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Post by spencer096 on Aug 28, 2022 12:05:18 GMT -7
the past few months i've been leaning on a princeton reverb as my main amp for two reasons...ive been doing exclusively joe pass-style solo gigs and the princeton has a smaller speaker, and secondly because it's been in my living room.
without the air brake, the ghia was simply too much amp for small restaurant gigs where people have to be able to talk to each other. but it's going to be my amp moving forward (i'll just bring the brake now). ive played dogal evolution flats for the past four months, but switched to their expressive flats this weekend...also got a wegen pick...the strings, pick and carmen ghia combo is really something special. clear as a bell, all the characteristics of the acoustic guitar are amplified in all the right ways. beautiful high end with no spiking, full bottom with no flubbiness. just absolutely ideal.
crappy iphone mic here, ill try to get a good recording of it with a sm57 and condenser mic on the acoustic side. im just starting to record stuff tho and really have no idea what im doing.
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Post by namelikemusic on Jul 5, 2023 13:25:04 GMT -7
Love this!! That whole album is amazing. Nice tone and playing, man.
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Post by adam on Jul 5, 2023 16:27:32 GMT -7
Sounds fantastic to me and I bet it sounds beautiful in the room. Subscribed!
You do this stuff effortlessly and it always amazes me. Again, I wish I could do that!
fwiw on the recording stuff, you just keep trying to stuff and you kind of find what works for you as you go. I think for what you do, if you could get a "cheapish" ribbon mic, maybe something like a se electronics x1r ($229), you might be happier with that over the 57. a 57 is kind of "pokey" and can just the right thing in the right context, but it's not really a natural sound. If you take a ribbon and put it around 10" right in front of the middle of the speaker, it's a good starting point. If you have too much low end, move it away, and if it's too bright, move it a little to the side of center. The distance creates some natural compression, or maybe evenness is a better word for it, and the figure 8 pattern of the mic picks up almost as much from the back as the front, so it has a little sense of the room in the sound. It's not the end all be all, but it's a thing, and has a very natural sound compared to say the 57. It's close with one mic to hearing how it sounds in the room. It seems to me like you'd be pretty happy with those results, particularly with solo jazz guitar. Just food for thought.
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Post by spencer096 on Jul 12, 2023 15:31:46 GMT -7
Sounds fantastic to me and I bet it sounds beautiful in the room. Subscribed! You do this stuff effortlessly and it always amazes me. Again, I wish I could do that! fwiw on the recording stuff, you just keep trying to stuff and you kind of find what works for you as you go. I think for what you do, if you could get a "cheapish" ribbon mic, maybe something like a se electronics x1r ($229), you might be happier with that over the 57. a 57 is kind of "pokey" and can just the right thing in the right context, but it's not really a natural sound. If you take a ribbon and put it around 10" right in front of the middle of the speaker, it's a good starting point. If you have too much low end, move it away, and if it's too bright, move it a little to the side of center. The distance creates some natural compression, or maybe evenness is a better word for it, and the figure 8 pattern of the mic picks up almost as much from the back as the front, so it has a little sense of the room in the sound. It's not the end all be all, but it's a thing, and has a very natural sound compared to say the 57. It's close with one mic to hearing how it sounds in the room. It seems to me like you'd be pretty happy with those results, particularly with solo jazz guitar. Just food for thought. I know this is way late but thank you very much…the way you laid it out seems like a ribbon mic would go a long ways.
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