The Watering Hole

I've always liked the idea of re-amping but never had really good results owing to excessive hiss.

I have been capturing the clean signal via the OCTA-Capture sound card using the Hi Z input. Whilst this works I always get a  lot of high end hiss when I re-amp from this signal. I've now discovered that it is the Octa-capture Hi Z input that is creating the hiss (you can only hear this when reamping with a bit of drive etc).  

I now have the Radial J48 Active Direct Box. Wow what a difference !  Still capturing via the OCTA-Capture, but using the normal Low Z input.  The re-amped sound is now completely hiss free and the sound is really clear and present.  

I send the signal out to the amp using the Radial X-Amp studio re-amper.   These two pieces of gear do a really stunning job for capturing the direct signal and then re-amping it.

Clips in a few days if there's any interest.

Sure, I'm all for clips.  ;D  I have to revisit the hows and whys of re-amping.  I have brain-farted the process of it and am not even sure what you are doing.  I have to read up on it again.  I had looked into it long ago with some POD XT stuff, but have become stuck in using an ISO box and cab.

I recently tried some line out stuff with the Two Notes Cabs and actually purchased a few cabs, but like the sound of my real 1x12 better than the IR cabs.

I'm interested though.  I'm always fiddle fucking. LOL

I don't mean re-amping via pod or any of that crap, I mean re-amping using real amps and real speakers moving real air.  The thing I love about it most is re-amping the same clean guitar signal in several passes through different amps or the same amp with different settings and different mic positions etc. Works really well.

No, I knew you were using a real amp as am I, I just didn't know the process of what you are doing and hadn't heard the term since XT days.

DM — May 05, 2014No, I knew you were using a real amp as am I, I just didn't know the process of what you are doing and hadn't heard the term since XT days.

This is a pretty good explanation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-amp

Well That helped and I googled the two Radial gadgets you are using to get and re use the signal.  Seems cool that once you get the recorded signal that you can use it on several different amps, effects, cabs ad nauseum without affecting the recorded track.

That's a lot o' fiddle fucking. LOL

We almost always take a DI off the guitar, even if we record it through an amp.  And the X-Amp is a great piece of gear, that think makes a huge difference.