Traditionally, they'd take the dry signal and run it through pedals and an amp (re-amp) - to record that, being able to change it to anything they'd like by sending the recorded signal through various bits of hardware.
These days, you just use plugins in your DAW.
So, we played with effects (wet) but used bypasses to record the clean (dry) signal. We then just used plugins to make the guitar and amps sound like how we wanted them to sound. It's a bit of an old-school technique used by studios, but some folks still do it that way.
Normally, we record the 'wet' and there is no 'dry'. We just make it sound like we want it to sound in the mix. That's actually faster for me than it is to bother with re-amping.
ok ok i get it all now seems alot of work lol. i dont really have patience to do all that wish i did though i feel it makes a difference in tone.
It's an old studio trick, useful if the player isn't going to be there long - or you want to save money by only paying them for shorter periods of time. You record it without effects and just add the effects after.
Ah OK ok well either way made record sound good
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