singemonkey wrote:
I just reckon this is a JCM900, not a modern amp. How good is that direct out going to sound? And also, in my experience, the difficulty of mic'ing up a guitar amp is much overblown. After all the stuff I've read, I was amazed at how easy it is to get a good sound just sticking an SM57 into the grillcloth.
Well an SM57 is an SM57, I stipulated not having good mics ? Also for a genre like metal the overall mixing and recording in my opinion is far more of an art in some ways than many other genres, and don't get me wrong I'm not saying they're easy to mix etc, it's just that with metal things like quad tracking are very commonplace, which can introduce phasing issues if you don't know what you're doing, and honestly if you're not at least double tracking you're not going to have what's considered big or good tone for that genre so these things and understanding them are a must ?
Also regarding the direct out, it should sound horrible and fizzy because you want the sound from before it hits the cab to use with IRs as they model cabinets ? In cases like the Kemper, Axe-FX II and Line 6 POD HD series they use them to model amplifiers as well ? But you want that horrible bodyless fizz to work with ?