Miking Leslie Cabinet

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Hi,everyone,looking for some inspiration and ideas.I am working on some of my own tunes(finally!) and am going to have a real live B-3 and a 147 in the studio on loan from a good freind for awhile.It has been forever since I have miked one of these bad boys up and my memory is a little foggy on some of the tecqniques.Here is what I have in my mic locker.
2x senheiser MD-421's
2x shure sm-81's
5x sm-57's
3x sm 58's
1x shure 55 sw

The tunes are going to be blues and rock oriented stuff.any tips,tricks and suggetions would be greatly appreciated.

Peace and have a great day everyone!
 
you'll probably want to mic both the top and bottom...but maybe stereo mic the top horn, in addition. Getting too close, and you'll just get volume changes if you put a mic on each side of the cabinet, so give the cabinet a little room to breath and let the doppler effect work for you.
 
i read a pretty in-depth article about micing a leslie. might have been electronic musician? either that or home recording (the mag, not the site/bbs)

chris is right, stereo micing, mics back a bit. ill dig around and see if i find that article...

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Search Sjoko's posts. He covered this pretty well not too long ago here.
 
Place the pair of SM 81's on either side of the horn on the facing of the cabinet. Use either the 421 or the 58 (try them both and see which works best) on the bass speaker. Be sure to use the same type of preamp for the stereo pair on the horn.

Good luck.

Ed
 
Thanks for the help.Now that I think about it, 2 mics on the top rotor makes a lot of sense.
The tough part is going to be when I sit down at the thing,I haven't played one in well over 10 years,good thing he is going to leave it here for awhile.............
 
I would go to Shalat for this advise.

I use two room mics for mine. But Im not dominating the mix with my b3
 
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