Comments on: Back in the Garage http://www.beat-concrete.com/back-in-the-garage.html playing music for change Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:15:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: worldblee http://www.beat-concrete.com/back-in-the-garage.html/comment-page-1#comment-17 worldblee Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:19:21 +0000 http://www.beat-concrete.com/?p=319#comment-17 Hi Jesse! It's a little shaming to admit this since I have several nice amps (play through a Budda and a Vox AC15-H1TV and also use TopHat, Fargen, and Two Rock amps--man, I need to sell some of this stuff), but everything except any live guitar I recorded with the band through our little cheapo Portastudio is going through a $99 Line6 TonePort using Line6's GearBox software. Since I play Vox-type amps most of the time, I mostly just use AC-30 emulations with a virtual compressor stompbox in the chain about half the time to make the clean signal a little chunkier (I keep the bass control on the virtual amp turned way down so there's more room for bass guitar). I think there's often a special to be had on the old TonePorts where you get the 'gold' version with all the guitar and bass amp emulations for just $99--it's a pretty sweet deal. I use SONAR for recording on my laptop after I dump the drums over from the Portastudio (I add session drummer bass and snare using the impulses of the real kick and snare as triggers), but I don't use many plugins. Hi Jesse! It’s a little shaming to admit this since I have several nice amps (play through a Budda and a Vox AC15-H1TV and also use TopHat, Fargen, and Two Rock amps–man, I need to sell some of this stuff), but everything except any live guitar I recorded with the band through our little cheapo Portastudio is going through a $99 Line6 TonePort using Line6’s GearBox software. Since I play Vox-type amps most of the time, I mostly just use AC-30 emulations with a virtual compressor stompbox in the chain about half the time to make the clean signal a little chunkier (I keep the bass control on the virtual amp turned way down so there’s more room for bass guitar). I think there’s often a special to be had on the old TonePorts where you get the ‘gold’ version with all the guitar and bass amp emulations for just $99–it’s a pretty sweet deal.

I use SONAR for recording on my laptop after I dump the drums over from the Portastudio (I add session drummer bass and snare using the impulses of the real kick and snare as triggers), but I don’t use many plugins.

]]> By: Jesse http://www.beat-concrete.com/back-in-the-garage.html/comment-page-1#comment-16 Jesse Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:52:20 +0000 http://www.beat-concrete.com/?p=319#comment-16 These are sounding mighty excellent. How do you record the guitars? I've never been able to get that right. These are sounding mighty excellent. How do you record the guitars? I’ve never been able to get that right.

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