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output right into the studio monitors. In fact,
some guitar amps have a preamp output
which would be perfect for this purpose.
I suppose one should be careful when
using studio monitors for guitar amp speakers, since it wouldn’t take too much to blow
out a tweeter. However, if you are able to
pick up some inexpensive hi-fi speakers,
you could certainly be more bold in your
experimentation... see what happens to
your guitar sound when you really crank it
up! Listen to Audio Example 8, recorded
using the speaker shown in Figure 8.
9. Alternate distortion
Ever since the ’60s, guitar effects like overdrive, fuzz, distortion, etc. have been the
hallmark of popular music. The typical way
of overdriving a guitar sound comes from
distorting a tube-guitar preamp, as well as
overdriving a tube power amp section and
perhaps even getting some speaker distortion. All work together in creating the final
overdriven result. Effect pedals and processing offer other ways of creating an overdrive
sound, and before you know it there are
thousands of overdrive sound options.
Another way of getting distortion
would be to use (abuse) your console preamps. The idea would be to get your guitar plugged into the console either directly or using a direct box, and then cranking the gain so that you get into distortion. You will probably want to be able to
control the output of the preamp so that it
doesn’t distort the input of the next device
(such as your recorder or DAW), since the
idea here is to get preamp distortion and
not digital distortion that comes from
overloading the A/D converters.
In the case of a console, you would
simply adjust the channel fader to compensate for the overloaded preamp, and
then send that signal to your recorder or
DAW. You wouldn’t necessarily be able
to pull this off on built-in DAW preamps
since their outputs generally go right to
the A/D converter, and that would give
you digital distortion as well as preamp
distortion. (Heck, maybe that would
sound interesting too—why not try it!)
This kind of purposeful recording preamp distortion will sound very different
than a guitar amp overdrive, and may even
sound quite pitiful, but could offer a great
change-of-pace for a breakdown section of
a song, or for an odd-sounding song intro.
Think of it as being “deconstructed”, and
the polar opposite of “clean and nice”
sounding. Listen to Audio Example 9.
And there you go—nine ideas to result
in having your listeners ask, “I wonder
how they got that sound?” It can be your
secret...
John Fishell (fishell@recordingmag.com)
is an Assistant Professor of Music Media
and Production in the School of Music at
Ball State University.
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Talkback
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Sontronics Halo Guitar Cabinet Microphone
Radial Engineering StageBug SB-1 and SB-2 Direct Boxes
Zoom MS-100BT MultiStomp Guitar Pedal
Heptode Virtuoso Phase Shifter
Roland GC-1 GK-Ready Stratocaster and GR-S and GR-D V-Guitar Pedals
A Guitar Recording Primer. Part 1: Electric Guitars
Sage Electronics SE-DI3 Mighty G Active Direct Box
Sonic Farm 2DI4 Pentode Direct Box
Nine Guitar Recording Ideas
KEF LS50 Monitor 50th Anniversary Model
Millennia HV-37 Microphone and Instrument Preamplifier
Marty Stuart’s Grammy®-Winning Guitar Sounds
Readers’ Tapes
Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 19: Headphones—Part 2
iOS Music Tools: MIDI Designer
iOS Music Tools: A Tasty Pixel/Audanika Audiobus
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