Who wants to participate in my experiment?

[The Magic Hoof]

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[plan-x]

This sounds interesting, although I'm no studio guru.

 

[The Magic Hoof]

I think it'd be REALLY fun for all of us.

I could try multiple, multiple methods that all of you guys recommend.

For example, my amp is sitting in the closet just a few feet away from where my recording PC is, and I'm even willing to take it out, move it around and use mattresses and blankets to help with getting a good sound out of it.

I'm willing to let you guys completely customize my setup to get the best possible sound out of this. It might take a while, but hell, I'll be learning a LOT throughout all of this and I'm sure most others will as well.

Not only will there be audio/video of my studio. For the software stuff, I'll use a desktop recording program and speak into my mic to show exactly what I'm doing in DAW software.



It sounds like a buttload of work, but I'm really serious about myself slacking on the recording dept., and this will kick my ass into gear




If it takes a long while to do this, then so be it. It'll be really fun.

 

[The Magic Hoof]

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[trem]

Hey there Hoof. I think this is cool. I'll play..

As you said, mic placement would be the very first step. Parameters to be varied are mic angle, distance to axis, and distance to grill cloth. Record everything raw (no eq, no reverb, no compression, no nothing). Play something that encompasses both rhythm and lead. How's that?

Oh yeah, choose the california amp model please.

 

[The Magic Hoof]

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[user 7737]

don't you have friend who can lend amps and guitars to participate ?

one more thing, i think it will be uneasy (impossible ?) to give opinion if we can't hear "live" for real ! you know ?

the idea is cool anyway... :wink:

 

[The Magic Hoof]

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[user 7737]

yeah i saw it ! good luck dude !...

i'll check this thread, even if i can't help... :roll:

 

[trem]

California amp model? You must be talking about some setting on the Spider II, and to be honest, I don't know much about this POS Spider II :lol:

You mean to set the bass/mid/treble to 0 -- start completely fresh with nothing? I'll turn every single knob down. Bass/mid/treble, FX, reverb, everything, and fool with nothing but the gain and volume knobs for starters.

I think I'd like to get the mic placement first, but we'll see..

Well I'm not sure, the closest I got to any Line 6 was a POD, and the IIC+ was modeled as "california" if I remember correctly.

I meant no EQ-ing on the board. Set the EQ on the amp to any setting that would yield a sound you like, then record it. Then you can make a comparison between the room sound and the recorded sound. Oh yeah, reverb and FX to zero on the amp definitely.

This is gonna be neat.

EDIT: OK definitely I'm out of touch with the amp you're using.