Kosh Naranek
New member
I've been experimenting with using two mics to record a guitar cab. One dynamic mic like a Sennheiser e609 or Shure SM57 to close mic the speaker, and a small diaphragm condenser a couple of feet back. I really like the sound that the condenser adds. It's more natural. More like what you hear standing in the room in front of the amp. No one puts their ear right up to the speaker, where the dynamic mics are placed.
When combining the two tracks, I get phase cancellation problems. Sometimes it's passable, other times it cancels out so much that I can only use one of the tracks.
Do any of you do this often and have a system that works real well? I'm trying to save some time experimenting with a million different mic placements before I find a few that sound great.
Another thing I've tried that has worked real well is mic'ing the amp with two dynamic mics that have different responses. My Stedman N90 studio dynamic mic has a flatter response and smoother top end, but beefier mids. The SM57 has a presence peak so the top end sparkles, but the mids sound thin. Using both, I get a bigger guitar tone that has sizzle on top, chunk in the mids, and sounds much fuller than just using an SM57 alone. I've used this approach with an amp head connected to two speaker cabs - one open back, one closed back, one with an 80's Celestion Classic Lead speaker, the other with a pair of Vintage 30's, so each mic is capturing a slightly different tone. Again, when the two are blended, the guitar sounds bigger than it would with one mic picking up one speaker.
Anyone have any tips for distance mic'ing with the condenser mic?
When combining the two tracks, I get phase cancellation problems. Sometimes it's passable, other times it cancels out so much that I can only use one of the tracks.
Do any of you do this often and have a system that works real well? I'm trying to save some time experimenting with a million different mic placements before I find a few that sound great.
Another thing I've tried that has worked real well is mic'ing the amp with two dynamic mics that have different responses. My Stedman N90 studio dynamic mic has a flatter response and smoother top end, but beefier mids. The SM57 has a presence peak so the top end sparkles, but the mids sound thin. Using both, I get a bigger guitar tone that has sizzle on top, chunk in the mids, and sounds much fuller than just using an SM57 alone. I've used this approach with an amp head connected to two speaker cabs - one open back, one closed back, one with an 80's Celestion Classic Lead speaker, the other with a pair of Vintage 30's, so each mic is capturing a slightly different tone. Again, when the two are blended, the guitar sounds bigger than it would with one mic picking up one speaker.
Anyone have any tips for distance mic'ing with the condenser mic?
