tubedude
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So, I've finished building some phenomenally realistic sounding drum tracks using smartloops (which is a real drummer playing) and I lay down some bass tracks (sounded excellent) and I start working on guitar tracks.
I have a Mesa Rectifier on top of Marshall 4x12.
I put up a Beyer TG50 in the ususal spot, and get good levels, and lay down some tracks. Sounds hollow and far way. Not tubedude guitar sound by any means. So, I start fiddling with the mic. Move it closer, farther, left, right, up, down... shoot some takes.. somethings just NOT right about the way the takes were sounding. Everything sounds fine in the room, so... it must be the mic.
I change mics.
I put up an SM57... sounds like crap... then I decide to try a MXL 603... sounds like crap... moving them all around and burning takes, nothing sounds quite right.
Now here is the crackhead part... this has been going on for a week, and I've just been dealing with these guitar tracks thinking that the problem sill show up eventually.
Well, it did.
FOr some reason, plugged into the 4ohm jack in mono on the back of my cab I am only getting the right two speakers working, top and bottom... the left ones are not. Very weird indeed, considering they are wired in parallel. I took the back of the cabinet off, checked the wiring, nothing obvious, nothing disconnected, etc. So I put the back on (about 25 frigging deep wood screws) and tried again... same deal. So I finally tried 16ohm mono jack out of 16 ohms on my amp, and all 4 worked. Makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I have been micing a speaker that doesnt work for a week, pulling my hair out as to why it sounds so hollow.
Man I feel stupid.
ANyone know what the problem is, by the way?
I have a Mesa Rectifier on top of Marshall 4x12.
I put up a Beyer TG50 in the ususal spot, and get good levels, and lay down some tracks. Sounds hollow and far way. Not tubedude guitar sound by any means. So, I start fiddling with the mic. Move it closer, farther, left, right, up, down... shoot some takes.. somethings just NOT right about the way the takes were sounding. Everything sounds fine in the room, so... it must be the mic.
I change mics.
I put up an SM57... sounds like crap... then I decide to try a MXL 603... sounds like crap... moving them all around and burning takes, nothing sounds quite right.
Now here is the crackhead part... this has been going on for a week, and I've just been dealing with these guitar tracks thinking that the problem sill show up eventually.
Well, it did.
FOr some reason, plugged into the 4ohm jack in mono on the back of my cab I am only getting the right two speakers working, top and bottom... the left ones are not. Very weird indeed, considering they are wired in parallel. I took the back of the cabinet off, checked the wiring, nothing obvious, nothing disconnected, etc. So I put the back on (about 25 frigging deep wood screws) and tried again... same deal. So I finally tried 16ohm mono jack out of 16 ohms on my amp, and all 4 worked. Makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I have been micing a speaker that doesnt work for a week, pulling my hair out as to why it sounds so hollow.
Man I feel stupid.
ANyone know what the problem is, by the way?
