one of my favorite simple techniques to
record a cabinet, is to simply set up out
in the garage or in a shed or somewhere in
another room. I like to just get a simple
table like a bridge table and put some
blankets over it, and make a tent to put
a cabinet in. If you've got a 115 or 410
cabinet that'll work out pretty good
my miking techniques are pretty much the
same. So I'm gonna use one mic
and I'll usually just take that mic and put it
right up against the cone. Maybe about two inches.
On this 15 inch speaker I have it just to the right of the cab
it keeps the speaker's smoothness... pretty
much in check. I'm able to get a nice
round sound and some attack without it
being too strident or too crazy
I always set up an additional mic.
In this case, it's a medium condenser.
This is an AKG414 which has a good wide range.
I like
to set that back from the cabinet as far back as the speaker is wide.
so in this case, I'm about 15 inches in front of the cabinet
this is right in the center
because I want to get the entire tone of the cabinet
sometimes this is all you need.
And in this case if you want the
 sound coming right out of the box,
this for me tends to be the best way to go
so setting up these two mics in tandem
gives me the best of both worlds, I get
the full spectrum of the cabinet and I
get the direct attack of the cone itself
if you've got commercial sound diffusion
products like these film diamonds
definitely recommend using them if
you're going to be cranking the amp up really loud
this will help the diffusion
and bounce off the speakers
I've taken the two microphones the re RE20, and the
414 from my garage enclosure
it's coming into these two preamps. The RE20 is
going into this Manley core which is a
pretty warm sunny preamp there's a nice
tube front end to it, and that's kind of
heating it up just a little bit I've got
a boost on it to make sure that we can
hear it really well and no EQ whatsoever
I think the re 20 is the splendid
sounding mic all on its own we're not
using any compression we're just kind of
going in flat but using the really cool
sound that that Manticore has
the next preamp is where the 414 is going in this
is the ISA430 and similar to the Manley core
I just have the bass just
going in there through the preamp and in
this case we're just using both of them
flat and they're both going into their
own separate tracks into the DAW into
Pro Tools today
they're running through the Audient iD22 
and actually I'm using them in a
digital mode they're actually going to
the ASP880. Because I'm able to access
the analog to digital converters these
work out great and then they come back
through the ID 22 digitally through ADAT
 and then they go into my DAW
no amp? no problem there are myriad of great
plugins that do a fine job of emulating
your favorite amps right in your DAW.
just plug into your DI, pick an app and go
the built-in DI's in Audient here
are really great. Those along with a
really good amp emulation program are
pretty much everything you'd need
some of my favorites are line sixes helix and
tune tracks easy mix
