheers!
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I haven't used a speaker cabinet at home for years.
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If you need low or zero volume recording a modeller is better value than a load box like the OX or Boss TAE
The captor is cheap though and you can use IRs in a freeware loader VST like Boogez to cover the OX functionality. Depends on the latency whether it's feasible to monitor through a plugin.
Mic'd still sounds better than the loadbox option. You can buy an Audix i5 that is great for and electric & ok on an acoustic.
And add the aforementioned Rode just for acoustic or voice.
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Record two tracks from the PDI-03's separate DI outs - a cab-simmed output and an unfiltered output. Live monitor the cab-simmed output for zero latency, and decide later if you want to use that, or stick an IR on the unfiltered track.
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Then when you are happy, take the speaker sim off it, send it back out the DAW into the return socket of your amp and mic the amp up. Turn it up to get some air moving and then record that onto another track in the DAW. I know you can get re amping boxes and such but the loop on a lot of amps is buffered line level (all mine are0) and records fine in this regard.
As far as IR's being better than a real mic'ed tone I'm not so sure. You can have a sound that sounds fuller isolation but doesn't mix as well into the live drums and other live instruments. DI'ed keyboards can suffer the same fault to the extent a lot of engineers will patch the keys out into a PA in the live room and record them with the room sound and mix 15% of that into the DI just to keep it sounding like all the instruments were recorded live in the room.
Now having looked around I'm considering doing it properly, selling a couple of unused pedals and buying either an OX BOX or the Boss Waza TAE (I understand there is a good amount of discussion regarding the pro's and con's of each, so will do my research).