My 3rd time ever mic-ing up a real amp! (hell, it even has real drums!)

Harry Hughes

Harry Hughes

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1663306/Decode Cover Bugera 333XL mic-ing.mp3

This was done on March the 14th, (I got the amp on the 11th of March)

This is my Bugera 333XL , which I've just made a thread about in the equipment section.
Thanks to Morgan C for the drum track . It was just a single wav file, so no actual editing/processing on the drum track, so I basically just mixed the guitars and bass guitar around the drum track.
Guitars are my Ibanez RG 7421 with 7 string AHB-1 Blackouts and bass guitar is real too haha, Ibanez 5 string BTB 455 model (I think) with Bartolini pickups. Used POD farm for the tone as usual.
Cabinet used was the Harley Benton 2x12 that I bought off Ermz .

As for post, there's low pass at 10KHz, high pass at 100Hz, and a small cut at 7KHz (1dB), and a few other small boosts, so nothing major.
I think that considering this is the 3rd time I've ever mic'd up a real amp, it's not bad but I'll let you guys be the judge:)

Comments on the mix too I guess, although seeing as how I wasn't able to get raw drum tracks of each different mic, it's not gonna be the best mix in the world
 
This tone has potential. It's thick, but its definitely stuffy.

It sounds like there is clipping going on somewhere that isn't amp distortion- something that's ON TOP of the signal.

Brighten it up- closer to the dustcap, lower bass knob on amp, repeat.
 
The stuffiness is in all likelyhood related to the fact that the amp is not decoupled from the floor at all. I still need to get a friend of mine to cut out some wood blocks for me or whatever so I can do that. I am definitely pretty conservative with the EQ and other amp controls, nothing went above 5 on the amp (I think it was like, 4 on the treble, 2 on the mids, 4 on the bass, presence on 5, gain was literally on about 1 on the Lead channel), so it has to be the lack of decoupling. Behind the amp, there isn't much space ( a bookcase about 40cm behind it) but there is plenty of room in front of it so there definitely shouldn't be much reflections going back into the front of the cab.
The scratch is probably because I'm using the POD X3 Lives Tube Screamer, seeing as I don't own any pedals at the moment (sold 'em all ages ago). I need to pick up a proper TS or Boss SD-1 (and mod to TS-808 specs).

As for the playing, yeah, it's not the best admittedly and I'm definitely not as good a guitarist as you Jeff haha. I hadn't really practiced the riff in a while which didn't help.

Thanks for the advice/tips and criticism so far guys, keep it coming
 
Felix Neumann said:
I really like the punch in it! It´d be cool, if the kick ´d have the same power. The guitar sound is a bit too tamed. Unleash the beast, man!!! ;)
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Haha I can't really turn the gain for this kinda stuff, it's Paramore, not death metal. As it is, I somehow managed to make the verse riff sound more metal than the original song because of the way I dig into the strings and probably because I use a little bit more gain than them too:kickass:
Can't do anything about the kick I'm afraid, as was mentioned it's just a single wav file that contained all the drum parts, so it has to stay as it is:(
I was going for a more smooth, rounded off commercial sound with the guitar tone (really clamping down on 7KHz fizz etc) rather than a roaring aggressive This Godless Endeavor type thing and if I try to boost the upper mids, it just increase that annoying scratchiness that is present in the tone :(
But yeah I think the amp has plenty of potential and it has a nice, thick, present mid range that lends well to many styles of rock and metal

I guess I'm gonna have to retrack it, with different settings, better playing and hopefully next time I'll have a real boost pedal to use
 
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