PreSonus How to: Recording guitar...

[LukeRD95]

What is the mic plugged in to? A laptop with a webcam or a normal camera or something?

[steamboatwillie11]

would doubling work if you just put two mics, one on the rim and another in the center of the speaker, and played the track once?

[DanPeatGuitar]

@steamboatwillie11 It would have a nice effect, but most people prefure recording two separate tracks, to give the nice effect. For me what I do is get two mics infront of one cab (make sure they're in phase) record a track, then record anothe track and pan one left and right

[CruisaderSociety]

At first i thought it was Microsoft Sam talking

[Zitronengarten]

thanks for showing us different techniques of microphoning guitars!!! This music isn´t my style, but I appreciate a lot, what I can learn from that lesson.

Just the function of this nice preamp wasn´t so clear to me, couldn´t it have been any peace of gear to make it sound like this? 

[Voitcu]

Respond to this video... of course he's a dunbass his name is gibson after all. and fender sucks too. i.e., unless you prefer twanggy swing guitar (then just get the "Eleven-rack") then you suck too!

[tjrskyline]

what the hell is a teepeecal mic choice?

[thecatispat]

i couldnt decide if the was a microphone ad, or an instructional video

[AlethiaRock]

guys i owned this amp....his recording techniques aren't the worst in the world. its that amp dude. probably the worst one to put on display for a recording example. as i was taught "you can magnify the color red times a million, but you can't ever find blue in it" in other words shit is going to sound like shit no matter how you record it. he should do himself a favor and sell that thing like I did for a subway sandwich. thats about all its worth

[hto1971]

thts fucking dumb you cant tune like that its out of key if you had any brain to get a low play in octives

[sebasmrt]

shame. sounds quite miserable. hand me over youre gear pls and itll sound better...

[funk0rocker]

This CAN'T be an official PreSonus video, can it? The sound quality is so terrible, it sort of makes me ashamed of admitting I own (and sometimes use) a PreSonus micpreamp and compressor... < <

[annacitasuhartini]

Awww... Thank Bill Gibson for sharing his techniques! :-) This is helpful, I think :-D

[jacosmith86]

I like how when he pans the double tracked guitar, there is basically no difference because he is using the same amp with probably similar settings. What a dumbass.

I can get infinitely better tone than this dude's garbage with guitar rig, amplitube, or overloud th1. check out my videos for some examples of some of my old garbage that is better than this guy's garbage.

These days I record the preamp sounds from my Vox Tonelab ST with Redwirez cabinet impulses and it sounds awesome!

[bradley11896]

I don't think that they notice the quality SOUNDS LIKE SHIT.

[L7dreamtheaterfan]

They have a thing for that low tuning thing, it's called a bass. This guy is terrible, just skip this video, it's completely off.

[spokesdude]

how about proper voice over for the video? sounds like a really cheap solution....

[TheStoryWeLive]

you forgot the shure sm57 great mic for guitars

[SidewaySpinner]

an instructional video and the tracks clip?!?!? c'mon guys : ]

[elliott0]

that last guitar track sounded like ass

[cylauj]

presonus.... can you upload again with better audio? I know youtube compressed stuff and it should sound much better!

[bunkslunk]

That sounded like muffled ass!

[queefable]

the tone is from the amp settings/guitar not the technique, which is what this video is displaying.

[crackshotnoodles]

with acoustic guitars they would not go through an amplifier, they would be go through a DI straight into the mix, The tone on the amp will still be effected by mic placement, Mic placement is essential, i find that the best position is at about 4 o clock on a cab. you still need to have good mic placement on the speaker....

[imadey0utube]

I record(close-micing) with some normal headset. I think it sounds pretty good.

[snerl69]

lol hes using annotations before youtube used them lol

[nuttysolos]

that sounds wank.

[leepetersonuk]

got a video on how I record guitar on my channel, take a look.

Subscribe to me for updates.

[onslowhenry]

wouldn't it be best to have both a condenser and dynamic mics for recording?

[Carminesilano]

eh...no such thing as "best".

totally depends on the sound you're looking for.

[lordmjh]

Yes,I agree.You have flexibility to work with in the mix-down and can add various effects to enhance the overall recording.I've done this with drums ,guitars, wind instruments and vocals.

[WrittenInBlackVideos]

the part where he says tune one guitar lower than the other one sounded like fucking garbage..lol

[felphero]

true lol

[mccabicusmaximus]

really? i mean.... couldn't you just use a bass?

[DaanJM]

I agree.

[ewanstatic2006]

Yeah, down-tuned guitars should stay in the metal scene, they use it the best.

[Dkr84]

What about Slash? He's 1/2 step down.

[WelcomeToRapture08]

also sounded shite

[bestplugins]

@WrittenInBlackVideos lol, thats why bass is for.

[PrairieNischler]

Hello, thankyou for putting this up. I have an audio design assignment with consists of searching youtube and finding the best and clearest description of how to record guitar and microphone techniques for the guitar and amp. thankyou! your video was the easiest to understand and covered all aspects.

[Bortacus]

Thanks for the tips, I thought this video was really good and helpful

[AmericanPlatinum]

Did anyone notice that this video is full of crackles we call "the rice crispies" ? I noticed that they became worse with volume input into the soundcard the video was produced on. Anyone notice ?

[dbenc]

Shure Beta52 bass drum mic sounded the best imo. never woulda thought that.

[THE7thHAND]

sweeeeeeeeeet!

[feugatos1988]

thnks from greece

[boondie]

very helpful with the acoustic mic placement section, however the electric guitar section was terrible. The guitar tone sucks, what he's playing sucks, and the combined "doubled" and "low tuning" sounds terrible. Apart from this I have been very impressed with this series. thanks for making them and putting it up

[strumtillyudie]

lol agreed

[lesskatepaulboard]

the only solution is...SUICIDE

[aassyr1111]

man....i thought it is easy to record guitar....it is fucking hard then

[dkrumrie123]

haha yeah it takes a bit of work. just experiment youll get it.

[JCMcGee]

Nice, helpfull wee video for a biginner!

Thank you.

jimmy

[prnglsorgnl]

too bad all the guitar sounds created suck. and are no where near industry standard.

[blinklover2]

They gave industry standard techniques though...

the guitar tone from the amp was just bad...

muddy..

and sounded like they were using the neck pickup

[guns1rose]

line six sucks dick. they should have used a tube amp.

[infantfinite]

they have a tube amp now. it's called the Spider Valve

[WirSindRocker]

yeah! They should have used a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe instead! Line 6 is probably good for Pop/Rock Clean Sound with much Chorus and Reverb i think.

[urmothasawhore123]

i agree

[joeydahlia]

Gross! This is not how to record guitar!

[BigBrowz]

Why would they use a line6 for demonstration? God only knows what the think actually sounds like. Use an fing Marshall next time.

[johnaiton]

sounds really boomy,

I think you placed the mic too close

[killthepixelnow]

bets part is the guy with the acoustic demostrating how the sound changes according to the mic position.

[turners1]

Fantastic!!!

[deimosianrocks]

Love the instructional videos, wish I had these ten years ago really help full stuff, saves people a lot of trial and error like I had to go throught. I recommend and support the Firepod, we use that with Cubase LE. Have not been hindered from doing anything we need to make an album with this package. Thanks for posting.

[peterpetersnbg]

finally a pragmatic video .. thank you

[chicoggyfx]

THIS HELPED SO MUCH!

Thank you, thank you!

[revengeofbutthead]

good...!

awesome video

[matijabg]

Thanks for posting!Very useful video!

[deathisfinegimmemine]

AUCH! the voice-over sounds dull and overcompressed, and the guitar sound coming out of the Line 6 amp sounds almost like stonerrock, thus crappy. but the acoustic guitar part is very good and clear.

[kakohernandez]

Suberp.

Please More!!!

[walkflydesign]

Very well presented and demonstrated. The comparisons and product names will save many players years of trial and error.

It is really very cool you to have posted this stuff.

Thanks and good luck to you.

[devilsclickingcanes]

I agreen with other posting, you presented the concepts of recording acoustic guitar and mic placement very nicely.

[SongMonkey]

Excellent, particularly the first part! The section where you have the mic moving slowly back and forth over the guitar as the musician is playing -- that is the single-most helpful and concise way of presenting that information that I have EVER seen, and I'm an old dog at this stuff! Excellent concept and execution. If you're moved to create more tutorials, please use that concept again. You're really on to something. Thanks very much for the time and effort that went into this.

[coronet67]

More please. Good stuff.

[ChrisTheShred]

the acoustic recording part helped out allot thank you

[olemix]

great video.

in the future i want some Presonus Preamps.

thx

[vendettamx]

great

[halphi]

great and helpful.