104 6L6 mic'd recording...
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 12:06 pm
Any serious S1 6L6 pro users had trouble getting a usable recorded high gain tone with their head?
We've been working in the studio with it for a couple of days now and try as we might, just can't seem to capture the sound I've been hearing in the live situation for the last couple of years. Bearing in mind, working with a solid engineer who know's his shit and even he is scratching his head on this one!
We've gone through numerous different styles of mics, placements, speaker arrangements/combinations, overdrives, pickup/guitar selection but it really does sound piss poor recorded. Dialing in the gain and bottom end thickness makes the top end fizzy and unattractive. But getting the mid/highs sounding right results in a lack of bottom end crunch and body. It's almost like the amp needs two adjustable gain stages to dial it in properly.
Just to caveat this with the fact that this head sounds absolutely frikken brutal live. Has been on a few tours with me now and the thing is a bloody tank. So I know it can cut it on stage...
I'm not really looking for advice on how to mic a cab or dial in a tone or anything like that, as we really do have that covered but more if anyone's had the same experience as us, and if not do you have any audio examples to prove us wrong
Getting to the point now, where money is burning and we're gonna have to switch back to the Peaveys to get the job done. Which really wasn't what I had planned at all...
Cheers ya GC's
We've been working in the studio with it for a couple of days now and try as we might, just can't seem to capture the sound I've been hearing in the live situation for the last couple of years. Bearing in mind, working with a solid engineer who know's his shit and even he is scratching his head on this one!
We've gone through numerous different styles of mics, placements, speaker arrangements/combinations, overdrives, pickup/guitar selection but it really does sound piss poor recorded. Dialing in the gain and bottom end thickness makes the top end fizzy and unattractive. But getting the mid/highs sounding right results in a lack of bottom end crunch and body. It's almost like the amp needs two adjustable gain stages to dial it in properly.
Just to caveat this with the fact that this head sounds absolutely frikken brutal live. Has been on a few tours with me now and the thing is a bloody tank. So I know it can cut it on stage...
I'm not really looking for advice on how to mic a cab or dial in a tone or anything like that, as we really do have that covered but more if anyone's had the same experience as us, and if not do you have any audio examples to prove us wrong
Getting to the point now, where money is burning and we're gonna have to switch back to the Peaveys to get the job done. Which really wasn't what I had planned at all...
Cheers ya GC's