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--- On Thu, 7/7/11, Dave Phillips  wrote:
> From: Dave Phillips

quoted text
> Subject: Re: [LAU] Applying effects when recording electric guitars: before or after recording?

> To: "James Stone"

> Cc: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org

> Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 8:13 AM

> James Stone wrote:

> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jeremy Jongepier

>

> wrote:

> >   

> >> On 07/07/2011 12:57 PM, Brett McCoy wrote:

> >>     

> >>> That's a strange way to do it... there are

> some techniques that

> >>> require sustain and distortion or they won't

> sound right, even if

> >>> added in post-production. But like I said,

> it's rare to do it this

> >>> way.

> >>>       

> >> It's common practice in the metal world afaik. One

> of my bandmates has a

> >> little (Reaper) based homestudio and virtually all

> metal bands he

> >> records are re-amped through his collection of

> tube amps.

> >>

> >>     

> >

> > Interesting - but that's still a home studio. Is it

> common practice in

> > pro studios that record heavy metal bands?

> >   

>

> A somewhat-related anecdote: In one of his short

> films-about-film-making Robert Rodriguez demonstrates how he

> records some of the music used in his soundtracks. He

> obviously gets a kick out of being able to apply any variety

> of effects - including some impressive distortion - to his

> cleanly recorded guitar. It's all done with PT, of course,

> but it's a good demo of the utility of recording clean.

>

> OTOH, as a player I sometimes need the sound and the soul

> coming out at the same time. Can't wait then. :)

> 

you can do "both at the same time" of course :)

Play your guitar through effects directed to your amp (used as live monitoring in this case), and record the clean sound at the same time (you need a signal splitter, like a half-normalled module on a patch-bay for example). 
This way you can still have the live feel while playing and recording, and you can reamp the recorded material later on, fine-tune the effecs a posteriori, etc. You can of course record the distorted sound at the same time you record the clean one by outputting your amp output to your recording gears.
Cheers!

J.  
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