"Wahhh! Wassat Chili??" Amps, recording. Right.
Hi Dan. Have to say I am a teensey bit in agreement with the notion that you are trying to cheap out on this? Still, here's my 2p's worth FWIIW..
There are thousands, maybe several tens to the six videos on the Tube of guitar amps. Most are shit, some are quite well done and a few are very well done. But, IMHO they are all pretty ****g useless at telling people what any particular amp sounds like. Even the later videos of my old employers vids, nice though they are simple do not conform to any "process" whereby people can really compare products.
You have been told to get an SM57. Good advice IF you wanted to make a "nice recording" but if you want to show people what the AMP sounds like you should probably use a B&K measurement mic! The obverse of this concept is. How would you feel if people heard your amp through laptop speakers and pronounced it sounded like a bee in a tin?
Of course, if the intention is to simply make a pleasant video that shows the features of the amplifier(s) fine but to show the "glorious toob sound"? Not going to happen methinks.
There is a whole school of thought as to best record an amp (google sound on sound Aug 07) and just sticking any kind of mic in front of it is just one of a whole gammut of possible techniques. Put another way, you could spend until the Spring tryng to get the sound YOU hear coming out of your monitors. But yes, SM57, UR22 interface. Bish-bash-bosh and if you really don't want to keep the kit* you would get 1//2 of the money back on the Bay I expect.
*They are "tools". Tax deductable? (pity you are so far away I would gladly lend you a rig)
Dave.
Hi Dan. Have to say I am a teensey bit in agreement with the notion that you are trying to cheap out on this? Still, here's my 2p's worth FWIIW..
There are thousands, maybe several tens to the six videos on the Tube of guitar amps. Most are shit, some are quite well done and a few are very well done. But, IMHO they are all pretty ****g useless at telling people what any particular amp sounds like. Even the later videos of my old employers vids, nice though they are simple do not conform to any "process" whereby people can really compare products.
You have been told to get an SM57. Good advice IF you wanted to make a "nice recording" but if you want to show people what the AMP sounds like you should probably use a B&K measurement mic! The obverse of this concept is. How would you feel if people heard your amp through laptop speakers and pronounced it sounded like a bee in a tin?
Of course, if the intention is to simply make a pleasant video that shows the features of the amplifier(s) fine but to show the "glorious toob sound"? Not going to happen methinks.
There is a whole school of thought as to best record an amp (google sound on sound Aug 07) and just sticking any kind of mic in front of it is just one of a whole gammut of possible techniques. Put another way, you could spend until the Spring tryng to get the sound YOU hear coming out of your monitors. But yes, SM57, UR22 interface. Bish-bash-bosh and if you really don't want to keep the kit* you would get 1//2 of the money back on the Bay I expect.
*They are "tools". Tax deductable? (pity you are so far away I would gladly lend you a rig)
Dave.