Kapo_Polenton
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Thanks for the info guys, I actually just spent an hr fiddling with my sm57's. I ended up (after reading about the recording of VH1) putting one straight on just off the cone for the detail and one angled beside it catching a bit more of the cone. Either is a good sound but sounds a bit lacking. Together they really fill out the sonic spectrum. Granted this would probably be a lot cooler of an effect with a 421 for the classic pairing but it gives me the flavour. One absolute is ya gotta get the amp past the peamp fizzies and turn it up some. I think getting a 1 x 12 for cranking in a closet with a scumback in it is probably what I'll end up doing at some point. For now though, I've treated the walls and corners in my basement studio so it will be decent mic'ing the top left greenback in my 4 x 12.
IR's are interesting. I've been wanting to get into reamping eventually anyway so a good DI in would be interesting but in addition to that, a line out from my hotplate into a cab impulse would be a cool idea to combine a plugin Royer 121 with my mic'ed sound to create the effect I am looking for. So as you mentioned, the mic'ed cab is the main sound but you can beef it up by adding another plugin cab with a certain speaker and certain mics. Just trying to think of the best way to do this with my hotplate. Could i run out of the extension speaker jack on my lynchbox into the hotplate and set it to load while taking the line out? Woudl i need to change the ohms on the amp? I'm already running at 4 ohm with two tubes pulled into an 8 ohm cab.
Matt, the trick you mentioned about using acoustic or clean track to fatten up the sound is done or was done, quite a bit. It is almost like you are catching the spank of the chords. I know that when i listen to Slaughter's Up All Night, I can hear clean chords underneath the distortion. They really pop out at me. Listen to that and see if you can hear them pop out at you.
At the end of the day i'd like to play around with recording mine and other's people's music on the side and that is why I am getting into all this. I'm doing it for hobby and eventually for some spare cash i could throw back into more gear. Right now i've sold my soul to commercialism and am drumming in a little celtic band because we get gigs. They pay us up to 800$ a gig and free booze. That ain't bad! I'm not quitting my day job though lol
IR's are interesting. I've been wanting to get into reamping eventually anyway so a good DI in would be interesting but in addition to that, a line out from my hotplate into a cab impulse would be a cool idea to combine a plugin Royer 121 with my mic'ed sound to create the effect I am looking for. So as you mentioned, the mic'ed cab is the main sound but you can beef it up by adding another plugin cab with a certain speaker and certain mics. Just trying to think of the best way to do this with my hotplate. Could i run out of the extension speaker jack on my lynchbox into the hotplate and set it to load while taking the line out? Woudl i need to change the ohms on the amp? I'm already running at 4 ohm with two tubes pulled into an 8 ohm cab.
Matt, the trick you mentioned about using acoustic or clean track to fatten up the sound is done or was done, quite a bit. It is almost like you are catching the spank of the chords. I know that when i listen to Slaughter's Up All Night, I can hear clean chords underneath the distortion. They really pop out at me. Listen to that and see if you can hear them pop out at you.
At the end of the day i'd like to play around with recording mine and other's people's music on the side and that is why I am getting into all this. I'm doing it for hobby and eventually for some spare cash i could throw back into more gear. Right now i've sold my soul to commercialism and am drumming in a little celtic band because we get gigs. They pay us up to 800$ a gig and free booze. That ain't bad! I'm not quitting my day job though lol
