fender blues junior

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i have a fender blues junior amp and a 1972 les paul.
what kind of mic should i use to get a nice vintage sound :cool:
 
getting a "nice vintage sound" is really a function of your playing, your gear, and your settings, not about the mic you use to record it... there are many "usual suspects" for recording electric guitar.
 
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it depends on what 'vintage' you're looking for. But 99.999% of the 'vintage-ness' of the sound is going to be in the guitar, amp, and playing. The recording gear/technique will only capture what it hears to begin with, perhaps being able to enhance it ever-so slightly. But if it doesn't sound like what you want it to live, to your ears, in the room, no mic is going to make it that way.

So, are you getting the sound you want, and you just want to capture that? And what sort of sound is it that you're going for?

Sorry, I just realized that I just said what AGCurry already said. :o

So, what he said, already. :rolleyes:
 
If you really want to sound vintage,record to tape. :rolleyes:

I agree with the other guys.Recording guitar is trial and error kind of thing,myself I have a hard time just getting things to sound the same twice.
 
i like the sound i get live, so my question should be what is a good mic to capture that
 
sm57 or sm58 on the grill, and a condensor a few feet back in a good sounding room.
 
les666paul said:
how bout a decent or not so decent sounding room
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Try the room condenser mic anyway, and move it around. Even in a not-so-good sounding room (unless it's an unfinished basement or something, and even then the reverb might be cool) there are sweet spots. A friend of mine once got a great sound from his Boogie on a Marshall cab in a warehouse by close micing the Boogie and putting a condenser back about 15 feet from it.
 
I'd say put a Sennheiser MD421 right up close, just at the junction of the dust cap and the cone. Then, put a good condensor (KSM32, SP C1, RODE NTK, etc.) about three feet back. Or, you can put the condensor wherever your amp sound good in the room. Try walking around a bit, and as soon as you hear the sound you want, put the mic there.

Cheers,
Zach
 
GET THE AMP OFF THE FLOOR


that's first and foremost. put it on a bar stool or a chair or something. but get it off the floor.

i'd put one mic (an sm57, senn e609, md421, m201, whatever) up on the cone of the amp and position til it sounds good.

for the room mic, play some and move around while you play (or while the guitarist plays). find the spot where the sound from the amp sounds best--could be up high, down low, whatever. put the room mic RIGHT THERE.

make sure you account for phase relationships between the mics, and you should be on your way.


but unless the amp sounds good in the room in the first place, you're fighting a losing battle. you can't record what's not already there.


cheers,
wade
 
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