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Freebase Dali · 11-16-2010, 03:56 PM

Yea, I've heard mixed reviews about the pods and when researching which modeling pedal to get I ultimately went with the RP500 because the reviews were pretty good.

Regarding recording, for guitar it really depended on the situation. The RP500 sounds good enough to record straight in to the audio interface and onto a track in the music program, so for that I didn't need any additional processing that couldn't be achieved in the program itself. But the rack processors were good for sculpting the sound between the RP500 and the head. (which is a Line-6 Spider...ughhh...)
The cool thing about the RP500 is it has an amp bypass that lets you output straight into a head and use the head on clean channel as the amplifier for the cab. Simply routing the output of the pedal into the rack processors keeping everything at line level and then you run that through a the direct box in reverse to match impedance and plug into the guitar input on the head. In that scenario, I would obviously be recording with a mic and that mic would lead to the mixer, which led to the audio interface and into the music program. That created a far more flexible way to get a custom sound rather than just editing the patches on the pedal only.

I do [did] that same thing with the synth, even running it through the cab to capture a particular tone or go further with FX by running it through the multiFX rack unit along the way.

Like I said, it really depended on what I was trying to do. Now I'm with far less options so pretty much everything happens direct in.
Aside from that, for acoustic guitar or vocals, it's pretty standard I guess, as I just record with a condenser and run it through the mixer (for phantom power and the preamps on the Mackie are nice) and into the audio interface. I don't use any of the rack processors in that path because there's no undoing that and I get better results with plugins.

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Yea, I've heard mixed reviews about the pods and when researching which modeling pedal to get I ultimately went with the RP500 because the reviews were pretty good. Regarding recording, for guitar it really depended on the situation. The RP500 sounds good enough to record straight in to the audio interface and onto a track in the music program, so for that I didn't need any additional processing that couldn't be achieved in the program itself. But the rack processors were good for sculpting the sound between the RP500 and the head. (which is a Line-6 Spider...ughhh...) The cool thing about the RP500 is it has an amp bypass that lets you output straight into a head and use the head on clean channel as the amplifier for the cab. Simply routing the output of the pedal into the rack processors keeping everything at line level and then you run that through a the direct box in reverse to match impedance and plug into the guitar input on the head. In that scenario, I would obviously be recording with a mic and that mic would lead to the mixer, which led to the audio interface and into the music program. That created a far more flexible way to get a custom sound rather than just editing the patches on the pedal only. I do [did] that same thing with the synth, even running it through the cab to capture a particular tone or go further with FX by running it through the multiFX rack unit along the way. Like I said, it really depended on what I was trying to do. Now I'm with far less options so pretty much everything happens direct in. Aside from that, for acoustic guitar or vocals, it's pretty standard I guess, as I just record with a condenser and run it through the mixer (for phantom power and the preamps on the Mackie are nice) and into the audio interface. I don't use any of the rack processors in that path because there's no undoing that and I get better results with plugins.