Mic'ing Guitar Cabinet: Can't Get What I Hear

[Chibi Nappa]

I find it very helpful to record guitars with three people: One to play the guitar, one to adjust the amp, and one (me) to sit in the controll room and instruct the guy adjusting with a talkback mic.

Like everybody said earlier, I could care less what the amp sounds like in the room by itself. I want to hear what's coming through the mic, and more importantly, I want to hear it while the rest of the recorded tracks are playing. There are cases when even the sound recorded to "tape" sounds kinda' off when you solo it, but it works perfectly with the other tracks.

But anyway, since my arms aren't anywhere near long enough to reach the isolated amp from the controll room while I listen, I like an assistant to make adjustment for me. Mic placement, tone knob adjustments, etc. Have him slooooooooowly move/adjust, and yell at him when he's got it.

 

[Farview]

I have the head in the control room with me and the cab in another room. This gets rid of excess people and long instrument cable runs.

 

[Dani Pace]

It's good to know that others have noticed, what we hear live and what the mic hears are not always the same. As others have mentioned, mics respond to treble and mids much more than lows and what sounds like a little distortion to our ears often sounds like pure noise when recorded. most of us have had our encounters with the guitarist who is determined to play everything wide open, all amp settings turned to their maximum and 90 efx boxes, and then he wonders why he sounds like crap, (surely I'm not the only one who has met this guy.)

 

[Dani Pace]

It's good to know that others have noticed, what we hear live and what the mic hears are not always the same. As others have mentioned, mics respond to treble and mids much more than lows and what sounds like a little distortion to our ears often sounds like pure noise when recorded. most of us have had our encounters with the guitarist who is determined to play everything wide open, all amp settings turned to their maximum and 90 efx boxes, and then he wonders why he sounds like crap, (surely I'm not the only one who has met this guy.)

 

[HangDawg]

Here's that clip I said I would post if anyone is interested. It's a levels only mix just so you are aware.

 

[lonelyparis]

After reading this from that Slipperman..

"carnederes. I'm working tonight.

Right now, I'm playing 2 seconds of hooky.

This is a $10 million question in my trade.

In some ways,

on some days,

this question is a big part of WHY I'm working.

I will log on later tonight if I can keep my head up and hit some of this with you.

I could write AT LEAST 1 book on this.

How good a book it would be...???!!??

is another story.

HOHO-fucking-HO."

.. I stopped reading. Imagine having to read a WHOLE BOOK full of this crap!
(No offence intended, Slipperman.)