newbie (located in the midwest)

[Timur]

Hello - new to recording

 

[Papanate]

Great - I’m not.

 

[shmaller]

Welcome! What's your setup? What are your goals? What instruments do you play?

 

[Timur]

Thanks!! I currently do not have a setup, as I am still deciding which way to go. My goal is to record guitar amp / cabinets that I build (possibly for marketing). I am not a great guitar player, so my plan is to loan them out to great players letting them get familiar with them - then track some recordings.

 

[shmaller]

Thanks!! I currently do not have a setup, as I am still deciding which way to go. My goal is to record guitar amp / cabinets that I build (possibly for marketing). I am not a great guitar player, so my plan is to loan them out to great players letting them get familiar with them - then track some recordings.

That's awesome! So you want to make demo videos for your amps? or you want to see them put to use to make albums? or both?

 

[TalismanRich]

You certainly don't need a $3000 mic and preamp for doing such comparisons. There are tons of comparison videos on Youtube that are made with far more common gear.

I recently watched a video where a signal was run through loopback and it took in most cases over a hundred decode/encode cycles to even detect a difference. Adding to that places like Youtube then run the audio through a compression algorithm and you've lost any possible trace of that thousand dollar preamp.

 

[Cosmic]

A Shure 57 and a moderately priced ribbon mic, tracked indivifually or together, should cover a fairly wide base of amp-miking needs.
Those are used a lot for that purpose.

Good Luck with your amp venture; let us know if you want more help.

C.