Ok so I knew this allready but I will say it again: what you hear with your ears is not what the mic hears! So I say this because now that I got my gear setup for recording I'm abble to actually look for better recording tone
. Of course whats happening here is very simple:
1) You set up an amp and like what you are hearing BUT since you don't have your ear right next to the speaker then of course the tone is going to change when you record your amp havving the mic just in front of the speaker!
2) Just like each mic is different each ear is different too and what you perceive as a good tone thru your ears is not the same as what the mic captures and then you reproduce!
3) Mic and hear position changes everything!
4) Plus other factors...
Now that I got that off my chest let me start with the actual topic. I've made very thoughtfull decisions of the gear that I picked up thru the years to have the tone that I have now and all together I ¨think¨ I have a nice full tone but now that I got all my gear to record I do a quick test with the mic (SM57 close micked) and I get nothing at all the tone I hear with my ears.
I understand that the mic placement is very important to get the sweetspot but what I think I'm lacking is the fullness that I normally hear with the eq that I have + speakers (Scumbacks H-75 LD: those are made for a Dumble type sweet tone with a "large dust cap smoothes out (rolls off) the highs slightly, and makes the treble silkier, and adds a bit more bass response"... btw I TOTALLY notice all of that!) and that is something that the "sweetspot" wont give me, I meen my thought would be that I would hear the silkiness in the tone with the added bass of the speaker+the external eq boosting the low end that I normally hear with my ears but depending where I would position the mic I would determing the mix of the frequencies that come out of the speaker BUT what I'm actually hearing is a bit of a harsh tone with too much highs and lacking of the lows.
So here is the deal, even thow I don't think mic placement is my exact problem/solution here are what I think are my possible options:
1) move the mic location and distance to see if I get what I want
2) change the settings of my eq to have to tone that I want thru the mic and maybe not so much hearing it straight from my ears
3) add eq after the mic
The way that I want to approach this is not exactly looking at how I can get the best possible recorded tone for a track but to get a great live tone that I could help the stupid sond guy on recreating that in a gig and this issue is
VERY IMPORTANT to me now because in 2 weeks I'm going to play a gig and actually want to recorded and have a good tone (I dont get to play that often and I want to capture the best tone and performance I can get... and posted here so you guys can see
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So after wondering all over the place lets see what you guys can tell me.