brandy
Iguana Hell
daveotero said:Brandy, cool to see you here. I've seen you post on the nuendo forums (I'm "flatlineaudio").
Maybe you could share your mic techniques from the Necrophagist recordings. Those tones are some of the cleanest, most un-hyped, killer sounding guitars I've heard recently.
Hi!
Thanks a lot

Cool, i have seen you (your nick) in the nuendo board as well. Cool place to hang, but not very "metal" ;-)
Well, the key to those Necro-Guitars is: Hard Work.
We spent ages to find the best place for the mics. I don't want to tell all the details, but we used 2 mics, one of them was a SM57.
80% of the sound was made by comparing different positions and later different ratios of the two tracks. The way we blended the tracks in the mix...
Don't forget about the ultra-over-average playing skills of the two guitarists, you can give them a shitty guitar and a crapy combo and you will still have a great tone.
In the mix i used just a little compression (NO C4 stuff! ;-) and EQ. But i tweaked very carefully.
hth,
brandy