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I've been working on my mic placement skills for over six years, and I still just don't get it. If I follow conventional advice and place the SM57 on the dust cap edge of a V30, I get a lot of high end that often sounds spiky, depending on settings, and always sounds thin, as I'm capturing a lot...

Whenever I close-mike guitars using the standard approach (SM57, V30, an inch off the grille, where cap meets cone or really anywhere on the speaker keeping the one inch distance), I get an exaggerated low end and lots of top end. It seems to me that the midrange, the very frequency range that...

Every time I record distorted guitars at home, I always end up with a boomy, fizzy sound. I can get a thicker, less fizzy sound by cranking the amp past 8, but then I also end up with something that sounds a bit muffled and muddy. When I try to remedy this via post-EQ, I find that in order to...

I am hoping the great Andy Sneap, who I know is a fan of that classic British metal sound, will reply, but anyone who has any insight is free to chime in. Basically, I am a home recordist and have been obsessively working on cracking the secret to the guitar tone on the Piece of Mind album by...