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how do you guys record your guitars, electric and acoustic, amp and no amp. it would be good to know some ways to do it. thnx
Anyway, I picked up a Shure SM-57 for not much ("stole it" would be the figure of speech) and little 5-channer mixer and am much closer to sonic bliss now. In fact since I don't normally play with my ear glued to the speaker cone (wha...?) it actually sounds better thru the mix than 6-ft away in the same room - all the nuances are there. But the key, as Jimmy Page learned his lessons from the early work of Les Paul, mic PLACEMENT is everything.
The Shure guides in this area for guitar are pretty good and it really depends what I'm going for, ....Rhythm: 1" away from the grill, directly centered on the CVR's right speaker cone. This yields some accentuated bass frequencies and lets the rhythm be very full-bodied, which it needs to be in a typical 4-piece group. However...Melody: With the same setting doing the lead work there was a point that the freqs & timbre of the unwound G-string (over its higher vintage pickup polepiece) was completely over-the-top of all other signals. This was exacerbated by the fact that an overdrive was now in the chain (nearly turned off but simulating a Fender head's output transformer really working). I could've stuck a nanosecond thought in my brain to vary my dynamics when touching that string but there's no room left in the brain for such drivel. So what I did was move the mic. Simply moving the mic to a point 2" away from the grill and 2.5" right of the center of the cone (it's now off on the paper) cleared that issue up completely. No other EQ changes were made.So it kind of reinforces something I pretty much had heard & knew, but it's quite dramatic when you get to play with it.Location, location, location applies to recording mics as well. ..........
double P.S. lol .... I like your 'surf instro' sound Wes - very classic and retro. Nice clean recording and overall production, and your guitar sounds sweet!Glenn