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Originally Posted by Dork Lard
wow sorry too difficult for me to understand exactly what you mean there lol.
Anyways the setup is just guitar into the amphead, amphead into the Captor, Captor into the soundcard.
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And the amp head will affect the "sound" of the guitar. Even on a "clean" channel, you're going to get some mild compression (that "tube sound"), plus whatever you do with it tonally. The raw DI track (no compression, no EQ) is basically a "copy" of what came out of your guitar BEFORE it hit the amp.
By recording the DI track, you essentially "capture" the performance itself. Then you can treat that performance to taste, experiment, etc., without being locked into previous decisions. If, for example, you get a "killer crunch tone" from your amp, and print that, you'll have a HELL of a time trying to do any sidechain tricks because the signal is so distorted (no dynamic range).
Also, with a clean DI track, you can re-amp later. Maybe borrow your buddy's Soldano head for a day, rent a Dual Rectifier and a Friedman head? Print "tones" from all three using the DI track as the source.
Using the "output MIDI note" feature of the ReaTune VST will allow you to control a synth with your DI, but a distorted track is much harder for the VST to follow unless played EXTREMELY cleanly.
Re-Amping is a cool technique. You can record all the parts at home at 3AM without annoying anybody. Then, at some time in the future, you just route the DI track to a physical hardware output of your sound card and feed that to your amp of choice (see above!). Add a vintage Marshall 1960A, a nice ribbon and a 57, and it's absolutly no different than playing the guitar into that amp/speaker/mic combo. With the DI track, you capture the performance itself. With the amp/Captor setup, you have embedded the choices you made with the amp into the performance.
Does that make any sense? Couple vids that might help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46lim9n3ZPM and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Cf6mGEqn4