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Recording electric guitar can be a pain in the butt. Guitar amps that use tubes for their preamps and power amps generally need to be cranked up really loud<\/em> in order to get a nice interaction between the pre\/power amps and the speaker.<\/p>\n A while back, I posted about an guitar isolation cabinet called the Axetrak<\/a>. It is a very small and almost dead silent solution for recording guitar. It sounds good for many things and is very simple to operate … you plug in your amp and you plug in a mic cable and you’re done. This has many advantages for people that just want to track guitar parts. Ultimately, I found that I just couldn’t get some of the sounds I needed out of the Axetrak.<\/p>\n I (maybe unfortunately) have a deep curiosity when it comes to exploring different sounds so I turned to the Grendel Sound Dead Room<\/a>. I looked to be of a better build quality than the Randall Iso cab<\/a>, cost about the same (at the time I purchased it), is made in the U.S.A., and has loads of speaker options.<\/p>\n After an extended ordeal that I don’t wish to go into at this point, my Dead Room showed up last week and I started playing with it. I like that it has two mic mounts so that you can double track your guitar with different sounds and mic placement. I will say that it was a pain in the butt to get the enormous Blue Ball mic and a 57 to get along inside the cab. The mounting bracket that is built into the Blue Ball was really loose and I had to take the mic apart and rig up a system to tighten it down so that it wouldn’t sag.<\/p>\n Anyway …<\/p>\n I’m not going to post any sound samples until I get a handle on this thing. Once I feel competent, I’ll probably run my Bitmo modded Blackheart 5 watt tube amp<\/a> into it and the Axetrak and post some comparison samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recording electric guitar can be a pain in the butt. Guitar amps that use tubes for their preamps and power amps generally need to be cranked up really loud in order to get a nice interaction between the pre\/power amps …<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_08_09_b.jpg\" "\\"...")
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