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hi hey dude it's ace here today I am in
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metropolis studios in London and it is
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going to be about miking up a great rock
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guitar sound I mean this basically goes
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for all guitar sounds really if you're
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talking about live amps could be indeed
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could be punk could be anything so we're
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gonna start off looking at the Marshall
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here I have my Marshall in today so
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basically when I get into the studio
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what I do is first of all I get my
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guitar and I set up the sound okay so I
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have my sound set up that I like okay so
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you need to get you all kind of sounds
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first that's the most important thing
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because the tone is very important so
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plug your guitar in plug it into the amp
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and get the sound you want okay not just
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flat with all your EQ is on and see what
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sounds good in the room I tend to find
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that with the Marshall the way they're
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kind of be able to have been using them
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for years I will have about well about a
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third of the presence in there usually
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full on bass because they're not very
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vey C amps the old ones I've got about
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two thirds middle on there so six on the
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middle treble I've got it on number
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three I'll back it off a bit for
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recording so it's not too bright okay
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and then today I'm actually using the
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haunts the game is up full because I
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want more of a rock tone for myself so
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okay start off there's the Marshall
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we've set it up with the guitar sound
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beforehand next thing to do is to place
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the mics in the right place when you're
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usually listening to a guitar in the
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room from an amp and you've got the
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sound that you like you listening to a
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combination of it coming out the
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speakers it being in the room you being
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a bit further away that's the kind of
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sound you like so if we were to place
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the microphone straight into the center
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of the cone of the speaker it's going to
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be very harsh that's not really what you
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hear if you were to put your ear to the
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cabinet and you move your ear around the
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further you get away from the center
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cone you're gonna find the more it
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sounds likely the same to you to be a
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like a slightly softer sound because
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we're coming out in the bright area were
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working away so I found the best way is
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to usually
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for a start off point is to look at the
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cone in the center and then move the
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microphone somewhere between the center
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and the outside about the middle zone to
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start off I'm also going to use two
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different mics because I want to capture
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two different sounds the first one is an
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sm57 which is a classic cheeps brilliant
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microphone it captures the essence it
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captures the grind and the grit of the
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guitar sound it's more top-end in it it
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can take a lot of sound pressure so you
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could turn the marshall up to full and
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an sm57 will take that volume of sound
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okay I found that usually a Marshall
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around about 6 is about the right
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setting it doesn't compress too hard
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it's not too loud but it's loud enough
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to make the valves work and not be too
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fizzy okay so I've got it set to 6 on
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here and I have two mics
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so we have the sm57 here right next up
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here I will use a condenser mic okay so
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a condenser mic can actually be any
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condenser mic really so I'm not really
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going to be too fussed about that but
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the what the condenser mic does is it
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gives it a softer sound okay more bottom
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end a bit more Wooley I suppose so when
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you listen back to it it won't be
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exactly the sound you're hearing but
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then you blend the two together we're
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going to show blending as well but I am
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gonna position them in the same
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positions which is between the cone
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center of the cone and the outside of
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the speaker so that we get that sound
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that we hear in our ears in the room
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rather than the brightness of the cone
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that that we would associate with it
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being just too harsh
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okay so the next thing to do is we have
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the microphones here we have the amp all
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set up we need to see where the cone is
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in the cabinet and as you can see we
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can't see it because it's got a grill on
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it so the next thing to do is to get out
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a torch or trusty iPhone turn off the
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lights have a look against the grill
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here and see the speaker inside and
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roughly position the microphones
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once we've roughly positioned those
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microphones there we will go into the
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control room and we'll play the guitar
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and then we'll check so we going to
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check in the sounder it sounds the same
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to us in here in this room that we like
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the sound so it does come out the
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speaker's through the desk
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just gonna go straight through the desk
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flap we're not gonna put you choose on
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we're not cut any effects on it at all
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or compression so we can just compare it
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because if you can get the same sound in
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this room as you can get coming out the
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desk you're on a winner
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okay so I think it's about time that we
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turn out the lights we find the cones
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and do some positioning for sounds right
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here we are we are now going to position
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the first mic the sm57 the one that can
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take the high sound pressure we're going
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to position that on the cone so trusty
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iPhone in hand or any torch so if I look
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through here I can see where the speaker
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is now so if I move this I'm going to go
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close miking because I want to capture
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you know everything coming out really
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directed not not much of a room sound so
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okay the end of my speaker is here the
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center of the cone is about there okay
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so let's have a look so just okay so
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really that here isn't it let's go let's
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go about there so just check that I'm
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sure a lot of professionals will say I'm
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I'm rubbish but I've seen this seems to
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work for me okay let's try that so
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that's the that's the first one okay
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let's do the second one now which is the
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condenser mic we'll lose the next
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speaker alone outside of the cone is
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their centers about there so I think
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we'll go back here let's try just a
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rough guess always works as it's fine
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you know sometimes you may have a little
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bit of phasing problems but your
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engineer can sort that out for you if
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you were recording in a big place or you
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can just switch the phase on your Pro
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Tools okay so I'm guessing right this is
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just a approximate guess okay there we
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go
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we have condenser mic on the mid there's
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a cone we've got the the dynamic mic on
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the other end of it we should really now
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just go in the other room and see how it
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sounds you can't afford to have the
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condenser mic a little bit nearer to the
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cone just because it's a duller sounding
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mic okay but also you have to put a pad
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in
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on the condenser mic so that can take
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higher sound pressure as well so
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remember to do that and don't blow the
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mic up okay we're in the control room
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now we've set the mics up where we want
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to hear them we're going to hear them
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back now crew to speakers to see if
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we've got the same kind of sound that's
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going on in there we've got the two
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different microphones the brighter one
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which is really direct and we've got a
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duller one which is the condenser
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microphone was a Bachman Sam so let's
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hear what they both sound like together
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first of all
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sounds pretty good actually for the
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first attempt
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so what we can do now is if we look at
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the desk if we let's listen to just the
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57 microphone being here is quite bright
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bit thinner okay let's listen to the TL
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m which is the condenser microphone
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quite dull isn't it
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so if I stick them both together they
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should sound something like this
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which is great we can also adjust the
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mix of them that if we want so if I
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wanted to have a bit less base I can
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bring it in more
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sounds about right to me at the moment
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we'll go and check their speakers and
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the cones now see if the microphones
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look good to us as well if that's
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working the next thing for us to do is
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to play it along with a bit of a backing
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track so we can see if the tone kind of
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fits in the right space of the backing
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track right we've come back in we've
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tested it on the desk it actually sounds
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very very good I'm quite surprised for
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the first time happening so it's really
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good so basically if you want to do on a
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bit more top-end in your microphone once
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you've set it like that say say it's
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sounding a little bit dull
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move it inwards move them in towards the
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cone so these would now move that way so
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they go towards the cone more brightness
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towards the clone cone a little bit more
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bottom end move it outwards so away from
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the cone the center of the speaker okay
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so at the moment that sounds pretty good
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so we're going to work with this at the
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moment and we're going to go in the desk
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and we are going to tweak some levels
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and blend them now so we want to get the
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sound of this in the room we want that
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through the desk so the way we're going
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to do it next is take the bottom end
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from there the top end from there the
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grinder and match them so it sounds good
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so let's go in the other side and check
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that out okay here we are then we got
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the sounds that we like from the amp and
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also from the speakers and from the mics
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now we're going to check it out within a
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track to see whether it actually has the
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sonic capability to sound good within a
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track as well so let's try this one
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sounds pretty good actually I have to
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say so I'm quite happy with that at the
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moment you can always put eq's on when
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you mix so you can add a bit more top
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and middle you can compress it a bit
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more but if you long as you've got a
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good source sound and a good tone that
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fits into the track there's a good
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starting point so we'll move on from
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there okay we've got our backing track
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sounds good coming out here let's see if
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we can put a bit of a solo on the top of
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it and see how it sounds
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and there you go miking up a guitar in
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the studio in one easy lesson
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