![]() In contrast to Lars and Co., at 40-something minutes, Earth Reaper is a fairly short album by 2020s standards, but it packs in a huge amount and feels absolutely right. Earth Reaper was released on Church Road Records back at the end of April this year but don’t shout at me for the delay I’ve been busy trying to get the end of the new Metallica album which came out two weeks before that, but sadly I’ve still not managed it. Sound like a bit of a challenge to the norm? …yup, and I’m pretty sure that’s the whole point. They hail from Brighton, right here in merry ole’ England, and should you choose/be lucky enough to catch them live then you’ll be aurally and visually assaulted by a gang of fellas in boiler suits and hoods with Iron Man-style glowing chest pieces. Most reamp problems, where theres some sort of obvious problem or major difference with the reamped sound, are gain staging realted.This is Wallowing’s second album – the follow-up to 2019s well received Planet Loss. You can hear it in an A/B when youre really paying attention but its not a meaningful difference in real world terms. ![]() Good reamps should be expected to sound very slightly different to the direct signal, but only slightly. If thats what youre hearing, back off by about 6db on the DI and add clean gain from the DAW and/or interface to bring it up to level on the reamp out. That distortion does not fair well when fed into an amp you get a weak signal with enough apparent distortion in the top end, but its kind of harsh and thin, or when it seems to be hitting the amp about right and youre getting the same sort of low end and compression you expect, it seems overly hot because the DI isnt completely clean and the amps distortion is stacking with it. If you push past the 0VU rating of an analogue input, it distorts to some extent regardless of how hard youre actually hitting your peak meters in a DAW. If youre going from too weak to overly distorted with seemingly no in between where it sounds basically the same as the real signal, that could be distortion in the DI. ![]() This is for real amps, but I daresay the same applies to the axe, or any amp modeller. The former is generally found in US hardware, the latter in european and UK. Some is calibrated to -12db being 0vu, some is -18. I'll check the levels when I'm back home from work later, but, if memory serves me correctly, I think my DI from the AFX's Effects Loop is going into the DAW at around -12db.Ĭlick to expand.If anything it should be a little colder than that. I guess what I should try is sending the DI into the front input of the AFX, to see if that makes a difference. I've tried compensating for this by adjusting the trim on the DI going into my MOTU, but I can't seem to get it balanced it's either too hot or too cold.Ĭhris, are you doing anything with the I/O levels on either your MOTU or the AFX? I tried messing with the DI: It seems like the input from the DI is a little weaker. When re-amping the DI, it's not sounding quite the same as the wet recorded signal. I wondered if anyone could shed any light, confirm similar outcomes, etc. I noticed a bit of a difference between the wet and dry tracks the other night whilst messing with this.
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