There is no real advantage to try and Mike a cabinet in stereo the way you have described here. May I suggest you have one that is tight on the cabinet and one that is a few feet away from the cabinet? You will need to adjust both levels and the time discrepancy between the 2, by zooming in, in your audio software program and slide/delay the close-up microphone to better time align the close versus far microphone better. This should provide you with a better stereo effect because having 2 microphones that are the same distance from both speakers will yield a primarily mono recording.

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Ms. Remy Ann David

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why not try placing a mic at the rear of the cab if your after a bigger sound two mics on the front wont really get what your looking for if you still want to place two mics on the front then try the x y configeration to try and cancel out the phasing effect

Remy is right.. unless of course you do what I sometimes like to do and run some crazy stereo effects into the power amp! In that case close micing each speaker should work fine, its what I do.

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merely a suggestion... give it a try if ya want....

why not try the 'black album' technique, as in one 57 dead straight on the cone, and one of axis next to it on the same speaker, they will of course need phase allignment though,

or just wack a 57 an inch from the grill cloth, man inch away from the centre of the cone and double track it, instant bigness.

merely a suggestion... give it a try if ya want....

why not try the 'black album' technique, as in one 57 dead straight on the cone, and one of axis next to it on the same speaker, they will of course need phase allignment though,

or just wack a 57 an inch from the grill cloth, an inch away from the centre of the cone and double track it, instant bigness.

Or maybe come back a foot or so and XY the mics right inbetween the 2 speakers?

Experiment my man.... find out what floats your boat. Experimenting with mic positioning is half the fun of recording for me.