Thanks! Yeah, I too have to start doing that. I haven't read up on how to do that with the Axe yet. I think the biggest problem I would have is printing a DI track with no distortion....or is there a way the Axe allows me to play with a sound but print a clean DI track? I've never had to do any of that other than when I purposely printed a clean DI track for someone so we could re-amp it later. Time for me to get the manual out.
If you read my previous comment you'll see how to set up a stereo track using the Axe FX outs 1 and 2 as the inputs for your stereo wet track, and then use the Axe out 3 as the input for a mono dry reamp track, when you are recording. Make sure they are grouped to arm recording simultaneously, and phase aligned/locked, the same way you would set up multiple drum mics, to allow for synchronized editing and time stretching of takes without causing phase issues.
After you've recorded and edited various takes into a cohesive performance, you will have a "good" reamp track, and a wet stereo printed track.
What I've encountered is, if I have a heavy delay on, and I make a mistake, of course, I will hear that over and over again a beat or two later. So, if I use "take editing" I might be able to get the wrong note fixed, but still hear the repeats of the wrong note from the other take.
That's really where reamping can help. Once you've crafted a very good and solid reamp track, you can send it back through the AXE and print the wet a second time, so the delays are repeating only "good" notes. Hahaha. I've heard you play, so you probably do not have to rely on modern digital editing trickery like I do, but still.
The way you send the reamp track back through the AXE is simple - you have to set the INPUT of the Axe to USB, instead of being set to the analog input when you are using it for guitar.
One word of caution - don't forget to change the Axe Input back to analog after you are done using it for Reamping.
I've have had several Oh My God moments when I've fired up my rig, and no sound comes out when I strum the guitar....only to discover that I left the input set to USB from the previous reamping use the day before.
One last thought occurred to me - the output 3 and 4 that I am referring to as dry reamp tracks, are really whatever the signal is, that's feeding the Axe FX. So if you like to run your favorite stompbox or wah pedal in front of the Axe FX, that effect/overdrive will be printed on your "reamp" track. If you want to record that way, but you still want an actual, clean guitar only reamp track, you'd need outboard splitters commercially available, to go into your soundcard.
