Recording Guitars....., Tips and Tricks......and a Question Options

[slowintrepid]

Hows it going, I had a couple questions about recording guitars on my Mac. Basically my I obviously wanna get the best sound I can from my setup so here it is:

1 Bright Sounding Acoustic Gutiar w/ built in fishman pre amp
2.Epiphone SG electric guitar
3. Marshall MG-80 solid state guitar amp

ok so I have my electric going into my amp then the line out of my am into the built in sound card of my PowerMac G5 and it doesn't sound very good.

However I have my acoustic guitar going straight into my computer via the built in pre amp and that sounds just like I was playing it live.

so 1. I wanna know how can I get out the clangy jangley sound from my acoustic (new strings lower gauge) and how can I get my electric to sound better and should I use amp distortion (mines so so) or should I use something like Amplitube

also I feel that this is a fairly elusive subject for s

[Jeff Pelletier]

Just to add to what toekneenose said....

Phase Bull%&*^ IS NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING!
Use phase cancellation, and the resulting comb filtering to YOUR ADVANTAGE!
You can "phase tune" using teo mics, going up two strips, obviously panned in the same location(mono).

Get someone to sweep the first mic to find a sweet spot in from of the amp. (You may want to actually have someone play while you're doing this...how the h$)) are you going to know if you're getting a good sound by listening to the amp's noise floor???). Next, place the other mic right beside the first, and start backing it up slowly. You will hear the comb filtering, especially at the high-end. Tool around for a while, try stuff, it's not like you're renting studio time. Try even placing a mic at the back of the amp (even a closed back!), then flop the phase (phase-invert) one of the mics, or not.....LISTEN!....there is some art involved....it's not just science.

Another thing you could try is adding a room mic. Throw up another mic somewhere in the room and blend the 2-3-4-5-6......mics you have on that amp.

I've made a Peavy Bandit sound good this way......a Marshall can't be that hard!

-Good luck! Try anything! And DON'T FEAR PHASE RELASHIONSHIP...especially on mono sources.