Producer Jacquire King on Reamping Drums Producer, audio engineer, and mixer Jacquire King is a multiple Grammy winner who has worked with Tom Waits, Buddy Guy, Kings of Leon, and many others. His commitment to crafting distinctive and idiosyncratic sounds and placing them in a mix to give a track something special guided him to explore reamping as a creative tool. Originally used as a way to transform previously recorded guitar and bass signals, reamping is a process where a track is sent from the recording medium to an amplifier (and/or effects pedals) using a dedicated reamp box, and then re-recorded with the new, amp-colored tone. For years, engineers have “saved” crappy guitar sounds by reamping them using a hipper or more appropriate signal path. Of course, with engineers and producers always on the hunt for extraordinary sounds, it didn’t take long for reamping techniques to be deployed for vocals, […]