OldTelecasterMan
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I have read in here about recording problems and possible solutions. I'm a simple person (complex guitar rig, sort of) but I have recorded electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, vocals and even an accordion. My recordings have been used in a movie and other places and yes I got paid and it was a major motion picture company.
So here goes. My mission was to record the Mark V. Only using Microphones and SM57s at that (I cannot find it in my brain to spend $1000 on a microphone to proudly broadcast every nuance of one of my mistakes) how hard could it be? My Akai DPS12, no mixing mumbo jumbo, no doubletrack or EQ allowed. Microphone in front of the amp I didn't even turn off the swamp cooler or beer fridge in my music room. I used a Warwick bass plugged directly into the 12 track, my bass playing is borderline humorous to a bass player. A 1982 Roland TR626 drum machine. I used it because I'm lazy and didn't want to use a good sounding drum because I would have had to sequence it. Drum machines got an on and off switch with pre programmed beats...hello lazy... Also I can justify the lame drums because my mission is recording guitar. Oh I also wanted to record the guitar my wife painted for me. I bought it through Warmoth. It has Tom Anderson pickups but every other piece is from Warmoth. It was painted with a brush and I clear coated and wet sanded the **** out of it. It's awesome..sounds and plays awesome too. No I'm not a "Christian rock musician" I'm just a musician.
I was going for a straightforward classic rhythm rock sound the reverb is on about 40% or so. This is one recording with addition of or removal of stereo chorus tracks. nothing else is changed.
1st... is just Guitar, bass and drums. One SM57 at about a 45 degree angle on the bottom speaker of a 2x12 vertical mesa cabinet.
https://soundcloud.com/user-201672201/guitar-no-chorus-bass-drums
2nd... Guitar, bass and drums but with Stereo Chorus on guitar. So now there are 3 SM57 mics. One SM57 at about a 45 degree angle on the bottom speaker of a 2x12 vertical mesa cabinet. Two SM57s on the chorus speakers one on each cabinet. One SM57 at about a 45 degree angle on each 2x12 compact Mesa cabinets panned hard right and left on the mixer. Same exact recording just adding in the Strymon chorus. This is my live rig, a 3 piece band.
https://soundcloud.com/user-201672201/guitar-bass-drums
I have read in here about recording problems and possible solutions. I'm a simple person (complex guitar rig, sort of) but I have recorded electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, vocals and even an accordion. My recordings have been used in a movie and other places and yes I got paid and it was a major motion picture company.
So here goes. My mission was to record the Mark V. Only using Microphones and SM57s at that (I cannot find it in my brain to spend $1000 on a microphone to proudly broadcast every nuance of one of my mistakes) how hard could it be? My Akai DPS12, no mixing mumbo jumbo, no doubletrack or EQ allowed. Microphone in front of the amp I didn't even turn off the swamp cooler or beer fridge in my music room. I used a Warwick bass plugged directly into the 12 track, my bass playing is borderline humorous to a bass player. A 1982 Roland TR626 drum machine. I used it because I'm lazy and didn't want to use a good sounding drum because I would have had to sequence it. Drum machines got an on and off switch with pre programmed beats...hello lazy... Also I can justify the lame drums because my mission is recording guitar. Oh I also wanted to record the guitar my wife painted for me. I bought it through Warmoth. It has Tom Anderson pickups but every other piece is from Warmoth. It was painted with a brush and I clear coated and wet sanded the **** out of it. It's awesome..sounds and plays awesome too. No I'm not a "Christian rock musician" I'm just a musician.
I was going for a straightforward classic rhythm rock sound the reverb is on about 40% or so. This is one recording with addition of or removal of stereo chorus tracks. nothing else is changed.
1st... is just Guitar, bass and drums. One SM57 at about a 45 degree angle on the bottom speaker of a 2x12 vertical mesa cabinet.
https://soundcloud.com/user-201672201/guitar-no-chorus-bass-drums
2nd... Guitar, bass and drums but with Stereo Chorus on guitar. So now there are 3 SM57 mics. One SM57 at about a 45 degree angle on the bottom speaker of a 2x12 vertical mesa cabinet. Two SM57s on the chorus speakers one on each cabinet. One SM57 at about a 45 degree angle on each 2x12 compact Mesa cabinets panned hard right and left on the mixer. Same exact recording just adding in the Strymon chorus. This is my live rig, a 3 piece band.
https://soundcloud.com/user-201672201/guitar-bass-drums