What the hell happened?

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This'll be a rather lengthy post, but I am THOROUGHLY confused:

Here's what happened:
I'm doing guitar overdubs. Had been working on vocals and other stuff in the hour or two before, and everything is working perfectly. Put the 57 up in front of the Marshall 2 12" combo amp and everything sounds really distant and slightly out of phase. The amp is pretty cranked, so I know something is wrong. As the guitarist keeps playing, the sound randomly "pops" back into what it should sound like, and then "pops" back into the distant, out of phase sound. ( the 57 sounds like it's about 4 feet away and 2 feet up, when it's actually about 2 inches from the amp ). I am BAFFLED. Check the mic, cable, channel on my mixer, etc. etc. etc. All are fine. Check the main outs, inserts, direct outs, etc. etc. , everything is fine.
The guitar player says " why don't we mic the other speaker instead". We do, and voila' everything is fine.
Was this a phase issue???? What happened????
HEEEELLLLPPP!!!!

Michael
 
Maybe the first speaker you were micing was blown. Or maybe the amp is possessed by demons. That happened to me last night. Scared the fuck out of me. I was bouncing a tarck to WAV in Logic, and out of nowhere the WAV ends up being a the bassline to Sweet Child of Mine at doublespeed (we had done a little test of my new soundcard earlier that evening on that song). After that ended the song Eulogy by Tool started playing at doublespeed. (I do listen to Tool a lot, and I think I had played that song off my hard drive earlier that night, but still) I was freaked! Anyways, if the other speaker worked, it doesn't really matter.
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yeah, that's what I finally said: " if it works, then so be it".
I had just never had that happen before........... Surely, there's some sort of explanation???
thanks,

Michael
 
This is likely it.
The speaker you had the mic on has a bad connection. It will lose connectivity once in a while and just pop back in. You would be recording that speaker for a while then you would be recording the other one from the position of the first spkr. Make sense? Thats probably it.

[Edited by Hard2Hear on 12-27-2000 at 12:04]
 
actually, that does make sense ( hadn't thought of that )
Of course, I was in the control room and the amp was in the tracking room, so it would've been hard to tell when it was cutting out.

thanks

Michael
 
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