having guitar player in contoll room amp in booth?

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:52 pm

hey im gonna be building a studio soon and i was wondering if their is a way to put a guitar amp in the sound room and like with a live snake plug in the guitar cord in the snake box then into the amp. then in the contoll room have a guitar cord u plug in. basically is their a way to have the guitarist in the sound room and the amp in the booth without have to run the guitar cord under the door? hope this makes sense thanks!

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:35 pm

Of course it's possible. Is it possible for you? That depends on whether or not you have the space and the funds to throw at the problem. I'm not sure that a snake is necessarily the way to go though. Individual cables are easier to replace than an entire snake. A lot easier to service too if you're running it through the wall.

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:38 am

Having the bass player in the control room is popular since it is frequently taken direct.

Whereas with a guitar, much of the guitars sound is the cabinet and speaker. But now here is the problem. If you rely on your instruments interaction with the Cabinet/speaker's combination for feedback effects and such, you're screwed. You will not want to try and develop feedback effects through your control room studio monitors.

It's better to put the guitarist with the guitar amplifier in a booth/bathroom if you have to.

To achieve a variety of guitar speaker combinations and effects, you might want to have the guitarist played through an appropriate but smaller amplifier/Cabinet combination and at the same time, utilizing an active direct injection box, record the guitar direct on a separate track. The guitarist is now free to work the guitar with the amplifier/Cabinet combination. After-the-fact, you will be able to take the direct guitar tracks and "re-amp" the direct track which will have the feedback effect sound on it. It becomes an easy task to playback that direct track while feeding it through your tie lines from the control room, to the studio and into another amplifier of your choice, which you will then Mike du jour and record those to other tracks. Plus, this is something you can do without the band.

Thinking outside the amplifier cabinet
Ms. Remy Ann David

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:07 pm

I'm with Remy on this one - IMO, one of the biggest reasons for all the "bad-mouthing" of the "all-in-one" stomp boxes for recording electric guitar is this lack of acoustic coupling between speaker and guitar... Steve

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:50 pm

*shrug* He asked. I answered. I have to agree though. The one thing that drives me insane about direct recording is the inability to play with feedback. My neighbors thank m though.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:15 pm

Would a guitar sound good recorded in a room as small as a bathroom? Im moving and in my tracking and mixing room I have an unfinished bathroom right next to it. My plan as to stick my noisy head in the bathroom and run a long speaker cable as far away as possible into my tracking room. Make sense?

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:24 pm

running TRS cables thourgh a lager snake can increase the chance of the cable acting like an antenna picking up other unwanted singnals. It also can weaken the singnal, you should plug it in to direct box before putting it into a snake. Well thats just what i do at live gigs. (for keyboards, but same thing)

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