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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

two guitar sounds

The guitar was a Fender Stratocaster played through a Marshall head and a 4x10 Marshall cabinet. Two mics were pointed at the same speaker. The following excerpt demonstrates the difference in sound between the two mics.

It’s a 4-bar passage featuring guitar and drums. For the first pass, the SM57 channel was solo’d. For the second, the Beyerdynamic M-380 channel was solo’d. For the third, I mixed the two: the Beyer is panned hard to right, the Shure about 30% left, and the volumes adjusted so the two channels sound equal in volume.

No effects or EQ have been applied; these are the raw guitar sounds.

Ode To Soup — Guitar Sounds (4 bars SM-57, 4 bars M-380, 4 bars mixed, repeat)

The most startling effect is the width of the stereo image as compared to either solo mic. I think the SM-57 sound is good on its own, but I like the stereo version better.

Tags: sm57,, recording,, guitar,, m380
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updated: 2008-05-06 03:24:02

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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

two guitar sounds