Guitar micing and results…
For an immensely distorted (and LOUD) signal coming off the amp…
57 - very trebly
neumann – bassy/muddy
414 – like a mix between the neumann and the 57
57 behind amp – very bassy
Potentially the 57 in front and the 57 behind compliment each other (phase
issues pending), the 57 and 414 sound pretty nice, 57 and neumann not quite so
nice. Various other combinations yield different balances of trebly and bassy
sounds. Really, save yourself some hassle, work with your mic/mics and your amp
to have a sound you like coming through the monitors, straight off the bat.
Double tracking is obligatory in rock music, you are a fool if you do not
practice it.
I would have been curious to achieve good results with a lesser volume of sound
coming from the amplifier (I have heard tell that this achieves good results and
from my own experiences can say that if a guitar track is recorded with nasty
distortion…all 2.5kHz static...it is very hard to redeem it.)
For my example, I have blended all four mics sounds and double tracked the
riffage with respective tracks being panned left/right by 50%. You will hear
noise at the beginning and end. I have left this in because if I was taking a
recording to be mastered, the engineer could use that noise sample to get rid of
all the noise in the track.
Tada, Scott ripping it up on the guitar check it out!
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