by Detailed Infinity » 07 Oct 2011, 16:23
Ah, Eric's given a post as I was typing.
I know what you mean John by playing dry. Playing through an amp and say a Zoom you are able to get an audible feel for the way you're playing. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that--I am able to play dry and rectify any mistakes to the dry recording within my editor (Sound Forge).
If you listen to the Apache tut clip I put up on You Tube, you can hear that after the first 2 bars of the intro there's a slight gap before the repeat. All I need to do is delete a few milliseconds and bring the two phrases together. Actualy I made a mess of the second intro phase and carried on. I highlighted it, deleted it and copied and pasted the first intro lick as in essence it's a repeat of the first lick. Couldn't do that if it had been processed through outboard hardware. The error would have an echo tail.
As I mentioned earlier, hardwear has it's place for gigging and practice but for me I need the virtual world for other stuff I do.
Bri