guitarrhino
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This is what Roger King stated, in terms of recording Steve Hackett's guitars on Squackett's new album, "A Life Within A Day:"
"The bulk of the recording's clarity and detail came from Steve's high performance standards and obsessive pursuit of tone. When it came to using plug-ins to simulate the sound of a a real amp and speakers moving in an actual space, however, we began with the amp simulator in Apple Logic, the DAW I use when recording and mixing. We favored a small tweed head paired with a 1x12 cab combined with some small room sound from Logic's Space Designer Convolution Reverb to provide a bit of woody resonance, and by and large it was very effective. We may have lost a small percentage of actual amp character, but we gained the flexibility of adjusting the tone right up to the final stages of the mix."
I thought it was interesting. For those of you out there (me, included) that think you may need a fancy setup to record, perhaps you can do more with what you have -- especially if you have Logic.
"The bulk of the recording's clarity and detail came from Steve's high performance standards and obsessive pursuit of tone. When it came to using plug-ins to simulate the sound of a a real amp and speakers moving in an actual space, however, we began with the amp simulator in Apple Logic, the DAW I use when recording and mixing. We favored a small tweed head paired with a 1x12 cab combined with some small room sound from Logic's Space Designer Convolution Reverb to provide a bit of woody resonance, and by and large it was very effective. We may have lost a small percentage of actual amp character, but we gained the flexibility of adjusting the tone right up to the final stages of the mix."
I thought it was interesting. For those of you out there (me, included) that think you may need a fancy setup to record, perhaps you can do more with what you have -- especially if you have Logic.
