Mic Placement Poll

[SavageRiffer]

What is your ideal mic placement? Assuming common mics like SM-57 and E-609? Do you use the same mic placement for all types of music or is it different for metal?

 

[SpiderWars]

Not-like-I-know-wtf-I'm-doing bump

 

[Mr. Willy]

I prefer at the edge of the dust cap, on the grill, at a very slight angle. Sometimes straight on.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

I prefer at the edge of the dust cap, on the grill, at a very slight angle. Sometimes straight on.

+1!

 

[codyjarret]

I prefer at the edge of the dust cap, on the grill, at a very slight angle. Sometimes straight on.

Same here.
I use an SM57 and usually on a slight angle all the time though.

 

[sytharnia1560]

I prefer at the edge of the dust cap, on the grill, at a very slight angle. Sometimes straight on.

this...but I use to use 3 mic's. 1 like this, one dead centre but 2 to 3 feet away and then one right next to my ear in the room (where I think the amp sounds best in the room).... The "ear" one I use a the main guitar tone and then bleed the others in to fill out the sound.

Have done it like this for years mind you....don't record my amp anymore (just use plug ins for the quiet factor)

 

[moltenmetalburn]

Case sensitive but off axis isy fave.

 

[Mattfig]

I use so many mics around a cab now I don't even know if my vote counts....It's freaking everything above when making KPA profiles...

 

[rottingcorpse]

I have always used the shavering technique. Listen in the cans with the amp on but no signal(just amp noise/sound)and move the mic around until you hear the amp hiss the loudest. Old school. Usually around where the cap meets the cone. An inch off the grill cloth.

But I am old and set in my ways. Learned this technique in the 80s at Perdue recording studios. Has always worked well for me. I am sure there are better modern ways,but that's how it was done back then. They used the same technique at Dallas sound labs and Pantego recording.

 

[eternal_idol]

Fredman technique and all of the Above in varying degrees.

mic selection, and placement are dependent on type of music. but it safe to say you can use those two mics for all genres with success

also

 

[RaceU4her]

i like what sounds good

 

[SpiderWars]

I'm one of two that voted 'away from cab grill'. Are you guys putting it right up against the grill, as in touching it? I'm only a finger-width or a tiny bit more away but to me 'against' means 'touching'. Anything not touching means 'away'. Am I just interpreting this wrong?

 

[SavageRiffer]

I'm one of two that voted 'away from cab grill'. Are you guys putting it right up against the grill, as in touching it? I'm only a finger-width or a tiny bit more away but to me 'against' means 'touching'. Anything not touching means 'away'. Am I just interpreting this wrong?

At low volume I put it touching, but when the speaker is pushing air, I put it just far enough away to not touch the mic.