Man, I bet that did sound really good. You'd probably have to really know what you're doing as well (unlike me!).mynameisjonas wrote: the best bass sound i ever recorded was when using two different cabs, 4 mics and a direct signal![]()
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Man, I bet that did sound really good. You'd probably have to really know what you're doing as well (unlike me!).mynameisjonas wrote: the best bass sound i ever recorded was when using two different cabs, 4 mics and a direct signal![]()
Bernard Butler used to stick a mic behind his AC30 to pick up the rumble that came out the rear. I've not tried it on my AC!5 but it'd be cool to try. Right now I've only got one Shure SM57 and a webcam microphone on hand so I'm a bit strapped for micsidiotbear wrote: I tend to put my Samson condenser about 1.5m from my Marshall now, which works the best out of any mic setup I've used so far. It actually sounds like my sound! Never tried miking the AC30 yet - I imagine I'd need a lot more distance from the cabinet, cos that thing THROWS sound.
I've always wanted to try Albini's trick of using TONS of ambient condensers in addition to the main instrument and drum mics. Expensive, but way cool.
My band is probably going to record an EP in the next few months, and I really want to try that approach. I have a buddy who owns about 4 of every mic ever made, so when we go into the studio, I might take about 20 condensers and a mixer in with us and see how that amount of ambient miking works.
I'll throw in my $.02.mezcalhead wrote: My first couple of goes at recording a guitar actually plugged into an amp have led me to wonder how you guys are placing microphones in this situation.
I started off using an amp with 2x10" speakers but couldn't get a sound I liked out of it .. switched to an amp with 1x10" and found a decent sound pretty quickly with the mic placed a couple of inches from the grille, lined up with the outer edge of the speaker and pointing roughly into the centre of the speaker.
This may not be helped by the cheap condenser mic I'm using but I'm pretty sure my placement wasn't the best either. What do you guys do?
I'm more of a live sound engineer than a studio guy, and the best clean sound I've ever heard out of any amp was when a guy was using a brownface princeton with a telecaster. It was just beautiful. As it was live sound, I just had an SM57 on it, but it still sounded great.OffYourFace wrote: I was using an old '62 Fender Brown Princeton (w/ les paul)
This really can make for some great mighty boom! I always had great results this way with my little Deluxe Reverb.Meshuggahnans wrote:
2- If you have an open-back amp, mic the back of the amp too! speakers make sounds by vibrating back and forth -- even though there is a lot of sound coming out the front, there is a lot coming out the back too! don't miss this opportunity to capture some great low-end in your tone!
BE WARNED!!! When blending mics on opposite sides of an amp you can be asking for a recipe for phase cancellation (for those not in the know, simply its a comb filter caused by wave patterns electronically canceling each other out causing lost signal.) Don't mirror your close mic, give it some distance and tilt the mix off-axis to the amp.