Hey it's me again. Anyways I was recording the distorted guitar parts for my friend's band and I couldn't seem to get it to sound right. It sounds too distorted and like there is too much high frequency. The mic is placed about an inch away from the amp, I'm using an Audix dynamic mic to record. We are using a metal zone but the distortion is turned down almost all the way.

I've been experimenting with recording for a while now. I connect my keyboard to my interface with an instrument cable and it sounds fine. However, it only sounds good with that keyboard, I tried recording with my Micro Korg Synth/Vocoder and it sounds slightly fuzzy and a bit distorted. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but it might be the input(output?) I'm recording it through.

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does anyone know of an up market mic designed for heavily distorted guitars, something that will retain the warmth and richness of the tone while not hardening at higher sound levels?

Is it considered a valid option to track heavy and distorted guitars clean, leaving the option to choose a sound at a later date?
Say for example you've got the riff off to a tee, but you can't find the sound
straight the way.

I had a session today, and for some strange reason I'm getting a distorted
sound, when I would record vocals, and it gets to a loud part, even though I put the M-box set on "Line". I'm not seeing any distortion on the meters, but

I'm getting ready to record guitars and I have a potential problem. I'm not using a room mic but only 2 (MD421, and SM57) mics on the 4x12 cabinet right on the cones (one offset) and the other pointed at the center cone. My space isn't but so big, about 22x12, and we are currently rehearsing in the space as well.

The music I am recording is Heavy Metal. I have been preparing to record guitar tracks for my bands CD. I'm playing a Marshall stack through a AVT150 Head. The order or setup is:

Guitar-Pedals-StageworksEQ-MarshallHead-Alesis3630Compressor to SM57 "flat" towards the angle of the cone which goes into an ART DPS II Stereo Tube Preamp which than goes into a Yamaha AW1600.

Ok, this is a problem I seem to have often. The issue is basically this, my mixes sound fine. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them. Everything seems to sound clean and glitch free. Then I start messing around with mastering. Now if I am doing something clean with like acoustic guitars or a more clean sounding guitar then I can get a good sounding master.

So far I've been using software amp sims like Amplitube, Warp, Thrash, etc. The best results I get when I run a guitar thru my DigiTech RP100 and apply Warp's JC-Clean (RP100 doesn't vave good cab sims) This is the closest I can get to this unique sound of a real miced cabinet.

I've heard that hardware amp sims like POD XT do the job well, do they?
Or, maybe a tube preamp?