El_Thwatez said:Hi Again,
Sorry if I put you off with my statement about the mic eliminators I did not mean to be rude about them so much as abrupt, but they really are not very nice.
For recording, the best thing to do would be to buy something like a red-box or Behringer Ultra-G, download Voxengo Boogex (its free) and get the randall cab impulses (which I can send if you need), run the amp's speaker out into the Ultra-G into a mixing desk/preamp interface into your PC, and apply the cabinet emulation (make sure that cab emulations amp settings are all dialed at 0% otherwise you'll encounter some 'interesting' distortion
For live without mic'ing, you're better off doing a similar thing with the Ultra-G or Red box into the mixing desk and then use the desk's own EQ
For practising with the head without a cab (assuming you are using the mix eliminator from one of the XL series heads, not the cabinet), Do the same as recording but instead of running Voxengo Boogex in a DAW such as protools, cubase or tracktion, run it on a free VST host (I can again send you one of these) and you can play through your PC speakers/headphones to your hearts content with a relatively accurate cabinet emulation...
If you're trying to mic and DI the rig at the same time, again get a red box or Ultra-G, run into that into your desk for 1 channel getting the DI and then mic the cab as you want and run that into the second channel, try and EQ out some of the low and mids of the DI channel to get a more balanced sound although thats really just a personal taste thing. You could also run the DI channel from the FX send or the slave out although I am not sure of the implications of using the slave out into a mic or line level input as the slave out could be a Hi-Z output.
Alternatively, if you don't have a PC and want to do any of the PC related things, buy a POD or the like, run the red box/Ultra-G into the POD and use its cab emulation with the amp modelling turned off.
Without knowing exactly what you want to do with the mic-eliminator its hard to advise exactly what you want to do, but this is a very good starting point
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Dan
note: when referring to the Behringer Ultra-G 100 make sure it's cab emulation is off as its also not very nice (a different kind though, really harsh cheap sounding)
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