How To Record Electric Guitar

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:45 am

jack wrote:hey rob, you should be able to mine some seriously fat sustain with that new epi dot/humbucker setup you just got. humbuckers on a semi hollow body gives you all kinds of inherant tone. add a TS-9 tubescreamer (the one must have pedal of all pedals) and go DI and i'll bet you'll be pretty impressed with what you can come up with.

Despite what dudes wearing black lipstick may say, the 335 is an awesome metal guitar. The feedback situation is ridiculous, and therefore very fun.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:03 am

no kidding! I loooove my epi. Great sustain and tone. Question for those who have a TS-9 tubescreamer...I see modded ones all over the place...was there some kind of design flaw in the original? Should I be trying to grab one of these...or a kit to do myself?

Thanks!

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:57 pm

just rec'd a Shure SM62 today that I bought on Ebay for cheap. Nothing much to look at, but way lower cost than your 57/58...and it sounds awesome on my amp. It's nice to be able to turn it up and not crap out the crappy diaghram on my marshall condensor.

Yay EBAY! Good fucking BYE direct recorded guitars!!!!

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:50 pm

TheHipCola wrote:no kidding! I loooove my epi. Great sustain and tone. Question for those who have a TS-9 tubescreamer...I see modded ones all over the place...was there some kind of design flaw in the original? Should I be trying to grab one of these...or a kit to do myself?

Thanks!

the history of the tubescreamer.

analogman is a very reputable source for doing mods too.

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:49 am

Just picked up a Mesa Boogie studio preamp, and it is delightful. It's two rack spaces high, like a power amp. I can record direct in and/or run through an amp.

The clean sound on it is frickin fantastic, and the reverb sounds great. Lots of eq, too.

The overdrive on it isn't amazing, but I threw guitar rig on the clean and that sounds amazing.

A guitar teacher at my store is letting me borrow it, and he says I can keep it for $300. I believe I will take him up on it.

Now I have a reliable way to record direct in, and a good preamp for if I ever get a real rig.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:20 am

Thanks for reviving this thread, Sober, I am just starting to record some rock and my semi-hollow Artist has been waiting patiently. I used to hate the balance of that guitar but the rock sounds, as Shite pointed out, is great.

I tend to record direct, and basically a clean but strong signal that I model via LogicPro7's amp modeler.