How to Mic a Guitar Cab with 1 or 2 Mics
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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It doesn't have to be complicated...
Here's the best way to mic a guitar cab - finding the sweet spot with a single SM57.
I also show you how to use two mics on the cab and how to make sure they're phase-aligned on the way in.
you are awesome! this is the most professional and yet easy to understand channel I've come across. Of course I'm already subbed. Thanks for your help and time doing this service.
Great stuff, I’m glad to see you posting more vids! 🤘
*Thanks very much! This is the best tutorial about putting a mic to your cab. 🎥🏆🎶🎵 I’m always trying to get the sound as good as possible in my own videos so this really helps! 🐇🇺🇸⭐️🎶 Have a happy Easter! Again, thank you!*
Excellent video. My favourite combination for micing guitar!
I see in his DAW that it said L guitar for the mics. I'm guessing that you have to do L and R recordings through an amp then?
I have that same ART Ribbon mic and I've tried it on a guitar cab--it's surprisingly cool. Got a great snarl to it.
May I ask you... Would you say the ART is darker or brighter than the 57? (I don't know if you have any experience with the 57)
@@Kyro_Gaming_Channel Definitely darker. I've actually tried the same pairing as the video a while back. My results weren't as instantly killer as Jordan's but balancing the upper end aggression of the SM57 with the throaty roar of the ART yields badass results.
@@GatekeeperMetal wow ok, I'm just diving into the world of mics for amps, I've been wanting a good "bright and dark" mic combo and I've heard ribbon mics usually have a smoother top end.
Anyway, thanks for your input. I'll take a look at the ART mic!
Gatekeeper Metal is that the ART AR5 ?
Well, for years I do it with a single 57 but today I use a Sennheiser E906 on Speakermiddle and at the border a sm57 and this is my ultimate Metalguitartone, straight into a Focusrite Isa Two and blow me away
So very helpful, educational at that.
I like it and I want you to making a video about setting up a Drum Recording Microphone
You mean setting up mics for recording drums? He does in Hardcore Tracking.
TCRXPOFFICIAL yes brother
Thanks man, very useful!
Amazing!! Thanks, Jordan!
Great channel. Love the tips
Question: when you mix 2 mics on a cab, how do you process them? Process each mic individually or sum together and process the aux?
Awesome video!!
Super helpful video!
very cool video thx for the leason!
Great video! I have two questions! 1) how far away is the amp head from the cab? 2) Can someone, instead of re align the mics, just move the waveform back or forth?
Thanks in advance for your reply!
Hey dude I have fixed these kind of issues on that way and works, I hope this helps
Super helpful
Honestly very relieving. This is essentially what I've been doing for a long while now but with a Heil PR30, but I think i need to give the SM57 a real try with my next session. I've been thinking about adding extra mics and all but I think I'm just gonna keep it simple.
The one thing that missing from alot of cab micing vids... The signal chain from cab/mic/Preamp?/Interface?/DAW? What happens before it is brought into the interface, if anything?
This is super helpful. What preamps are you using?
I like that you use 2x12 instead of 4x12, I feel its gives different punch to the rhythm \m/
Is this the regular mesa 212 cab or the compact model? Thanks for your time.
Awesome, my man.
Do you also use a mic/two mics for the room tone?
Nope I never record a room sound for guitars like this. Sounds horrible. Only have ever done that if it’s for a specific distant effect
Anyone know what those panels are he’s using next to the cabinet and where to get them?
In your course do you cover how to mix double or quad tracked guitars so that they sound great in mono as well as in stereo?
Guitars never sound great in mono because they phase themselves out, so there is no getting around that.
is a mesa boogie horizontal or compact 2x12 ?
That's cool. What camera did u use to record this video?
Are you flipping phase through "analog" gear instead of doing it in your DAW?
I have questions... Since the edge of a speaker will be closer to the Royer mic than the center is to the 57 mic do you compensate for that? Also, since the slope of the paper of the speaker makes it almost impossible to line up the diaphram of the mic with the paper of the speaker what are your thoughts on that. And, what about the 3 to 1 rule for phase cancellation? Why don't you put the mics on seperate speakers? Thanks for your time and consideration. I was a live engineer for over 50 years and now am doing a small studio. How do you think things differ between the two? Oh, BTW, by putting the cabinet on the case, you have just created a source of resonance. This is exactly why God invented milk crates. Cheers
I'm mic'ing guitar through my home stereo system with a condenser mic.
Don't have a DAW either.
Be cool if there were tutorials for THAT.
Not totally opposed to DAWs but I can't afford to spend money on anything I can't use or wouldn't like & seems you can't get your money back for software so I'd be stuck with it. ...be nice if they offered free trial or something but of course that's too much to ask I guess (some claim to offer free trial but none of them actually worked. & Others that claim to be free don't work either. I guess that's fine if you've got money to waste or know someone else with a DAW you can try out but many of us don't have either of those.) 😐
6:10 its almost as if it was already phase inverted, hmmm :D
huge clipping
This was great. Thanks!
Question: Sometimes in lieu of double-tracking, mixers will duplicate a track, pan it opposite, and delay it somewhere within the Haas window (5-30ms) for thickening. Would you ever intentionally keep a short timed offset (under 30ms) of your second mic - with its different tone - and pan it oppositely (rather than combine it to mono) for a combined thickened sound?
I've tried this and although it somewhat works, recording another guitar track enyirely so you can pan them both and create stereo guitar is a much better and fatter solution.
If you only have one guitar track, I think a bit of added stereo delay from a plugin with some light modulation works too.
anyone ever use a room mic for guitar recording?
I like using a e609 i get a better tone than a 57.