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hi i'm mitch gallagher from sweetwater
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i'm joined by my stunt guitarist today
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this is don carr and we're going to be
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talking about five easy ways to mic up a
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guitar amplifier let's get
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started so before we start looking at
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the ways to mic your amplifier there are
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a couple things that we need to discuss
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even though there are those things that
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always come up we're still going to talk
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about them so first is you want to be
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sure you're getting the sound that you
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want in the room before you ever start
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placing a microphone so be sure your
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guitarist or if you're the guitarist
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that you've got the tone dialed coming
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out of the amplifier to exactly what you
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want to hear because trying to fix it
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later no matter how well you make it up
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just never works as well as having a
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great sound coming out of the amp number
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two you need to know where the speaker
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is located either in your amplifier or
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in the cabinet that you're micking up so
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in the case of this z28 mark ii the
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speaker actually is centered pretty much
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in the cab sometimes it's hard to tell
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where the speaker is actually located
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they may be off center might be up might
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be diagonal so you want to take a look
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at that and there are a couple ways you
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can do that in this case there's
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actually a vent on the top so you can
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look down through there which makes it
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easy to locate the speaker but in a
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combo amp like this you can also look
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from the back and see exactly where the
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speaker is located if it's a sealed
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cabinet you don't have a vent that you
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can look through then you need to figure
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it out through the front of the
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amplifier there are two things you can
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try to find the speaker in that case the
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first is you can actually feel where the
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edge of the speaker is in this case
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our 12 inch speaker is right here in the
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center so you can actually do it by
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touch depending on how far the grill
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cloth is from the actual baffle that the
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speaker's mounted in the second
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technique is to use a flashlight and
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fortunately we all pretty much have a
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flashlight in our pocket all the time
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with our smartphones and you can put
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that up against the grill
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and depending on how dense the grill
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cloth is you'll be able to see where the
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edge of the speaker is
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and locate it in that fashion so however
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you do it you want to find out where the
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speaker is in the amp so you can
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accurately place the microphone we're
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not going to talk a lot about actual
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microphone placement in this case we're
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going to talk more about microphone
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techniques that are very easy to set up
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and what i recommend for finding the
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exact placement of the mic is use your
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ears record some sample tracks play
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through the amp mic it up record it into
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your daw and sit back and listen and see
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what you like best sometimes moving a
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microphone just a half inch in one
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direction or another can make a huge
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difference
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and something that many players forget
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is the proximity effect that happens
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when you place a directional microphone
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up on a source the closer you get to the
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source the more bottom end you're going
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to get as you pull back you'll get a
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more balanced even tone so you want to
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play with that front back placement as
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well two other things we want to talk
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about first is to experiment with
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different types of microphones dynamic
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microphones are pretty much the standard
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for miking guitar amplifiers something
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like a sure sm57 or a sennheiser md421
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are common choices but you can also use
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ribbon microphones the royer r121 is a
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common choice as is the biodynamic m160
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and also experiment with condenser
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microphones a neumann u87 is a common
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choice or u67
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you might try an akg c414 or many other
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condensers they're just going to give
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you a different sound quality with each
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of those types of microphones and
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sometimes it's a great idea to blend
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them together to put more than one
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microphone on the amp and take the best
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of each to create a composite sound now
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when you're doing that with multiple
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microphones our last point is be sure
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that you're getting your phase lined up
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properly if you have more than one
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microphone you have to ensure they're in
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phase or they'll be canceling out and
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you get strange tonalities and eq things
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going on so make sure things are lined
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up accurately with all that said let's
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jump right into our first miking
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technique and that's to place a single
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microphone right on the speaker cabinet
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in this case i've got it centered right
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up on the speaker we're right in the
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middle of the cone let's hear what that
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sounds like
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so you can hear that that gives us a
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bright present tone the way i place a
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microphone like this is i actually use
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two of my fingers
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to gauge the distance i'm away from the
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grill cloth that gives me just a little
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bit more depth in the tone now where you
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place the microphone across the speaker
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is going to dramatically affect the tone
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that we hear let's try one other
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position
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here we're about halfway across the cone
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between the center of the cone and the
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edge of the cone and that's going to
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bring in a little bit more low mid-range
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tone let's hear what this sounds like
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you can also experiment with angling the
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microphone slightly turning it slightly
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off axis as you move around the
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microphone the tonal quality you achieve
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will actually be slightly different you
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may change some of the top end response
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or thicken up the bottom end let's try
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turning this sm57 just a little bit and
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here if it makes a difference
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so even just having a single microphone
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on your amplifier or your cabinet gives
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you a lot of options for getting the
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tone that you want to achieve i
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recommend spending some time just
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experimenting
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try different ways that you think might
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work experiment with things you think
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might not work because they may actually
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come out great and remember that it may
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be different with a clean tone than it
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is with a dirty tone than it is with a
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really heavy tone different placements
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may enhance different aspects of the
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tone and give you the sound you're
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looking for now let's move on to a
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technique that uses two microphones but
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still very easy to set up i've got two
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sure sm57s here one of them straight
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onto the speaker and the other one off
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axis now you can go anywhere from oh 30
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to 45 degrees off axis when you blend
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those two mics together the different
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tonal characteristics give you a bigger
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composite sound don
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technique number three is another two
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microphone technique and this one's a
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lot of fun if you have an open back
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combo cabinet like this
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i've got one microphone in front and one
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microphone coming in from the back now
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i've got this one to my left and this
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one is to my right so they're basically
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capturing the same sort of image of the
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speaker just one from behind and one
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from in front now the challenge with
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this technique is to make sure your
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phase accurate
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let's listen to what this sounds like
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because we're really reinforcing the
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signal by capturing two different
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pictures of that speaker
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now let's try another technique that
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uses two microphones but in this case
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we're going to place the microphones
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very differently we're going to place
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one mic close up basically in the same
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location we've been using but then we're
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going to use a second microphone for a
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distance miking
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now sometimes when we think about
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distance miking i think we always assume
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it has to be
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5 feet back or 10 feet back or way in
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the distance but it doesn't always have
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to be just pulling back say a foot will
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give you more depth when you blend that
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with the close microphone and you can
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balance those two mics to get more or
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less room ambience as you prefer
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now in this case my original microphone
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is sort of over the cone of the speaker
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it's off center and i've got my distance
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mic a little more than a foot back and
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it's aimed right at the center of the
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speaker now let's hear what it sounds
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like when we combine these two
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microphones
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the last of our five easy mic techniques
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is to use a distance microphone now a
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distance microphone captures more what
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you actually hear in the room you're
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going to get more of the amplifier
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playing in the space so you'll get some
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ambience you're also going to get nice
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depth out of that you may get some
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reflections off the floor you can raise
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that mic up if that's a problem you
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could try and put it up at your level
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where a guitarist might hear it if they
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were standing in front of the amplifier
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but in this case i just pulled it back
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about three feet i didn't measure it i
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just pulled it back about three feet
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it's going to give us a very different
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tone but lets that amp breathe and bloom
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out into the room let's hear what that
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sounds like
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i hope you've enjoyed this look at five
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easy techniques for miking up a guitar
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amplifier you really can throw the mic
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up listen to it and then the key is to
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use your ears listen to what you're
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getting move that microphone around
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don't be afraid to try different things
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you're not going to hurt anything
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try different microphone combinations
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try different placements you can have a
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lot of fun achieving great tones using
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simple miking techniques with your
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amplifier don thanks for the playing as
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always and thank you for joining us here
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today i'm mitch gallagher from
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sweetwater
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