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You should try using two mics, one off the cone and one in the room.
That's what I'm gonna do. Shure on the cone, CAD in the room, and then DI off the amp. If I use an acoustic guitar, I may stereo mic it, too, just for kicks.
I'm now in a position where I can record 8 simultaneous tracks, so I've been doing some experimenting with various recording setups, and now I can do blind tests.
I ran my Epiphone Dot directly to my Kustom 12 Tube. From the amp I ran the Line Out to one channel, and then I set up a CAD GXL 2200 Condenser Mic about 4' from the amplifier cone and ran that into another. Then I played some noodles with the amp set up clean and compared the results.
The were striking. The room mic required no reverb or any other post processing at all. The Line Out DI sounded like what you would expect from a DI recording. Kind of flat and in need of verb to give the tone some space.
When I get some more XLRs, I'll close mic the amp with my Shure SM-58 just for comparisons sake, and find a way to post the results so you can hear them. In the mean time, I'm a fan of large condenser mics. 
No opinions on the Clearwater, but I own the Kala Tenor with the cutaway, and it's fantastic.
I am with Roger on this. Never drink before noon. It is always noon somewhere.
You may want to check with your email service provider, too. Email systems are notoriously tricky to administer, and provide a really common "relay" vector for spammers to use for sending spam. It might not be you, it might be your ISP's email server.
I'm beginning to look like I eat guitars rather than play them, primarily because I suffer from the same "Beer + food = True Love" malady you do.
What did you do to drop the weight originally? Was it just appetite suppressants, or was it a diet change?
Is this tablature? Standard notation? Nashville? What are you actually reading from?
Learn C A G E and D, and you will have the foundation for pretty much everything else you'll do. The keyboard is a vastly superior tool for learning theory, but it isn't going to help you with the guitar. The theory you know from the keyboard will, though. "Looking for the I IV and V" is the same no matter what instrument you're playing.
I have taken the strategy of discussing everything she buys in terms of how many guitars that would have bought.
"That couch? I coulda bought two guitars for that!"
Sometimes it even works.
"Honey! I bought you a day at the spa! Go get your feet rubbed."
Oldest trick in the book.
Appreciate it. I'm looking for the thinner neck and twin pups you get with the Jazz bass specifically, though.
I'm looking for a Jazz Bass, so I'm unloading my Stingray.
Craigslist add is thusly...
Sweet! How does it sound?
Jimmy Paige got his start playing in skiffle bands. "This Might Get Loud" has some awesome video of him at 14 years old playing in his band.
Friend sent me this. It made me lolz...
Spent all day in the recording studio putting down some of our older stuff to disk. The engineer wanted us to run a click track, so we did. Amazing the difference it made. It really tightened things up.
Some genius here said "I've never found a metronome that can keep up with me." Don't recall who, but wise he is.
I don't practice with one enough, and I need to. I want to start recording with a click track, and I can't do it without the metronome right now.
That, and I also found it motivated me to work alternate chord shapes further up the neck. Closed "D" is a pain, for example, so I rarely play it, but I should. CAGED gives me an excuse to do it.
any online overviews? I'm not familiar with it.
There's this one...
http://www.cagedguitarsystem.net/
I always say there are only five things you need to know to play guitar. C A G E and D. The system focuses on chord shapes, rather than neck positions, and makes it easy to remember where each chord shape is on the neck.
For example, if you start with an open C, the next C up the neck is an A shape. The next one up is a G shape, then an E, then a D way down there by the 12th fret.
If you look at an open A shape, the next A up the neck is a G shape. The next A is an E shape, etc... It's a really simple mnemonic system. Once you learn the scale patterns that fit under each chord shape, you have effectively mastered the entire neck. Pretty much any chord is within two frets, as is any scale.
If I could get my hands to catch up with my head, I'd be really happy.
"Volume is a perfectly acceptable substitute for talent."
I do. I live by it, in fact. It satisfies my engineering itch as to the why and how things get built the way they do.
http://www.amazon.com/Scales-Over-Chord … 1884848052
That is an excellent book that uses CAGED.
You guys have way better parties than I do.
I wish I could improvise them willy nilly, but I tend to stay with whatever is comfortable.
Someday, though, I will reach Russell Harding levels of cool.
This one?
My mom picked mine.
Guitar chord forum - chordie → Posts by jerome.oneil
