guitar cab micing

[xxmetalinbloodx]

Hi, I am new to recording (really new). What would be the best mic to use when micing my cab?

~thanks

 

[ralf]

shure SM57...Awesome!

 

[Gidge]

sm57 up close and a decent LD condenser a few feet out to get the room sound......

 

[tubedude]

try a room mic, walk around the room and find the perfect spot... ususally way off axis, pretty far away, can sound fantastic when blended in with the close mic...

 

[Downside Studio]

If your cabinet is mono and your tracks allow:

Micing a 4x12" cabinet :

SM57 upper-right with pan R
SM57 bottom-left with pan L and between 10-15ms delay
LD mic few feet out (Watchout for phase)

Most of the time the SM57's will do just fine for the distortion parts, and the LD condensor comes in habdy when playing those clean parts. This one really thickings things up.

If you cabinet is stereo and your tracks allow :
double that sucker (ouch, 6 tracks, I have done that often though)

If our cabinet is stereo and your tracks don't allow:
1. Submix the above to 2 track or 3 track
2. Use the same setup as mono, without the delay

Worked great for me.

 

[Downside Studio]

Even if your having a single speaker cabinet, always try to work with double miking. A 57 isn't that pricy, and it really helps your mixes a whole lot. Remember that the mics never pic up the same signal, their will always be a difference between them. Use this for stereo image.

 

[Downside Studio]

SM57 bottom-left with pan L and between 10-15ms delay

I do have to say I use a digital console. One of the advantages is that you can set a ms delay on each channel. This is different from using a daelay processor, which uses extra channels, and might alter the sound.

 

[Gidge]

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