Fat low end guitar Tone

[Steve Honest]

Hi CHaps, in thetime gap i have moved studio and i have had sme really great results inthe new place,
on monday i recorded Nic the guitar player from jurajin, using his 4 x 12 cab and 2 different Diezal heads, i used a sm57 and a Shenn 419 thru a neve V66 desk and a Neve Vr comps, and it sounded Phat.
i blended both mics and messed with phase on the mics,
it was huge , mics were 2 inchs of 2 different 12 inch speaker , and had to be close as the tempo of the track s demanded a tight crisp sound , but we had huge rich low end,
very pleasing

steve

[phatbeatstudio]

People often belive that using a guitar cabinet still on casters loses a little low end same as straight and angled cabinets straight cabs a belived to have more low end. But like alot of people said erlier guitar isnt that much of a low end instument the frequencies just arnt there, thats why you were getting a low end mush when you had the low the way you like it and it wasnt defined, because the frequencies you added in EQ dont actually exist in a electric guitar. When you hear a guitar on CD playing by itself and it sounds huge it will almost definatly have an AUTOMTED EQ whenn the band kicks in so as it doesnt over rule other instruments . There is only so much low end deffinition to go around
everybody goes through the stage in recording where everything you want is low end but reallity kicks in and its not possible yet.
I tried to get my 12" tom to sound huge and it did but it sucked to
NO SUCH THING AS A HUGE 12" TOM
good rule of EQ if its maxed out its totally wrong

[andychamp]

Originally Posted by phatbeatstudio

(...)Good rule of EQ if its maxed out its totally wrong

Not if it makes things sound good.