Recording an
electric guitar
is pretty
straightforward
,
at least by the standards of most audio engineers. It
doesn’t normally require a lot of fancy microphones, and
unlike some acoustic instruments, it’s easy to tell where
most of the sound is coming from, making mic placement
relatively simple. It can certainly be made more
complicated (and often is) but achieving a good electric
guitar recording can be as simple as one serviceable,
inexpensive microphone pointed somewhere near the
middle of one’s favorite speaker.
Despite the ease with which a respectable guitar
sound can be captured, guitarists themselves often
find the process of recording frustrating and ultimately
disappointing, especially if it’s their first studio
experience or they’re going the DIY route. The source
of this disappointment invariably comes down to the
difference between the sound they hear in their heads
and the sound that they hear on the control room
monitors. Rocking out in the live room in front of a
cranked amp, you might think your tone is perfectly
dialed in, but when listening to playback you find that the
recorded tone sounds nothing like what you expected.
What happened?
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