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this is just for curiosity: when you record your guitar tracks, do you apply the POD FXs (delay chorus, etc and most important of all, the reverb with the Line6 A.I.R. technology) or do you record your tracks "dry" and apply later pulsar FXs?
would you achieve a better quality in using POD reverb instead of post applying it?
in case you record with POD Fxs, do you record your guitar tracks stereo? (since i suppose the POD reverb is a stereo fx!)

thanks!

i use v-amp but the "rules" are the same anyway.

if you're gonna use a very perticular and specific guitar sound with loads of effects like wha, rotary, a long delay and a splash of reverb then, IMHO, you should record WITH the effects.

it's hard to recreate that exact sound later on and you'll play differently with/without the effects.
if you're laying down rythm tracks then DON'T record the effects, when mixing you wanna keep your basic foundation of the song as clean as possible and then "fill the gaps" with different effects.
you know, adding a dedicated reverb to a guitar can help giving the guitar it's own place in the mix.

so 2 options:
when a guitarsound is very distinctive and uniqe, record the effects.
when you're adding butter-and-bread-guitars, don't.

this is how i work and it surely works for me.
good luck!

I tend to agree. I always record using my Pod effects on (although I use a Boss CS-2 for pre-Pod compression as the Pod compressor is notoriously rubbish). Most guitar effects affect (sic) the way you play. I also tend to record mono as I often layer at least two to three guitars and it's a hell of a lot easier to separate them in a mix if you can just pan 'em with their effects. Unless you really want a whacked out ping pong delay or rotary effect bouncing from left to right speakers (usually inducing nausea) then keep it mono. A lot of 70s stuff that used Leslies were often recorded mono anyway (including Mellotrons and Hammonds) so even then stereo is not necessarily a necessity.

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I record My Pod dry(or using software monitoring). That way I keep all my instruments in the same "room" when I apply reverb.

well,guitar players often use their own effects,which are the blended into the house mix live, so,that way works also.

all depends on what you want.....

I usually try to talk my guitar playing clients out of recording with effects unless it's clearly something that can't be easily duplicated in Pulsar (which is rare). Dry is better because then you can add the effects during mixing. If a guitar is recorded with effects, it's a risk because the effects may or may not sit well in the mix and once it's recorded, it's nearly impossible to reduce or remove it later. This is just a mild suggestion. An effect like a wah-wah can be recorded without much risk.

I always record guitars from the Pod in mono but I run the signal through an ART Tube MP unit just to warm things up a bit. Sounds awesome! Try it sometime Recording in stereo usually doesn't mean much and just ties up tracks.

I usually double-mic acoustic guitars, however, and run each mic on a separate track. Especially if the acoustic is the main guitar in the song.

If the guitarist insists on recording with effects, I'll usually record a second dry signal on a separate track just in case

i thank you all for your suggestions!