Studio Recording Practice

ut let‘s start at the beginning of our signal chain: many guitarists use so-called „pedal mines“, small effect pedals that can be operated with the foot. In order to keep all options open for the later mix, the guitar signal is often tapped before the effects using a DI box with parallel outputs. The signal from the unbalanced output goes the typical routing into the musician’s effects, while its balanced (and clean) signal is fed into the DAW. The resulting recording can then be processed later with an amp simulator or fed back out of the DAW to an amplifier and miked again (re-amping). The advantage is obvious: even if the material has already been perfectly recorded and edited, the sound can still be adapted to the mix at your leisure or completely redesigned. And