Best Ribbon for Rock Guitar?

[allencollins]

royers sound crappy to me . I dumped mine and bought a beyer M-160
I love it. I also find the fatheads are better on dist gtr than the 121. Better mids.
Though Im afraid of blowing it. The royer was pretty solid from an spl standpoint

[ripper]

have matched pair of royer 122's... use em on a lot of thangs but never elec gtr

m160 aint bad if you do the kramer/hendrix m160+421+57 thang on the cab...

cant really be bothered w/ that now that i've found my dream elec gtr mic: the aea R92!!!
i play a 50's tweed fender and a 64 vox ac30 hi-boost... wack this mic in front (and you can get CLOSE w/ this thing if ya wanna) and it's THE sound.

only have one so i usually wack a 4038 on rhy gtr, maybe eq that one a bit.

the R92 is a no-brainer. it can (almost) even make a mesa boogie sound good (ok, maybe i'm over-hyping now)

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[Musiclab]

Not a ribbon but a Beyer M88 is a sweet mic on distorted guitars

[limit6]

Question for the wise. I bought a Peluso R14 ribbon mic and I'm terrified of damaging the ribbons after reading about how sensitive they are. I want to be able to get closer to the cab? How close can I get with the mic safely?

[Michael_Joly]

Ribbons don't mind high SPL in the audio range. But they really don't like "chuffs" or pulses of air - such as what comes out of a bass cab's tuned port.

But a stock Peluso R14 with its several layers of wind blast protection in front of a guitar cab? Don't worry about it.

[dacart]

Originally Posted by CrankyRayHanky

check out the Crowley Tripp Naked Eye
there's a thread here with hard rock/metal clips
The royer is a studio standard, but the NEye seemed to have a more authentic tone to me; being half the price, I grabbed one last week and I'm thrilled.

Total +1 on that

[insomnio]

Originally Posted by delcosmos

ROYER is the best ribbon mic for guitars, I have 10 cabinets (a AC30 vintage, a new hand wired AC30, Badcat, Twin, JC120, Deluxe, Vibroverb, Bluesbraker, Dr.Z, etc,) each miced with a Royer 121 mic and for distorted Rock guitars I use a Mesa triple Rect, a Marshall Plexi, an Orange Rockverb, a vintage Bassman, a Matchless, a Soldano and a JCM800, all those heads using: one Marshal 4x12, one Orange 4x12 and one Orange 2x12 with vintage 30's). Those are miced with a combination of a Royer 121 and a U89.

Hey delcosmos,
Would you elaborate on how do you use the U89? Why that mic?

[Pastor Obviedo]

Originally Posted by delcosmos

ROYER is the best ribbon mic for guitars, I have 10 cabinets (a AC30 vintage, a new hand wired AC30, Badcat, Twin, JC120, Deluxe, Vibroverb, Bluesbraker, Dr.Z, etc,) each miced with a Royer 121 mic and for distorted Rock guitars I use a Mesa triple Rect, a Marshall Plexi, an Orange Rockverb, a vintage Bassman, a Matchless, a Soldano and a JCM800, all those heads using: one Marshal 4x12, one Orange 4x12 and one Orange 2x12 with vintage 30's). Those are miced with a combination of a Royer 121 and a U89.

After trying a lot of ribbons and dynamics I ended with Royer, they simply sound better for a guitar application.

Best regards.

Armando Avila.

wow, that's a dream rig, so how many Royers you own?

Pastor.

[fakiekid]

I remember first opening up the fader on a clean guitar track with a 121, my guitar mic finding days were over!

I've heard the R92 and really liked it, less low end which is great for getting it close into a speaker, also had very cool gritty mids and that ribbon smooth high.