timothypberner
New member
Good evening, friends -
I come to you humbly, a noob in desperate need of help with recording - I am the first to admit, I suck at it. I need some guidance.
My brother plays electric guitar (he has 2 rigs - a Fender American Telecaster w/ a Vox AC15, and a Epiphone Les Paul Custom w/ a Marshall JCM 2000), and has asked me to do some recording for him. Eager to give it a go, I picked up an SM57, and positioned it on axis in the center of the cone, on the grillcloth. His tones have been absolutely killer, so I was excited to hear it through my monitors, so I pressed record for a few minutes....... And it sounded like dirt.
Long story short, we have spent many hours using different mics borrowed from friends etc (SM57, SM58, MXL 2003a, Rode NT1a, AKG Perception 100, MXL V67Q), and no matter what mic, what position, what cable, what stand, what interface (which of course means different preamps and converters), I've even used different computers, powerboards and lack thereof, powerpoints, rooms, houses, and it still sounds like absolute poop!
Please help me, this is so embarrassing. I've done every possible thing I can think of or read on the net or watch on youtube, and I am so frustrated. I have had lots of success w/ other instruments so I know I'm not a total hopeless failure and should put it all up on eBay, but I can't get it right.
I've only kept two recordings (even these are some of the better ones) which are on an anonymous soundcloud account for you to check out:
https://soundcloud.com/user-988481022/tele-marshall
https://soundcloud.com/user-988481022/absolutely-disgusting
Thank you so much for reading this! Please help!
I come to you humbly, a noob in desperate need of help with recording - I am the first to admit, I suck at it. I need some guidance.
My brother plays electric guitar (he has 2 rigs - a Fender American Telecaster w/ a Vox AC15, and a Epiphone Les Paul Custom w/ a Marshall JCM 2000), and has asked me to do some recording for him. Eager to give it a go, I picked up an SM57, and positioned it on axis in the center of the cone, on the grillcloth. His tones have been absolutely killer, so I was excited to hear it through my monitors, so I pressed record for a few minutes....... And it sounded like dirt.
Long story short, we have spent many hours using different mics borrowed from friends etc (SM57, SM58, MXL 2003a, Rode NT1a, AKG Perception 100, MXL V67Q), and no matter what mic, what position, what cable, what stand, what interface (which of course means different preamps and converters), I've even used different computers, powerboards and lack thereof, powerpoints, rooms, houses, and it still sounds like absolute poop!
Please help me, this is so embarrassing. I've done every possible thing I can think of or read on the net or watch on youtube, and I am so frustrated. I have had lots of success w/ other instruments so I know I'm not a total hopeless failure and should put it all up on eBay, but I can't get it right.
I've only kept two recordings (even these are some of the better ones) which are on an anonymous soundcloud account for you to check out:
https://soundcloud.com/user-988481022/tele-marshall
https://soundcloud.com/user-988481022/absolutely-disgusting
Thank you so much for reading this! Please help!