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Well, but indeed I am recording a bunch of instruments directly (virtual instruments that were tracked internally on the hard disk), sending the signal out to my active studio monitors (which have amplifiers in them ;-) and recording that signal.
I get your point, but IMO that doesn't mean that the concept of reamping cannot be applied to whole mixes, instead of single tracks, or realized through studio monitors instead of bass/guitars amplifiers.
Ok, but the word for it isn't "reamping" is all I'm saying. What you're doing is adding room / reverb by using a real room / chamber fed by a speaker.
Just do this: Type in "reamping" into the search box here on the forum and you'll see a page full of people talking about recorded guitar and bass using a DI and then outputting them to a guitar or bass amp/cabinet to re-record using a microphone.
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pietrogirardi
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Honestly I'd stick with the idea of summing, even just because it conveys the real purpose of this technique.
No it doesn't.
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As I said before, the problem I personally struggle with is the fact that digital summing with virtual instruments, especially those trying to emulate real ones (this is my main playground) is completely flat and bi-dimensional.
And the main reason is because there's no bleed, no interaction whatsoever among channels. This process, although not technically summing, is the nearest I can come to have an analog console or a summing box. These are devices in which, at some point of the chain (the inner circuitry? The output stage? IDK), channels somehow interact with each other, giving that extra-spice and depth many are looking for.
Again, when people are talking about summing they are talking about summing multiple channels, I'd say usually no less than eight,
electrically in the analog domain, rather than in the digital one. If your signals are already summed then you aren't doing summing.
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Well, eventually we can "agree to disagree"!
What's the point in using words that already have a well established meaning within our community in ways that will just confuse people?
I don't dismiss the goal with your technique at all, I think it's great that you're doing it this way if it sounds much better to you. In fact I would encourage everyone to try things like this out to make their music sound more personal...