Okay, I'll lift it up. There's only about the width of the 57 until I'm miking the wood of the cab... My problems with the amp have always been with "too bright". Can't seem to get my 57 to pick up the "balls" of the thing. Also considering buying some kind of diode overdrive, like a TS, and see if I can get it to break up a bit more...
Maybe, since most of my experience is with sims, I could get the Amplitube Vox bit and play with dynamic mike placement until I figure out what works (while it plays a loop), and then emulate that in meat world. I know that sounds backwards, but playing parts in a room, at volume, over and over, you lose your ear before you get where you're going. I don't have the most sophisticated studio in the world, but I know it's fairly tonal neutral and very dead. I should be able to get this to sound better. Would moving the mike away from the speaker make more or less bright? I'm just pretty novice at miking up a real amp.
Anyway, this is the first song where I haven't got ANY sims running, so it's a step forward. I got some pretty decent tones, and when layered they ended up sounding pretty good.
You're already near the edge of the speaker then? I didn't realize that. Well you don't want to mic the wood! But hey, the tones you have here aren't bad, and they're working in the song which is what counts.
I'm skeptical that playing with the settings on your amp sim is going to help you much in learning to mic your tube amp. At the end of the day, you're still going to be experimenting with a particular mic and placement, speaker, amp, room, guitar, pickups, playing style, and song context. I doubt there is any way to avoid the trial and error of dialing all that in.
What's your monitoring situation? If you're trying to make adjustments by listening to the room tone of a cranked tube amp, it's going to lead you astray. Not to mention ear fatigue. If you can find that thread you started back in late April or early May when you bought this amp, there's some discussion of monitoring. Personally, I'm an advocate of getting that speaker out of the room altogether.
Okay, okay ido. I get that you weren't happy with my comments on your latest mix.