Bobby Owsinski continues his series on getting the ultimate guitar sound. Bobby has spent a lifetime achieving just that, and the series is based on his new book, The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook.
Every guitar player, engineer and producer wants to record the ultimate guitar sound, but it’s not always easy to capture the great sound that you hear in the room. In this series, based around my new book The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook (written with Rich Tozzoli), I’ll outline why acoustic and electric guitars, amplifiers, speaker cabinets and effects sound the way they do, and the best way to record and mix them after you’ve gotten the sound. In Part 5 of this series, we’ll look different electric guitar miking techniques.
While many believe there’s only one accepted way to mic an amplifier, you’ll be surprised to learn that there are as many ways as there are guitar and amp sounds. Let’s look at some.
Table of Contents
- Single Mic
- The Classic Setup
- Classic Setup #2
- Single Mic Variation #1
- Two Mics
- The Classic Two Mic Setup
- Two Mic Variation #1
- Two Mic Variation #2
- Three Mics
- Three Mic Technique #1
- Three Mic Technique #2
- Three Mic Variation #1
- Marshall Cabinet Miking
- Jimi’s Sound