help with recordin guitar through a mic...

Posted on Jan 30, 2009 10:58 pm
Tinstryde
giv me gear
Member Since: Jan 29, 2009

i have a small room and cannot stop the traffic noise.how do i place my mic in front of the amp or how do i set it up for recording heavy ditortion?do i but a blanket over the whole thing or what?

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pjk
Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004

Feb 01, 2009 07:00 am

how do i place my mic in front of the amp

Are you kidding?

You can build a 'chair fort' out of chairs and blankets. this can help some. Or you can build a amp-box: dense material shaped in a box, that fits over the amp / mic. Brandon Drury did it over at recordingreview.com, and he's quite happy with it.

You may want to look into DI recording, and using modeling. This can certainly get you sounds without the extra noise added in.

Noize2u
Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Feb 01, 2009 05:47 pm

And don't turn up the distortion or the volume too high. That will cause the staticky sucky sound you were asking about in one of the 30 other post's you have up now.

Dematrix
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Since: Nov 27, 2007

Feb 01, 2009 06:09 pm

ya know its funny this came up, just to throw in some feed back that maybe you probably already know anyway, but, when i write songs i just cut n paste stuff together at different times etc etc.
so i record the amp on different settings and after its been moved around.
but did record some yesterday and was surprised to notice such a massive changed in the last two tracks because i left a door to my bathroom open about 3 meters away from where the mic was.

Im close micing with a sm57 too. i was amazed it could pick up that much more noise from just that.
so i guess if you were doing an album or something more serious you wouldnt let anyone or anything near the room during tracking the of same song just in case.

anyway, that's my story and im sticking to it.

what sort of mic are you using tinstryde?

i put a queen sized matress insinde the window cutout in my room (big window)
something like that will do a fair bit.

but to chime in on another thread of yours, to get a good heavy sound is like buttering up a woman for some action, it takes time, effort, attention to detail and many goes after being shot down in flames.

but tht depends on the quality of the sound you think is good enough.