Poor Man's Amp Isolation

[Seafroggys]

So I'm beginning a recording project probably next week, and I'll probably be asking tons of questions as I go through it since this is my first album-sized project.

One of the first things I'll be doing is recording an electric rhythm guitar part. This is a very basic, in the back of the mix chordal track. I'll be running the guitar through a Music Man tube/ss combo, recording it with an Audix i5. To help isolate the guitar from the drums, it'll be around a corner, facing away, and I plan on putting a heavy quilt over the amp and micstand.

Knowing how different materials work, wouldn't this make the sound bassier and/or muddier? If it does, aside from EQing the amp, is there anything I can do to diffuse bass frequencies? This is gonna be a close mic, I'd say about 3-6" away (however far it needs to be so there's no proximity effect).

 

[bigtoe]

great amp!

it could make it basier and more confined...but i've done it and had it work plenty. i usually use a blanket to control a bad room or cymbal bleed. make sure to give the tubes some ventilation. to further control bass frequecies - get the amp off the ground... on a chair works fine...but you can buy padding for this as well. this acoustically decouples it from the floor. i've had both on the ground and not on the ground sound better than each other - so experiment.

the real "X" factor in your bleed situation is the drum overheads. control those and what is going into them though selection and placement somewhat away from the amp or its relections.

bleed is not a bad thing in this scenario when the part is played well...

i'm doing the same type gig tomorrow...good luck!

Mike