amp overtones

[TelePaul]

Problem recording electric. I wanna mic up my amp, a marshall...but any kind of distortion spills over when i put a mic in front of it. Like if i bend a note and let it sustain, alot of hum and noise gets picked up. Im using a single coil Tele. Are we going along the route of noise suppressor here?

 

[Anfontan]

If you have the mic right on the speaker you might back it off so you don't catch all that hum, the other night I had the mic about 8" from the speaker and the hum didn't pick up at all. Actually someone asked if it was recorded direct.

 

[T Sat]

The Tele is a problem that way, good gating gets the best results.

 

[myhatbroke]

turn down the lows, and turn up the mids a bit. I had the same problem at first too. Your tone is going to sound a bit different from a live gig. That the beauty of recording

 

[ggunn]

Problem recording electric. I wanna mic up my amp, a marshall...but any kind of distortion spills over when i put a mic in front of it. Like if i bend a note and let it sustain, alot of hum and noise gets picked up. Im using a single coil Tele. Are we going along the route of noise suppressor here?

Some gating/noise suppression may help when the guitar is not producing a note, but it won't help with noise that is mixed in with your sound.

 

[Farview]

You might just be too close to your amp. Does the hum change when you move away or spin around?

 

[VomitHatSteve]

Last time I recorded bass, I could get rid of most of the hum with a low pass filter. Try messing around with high and low filters at about th 500 (kHz? Hz?) range.

 

[TelePaul]

Cheers guys I'll back off with the mic and check out some suppression. Thanks again guys!

 

[Thurgood]

500 hz roll-off is too high try 80 hz that may give you 3db down at 60 hz (also known as the home of hum)

 

[TelePaul]

Bought me an NS 2; wehre has it been all my life? thank you gents.