Sennheiser E609 suitable for bass?

[Tonekat]

I've seen the remarks on micing guitar cabs with the E609, have any of you tried it to mic bass amps?? And if so was it a good experience?

 

[tubedude]

Never tried it myself, dont even want to, really. Seems if I wasnt gonna go direct, I would use a large condensor on a bass cab as first choice and probably not ever get passed it to try anything else.
Might be great though. Doubt anyone here has tried it. I think it rolls off around 44hz?

 

[DaveDrummer]

I just went DI, (sansamp) but I imagine that would work, but why would you really need to mic the bass amp/cab if they have these great DIs for the same prices?


Dave

 

[DJL]

I've seen the remarks on micing guitar cabs with the E609, have any of you tried it to mic bass amps?? And if so was it a good experience?

I don't know, but I've gotten good results with the NT3, and also the MD421 on my bass cab.

 

[MrGrooves]

You could make/buy a reamp box and record trough the DI and then try all the amp/mic'n you want afterwards.

 

[JG96]

this might be to late but colin greenwood of radiohead uses one and di's than mixes that down to one track

 

[Seafroggys]

ooold thread but e609 is a fairly bright mic...I don't see it working so well, unless you really wanted to capture high end then mix with the beef on the DI.

 

[snellular5]

ooold thread but e609 is a fairly bright mic...I don't see it working so well, unless you really wanted to capture high end then mix with the beef on the DI.

Exactly I did that in a past session, just miced up his cab with and e906 (same deal) and then had a DI. I was very impressed although it had quite a bit of punch the mic lacked low end which I mixed in using the DI.

 

[Seafroggys]

yeah exactly, the DI takes care of most the sound, the e609 (or 906 in your case) just adds the top end to it.