You recorded with the delay. Do you typically do this or record dry and add it later? Been curious about this lately since it seems some add effects after the fact. I feel I play differently when using any type of effect and so I suppose I would rather use the effects and record them as I play. I suppose the drawback to this is that you can't undo later so you have to rerecord if something doesn't sit well in the mix later on... Also wondering about the stereo mix as a result... I suppose I'll just have to experiment.
I agree with you, I play differently with effects, and besides, what's more relaxing that just playing a laid back thing like a blues and just letting the delay fill in the holes? It's great! The delay does half the work!
However, about halfway through this, I added something to the guitar track after recording, a second delay with a modulation filter that you can hear when I move up the neck a little. It's one reason that the HXDA sounds a little bit not like itself in this track, I think.
But I don't worry about the drawback of not being able to have it sit in the mix later; if that were to happen, I'd just re-cut the track. It's not like I make magic happen on the guitar, and I figure if I can play it right once, I can play it as well or better the next time.
FXpansion's Addictive Drums. Because this was just a little quickie demo, I was lazy and left them relatively unprocessed. If it had been a paying gig, I'd have spent a lot more time on them, or used real drums. But they served the purpose.
Did you isolate the HX/DA?
Nope. I was just doing a quickie, so I recorded with the cab just sitting out in the control room, on its casters (Mesa 212 Recto cab). But because of that, I did have to cut a lot of the bottom out, both on the head and in the mix because I was getting way too much low end. I also set the EQ (an API) to really goose the top end and upper mids, because while the Royer sounds very smooth, it also tends to be a little treble-shy when close miking a cab (it is sensitive to proximity effect and doesn't have a ton of top to start with). So that really skews the sound a little, too. I mean, the recording shows what the amp can do, but I'll admit it isn't the very best representation of the pure tone of the amp. Then again, I am not into documenting pure tones, I'm really into using an amp as a base for sonic experimentation.
What can I say? I just like screwing around with this stuff!
I'm still dialing all the time changing my sound and going back and forth with the CU22 and the Stripped 58. Hopefully I will find that happy medium soon where I can get all I want with the flick of my thumb on the volume knob!
I'm probably just used to doing it 'cause I'm so old that it's embarrassing. LOL
It's what we used to do a loooong time ago!