Micing vox and guitar amp

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Doug H

Doug H

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Hi,

I've been having so so luck recording live audio. I'm in a small accoustically room with nothing but a sure sm57 and a behringer 8202 sound board.

The guitar ends up either very thin or too muddy depending on where I put the mic and the vox are coming out boomy and bodyless.

I've got the 3 channel eq on the board to work with. I'm wondering if anyone has any tips that may help?

Thanks
Doug
 
Doug, you left out a boatload of information. Acoustic or electric? If electric what kind of amp? Recording to what? And about 19 more questions.
 
Marshall Tube amp, 50 watt combo, gain channel
9/14 room (as a guess) carpeted, low ceiling
 
Tell you what I'd do. First of all, does that mixer have inserts on the channels? If so, that's where I'd be grabbing signal to send to the recorder. Analog tape or digital by the way?
 
PC based digital. I'm using the quarter inch "main out"s to go the the sound card. There doesn't appear to be any inserts all though I don't know what that is.
 
Inserts are individual channel ins/outs that are used to either patch in a device like a compressor and can also be used as a channel direct output for recording. If you don't see one on the channel strips, you don't have them. A SM-57 is a workhorse mic that you should be able to get what ever's coming out of the amp. Right up on the grill, closer to the center of the cone for a brighter, edgier sound, more towards the speaker surround for a darker, softer sound. Personally, I'd record flat with no EQ boost but a low cut might not be a bad idea.
 
Put the mic right up against the speaker grill. Do all your EQ adjustments on the amp itself but listen through your monitors. If you don't have monitors you should definately get some becuase it is very hard to make EQ adjustments without them.

On vocals use a pop filter and sing about 4" away with the mic pointed down at an angle towards your nose. You want to sing so the air goes across the mic and not directly into it.
 
Track Rat
That's pretty much how I'm micing the amp. I've just tried wrapping a blanket around the whole mic/amp assembly and it seemed to clear the tone up a bit.

TexRoadkill
Thanks for the tips. I've been screaming right at the mic. I'm also going to try ajusting the amp tone with the headphones pluggedinto the sound board.
 
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