Recording high gain guitar

[Studiojig]

Hi all - I wonder if anyone has had experience recording high-gain/rock/metal guitar sounds using just a 1x12 cab? Currently I'm close mic-ing a 4x12 cabinet and getting good stuff. However, my thinking is that close mic-ing a single speaker in a cab shouldn't be all that different if the speaker is paired with 3 others or alone in its own cab. Am I right or off the mark here? I realize there's probably some ambient qualities of a 4x12 that even a close mic is picking up and those won't be there in a 1x12. But, the can I'm thinking about is a ported 1x12 Mesa Theile with a V30 which - as I understand it - sounds quite full with plenty of low, mid, and high frequencies.

Anyway, what say you?

 

[AudioPhile777]

Anyway, what say you?

Use the search function.


lol...


It will sound different. Not by leaps and bounds, but still different.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

welcome!...try searching w/ the term "isolation". i think there was a lot of discussion not too long ago on using a single isolated speaker vs. 4 speakers.

i think everyone agrees it will sound different.

 

[Studiojig]

Cool, will do. Thx!

 

[Wolfeman]

I love cross-forum threads......

Nothing like reading the same posts over and over and over and over.....