In this week’s Audio Premium content, Björgvin Benediktsson takes you on a crash course about re-amping.
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Re-amping can be a great way to save a lousy guitar track. There are many scenarios where re-amping is desirable: You’ve recorded a thin sounding DIed track, your guitar amp plug-ins sounds awful or maybe you’ve recorded a separate DI line because the sound from the guitarist sucked. Whatever your scenario is, re-amping can be a really useful and cool trick to use for mixing and producing.
Re-amping can completely change the original sound to make it better, and the only real drawback is the time needed. When you’re re-amping you will always have to record the entire guitar track again. It’s not like a amp simulator where the sound instantly changes.
Just think of it like recording a guitar track without the guitarist present. Getting a good sound can be stressful when you have an impatient guitarist hovering in the room, anxiously waiting to record. But with re-amping you can allow yourself the time to get a great guitar sound if you’ve botched the first attempt: take the time to move the mics and tweak the amp settings.
Additionally, re-amping is useful for adding subtle depth, space and shape to an already great sounding track.
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