Guitar miking video

[Djabthrash]

RECORDING MAG guitar miking videos :

Only at the very beginning but this seems like a great guitar miking video :

http://www.recordingmag.com/videos/videoDetail/3.html

EDIT : Just finished watching it, and actually it's not good, it's EXCELLENT and very throughout : mic positioning, single-miking, multi-miking, mic blending, phase issues, reamping...

electric guitars :

http://www.recordingmag.com/videos/videoDetail/3.html

acoustic guitars :

http://www.recordingmag.com/videos/9.html

bass guitars :

http://www.recordingmag.com/videos/videoDetail/11.html

 

[xTomx]

Another good find man, those Radial Dragtsers look pretty interesting!

 

[Djabthrash]

those Radial Dragtsers look pretty interesting!

Indeed ! Never heard about them before.

 

[Shinozoku]

So... Much... Clipping in the high gain examples.... uke:

Excellent advice, though!

 

[Djabthrash]

So... Much... Clipping in the high gain examples.... uke:

Yeah that was horrible indeed. Killer video otherwise.

 

[Clark Kent]

I could never find a proper mic placement using clean tones... Pink noise please. Or distorted sounds.

 

[Virgil.]

awesome find, thanks man

 

[rispsira]

thanks for sharing; pretty cool vids. Im not sure i understand the need for the dragster though? I mean since youre reamping (it was in that context if im not mistaken), that means that the guitar signal WILL go through the amp and youll get that effect anyway so why have it twice.. what m i missing?

Otherwise, i was wondering when you guys mix different mics together do you use plugins to delay the signal from the mic(s) closer to the speaker or do you just zoom in and drag?
If its the latter do you grab the closest mic fwd or the farthest mic backwards? It seems to make more sense to me to bring the 2nd one backwards so id like to have your opinins on that

 

[Behind]

Good video! Thanks a lot!

 

[Shinozoku]

thanks for sharing; pretty cool vids. Im not sure i understand the need for the dragster though? I mean since youre reamping (it was in that context if im not mistaken), that means that the guitar signal WILL go through the amp and youll get that effect anyway so why have it twice.. what m i missing?

Otherwise, i was wondering when you guys mix different mics together do you use plugins to delay the signal from the mic(s) closer to the speaker or do you just zoom in and drag?
If its the latter do you grab the closest mic fwd or the farthest mic backwards? It seems to make more sense to me to bring the 2nd one backwards so id like to have your opinins on that

Actually, it has no application I can see in the context used, however it might be nice for if you're using ampsims. But it appears to just lower input gain...?

Actually, that make perfect sense. That's what I always learned to do and what is the smartest thing to do.

"Hmm... I have 64 tracks of close miced audio and two are distant mics. I think I'll use a plugin to apply a delay to 62 of these tracks so they match up to the 2 distant mics! "

 

[rispsira]

haha thanks for the reply man! About the dragster i just listened thru my laptop speakers so cant remember the difference but i did dl the vid so i can trasfer it to my monitors. However i hear you about ampsims; theoretically, so might be interseting to check it out.
Thanks again!

 

[AudioGeekZine]

I thought the dragster was explained well enough but I'll give it a shot. When you plug into a real amp the guitar electronics are loaded down a little which effects the tone and dynamics to some amount. There is no load when you plug direct into an interface. Reamping the signal does not make up for the lack of drag on the pickups which can be why re-amped signals don't make the amp react quite the same way as a live guitar.

In headphones I could hear a difference.

on the subject of distant mics, I would not completely remove that delay but I would find [either by mic placement or delay] mess around with distance to get in-phase ambience.


Oh yeah, great video, thanks for sharing.

PS, high gain examples sucked balls

 

[rispsira]

thanks for the post i think i get it now ill check it out again!

 

[Shinozoku]

Ah, okay. Thanks, AGZ! Didn't think about that...