• From: North Carolina
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Topic: Pedals directly to the board?

So we had a practice tonight.  Now I always bring my computer to try to capture some live sounds at practice to see if we can get a decent recording to send to bars as a demo.  The problem I've run into is the guitar amp.  When we mix the room its so loud that we NEVER get the gutiars turned up.  The bass always seems to be direct in except live gigs.  So tonight I borrowed my friends Marshall Guv'nor from the 90's and plugged up to the board.  My friend used his favorite pedal a Rat proco pedal from 1987.  The sound wasn't a guitar tone I'd be proud of but the mix...  hear for yourself.
http://soundcloud.com/arnold-p-deal-iii/truck-yeah

The rythym guitar playing the intro riffs and things is me with a Les Paul Traditional Pro, and the lead is my buddy with his Rat and the Les Paul Standard.  Tonight was the first time we played this song and the second night we played this next song.  Same deal he's doing the lead stuff.  We normally take turns soloing, but most of the songs are mostly me soloing so I'm trying to get my friends confedence level up to play more leads.

http://soundcloud.com/arnold-p-deal-iii … ittle-ride

Now I'm aware these are not perfect mixes but if you compared it to the crap that we had before these are night and day.  I'd love to lower the bass a bit, and boost my guitar a bit on the riffs.
Has anybody else tried to use just pedals into the mixing board?  This is the main reason I want to switch to pedals and quality ones at that because of our practices.  You could seriously hear a pin drop no ear plugs required!

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Re: Pedals directly to the board?

Loved your White room and Black dog covers... A bit weird voice on WR, but the solo... nice..!

  • From: North Carolina
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Re: Pedals directly to the board?

LOL I can't sing anyway, however its worse when I sing at the house because I have small kids.  If it gets loud while they are asleep I'm done for the night so I was trying to sound raspy at a whisper... plus I forgot the words.  That was a Line 6 Flextone III doing all those parts, and if I wasn't happy with something I'd pan it far left or right and double track the part again on the other speaker.  The solos were center panned I believe.  Gotta love backing tracks!

HellRot wrote:

Loved your White room and Black dog covers... A bit weird voice on WR, but the solo... nice..!

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Re: Pedals directly to the board?

Dude are you sayimg that you can adjust the mix on the PC? If so surely miney would be better spent on studio software, you canget wn old very useable system cheap these days.

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5 Reply by AD3THREE (edited by AD3THREE 2012-11-13 12:26:18)

  • From: North Carolina
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Re: Pedals directly to the board?

No I can't mix with software, not the way I'm recording anyway.  I'm taking 2 tracks from the board and dumping it to Audacity.

All I have is our main mixing board.  Which we didn't spend any time at all getting a great mix, from there I have my interface to connect my computer to the mixing board, and then I have my free audacity software.  Nothing fancey since it was already stuff I had.   The interface is a yamaha 10 ch. mixing board that has a USB connection on it.  At home I plug up a mic to an amp and record to audacity.  I generally find a backing track and I can record as many tracks as I want to.  I can mix those tracks, but in my band situation using this all I get is just 2 tracks in stereo and nothing can be mix from that.  I could filter, EQ, Compress, and all sorts of crap.

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