Members Pr3Va1L Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 Discuss. I use isolation headphones and move the mic around until I got the tone I'm looking for. It's the best way I've found to consistently get good results (while not consistent results, always get good tone). It can be time consuming but once you've found the sweet spot, it's REALLY nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tommythelurker Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 That's what I do (or did for the little while that I recorded, haven't for some time now) but I don't have the isolation headphones so it's an iterative process of record a little bit, listen, adjust, repeat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 poorly, i admit. live, i do pretty well. but to record, i suck ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Weathered Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 SM57 in front of the grill, move it until it sounds good. Great tone, an SM57, and good positioning is all you need to capture a guitar on record. One of these is hard to do - you can pick which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hýrukante Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 exactly the same, just use headphones and move my sm57 around untill i find a balanced sound as full sounding as i can, and then i find a tone on my amp to suit the mic.. sm57's seem to pick up alot of harshness which i can't hear in real so i tend to turn the treble down alot more and work with the amp once the mic position is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pr3Va1L Posted July 6, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 SM57 in front of the grill, move it until it sounds good.Great tone, an SM57, and good positioning is all you need to capture a guitar on record. One of these is hard to do - you can pick which one. The SM57? Seriously, IMO a well mic'ed/recorded bad tone will sound *much* better than a poorly mic'ed good tone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Weathered Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 The SM57?Seriously, IMO a well mic'ed/recorded bad tone will sound *much* better than a poorly mic'ed good tone! Yes the SM57 - the same mic that 75% of producers have used on guitar cabs in the past 50 years. If you can't make the SM57 work for you, you need: 1. A better preamp2. Better positioningand/or 3. Better tone FWIW, it's harder to have a poorly mic'd good tone than a well mic'd bad tone - usually, good tone translates to tape really well, regardless of mic position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeid2000 Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 I prefer using two SM57's. One pointing dead centre on a cone and another off axis on another. Making sure they're in phase with one another. It gives you a total good mix of tones which you can mess around with until you find something suitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 i am very lazy. I started out with all these fancy ideas but at the end of the day now I single track and go direct to the cone and twist it a tiny bit off axis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joeyinflames Posted July 6, 2007 Members Share Posted July 6, 2007 I prefer using two SM57's. One pointing dead centre on a cone and another off axis on another. Making sure they're in phase with one another. It gives you a total good mix of tones which you can mess around with until you find something suitable. "nordstrom mics" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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