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How do you record your guitar?

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Topic How do you record your guitar?
What do you prefer to take the sound of your favorite guitar...
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I think the cakewlk amp is a joke LOL Never heard such a bad sound ;-)

If you want, I can organise a test... I will think about it...
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i agree, what the hell were they thinking. you would think that such a great company like 12 tone systems would come out with something that at least sounded like they half-assed tried. oh well.
anyways i think a comparitive test would be great.
let me know if there is anything i can do.
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Quote: I have to agree with you about the ratio of crap to usefullness on most effect/modelers! In my biased view, Digitech is the best though. Decent amp cabs, and somewhat realistic, with good effects. It has an EQ that actually works! (Unlike ZOOM crap.) A question though; I'm not familiar with the Boss br-532. How is it, how much, and how new??? Later.

Prior to getting the BR-532, I was using a Tascam 424, and I rellay had no problem at all in adjusting to the new machine, I think I paid around $400.00 for it about 2 years ago. The biggest beef I have with it is it comes with a 32 mb memory card, so you can either shell out a few bux to buy a bigger one, or stick to 3 to 4 min. songs, kinda limiting. Other than the memory issue, I totally love the machine. It has Roland drums built in, a decent bass simulator, and a few good accoustic guitar settings, and probably one of the best built in mics I have ever used. I have quite a few musician friends who always comment on the guitar tone, and how warm and full vocals sound. The reverb and phaser sounds about as good as anything else too.
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For the CD on my website, I used a Digitech RP2000 into my board and then into the Delta 1010. Lots of tweaking in the patches on the RP. It came out pretty good.

Then I started gigging live around town a few years ago, playing mostly blues. The Digitech didn't cut it live for blues, so I got Peavey Classic 30 amp, hoy rodded it, got some carefully selected pedals. Put together a great small room blues combo:



The new CD I'm working on is a blues CD, and no amount of tweaking on the Digitech has produced a good dirty blues tone, so I set up an isolation booth in the closet in my basement studio, and I now mic the Classic 30 up. Love the tone. It was important to me because I was looking for a more "live" blues mix. If you want, you can hear some of it HERE:

https://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=3551&alid=-1
The Axeman (##(===> Cuts From My New Blues CD
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The Boss sounds as if it's a nice amchine. I was using the Fostex ME-8 (or some such number) for a while. GREAT recorder!!!!! Easy to use, and fantastic sound! But, (Ah, there's always a "but".) the sims are terrible! The mic worked well for accoustic, but the cabs were shear and utter crap on a stick. And yea, the cards are somewhat worthless. 32megs gives you what, 4 minutes? on two tracks no less. I multitrack. The last thing I recorded on it, there were 16 tracks of guitar, two tracks of bass, and two drum tracks. That was with the 256meg card. All done with the RP-3 and my trusty Aria. Later
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A friend of mine just bought a Fostex 16 track Vf160 I think, its got the on-board burner and all, they are relatively inexpensive, and that is what I was gonna get before I switched gears and started thinkin about using my PC, Fostex makes some good stuff, but I have heard bad things about the built in FX.
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Quote: For the CD on my website, I used a Digitech RP2000 into my board and then into the Delta 1010. Lots of tweaking in the patches on the RP. It came out pretty good.

Then I started gigging live around town a few years ago, playing mostly blues. The Digitech didn't cut it live for blues, so I got Peavey Classic 30 amp, hoy rodded it, got some carefully selected pedals. Put together a great small room blues combo:



Just to tell you that the 1010 is for me one of the best sound card, and the peavy Classic 30 is really my fovorite amp ;-) It seems you have a Lone Star Strat? So we have exactly the same set up :lol:
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Quote: Just to tell you that the 1010 is for me one of the best sound card, and the peavy Classic 30 is really my fovorite amp ;-) It seems you have a Lone Star Strat? So we have exactly the same set up :lol:



I love my Classic 30. Have you done any mods to yours? I retubed mine and dropped a Vintage 30 speaker in it. I also changed out a couple of resistors so I could run the preamp tubes hotter without blowing the front row of the house away!!

The Strat is an odd one- I've only ever seen one other like it (and that one had a rosewood fretboard). It's not quite a Lone Star- while it does have a bucker in the bridge, it also has a coil split switch in place of the bottom tone knob. It was made in Mexico in 1995 or so. I bought it new out in San Diego.

I get LOTS of compliments on my tone with this rig...... :D
The Axeman (##(===> Cuts From My New Blues CD
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Hey there people. I'm gonna generate a lot of hate mail here, but I have to say my piece. Why do people bother with a Strat? I mean, people buy them, and if they have any clue as to how to play, and have a concept of what they want to sound like, they change the pickups. And the bridge. And the tuners. And we can't keep the plastic nut, now can we? (How many strats are out thereare still "original"?)
Also, you really have to search to find one with a neck that doesn't need a lot of work. In my, cough... "humble" opinion, :P anyone who spends the money for a strat doesn't know what they're looking for. It's name brand recognition, and a lot of guitar players are like a bunch of sheep. Notice I said "guitar players". There a difference between them, and guitarists. I'm not talking technical ablilities, I'm saying that a guitarist will take an instrument, strat, paul, whatever, and give it his or her own sound. There are sooooo many people out ther that when you hear, you go, "Gee, that's a strat running thru a marshal. " or "Another Paul thru a Peavy. yawn." There are so many different brands of instruments out there, and a lot of there are better than the BIG THREE. (Fender, Gibson, and Ibanez)
I'm sorry for ranting here, but I'm sick and tired of hearing good players playing the same crap as everyone else. Ok, I'll go into the corner now and be quiet. later.
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I have never been much of a strat fan myself, but they do have a pretty impressive list of celebrity endorsements. Seriously though, I bought an American Strat back in 1990, it was the one I always wanted, it was perfectly made, looked and sounded great. Two months after I got the Strat, I bought a new Les Paul Standard, and I never picked up the Strat again, still haven't. My main axe now is a Gibson flyingV, only because it sounds real close to the LP, and its not as valuable. However, Fenders MIM and Highway 1 strats are probably one of the best guitar bang for the buck deals goin, well made, playable, and fairly inexpensive compared to Gibson. I know what your saying, there are a lot more than the big 3 out there, but for me, if I have the money, it would be Gibson, Fender (probably a tele) and maybe Jackson.