Re: How to record a FULL RANGE guitar sound?
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What you really need to do is to put on a pair of headphones and walk around with the mic while the guitarist is playing. Listening on the cans as you move around with the mic will tell you where you'll get the sound you want. Also do the same thing with positioning the mic at the amp. Micing the edge of the cone will give you a different sound than micing the center. |
Re: How to record a FULL RANGE guitar sound?
For a big full guitar sound: The HOLY GRAIL of multi miked, room mics & multi amp setups + DI is Sound Radix's AutoAlign plugin.
It fixes all phase issues and makes all of your sources work together. Auto Align is the greatest thing ever for Guitar & Bass with a DI or multi mic/multi amp situations. It is so audible (when you A/B it) you'll be shocked. As a guitar player, AutoAlign is a bigger game changer than Waves L1 was back in '92. When you pull up your own older sessions (from before AAlign existed) and you put it on the guitar tracks, you may cry. Indispensable. |
Re: How to record a FULL RANGE guitar sound?
The lower the frequency the larger the waveform the farther from the source the mic needs to be to capture it. Even a small diameter condenser 4-8 feet away is going to give you more lows to work with(along with some room sound of course). I would do as musicman suggests using headphones with a close mic and a condenser(preferably one without a hyped top or middle) aimed straight at the speaker moving the room mic to get as close as possible to the sound you want. I agree that psychoacoustic plugins such as Rbass and RenAxx can definitely help, as would the right compressor. Also I might mention that if you are listening in front of near fields when mixing,you may be too close to them to hear the lower frequencies that are there. Try listening from the next room and see if it sounds closer to what you heard when tracking.
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Re: How to record a FULL RANGE guitar sound?
I should add that I find recording with a ribbon gives me a warm, semi -dark midrange-y tone , but not a bunch of low frequency
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Just out of curiosity, have you tried playing back your recording in the same room that you recorded in? Place the monitor speakers in the same position and direction as the guitar amp during recording, and play it back at the same volume it was played live. How does it sound in that situation?
The point is, you might have already captured the performance, and what you're missing is the acoustic listening environment that greatly affects what you hear and feel. Now, if it sounds right only when played back in the same environment as the recording, I'm not sure how you would emulate that so it translates the same feel in other environments. |
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GTO - Agree. A Coles will do a great job here in front. Not too close though.
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