Help With Overdriven Guitar

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"Bird222" <edward22@cc.wwu.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello,
> This is my first time posting and I need some help, so any advice
> would
> be great. When I attempt to record an overdriven guitar I get a very
> hollow and sloppy sound, and it's only when I record overdriven
> guitar.
> When I record clean guitar, or bass, or vocals I get a clear and full
> sound. But the distorted guitar's captured sound fails to live up the
> sound coming from the amp. I am using a guitar with EMG Humbuckers
> going into a Mesa Boogie F-30, which is then micked by a SM 57.
> The mic then travels through a mono Pre-sonus tube pre-amp, and
> then into a Digidesign MBox. I've tried the mic as close as 1" just
> off the center of the speaker cone, and 6" away, but all I get is
> either a muffled low end heavy sound, or a very hollow washy
> sound that is just unexceptable. So any help would be greatly
> appreciated.


Use omnidirectional microphones or cut off the low frequencies.
This proximity effect is a bass-boost at distances of a few inches
only for pressure-gradient mikrophones, like the cardioids are.

Jens

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Try some heaviy cutting of some mids or low mids. Notch out a narrow
band - cut atlest 6dB and sweep it around for a bit. See if you find
somehting that opens up the sound. Sometimes one frequencey masks the
whole tone.

Also, if you've gt the amp cranked, you may suffer from fletcher-munson
effcts at the amp. You might need a lot more high end at the amp than
you think.