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Using guitar amp plugins to modify guitar tones for mixing

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Using guitar amp plugins to modify guitar tones for mixing

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- I like to approach mixing in a pretty organic way. I grew up in the age of tape decks and consoles and everything, and if you'd recorded a guitar with a mic through an amp that's usually kind of what you were stuck with. You could do some reamping, you know, by piping it back in the room and remicing a new signal. But generally you'd come to just work with what you had. It took me a few years, but as plugins got better at their tones and their abilities the reamping, the guitar amp simulator kind of plugins started to become kind of appealing and especially when I was mixing tracks that other people had recorded. If I had felt they had chosen the guitar tones I'd find myself going, hey maybe I could just change this real quick. One of the first plugins I used for this kind of work was the simple Sansamp plugin that comes in the Pro Tools suite and you'll find it under Harmonic here, Sansamp PSA1. It's kind of like the rack mount version they used to have, or maybe they still do. It…

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