{"id":72,"date":"2008-04-17T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T05:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-11-04T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:48:58","slug":"the-guitar-silencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/the-guitar-silencer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guitar Silencer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok … the truth is I love recording, but I hate<\/em> recording guitar. I can never get it to sound right. I have a 57, a Blue Ball, a 414 and various other mics that just don’t seem to capture the sound. <\/p>\n

I guess it’s because I never crank my amp up loud enough.
\n(post on scaring the squirrels with amp volume<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So I’ve been looking into isolation cabinets and …….<\/p>\n

My Axetrak<\/a> showed up today! It is really<\/em> small and light.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I’ve been keeping my fingers crossed that my guitar wouldn’t sound like Steve Stevens<\/a> jamming in a cardboard box through such a strange device – but my fears were unjustified. <\/p>\n

The isolation cabinate houses a 6″ speaker and is completely sealed off – except for the bass plug.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

When I first plugged it into my Delta Blues 210, I thought it was broken. It was dead silent. I plugged it into my SCA N72 preamp and loaded up a song in Sonar. It sounded pretty good in headphones. Then I realized … it’s totally isolated! I cranked up my monitors and for the first time in my life I was able to play through my amp and adjust the tone while sitting directly in front of my monitors. No feedback or bleedthrough.<\/p>\n

It is my “missing link” in finishing “Bits”.<\/p>\n

I played around with some higher gain distortion settings it sounded pretty good! Recording a six inch speaker in a tiny box sounds very dry, but I can run it through the toolbox<\/a> for some spring reverb.<\/p>\n

Booted up “Brain Games” and tried out some clean sounds. I liked it.<\/p>\n

Here are the results:<\/p>\n

No vocals yet – just a section of the beginning of the song<\/p>\n

Guitars sit pretty forward in the mix to give you an idea of the sound. No EQ. The amp was set flat as well. I’m sure I can dial in better sound, but I wanted to grab some neutral sounds first.<\/p>\n

I added a little toolbox reverb (couldn’t help myself).<\/p>\n

Brain Games – intro
\n[audio:bg.mp3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok … the truth is I love recording, but I hate recording guitar. I can never get it to sound right. I have a 57, a Blue Ball, a 414 and various other mics that just don’t seem to capture …<\/p>\n

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