<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/7 Grammostola Rosea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Cassiel wrote:<br>
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> 2009/4/7 Grammostola Rosea <<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a><br>
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> Cassiel wrote:<br>
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> > 2009/4/7 Grammostola Rosea <<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a><br>
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> > Hi,<br>
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> > I want to record electric guitar chord progression. I've an:<br>
> ><br>
> > - epiphone les paul<br>
> > - little amp, orange 30r<br>
> > - maudio dmp 3 preamp<br>
> > - shure 58a beta<br>
> > - mic stand<br>
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> ><br>
> > What do you prefer, preamp of mic in front of amp?<br>
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> ><br>
> > I would not use a preamp, unless it's a tube preamp or you don't<br>
> have<br>
> > a mixing console<br>
> I have only an preamp maudio dmp 3. It also has two knobs/ functions<br>
> e.g, Hi/lo gain range and Low cut 75 Hz, dunno if I should use<br>
> those...<br>
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</div><div class="im">> According to your style and preferences in using the handle or bridge<br>
> pickup (I don't like middle position) I would use EQ instead of low<br>
> cut, just be careful with your amp eq and keep away rumbles.<br>
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</div>How do you set your guitar? E.g. there are I think two knobs per<br>
humbucker on my Les Paul, one for loudness and one for tone or reverb?<br>
Turn the second on or off?</blockquote><div><br><br>Surely your knobs are volume and tone, not volume and reverb (nobody who plays guitar would buy a guitar with such controls... brr, a reverb knob :-) ) but apart from this there's not a general rule in guitar settings but your ears.<br>
I play an american standard strat, other picks -> other sound
(totally different) and I use a tube amp (40w fender hot rod deluxe)... don't know if your orange is a transistor amp or a tube one and this is very relevant too.<br><br>If you find yourself playing with massive basses and low trebles and feeling satisfied with this sound... well, that's ok<br>
<br>The one and only general rule I can suggest is: when your amp sounds your recording will too... with 0.05% confidence level (apologize, I am statistician :-) )<br><br>ra<br><br></div></div>