A Music Recording Relvation (sort of): I want a noise cancelling pedal
I was screwing around today with a riff that wouldn’t go out of my head, so I decided that I need to record it. I’m in Hood River and have only a little bit of my recording gear with me and it’s not set up. So after about an hour of getting set up I was finally ready to lay down the damn track in Sonar with some canned ProAudio drums.
I’ve been struggling with getting my digital recordings to sound decent, especially the heavy guitar tone. I have pretty good tone from the amp and the room, but I cannot for the life of me get good tone to record. Worse yet here, I’m plugging into my Line 6 amp and using direct out from one of the amp models. It works… but it sounds pretty flat.
But here is the real kicker: I only have my shitty travel headphones with me here and predictably it sounds pretty weak between both the thin guitar recording and the headphones. The phones are optional noise canceling which I have off usually unless I am in fact on a plane or other noisy place.
So I listened to this stuff and accidentally flipped the switch into noise canceling mode – and MAN what a freaking difference. Whatever noise canceling does I want it on my guitar tone. It takes the wimpy winy sound and expands the shit out of it giving it the bottom end and bite that seems to be missing from the recording.
So the 64 million dollar question from the sound ignorant person is – what is it that noise canceling does and what is the equivalent guitar effect. <g> It’s almost like it’s Loudness on old stereos. It must be more than pure equalization as I can’t equalize the tone to anything close to that.
Anybody have any ideas?