we've all heard of eric clapton absolute legend and he's a fantastic guitar
player i often catch myself watching videos of eric clapton with cream or at
the crossroads festival on youtube and also i watch a lot of guitar tutorials
and song lessons from cream and eric clapton as well and crossroads is one of
my favorite songs and i was watching a video recently of eric clapton playing
his brownie guitar and something caught my eye... does it make
it sound any different any better what tone were they after I was interested
because I have this small apartment that I'm renting at the moment and there's
not enough room to leave a mic stand set up but why did they do it lazy engineers
not enough mic stands available not enough space does it just look cool but
there are a lot of videos on YouTube saying that you shouldn't do this yeah
but I always wanted to find out for myself I'm sort of that type of guy but
placing the mic anywhere you like on the amplifier to get the sound that you want
isn't necessarily a bad thing and yeah I get that there are top producers out
there and mix engineers that are looking for a specific sound top mix engineers
with golden ears there always going to be looking for a specific sound I totally
understand that but let's see if there's a difference between hanging a mic over
an amp too close miking it just off center of the cone which is the
preferred method of sound engineers since time began for this experiment I'm
going to be using a pile PDMIC 78 microphone it's an sm57 clone and the
frequency response is pretty close to the sm57
I've heard this mic on other YouTube videos and the sound comparison is very
very close the pile might be a little bit brighter than the sm57 but this
should give us a good indication of the sound differences of hanging the mic
over the end verses close miking
so what do you think was there a massive sound difference hanging the microphone
over the amp versus closed miking it in this experiment I used that pile
microphone it was only 12 dollars I would highly recommend it it's a great
budget microphone and certainly if you've got the sm57 and you're looking
for a second one or you just on a budget and you want a mic a guitar amp or you
want to sing vocals or you want to mic a snare with it it's a really usable
studio microphone for 12 dollars I appreciate your watching maybe
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