Janky Reamp methods?

[spawnofthesith]

Monday me and the boys are getting together to Reamp some DIs. Don’t have a Reamp box though…. Thought maybe I’d pick one up somewhere this weekend but it seems that isn’t an option as no stores around here seem to have any in stock (gonna call the used shop here when they open soon in a last ditch effort)

But… failing that trying to wrap my head around alternative options


Option A: I have an HX Stomp and my bass player has a quad cortex. In my brain I feel like either or these should work fine as there’s control over like line/instrument levels as well as impedance controls on these units no? Unless I’m missing something here that would make this problematic

Option B: running a passive DI box “in reverse”… I’ve been finding stuff online about this, although it sounds like it might be noisy/not sound very good?

Option C: finally I’ve found a couple posts online saying that simply sending the signal through a boss pedal kind of works due to the buffer but this seems like far too much of an oversimplification ?


Appreciate any advice input, never done this before!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Monday me and the boys are getting together to Reamp some DIs. Don’t have a Reamp box though…. Thought maybe I’d pick one up somewhere this weekend but it seems that isn’t an option as no stores around here seem to have any in stock (gonna call the used shop here when they open soon in a last ditch effort)

But… failing that trying to wrap my head around alternative options


Option A: I have an HX Stomp and my bass player has a quad cortex. In my brain I feel like either or these should work fine as there’s control over like line/instrument levels as well as impedance controls on these units no? Unless I’m missing something here that would make this problematic

Option B: running a passive DI box “in reverse”… I’ve been finding stuff online about this, although it sounds like it might be noisy/not sound very good?

Option C: finally I’ve found a couple posts online saying that simply sending the signal through a boss pedal kind of works due to the buffer but this seems like far too much of an oversimplification ?


Appreciate any advice input, never done this before!

How did you record the DI tracks? Option A is likely best and easiest and probably not different from using a remap box.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Monday me and the boys are getting together to Reamp some DIs. Don’t have a Reamp box though…. Thought maybe I’d pick one up somewhere this weekend but it seems that isn’t an option as no stores around here seem to have any in stock (gonna call the used shop here when they open soon in a last ditch effort)

But… failing that trying to wrap my head around alternative options


Option A: I have an HX Stomp and my bass player has a quad cortex. In my brain I feel like either or these should work fine as there’s control over like line/instrument levels as well as impedance controls on these units no? Unless I’m missing something here that would make this problematic

Option B: running a passive DI box “in reverse”… I’ve been finding stuff online about this, although it sounds like it might be noisy/not sound very good?

Option C: finally I’ve found a couple posts online saying that simply sending the signal through a boss pedal kind of works due to the buffer but this seems like far too much of an oversimplification ?


Appreciate any advice input, never done this before!

The biggest challenge you may run into with option A is ground loop issues.

 

[spawnofthesith]

How did you record the DI tracks? Option A is likely best and easiest and probably not different from using a remap box.

That’s what I was thinking, the DIs are from the USB out of the HX stomp (and we’re going to be reamping into real amps)

The challenge I’ve found with looking into either the HX/QC is that all reamping discussions are just about reamping digitally not using them to go into actual amps lol

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

The biggest challenge you may run into with option A is ground loop issues.

That’s what I was thinking, the DIs are from the USB out of the HX stomp (and we’re going to be reamping into real amps)

The challenge I’ve found with looking into either the HX/QC is that all reamping discussions are just about reamping digitally not using them to go into actual amps lol

Just create a blank patch with input as USB and straight to whatever output you wanna use as instrument level. Should be just like plugging a guitar into Stomp for pre-fix in front of an amp with all fx bypassed.

Now that I think about it, I THINK all my ground loop issues were using devices that were getting power from USB, so Stomp/QC are PROBABLY less likely to have issues there?

 

[spawnofthesith]

Just create a blank patch with input as USB and straight to whatever output you wanna use as instrument level. Should be just like plugging a guitar into Stomp for pre-fix in front of an amp with all fx bypassed.

Now that I think about it, I THINK all my ground loop issues were using devices that were getting power from USB, so Stomp/QC are PROBABLY less likely to have issues there?

So we’re using our X air as an interface, and it’s going to be on a PC running reaper. From my understanding you can’t combine multiple interfaces on a PC (at least in reaper) like I can on my Mac

However this should work the same to just be on a blank patch, but I change the global settings so that my input is line, and output is instrument right?

Is there any reason I would need to mess around with the impedance on the input block or should I be able to leave it on auto?

Thank you bigly for your help!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

So we’re using our X air as an interface, and it’s going to be on a PC running reaper. From my understanding you can’t combine multiple interfaces on a PC (at least in reaper) like I can on my Mac

However this should work the same to just be on a blank patch, but I change the global settings so that my input is line, and output is instrument right?

Is there any reason I would need to mess around with the impedance on the input block or should I be able to leave it on auto?

Thank you bigly for your help!

Can you set the input and output devices to be different? Use x air for audio input and Stomp for output? Otherwise dunno - SHoULd work?

 

[spawnofthesith]

Can you set the input and output devices to be different? Use x air for audio input and Stomp for output? Otherwise dunno - SHoULd work?

Oh yeah I think your right I assume that would work?


I’ll report back how everything ends up going, hopefully it’s a successful day

 

[la szum]

Best of luck, SOTS!

Don't forget to have fun. Hope the techy shit gets sorted.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Before thinking about too many things, just try to lower the output feeding the amp so it's at instrument level and feed your amp(s) straight, without any reamping boxes and what not. Let your ears judge when (and if) it's fine. More often than not, that's working pretty well. At least it did for me.

 

[bikescene]

I’ve reamped with the HX Stomp before and liked the results.l at Plexi levels of gain. If you can stand using the HX stomp to record your DIs or calibrate your input to Helix levels, reamping out of the Stomp is predictable.

If you go straight out of your interface into an amp, there’s a chance you could end up with unwanted noise. I haven’t had luck with going straight out of the line outs of my Steinberg interfaces or IK Axe IO.

I’ve always had to put some transformer isolation anfter my regular interface line out. either an Ebtech hum eliminator, ART DTI, or reamp box. I think I’ve I’ve used the Ebtech into a buffered pedal in a pinch before.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I’ve always had to put some transformer isolation anfter my regular interface line out. either an Ebtech hum eliminator, ART DTI, or reamp box.

I've got very decent results using a cheap Behringer HD400, too. An additional buffered pedal might be a decent idea, too.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Just use the helix, won’t get any easier for you than that with what’s available

 

[Sascha Franck]

Just use the helix, won’t get any easier for you than that with what’s available

I'd do it that way, too. The only issue possibly being to route a mic'ed signal into the Stomp, but it shouldn't be a big deal.

 

[spawnofthesith]

So using the modellers worked great!! We did use my bass players QC as the “Reamp box” as I’m more of “use the actual FX we’d use live on the record” rather than adding in post and I’m using the stomp for a few things

The QC doesn’t have a simple “line/instrument” option like the stomp but just set it to -12dB and we were gravy.

Now we DID have some noise issues (particularly with my Mark IV) that I’m a little concerned about, but those were completely independent from any reamping stuff, would’ve been dealing with that even if I was live tracking