Your technique - Line out or mic on your amplifier ? Which one you do ?

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Line out or mic technique on your amp ?

  • Line out/other output

    Votes: 7 10.3%

  • Mic

    Votes: 34 50.0%

  • Mic and line out/other output

    Votes: 20 29.4%

  • Other technique

    Votes: 7 10.3%
  • Total voters
    68
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mikeit

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well guys i was wondering which is your technique approach...when recording any instrument which has an amplifier. I mean i was wondering if you always go on the mic approach or use sometimes the line out approach on that amp ?

I know there is a great difference between these 2 situations but just wanted to know what do you do.

In fact mic technique can achieve a great number of different sounds but the lineout also could be an option, making it possible to work the sound after....in same way as mic does from the beginning.

Can you please refer which instrument you use with those techniques, cause i am wondering for example if its worth doing these on all of them, like keyboards for example, just to mention these.

Thanks!
 
I always mic my guitars because line out from a guitar amp usually sounds like ass, at least with anything other than clean sounds.

I record bass guitar without an amp direct into the line in on my mic pre.
 
I never say never and always avoid always, but I always mic a cabinet and never have much use for the line out.
 
Chibi Nappa said:
I never say never and always avoid always, but I always mic a cabinet and never have much use for the line out.
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This. It's a bit trickier to get right, but a mic'd up cab just sounds awesome.
 
Completely depends on the sound I'm going for. Sometimes out, sometimes mic, sometimes a combo.

That being said, I used to own a Velocette...15 watts of buttery overdrive. I did enjoy hanging a mic on that amp.
 
TeyshaBlue said:
Completely depends on the sound I'm going for. Sometimes out, sometimes mic, sometimes a combo.
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This. There is no one single proper technique unless one only records one single sound of music with one single type of guitar sound.

G.
 
For me a miked cab sounds waaay better than any of the boxes I've tried.
In fact, I was being lazy a couple days ago and decided to just run a DI outta my Vox Tonelab SE for 3 distorted guitar tracks.
I noticed the difference more-so after I'd burned off my mix to CD.
The guitars sounded kinda lifeless...like someone had draped a blanket over my speakers. Maybe the difference wouldn't have been so noticeable if I'd only done one track. I dunno.

I DO know that I'll be takin the extra time to mic my cabs from now on. At least for distorted guitars.
Clean guits? I haven't noticed anything wrong with the sounds I've been gettin.

Again, I dunno.

Try em all and save the ones you like best. ;)
 
I will add that part of the reason I almost always go mic is that I own a really kickass amp, have pretty solid walls, and live with some fairly tolerant roommates. :)
 
I'm curious if annyone knows how long the "Line Out" options has been common on amps?
 
ARGGGGGGGG! Somebody, please, please, PLEASE, write a freakin' sticky on all the reasons going direct from a guitar amp is a horrible idea!!
 
stevieb said:
ARGGGGGGGG! Somebody, please, please, PLEASE, write a freakin' sticky on all the reasons going direct from a guitar amp is a horrible idea!!
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It may not sound preferable.......but it's a truly magnificent idea ! :laughings:
 
Just For Fun

So, are you talking about a "true" direct out, which is basically the uncolored preamp output, or an emulated speaker out, which tweaks the preamp output to give a sound more-or-less like the amp through an appropriate speaker.
 
I just got a Marshall Micro Stack and it doesn't have an out, so I'm miking I guess. Swat I prefer anyway.
 
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