recording electric guitar by Direct Input

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:42 am

I just picked up the amp sim. program Guitar Rig for my Protools setup. I'm new to recording electric guitar by direct input, so can anyone give me any pointers?....I have a Digi 002, so do I just plug straight from the guitar into one of the 4 Digi002 input's that have a preamp?..

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:44 pm

tonybran wrote:

I just picked up the amp sim. program Guitar Rig for my Protools setup. I'm new to recording electric guitar by direct input, so can anyone give me any pointers?....I have a Digi 002, so do I just plug straight from the guitar into one of the 4 Digi002 input's that have a preamp?..

That will work. A direct box into the low impedance mic would be my preference.

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:43 pm

The jack inputs on the first four channels of the 002 are designated as line/DI and are specified as having a 10M input impedance, so it's OK to plug your guitar straight into one of those. You don't need a separate DI box.

The 002 inputs are not known for their great headroom, so don't push the input levels too high.

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:16 pm

Amplitube 2, is a pretty good program for different effects pedals and amp models.

I have the mbox 2 and I recently recorded a acoustic guitar straight in to the DI and sounds perfectly fine. I have trouble with electric though, sounds quite muddy, especially with effects

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:17 am

adamsapplemac wrote:

... a acoustic guitar straight in to the DI...

Acoustic electric, or an acoustic with a microphone? Before I owned and electric guitar I had limited success making the acoustic sound like an electric using a microphone.

You may have impedance problems connecting the guitar directly to the Digi unless it has an instrument/line switch like many of the Tascam and M-Audio units do. If you have a DI, then try it.

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:16 pm

in your PT device manager make sure you lower your input (the one you are using) so you dont distort when you crank on loud passaged.

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:19 pm

thanks everyone for the quick responses !

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:13 pm

GeckoMusic wrote:

adamsapplemac wrote:

... a acoustic guitar straight in to the DI...

Acoustic electric, or an acoustic with a microphone? Before I owned and electric guitar I had limited success making the acoustic sound like an electric using a microphone.

You may have impedance problems connecting the guitar directly to the Digi unless it has an instrument/line switch like many of the Tascam and M-Audio units do. If you have a DI, then try it.

acoustic electric Wink

I don't think my friend would have let me stick a jack lead into his guitar if there was no input Smile

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:59 pm

Thanks adamsapplemac ,

Your post lacked clarity. No I didn't think you were drilling a hole in an acoustic guitar to plug in a 1/4" jack. That would be stupid. I wanted to make sure you weren't using a mic with a DI. Some people do some weird things.

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:53 pm

tonybran wrote:

I just picked up the amp sim. program Guitar Rig for my Protools setup. I'm new to recording electric guitar by direct input, so can anyone give me any pointers?....I have a Digi 002, so do I just plug straight from the guitar into one of the 4 Digi002 input's that have a preamp?..

This is NEVER good, always use great external preamps instead of the preamps that are in the 002/003 etc, they are horrible.

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:50 am

tonybran, you are getting mixed advice from this thread.

Just use the 1/4" jack input on any of channels 1 - 4 of the 002. While not of the ultimate quality, the 002 pre-amps are quite adequate for what you are trying to do.

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:19 am

GeckoMusic wrote:

Thanks adamsapplemac ,

Your post lacked clarity. No I didn't think you were drilling a hole in an acoustic guitar to plug in a 1/4" jack. That would be stupid. I wanted to make sure you weren't using a mic with a DI. Some people do some weird things.

Bahahaha.

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