Re getting guitar sounds

[digitaldrummer]

I remember Albini once suggesting that switching guitars has more impact than switching amps.

maybe depends on the amp -- I've got a Fender Excelsior amp (with a modded tremelo) that always seems to make the player go somewhere else because... Tremelo... and it's got a 15" speaker in it. oh, and a pignose is gonna change things up a lot too.

[vernier]

I've always just thrown a mic in front of my Fender and hit the record button. Or have the engineer do it.

[Scodiddly]

I've always just thrown a mic in front of my Fender and hit the record button. Or have the engineer do it.

I finally tried throwing an omni dynamic, a 635A, in front of my Fender.

Finally it sounds like I hear it, with no EQ on the mic.

[drumsound]

I've always just thrown a mic in front of my Fender and hit the record button. Or have the engineer do it.

I finally tried throwing an omni dynamic, a 635A, in front of my Fender.

Finally it sounds like I hear it, with no EQ on the mic.

I really like 635a on amps sometimes.

[vvv]

I like the 635a on vocal.

It's kinda lo-fi and doesn't have a lotta bottom, which can be very cool in the right punky context, altho' I usually use it on BV's.

My current fave guitar amp mics are that, the EV609, the Superlux copy of that 609, a EVN/D with the knuckle mount, Shure 545sd and my Shinybox 23L which rules on amp, or on room.

By next fall, half of those will have changed.

[vvv]

So I just got a wild hair and went to Ebog to look for 545sd's, and they are re-issued!

https://www.shure.com/en-MEA/products/microphones/545sd

One of mine, however, has the pistol-grip and the funky plug.

They also re-issued the vocal version 565Sd.

[I'm Painting Again]

Below was posted at my private forum to answers questions about using Orange amps and pedal. I post here to start a conversation, but do not mind being ridiculed if you think my approach naff.

My approach:

Pedals are a option where you pre-set for the sound, and then hit the switch.

Guitars is, you gotta tweak in real time.

Re the Tiny Terror, I usually use the 7 watt setting, because I can start with the volume 100%.

On the 15 watt setting, I put all knobs on 11 first, then set the amount of gain distortion while adjusting the master to keep the volume level where I want it. I kinda adjust the tone last.

7 vs. 15 watts is different, with the latter being heftier, and niticeable louder – drives the speaker different, also. I have, BTW, a Jet City 1×10″ onnit.

Re Orange pedals in particular, I’m sure the Stamp is like you say, to impart a Orange sound to other amps, or power amps, mebbe DI.

The Two-Stroke is ingenious and if I had found it sooner I might have built my board onnit, despite its size. It is first a clean boost – if I recall, like 20 dB – definitely audible and can do good things to the amp re hitting its pre harder. That’s with the E flat.

But the EQ is the point of it, really, and its’ strong.

There’s a sweepable hi, and a sweepable low. Not only is the center-point frequency selectable, but also the Q. And it gives add or cut volume to that part the EQ designates – the cut is as beautiful as the frequency boost. It’s easy to make a h-bucker sound Strat, by setting a wide Q and using the low adjustment to turn down at, say, 60Hz., you can make a high-pass filter. Or do the opposite on the right-side knobs and make a LPF.

But while it can “sound Orange”, it certainly doesn’t have to.

I’ll write about the Fur Coat when I geddit, likely next week as our PO is unpredictable and I think that’s how it was sent.

i noticed a cool creamy improvement switching the stock tubes in my TT to vintage mullards

[vvv]

Cool.

Pretty sure I rolled a 12AU7 in there.