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From: tmadson@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Todd Madson)
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Subject: Re: Guitar Sounds (Guitarists read this...)
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Date: 5 Jun 91 16:45:02 GMT
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I've used many different setups for recording guitar sounds onto tape.  A good
way is to record the sound of the amp with a Shure SM-57 microphone.  This way
you're not only getting the sound of the speaker, but you're also moving air,
which is part of the "magic" incredient in getting massive guitar sounds on
tape.
 
 A lot of the high-tech guitar preamps you see today can simulate the sound of
air, usually by attenuating some high end and doing a few other
psycho-acoustic tricks.  I've used ART's SGE with good results.
 
 The best setup that I've found (the one I'm using now) is a Heartfield EX-2
neck through body guitar with EMG pickups (EMG SA for rhythm, EMG-89 for
lead), FAT control, Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp and Alesis Quadraverb.  The
Boogie has normal line outs as well as "recording out" jacks.  I use the
recording out direct into the quadraverb, and from there into the mixing
board.
 
 This results in fabulous clean tones, crisp yet smooth and unbelievable lead
tones - singing, searing endless sustain and that great, glassy rhythm sound
that you hear on old Hendrix and Stevie Ray and King's X albums.  The lead
sound is similar to Holdsworth/Scott Henderson/Al DiMeola kind of sound.
 
 If you can afford it, go for it!  I also have used (in the past) a Chandler
Tube Driver in conjunction with an ART SGE and a Digitech GSP5.  The GSP5 was
really too noisy to use in the studio, but it had some cool delay effects. 
The SGE had a great chorus for a digital unit and in conjunction with the Tube
Driver gave me some great lead tones for the last recording project I did in
the studio.
 
 Then again, high-tech trickery isn't always necessary.  I was at a friends
place during a jam session, and one guy had a brand new red strat, a dod
compressor, and Boss distortion (just an overdrive, nothing too monstrous) and
a Yamaha G100-212.  Killer tones!

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