Guitar Pedals as Outboard? Reamp Any Track from Your DAW 

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Agreed. I've watched a bunch of videos on this topic and this is the best I've I've found. More on this topic please. 👍👍👍

Clinton Maher I never even thought about that for outboard effects. Nice. So once the cab sim pedal does it’s magic, is the final output from it HiZ or line level? If it’s converting to LL, then you could just skip that last box, right?

that's easy, if you do have latency, send a click out and record it, count the samples of delay, re-align the recorded tracks of the same amount. Check my video on hardware latency compensation, is pretty much the same process

most DAW's also have functionality to measure the latency and correct it for you (fx send ping functionality it's named different in every DAW. I've used it with both Cubase and Bitwig)

I've done this with my arturia audiofuse but getting a decent output and input signal with monitoring on is near impossible

Try it and post some links, I'll check it out!

Never had any problem with noise with this

@@mixbustv Lucky you! I have been struggling quite a lot with this in the past.

@@delusionwalker8852 if you found a solution already than disregard, but I found many noise problems due to power supply go back to a poor power grid (some studios are so freaking bad)

@@mixbustv that was exactly the problem for me. Ok I will describe a few to give a clue where to look to anyone who might have simmilar problems. I found out: 1. The laptop powersuply might have bad isolation and anything that sits on the same power loop might have noise issues. 2. Having your room or studio on the same phase as your kitchen or any other room where high power consumers are. I had an issue in my old flat that each time the fridge compressor would go on or off it would create a spike in the current withdraw and I would hear it like a very short but very loud pop noise very annoying when you are recording. 3. Digital units like laptop, PC, audio equipment if they have bad/ cheap China power supply they cause noise of you feed your pedals from the same power loop. I tried to use different power supplies it shoved just sometimes the problem. On external audio usb interfaces what helped me was usb filter the only problem is that this is filters support mainly just usb 2 if you have usb 3 interface this is filters get redicules expensive. 4. Keep the signal cables like guitar cables from power cables away this causes noise too. Unless it's balanced cable then it looks better but even then separate them for maximum noise elimination. So long story short, keep your power clean, isolat devices from another. Use D.I. box it helps. Get out of your analog equipment power loop digital processors as they often introduce noise and get them desperate power supply. This is what I found to solve my issues on my last 2 flats. If you never experienced anything like this then disregard this and move on sinply consider yourself lucky.

This is how I do it, I actually have another video showing it, you just place the hw insert on an aux channel just like you'd do with any piece of hw

Any interface with more than 4 i/o

There's 2 eqs on the track before I send it out alredy. But this is no different than any other hardware insert, so yeah just open it after whatever else you want to use (look up hardware inserts or mixing with analog here on the channel if you don't know what that is)

You're asking for troubles but you can try

You need a reamp box to bring the signal from the converter (line level) to the pedal (hi-z) then a DI (passive or active, I like passive better) to bring the hi-z signal back to line level or, if you have a preamp with hi-z input, or your interface has, you can skip the DI.

@@mixbustv Thanks man for your answer very helpful.

If you have multiple I/O yes you can

If it has a line out yes

XLR are not for mic ins only, trs amd XLR are the same, but mics can only use xlr

@@mixbustv Clear, thank you.

Tell me about it 🤦‍♀️

some don't have an hi-z input

If you feed the return of the effects you will have delay but with reverb and delays shouldn't be a problem

@@mixbustv Sorry i m a super noob and not the best English speaker to.. By feeding the return Do you mean using the preamp or something else?

I think you might have a send fader turned up in UAD console. Turn that right down to zero.

Well i think i'm dumb and you answered it at the end with using a d.i box haha, just to be sure i connect the d.i box at the end to my audio interface right ?

@@widepeepoflo there's no dumb questions, yes you can, that's how I use pedals.

Hey Alberto, are you using the mobile app? If you're not using the mobile app and you are browsing on a mobile that's why, try to use a desktop or the desktop version or get the app, you should be able to see it, let me know

MixbusTv cool! I was trying from the app and couldn’t do it. Did it on the computer and everything worked ok. Thanks!

You can, you just have a mono signal

@@mixbustv That’s what I thought makes sense, Guitar center made it seem like I need a different connecting cord Thank you!

Any Help??

@@dwcs6570 in most cases reamping is not necessary but it depends on the pedals you are going to use. Most pedals are buffered and also the reamp box itself doesn't has to do anything with noise levels but maybe with humming problems, but I can't think of any case where ground humming could appear in this setup. If your setup works as it is then there is no need to change anything.

I get more mixes and see more releases now than before.

Because the signal coming from your daw is at line level, different from comes out from your guitar. And because the output of pedals output a signal meant to go into an amp, which again, is not line level which is an audio interface accept. It's not hard

@@mixbustv most pedals have input attenuators for the case that the input signal is too hot. Like i said almost 99% of modern pedals are buffered so reamp boxes are absolutely not necessary. Reamp boxes mainly have the function to match input and output impedances to compatible levels, but this is also what the buffers are there for. Watch some videos of people using synths with pedals, they are rarely using reamp boxes. And to be clear most synths produce much hotter output signals (voltage/db wise) than any audio interface. Still I don't understand why a reamp box should be necessary when combining an interface with a guitar pedal. And tbh I used alot of pedals with my interface without those boxes giving me a lossless signal quality. You just loose quality by adding those devices and that's a fact.

yes but you will probably have noise

@@mixbustv at the moment I go straight out of my interface via the unbalanced outouts into the pedals. I was going to get a re amp box to reduce noise. Is there any point in doing this with unbalanced outputs? Will it still reduce noise overall?

Guitar cabs, kicks, hats, toms, bass amps..

@@mixbustv Sounds then like its good for lows…thx!

@@amazeus1980 high SPL tight lows specifically

Had the PSA1.1 for almost a decade

MixbusTv hahaha

Yet they play at Rocklahoma Festival lol

@@mixbustv who?