mic'ing the bass cab
what are you guys using to mic bass cabs? Everybody seems to use a dI 'cause it's easy, but I know you've tried some mic'ing. What works?
The best results I've gotten recently is a large condenser (Rode K2) about two feet or so away. The cab is a 15 on bottom, but the mic is up closer to the 2x10 on top. I've tried the live sound style of mic'ing where the mic is right in almost touching the speaker. It seems to be a more accurate representation of what the thing sounds like to me when I back up the mic a bit. I like a slightly crunchy sound so its a tube amp, into a tube mic, into a tube pre with the gain pushed. Too many tubes ? Never!
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