Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

[Guitar Toad]

What does this mean? Is this when the amp output goes directly to the sound board instead of to a speaker cab that needs to be mic'd? When does a producer make the decision to do this?

Thanks.

 

[flank]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

i think in some cases it is literally the guitar straight into the board, and then whatever gain/boost the board has built in is used to get the signal to a good level. My memory may be foggy, but i think this was how Revolution was recorded. That nasty fuzzy tone was the sound of the board overdriving the signal

 

[Artie]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

"Straight into the board" can be both a technical and a slang term. Its easier to define by stating what it isn't. It isn't plugging the guitar into an amp/cab/combo which is then picked up by a microphone that goes into the board. Its virtually everything else.

It could be the guitar into a direct-box, into the board, or a guitar into a modeler into the board. Or it could be a guitar into a pedal into the board. Any of those things . . . except, a miced amp.

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

Typically it means that the signal didn't go to a guitar amp and then was miced and then into the board. The amp was typically bypassed and the signal eventually ended up going into the board.

When they had boards with tube preamps built into them there were some intersting things they could do with that sound. Legend has it that Jimmy Page did this on some of the Zep recordings.

I know that on some of the early Nine Inch Nails recording he went thru a Zoom processor and into the board, no tubes at all in the deal. Of course, he wasn't really going for a very traditional sound.

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

Thanks guys...that gives me a better idea what it means...muchos gracias

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

Dave Gilmour is known for going straight into the board. Common Recording Lingo, I can't hear myself in the cans

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

. My memory may be foggy, but i think this was how Revolution was recorded. That nasty fuzzy tone was the sound of the board overdriving the signal

You are correct.

 

[LoFiBrian]

Re: Recording lingo..."plugged straight into the board"

Territorial pissings on nirvana's nevermind is kurt's buckered japanese strat into a DS-1 into the neve console...