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All the steps above look good to me, I use most of the same plugins, LePou are a good set of amps, but I use a different IR loader.
Couple of points, your IR loader has 2 slots-for a stereo signal, which is fine, but more commonly guitars are recorded as mono, and then doubled for a wall of sound thing. I see you are using it in mono, but you can use different IRs to blend with the 2 cabs.
I got good results with my own Radar, I used a 5150 overdrive, and have a setup where I can split the signal to get a DI before the pedals, and a second track from the 5101/radar. I had no problems getting a good sound-the only problem is there are a lot of options available. The Radar is a power amp / cab sim, and these both have a lot of options-I thought the thing sounded amazing for the money.
You should be able to get a good sound from your pedals through it, just dont use 2 separate cab sims, I should think the guvner would sound just fine.
I built a pedalboard with the Radar on the end, to replace my amp as a back up, and also as a good recording platform-to try and get a sound that works for live and recording, a lot of the time I just go DI into Reaper though- I'm using Slates THU for amp-cab sims, and they are really only different versions of the same thing.
The beauty of what you have done-is that it can just be saved as a template, and tweaked and refined as you go along. (plenty of fun to be had using 2 different tracks for a wet / dry setup )
good luck
andy k
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
I'm thinking your issues with the RADAR is probably down to a bit of confusion, and maybe a mismatch in levels--there's a lot to tweak and get right, 2 different days could be 2 very different set ups.
If you think of the Radar, with cab sims and power amp turned on, plugged into your interface as the equivalent of a mic that is in front of your amp, and your gain pedal plugged into your Radar is simply the pre-amp- the radar has simulated power amp stage, and mic'd cab.
Once this signal is recorded-at a good level, it should sound like a mic'd amp, which is where a bit of reverb comes in.
You wouldn't be really feeding a mic'd amp signal into another guitar amp would you? ( the lepou amp sim )--it might sound good though--I'll try it one day, there are no real rules--only some basic things about not clipping an input, digitally it wouldn't really do any harm--but digital clipping just sounds bad.
The way I have my pedals and interface set up, as I explained earlier, lets me get a simultaneous recording of the sound I am using at the time-which also affects how I play, and a plain DI of the performance, which helps to avoid some of the problems you get with latency if you are getting your sound with plugins, and are trying to monitor while recording to other tracks.
My own recording setup is a bit outdated, and would soon get bogged down if I tried too much processing while recording.
Once I have the recording done, I can use the DI track-with any other amp / cab / fx plugins to add to the original ideas--its all about making the most of a performance really, but at the same time having something that is committed to tape-so to speak.
Depending on how you have your tracks set up- you could be recording a DI, but be hearing the amp / cab / fx, or you could be recording all those effects, or with Reapers routing, you could also be doing both at the same time.
I'm learning all the time, and Reaper never ceases to amaze me.
The day I realized I could have 4 separate DI tracks, which overlapped, all inside a folder--with one amp / cab sim on the folder, which is like having 4 people playing into one amp at the same time, ---I had to put it down and think long and hard about what is possible now.
Good lockdown time killer for sure.
or maybe, don't, and just get used to the one you have , and what makes it sound the way you like it, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.
laters.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Thanks so much for being patient with my nonsense.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
The audio:
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
You might get tired of too much gain when you start to stack tracks, sometimes cleaner is better as it fits in a mix better.
I just finished messing about with this track---
This is a DI of a few riffs that I recorded on a Line6 Backtrack.
It took me a while to sort out the tempo-I didn't record to a click, and some sloppy playing, some parts need re-recording to correct tempo, but it helped me to get the idea fleshed out.
The DI is running through Slate THU with a plexi setting- and there is a stereo version with a delay, and a mono version which is dry.
I created a bass line, by using some magic to generate a midi file from my DI track, and this runs through Kontakt with Submission Eurobass.
Drums are Slate plus a few others, and are basic, the vocal samples were a last minute-last night addition, bit silly really, but I was happy enough with it to try it out on Soundcloud.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly