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Old 09-13-2011, 06:19 PM   #2002
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Originally Posted by flmason View Post
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It's about what techniques take guitar (or any other track for that matter) from "Gutiar Center or Saturday (or the living room) and make it sound like a commercial recording?"

Seems like a great are to dig into, quite related to the original title, no?

Consider there two vids of a well know blues man. One, to my ears, despite the great licks, sounds like Guitar Center Saturday tone. The second, same guy, still not in a mix, sounds more commercial and tight. But of course it seems to be part of a lesson CD or something. And of course you're all familiar with this dude's commercial work. (Billy Gibbons).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvlHZXe3H7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtPYZRVeGI

Seems to me it's a great topic with lots of applicability.

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This has been covered over and over in this thread. In order to make a decent recording you need to have a decent sound hit the mic. That means

1. make a decent sound
2. in a room that doesn't screw up that sound
3. put a decent mic where the decent sound appears

The first clip was done in a large reverberant space and recorded with a blinkin' camera mic. That is, with a mic mounted on the _camera_, some six or eight feet from the source which is pointing at right angles to the mic. If that is not instantly and painfully obvious to you from a moment's observation, no amount of gear will help you meet your goals.

The best way for you to develop an understanding of these fundamental issues is for you to make a few hundred recordings and observe the impact of the room and mic placement.

The worst way is for you to demand that someone give you a gear recipe.

Since you continue to insist that a gear recipe must be the answer, you'll never get the answer.

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