hi guys. im really looking to improve the tone of my mic'd 5150.. heres the details
jackson dr-3 w/ a steve's special humbucker through a maxon od808 into the low gain input of the 5150. running through an avatar 4x12 cab loaded with 2 celestion v30s and 2 celestion classic lead 80s. i have a condenser mic (model # something like "MXL 2000" and a sennheiser mic which i dont know the model # offhand. its probably a lower/midrage standard vocal dynamic mic.
i've tried a few different setups but sticking the sennheiser in front of the v30 seems to sound best. i run it through a yamaha poweramp/mixer, and from there out of the RCA-out into a sb external audigy 2. i think at one point we ran it into the audigy from the yamaha some other way than rca but it didnt make much of a difference. i think balanced out. but heres a clip: http://music.megagoo.com/5150-rca-test-3.mp3 .. the tone just seems kind of... distant maybe not full and up front.
for contrast, heres what im used to hearing (through my j-station)
full song (comments please
) http://music.megagoo.com/another-song-remix6.mp3 (in progress)
quick sample (no comments on the sloppiness please ) http://music.megagoo.com/11th.mp3 (lamb of god riff)
so basically im trying to figure out what i can do to get a better sound from the 5150 because mic'ing a cabinet will always outdue amp modeling (from what i hear). i know the weak point in my chain is the mic preamp. i hear a lot of talk about the digidesign mbox and the m-audio mic preamps. is that the KEY piece that im missing to my chain? im not looking to spend much unless it will yield high results. i can probably borrow an sm57 for recording when need-be.
but given the clip and hardware i posted, what would be the best solution that would give me the best results while being simple. i know i can spend a ton of money and get all kinds of gear but im not looking to do that. just maybe change a couple of peices of gear at most. any effects and compressions/limiters etc will be done with plugins in Sonar.
thanks
eddie
jackson dr-3 w/ a steve's special humbucker through a maxon od808 into the low gain input of the 5150. running through an avatar 4x12 cab loaded with 2 celestion v30s and 2 celestion classic lead 80s. i have a condenser mic (model # something like "MXL 2000" and a sennheiser mic which i dont know the model # offhand. its probably a lower/midrage standard vocal dynamic mic.
i've tried a few different setups but sticking the sennheiser in front of the v30 seems to sound best. i run it through a yamaha poweramp/mixer, and from there out of the RCA-out into a sb external audigy 2. i think at one point we ran it into the audigy from the yamaha some other way than rca but it didnt make much of a difference. i think balanced out. but heres a clip: http://music.megagoo.com/5150-rca-test-3.mp3 .. the tone just seems kind of... distant maybe not full and up front.
for contrast, heres what im used to hearing (through my j-station)
full song (comments please
) http://music.megagoo.com/another-song-remix6.mp3 (in progress)quick sample (no comments on the sloppiness please
) http://music.megagoo.com/11th.mp3 (lamb of god riff)so basically im trying to figure out what i can do to get a better sound from the 5150 because mic'ing a cabinet will always outdue amp modeling (from what i hear). i know the weak point in my chain is the mic preamp. i hear a lot of talk about the digidesign mbox and the m-audio mic preamps. is that the KEY piece that im missing to my chain? im not looking to spend much unless it will yield high results. i can probably borrow an sm57 for recording when need-be.
but given the clip and hardware i posted, what would be the best solution that would give me the best results while being simple. i know i can spend a ton of money and get all kinds of gear but im not looking to do that. just maybe change a couple of peices of gear at most. any effects and compressions/limiters etc will be done with plugins in Sonar.
thanks
eddie
