What Amp To Try For Recording ..or Toneport ?

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I WAS considering a tone port for my guitar /bass recording on our cd ...
I think i should try what i have to my disposal first ... ? I have a peavy triumph ultra gain tube head ... crate tube head .. Roland micro cube ..crate solid state head and a line 6 spider II ... bass player has a Gallien kreuger ...
with xlr direct outs ... I was gonna try dampening the room ..trying each amp with different settings ..mic placement ..mics etc ... I feel like id get a warmer tone
from a real amp ..especially tube ??? and a direct out from the gk and a mic ?? if this fails ill call line 6 ???? but i think i should have tone in there somewhere ??????? anyone ever play through 2 different amps at the same time and record both ???? just an idea?
 
With all of the equipment that you have at your disposal, there is no need for you to buy a toneport. You can if you wish, but there is no need. As for recording more than one amp at a time, go for it. You can play around with it and get a really nice stereo sound.
 
Put your effort into more hours and not more gear. The payback will be better. More gear is just an excuse not to put the hours in. Trust me; I make that mistake all the time. :D
 
Treeline said:
Put your effort into more hours and not more gear. The payback will be better. More gear is just an excuse not to put the hours in. Trust me; I make that mistake all the time. :D
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shut yo mouf!!! :mad: :D
 
ripingitar said:
anyone ever play through 2 different amps at the same time and record both ???? just an idea?
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All the time! Our guitarist found this totally unbelievable tone by driving his Fender Hod Rod Deluxe and my Orange AD30TC at the same time. A very broad, thick sound, but still with excellent note articulation. Just put the time in and play around with different stuff. We can only give you our experiences...what will probably be the most valuable for you is your own experiences.
 
thats what i thought after i weighed my options out ..thanks ..
 
ive done the two amp thing too. its reallly weird trying to figure out phase issues though... so i just gave up, zoomed in, and lined them up in the arrange.
 
2 amps can really make it sound awsome, I always just double mic which can cause worse phase issues so you have to be careful. But with 2 amps I'd venture to guess you could work it out so the amps are in 2 different rooms or move them around in such a way that the mic wouldn't pick up the other amp, yell just make some type of partition between the 2.

I was reading on another board this guy was talking about using to MD421's and a 57 on like a mesa cab, then panning L-C-R. The sound clip sounded pretty good two.
 
anyone ever play through 2 different amps at the same time and record both ????
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hell yes

put both amps in a room together, facing the same direction, a few feet from each other. close mic each cabinet, pan hard left and right, and you're ready to go. phasing shouldn't be a problem if you have adequate space between the amps. if you want to make things really fat, put a LDC or something directly between the 2 amps, a few feet back, and keep that one centered...this mic will pick up the combined signal of the 2 amps, along with the room reflections, and will help to fatten the shit out of evertything, assuming you don't have phase issues

another trick, which gets really sticky w/ the phase thing, is to do the same thing, but with the amps facing each other sort of diagonally. i've also wanted to do this with a figure-8 LDC between the amps, but haven't gotten the chance to do so yet.
 
Basically like MS positioning with the distance mics. I'm gonna try this the next time. I forsee some major phase issues with this though. Altough I bet if you could find a way to utilize some off-axis rejection you could pry cut down on the amount of phasing problems.
 
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