Pretty much yeah
The sound at the cone is quite different. The reason folks record that way , (with the sm57 stuck right in the cone of the speaker) is that the mic can hand lots of sound pressure and you don't miss anything with the mic that close. However it sounds very different that close than it does to your ear so the egineer has to make some adjustments to the signal i order for it to sit well in a mix.
When putting mics out front like that, you get most of what is being played but not all, this can be a good thing as small mistakes are barely heard and you can hear the guys talking as well and you get the "room tone" of the amps which is softer and more pleasing to the ear in general.
If you have more than one mic, try double micing a cab. One mic on the cab, one mic 4 feet out from the cab on a coffee table. Blend those two and you get nice tone
IF you don't have more than one mic, just try the mic on the coffee table and record (with a splitter) in to your daw which you can use a plugin to fake an amp like overloud th2/th3 guitar rig etc. Get a similar effect.
Todd
QUOTE (Tom51 @ Sep 7 2017, 03:33 AM)
Yeah Todd - that what it looks to me as well and that surprised me a little. But isn't the room sound the "real" sound that we hear? I rarely have my ears directly at the speaker
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