Recording Vintage Electric Piano

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by Gareth*

The DI on my Wurly sounds pretty bad for some reason when I record. I tried using differant mics on a couple differant amps and the best sound was a groove tube condensor and a beta 52 on my bass amp. I like the sound of rhodes and wurlies going through bass better then guitar amps. It's more mellow and.... bassy!

That makes sense to me. It may have higher headroom than the guitar amps you've tried. My Aunt played keys in a band for years through a bass amp, and now I play my bass theough that amp!

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by Nubus

That makes sense to me. It may have higher headroom than the guitar amps you've tried. My Aunt played keys in a band for years through a bass amp, and now I play my bass theough that amp!

I've read that the main problem with guitar amps is that the speakers are not made to handle the lower frequecies that a keyboard can output and attenuated a lot above 2k or so. I think this might be because guitar speakers are not as rigid as other speakers.

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by dagosto

I've read that the main problem with guitar amps is that the speakers are not made to handle the lower frequecies that a keyboard can output and attenuated a lot above 2k or so. I think this might be because guitar speakers are not as rigid as other speakers.

Exactly. That brings me back to my original post, where I would run the keys through the guitar amp and take a direct off of the speaker out put, sos you don't get the limited bandwidth of the speaker.

[dolivas]

I would DI that sucker through a good preamp and tweak it with a good comp and some other effect. That or just use a plugin like Lounge Lizard or something, I've gotten a great Wurlitzer sound out of the Wurlitzer on my Akoustik Piano plug from Native Instruments.