mic with amp

[guitarfreak12]

a friend of mine has a nice line 6 amp with two 12 in speakers, and a SM57 to mic it. he used to try and record into a BOSS digital recorder, then play it out of the rec. into his computer with cakewalk. He was complaining of poor recording levels on CD an just bad sound all together. I told him he's wasting a good computer not to use his cakewalk and to get rid of the digital recorder and by a good preamp and sound card, then just go into the comp. I just wanted to pass my advice by you guru's to see if I was wrong. He would record into the dig. rec. then playback out and into the comp. Thanks

 

[Scinx]

What he uses is not important at this point, but how he uses what he has. If he does not know what he is doing - he will always end up with garbage. Some people prefer to use equipment seperate from the computer.

 

[tom18222]

if its line 6 doesnt it have a direct out?

 

[keerus]

if its line 6 doesnt it have a direct out?

yes, but i have yet to hear a direct signal that sounds better than a properly mic'd amp.

justin

 

[tom18222]

line 6 specifically designs their amps to do that, so check out.

 

[outlawtorn86]

i had a line 6 whatever u call em guitarports... trash man total trash, sure u get the millions of different sounds, but they sound like theyre locked up in a box, 4 thousand feet away from you, and there isnt eq so ur fucked. the amp should make a difference too, cuz my 13 watt crate sounded like shit (thats why i bought gutiarport) then i sold both and got my vintage jcm900 marshall stack. MMMMM TASTY