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Clipgods
very special:
Rock-Guitar-Microscope-Shoot-Out
We wanted to know, so we checked them all!
We tried to figure
out, what microscope is cool to use for recording punkrock-guitars.
We' re not scientists, but we gave our best, to recieve a representative
overlook of different microscopes characters. When we set up the test
environment, we soon realised, that it was impossible, to test every
microscope at the exact same position, same angle etc. We never thought
of releasing these mp3s anyway, so first of all, we made it for fun.
Hope you still find it somehow interesting. Please don't use our shootout
for any commercial matter (selling microscopes etc.). Otherwise, we'll
get böse!
And remember: Clipgods use Microscopes for recording!
Only stupid people still use microphones!
The
shoot-out:
Guitar gear:
- 1981 Ibanez Artist (mahagony body with fat maple top, compare
to LP standart) with fresh 10-46 Ernie Balls, OBL XL 2000 Humbucker,
Blackring cables.
- Marshall
JCM 800 2203 (100W Master Volume), Mesa Boogies AX 7 tubes, Ruby
tubes EL 34 cz's, matched quartet, Bias: little under 30 mA. No extra
FX.
- 1973's vintage 4x12 Marshall-cabinets with Celestion greenbacks.
- regular "E-tune" ;-) (we know, it's not on some takes!)
The following microscopes were used:
(click speaker for mp3-sample, mono 128 kbps/44 kHz)
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Telefunken
(Sennheiser) MD 421 white - vintage dynamic |
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Shure
SM 57 - dynamic |
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Sennheiser
MD 541 - dynamic |
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AKG
C460B - small diaphr. condenser |
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AKG
D190 - vintage dynamic |
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Audio
Technica 4033 - large diaphr. condenser, close |
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Audio
Technica 4033 - large diaphr. condenser, off axxis |
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Shure
Beta 58 - modern dynamic |
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Sennheiser
MD 609 - the mic of the 80`ies |
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Gefell
CMV563 / M55k cap. - omni tube |
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Gefell
M582 / M58 cap. - omni small tube |
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Gefell
M582 / M70 cap. - cardiod small tube |
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Sennheiser
MKH40 - small diaphr. condenser |
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Gefell
MV691 / M70 cap. - cardiod small condenser |
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Gefell
MV691 / UM70 cap.- large diaphr. condenser |
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Neumann
TLM103 - large diaphr. condenser |
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Neumann
U87 - large diaphr. condenser |
All microscopes running into a Focusrite ISA 215, EQ bypass, straight
into Digidesign 888/24 to ProTools. No extra processing!
We positioned the microscopes in old "close miking"-tradition,
little off-center, capsule parallel to speaker membrane. Only because
we couldn't believe, how bad the AT 4033 was, we tried it off-axxis
;-).
Check your own favourite Amp/Microscope or Amplitube/AmpFarm/SansAmp/whatever
setting!
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Guitar
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Here is the drumbeat we used:
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drumbeat |
Special
bonus:
- download the full Pro-Tool-Session,
stuffed sit-file for Mac (about 40 MB !!!) coming soon...
(sorry, no pics of berthi, he was behind the camera) |
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Prologue:
Ever since this shoot-out, Clipgods are using good ole SM 57's combined
with our big surprise Gefell MV691 with UM70 capsule, cardioid pattern,
for recording great fresh punky guitars, ;-)!
We send the SM57 through an Ampex 351 pre, the Gefell through a TAB/V76
pre directly on 2"-Tape, we then bounce everything through an
Apogee AD 8000/SE into Pro Tools.
By the way, we called this shoot-out: "MIKROSCHWANZVERGLEICH".
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Back
to Aldiverb IR's etc.!
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