Guitar Micing

[stickbugg]

I have a condensor mic, a dynamic mic, and a load of instrument mics. Which of these should I use to record my guitar amp?

[AlexW]

What are the specific mics? Clean guitar or distorted? What kind of amp do you have (combo or sep. cab)? Generally speaking, a dynamic close to the cone will get you a decent sound. Sometimes a LDC back about 3-feet blended with the dynamic can improve things if you can't get the sound you want with the dynamic mic. I'm not sure what "instrument mics" are.

[Ronan]

Put a shure SM57 right on the grill right on the edge of the cone. Its the classic approach for very good reason.

[jonnyc]

Yeah what do you mean by instrument mics? i think you may mean dynamic for those also. I generally mic my 1960 cab with a sennheiser 609 a shure sm57 and a shure ksm109. the two dynamic mics are at the speaker cone very close to the source and the condensor(ksm 109) about a foot and a half away between the two already mic'd sources.

[stickbugg]

I have just an 80W Marshall combo amp. What I record would actually be a combo of clean and distortion. My dynamic mic is an Apex 770 (crap brand, I know). My condensor mic is an Apex 430. By instrument mic, I meant the small mics, but think those are for drums only, or something. I've been told Apex aren't very good mics at all, but it's what I got in the steal-of-a-deal complete setup someone had, and I suppose it's good to learn with.

[stickbugg]

Does this information help at all? :c\