Think again. That mic position is not standard at all. You might want to try the 57 on axis pointing exactly where the dustcap meets the cone and 1 inch away from the grille cloth. That is the standard starting point for metal guitars, tweak from there, YMMV.
Well, maybe i didn't express myself correctly (english is not my native language), but the other position I mentioned is the position you are suggesting. Close miked or 2,3, centimeters from the grill, facing the meeting spot of dustcap and the cone. I prefer close mic, depends of the impedance settings on my mic preamps.
As I said, I really tried every position. And yes, during all these years I also went through slipperman, andy sneap interviews, or anything else that is suggested as the source of information among the internet recording community. That is what I'm trying to say. There really shouldn't be a problem in putting te mic in front of the cabinet and getting the decent sound. But this just doesn't sound good. In any position. It always sounds thin and distant, different than any sm57 sound that i heard on a recorded tone. Even the worst sounds have that midrange I'm missing.
If your ears are correctly trained for good room sound, bad recorded tone ALWAYS comes from bad AE technique. Though it could be very well how you are dialing in your tones.
I dialed them at my own taste and, for that specific amp, tried every online setting, such as the ones posted on forums like this, to see if it was the problem.
Room is treated, the monitoring shouldn't be the problem in getting the sound to translate right, I have Genelecs, Adams and Rolands...
Don't blame the 57, it is a great mic, and it is the industry standard for micing instruments, if it doesn't sound good, then 99.9% of the time it is your fault. Also, don't blame the cab, you can get damn good results with any plywood cab with V30s in it. If it sounds bad, guess what, its probably your fault.
Yes, I'm thinking the same about the cabs, cause they do sound fine. The wood is fine and the speakers are fine. Should matter so much in final sound.
The thing is , for more than a decade I have recorded most of my guitars with various hardware-software amp simulators. And the kemper is probably my next purchase. But last few years, I tried to move to miking the amps, getting little tired of simulators...
I used amps live and rehearsals but I never bothered to record with amp because I fell in love with simulators long time ago...
I know about the industry standards, but I really think that something went wrong with my sm57...
If you read carefully, I mentioned there are great differences with speech samples from the internet and speech samples through my sm57.
Mine always has this scooped sound...
I never thought that something was wrong with that mic ( i didn't really record anything with it only used it for playing around the cabinet), but during last week, by eliminating other things, i realized that the problem could be the mic.
I'm not saying anything bad about sm57s, that would be stupid... only that maybe my mic is not functioning as it should be.
Well, to keep the things simple... I will go to a local store, take my portable recorder and try to record something with those sm57's and mine.
If they sound the same... I'll sell everything and buy kemper....
Or I'll stick to matching eq, because it can really shape this raw sound into something nice...