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Re: How to record with reverb?
First off the track sounds really good. I tend to not get too concerned where reverb comes from as long as it sounds good. One trick I like doing is having both a mono guitar reverb (from an amp or a pedal) then also adding stereo reverb for a bit of natural space in the mix. Compression post recording can help bring the reverb levels up from your guitar track, I find you can go heavy on guitar compression with the right compressor in the mix without losing too much as guitars are already compressed and we are used to this sound. You can get some cheap mics that actually sound decent like some of the chinese made stuff (MXL and Apex ribbons come to mind) use it as a room mic and then compress that heavy just watch for phase issues.
First off the track sounds really good. I tend to not get too concerned where reverb comes from as long as it sounds good. One trick I like doing is having both a mono guitar reverb (from an amp or a pedal) then also adding stereo reverb for a bit of natural space in the mix. Compression post recording can help bring the reverb levels up from your guitar track, I find you can go heavy on guitar compression with the right compressor in the mix without losing too much as guitars are already compressed and we are used to this sound. You can get some cheap mics that actually sound decent like some of the chinese made stuff (MXL and Apex ribbons come to mind) use it as a room mic and then compress that heavy just watch for phase issues.
Specifically, it's a clone of Brown Note's D'Lite 44 (with a Bassman tranny). We changed some of the parts, I really like it. It has tube driven reverb, hence, I call it Rev. Bumble. Anyways, when I was recording this, the reverb was huge. I felt like playing in an empty tank... I know that using 1 cab mic is not good enough for capturing genuine reverb, so I've used 2 mics (one on axis, the other around cone edge), panned them to hard right and left. 
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