Recording My Marshall Jvm, Need some advice |
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Recording My Marshall Jvm, Need some advice |
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Mar 26 2009, 05:15 PM |
A Shure SM57 is great for recording amps. It's "directed" straight forward and doesn't pick up sounds from the side.
You also need a small mike stand. The mike should be close or up against the cloth. "Room" (reverb) can be added afterwards. Quite a bit of volume or the signal will be way too weak. A guestimation here... like 2-3 watts is enough for recording. Bring in a good portion of the signal into the recording equipmement. You can always lower it some dB afterwards but raising a weak signal won't be that good. You can record vocals with a SM57 and you can record your amp with an SM58, but the SM58 is really better for vocals and vice verca. There IS a teriffic video on the subjects posted somewhere here. Someone might remember where. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Mar 26 2009, 05:33 PM |
And what about the software if I may ask ?
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Mar 26 2009, 05:33 PM |
And what about the software if I may ask ? You should be able to use a program like Reaper, Cubase etc. |
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Mar 26 2009, 06:11 PM |
If you want to record the sound of your amp you will need:
1. Microphone (SM57 is industry standard, and it can be used for vocals as well) 2. Audio Interface with mic preamp (any will do, what you pay is what you get) 3. Acoustic treatment around the amp (if your room has some flutter echo/reverberations, try dampening them with some blankets on the walls, or over the amp, so you get as dry signal as possible) 4. (optionally) Amp Attenuator (so you can lower down the volume of your speaker but crank the amp for the best sound) -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Mar 28 2009, 09:41 PM |
No prob mate, we are here to help if you have any more questions about this topic.
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Mar 29 2009, 01:29 AM |
yep....ivan said it all....i went for shures cheapest mic (the PG series) and those do quite nicely....they are less than half the price of the sm57s but like ivan said, what you pay is what you get.... and an fyi, all shure products come with a manual to show you the best ways to mic up your amp to get different sounds and btw i just wrote this message in the shower....i love these new netbooks hahah PS I agree with Marc, PG series is a very good solution as well - it does the job nicely. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Mar 29 2009, 12:28 PM |
What exactly do you use currently from gear?
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Mar 29 2009, 05:39 PM |
IS a decent soundcard needed, if I go the toneport or the field recorder way? And would the toneport come with a decent software to record? I would reccomend a decent soundcard, the onboard mic input on pc's is absoutely rubbish for recording, it will come out distorted and garbled!! Plus for mics you need phantom power, toneport is the easiest way to do it or podstudio is the newer version toneport would be a reasonable priced option:- http://line6.com/podstudioux1/index.html it comes with line 6's recording software, plus you get modellers for those di momments Otherwise you could get something like an m-audio card that ususally comes with recording software, but youd need something with a mic preamp again! -------------------- I spoke therefore i twang..
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