Full-chain or amp-only? I have changed my mind twice
@olathecaptures · · 1mo
Capturing the pedal and the amp together gives you the rig, and it genuinely sounds more like the room than stacking two captures does. Interaction between a drive pedal and an amp's input stage is real and a stacked pair does not reproduce it exactly.
But you lose everything modular about it. Want the same amp with a different overdrive? New capture. Want the pedal in front of a different amp? New capture.
Where I have landed: full-chain for a sound I know I want, amp-only for anything I expect to build on. Both in the library, labelled clearly, so nobody downloads a full-rig capture and then wonders why their own pedal does nothing.
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@lowendtheory · 1mo
For bass I have gone entirely the other way. Full chain every time. The interaction between a bass, a dirt pedal and the amp input is a lot of what the sound is, and stacking two captures does not get there. Guitar players have more amps to swap between so modularity buys them more; I mostly want the one rig to sound right.@roomtone · 1mo
Halfway position that has worked here: capture amp-only, but capture it at three or four preamp settings rather than one. You keep the ability to put your own drive in front, and you get most of what the full-chain capture gave you, because a lot of that interaction is just the amp being hit harder. Costs you an afternoon and some disk space rather than a rethink.
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