Re-amping in the studio, while hardly a new technique, is harder to get right than you may sometimes think. Level, impedence, it’s all got to be spot on to add to your sound palette rather than making the mix more like mud. So… you’ve recorder a killer guitar take, but you’d like to see how it goes with a cracker amp that someone has just brought in to the studio. Take an output from your DAW, plug it into the X-Amp, and then into your amp – no impedance, level or balanced/unbalanced issues are going to scare you.
Even better – when you record guitar for the first time, jam a J48 in the chain before you hit the amp, and you’ll always record a perfect ‘clean’ track to allow pure re-amping later on, should the inspiration strike. And as for slamming a drum bus through a wah pedal for a breakdown, that’s a story for another day…
