Mic-ing amps, with clip

Vibetronic · May 2014

morning all

after a bit of advice; finally got round to getting a mic, and mic-ing up my amp. Been using plugins for ages, and just can't get the sound I want. I live in the middle of nowhere, so volume isn't a problem, but I generally keep it quite quiet anyway, so have run the mic (SM57) through a preamp into Logic. Results are on the track below (it's not a proper song as such, just a track I did quite quickly to see what it sounded like through the amp with a few different sections). Be good to have thoughts on whether it sounds ok, and how to get the lead cutting through a bit more (i.e. do I just need to record with the amp louder to get it to sound better). I don't know a whole lot about recording, but I've eq-d all the guitars, and added compression with the basic electric guitar preset. Any thoughts on compression welcome too; I've been looking into getting some recording tuition, which I think might be the way forward, but if there's any basics I'm getting wrong it'd be good to know. The amp is an Engl and the gain setting is fairly low btw.

cheers

Ben