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Alan, All:
Mic'ing the rear of an amp is a great technique, which
of course, assumes an open-back combo amp.
With this technique, however, you may have to flip the
polarity of the rear mic to improve phase coherence.
Otherwise, if the rear mic is picking up sound out of
phase with the front one, the end result will be
diminished low end. If you *are* looking for a
skinnier guitar tone, this out-of-phase'ness may work
for your track.
~ Jonathan
www.lbop.net
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 11:32:16 +0100
From: "Cordelia" <>
Subject: Re: surf compression ?
You shouldn't buy "a cool old ElectroVoice mic" on
eBay. Even if you
could
find one that still worked properly it's unlikely
you'd be able to tell
the
difference between that and an SM57 as far as
recording electric
guitars is
concerned. Nearly everything you can hear, and
certainly everything you
WANT
to hear from an electric guitar doesn't begin to
challenge the range of
frequencies that an SM57 can pick up. Maybe you could
use a vocal
condenser
for room ambience if you wanted to try something
different or record
the
guitar in stereo - a relatively cheap modern mike like
an AKG C3000
would be
a better bet - but I find a better way of doing that
is to stick a
second
SM57 on the back of the amp opposite the first one.
Its really not that
complicated - the tone of the amp is going to affect
the sound way more
than
the choice of mike - if you get that bit right you'll
be fine.
Alan Jenkins
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