Posted by Colin Farquhar on March 19, 2002

Audio-Technica 4047/4050. Put one of those in front of the boss's Marshall stack, and pow-instant guitar sound!

Colin Farquhar


Posted by michael on March 19, 2002

The recent ML Procise chat should be available shortly. He says something about what mic for electric guitar. He did guns'n'roses, zz top, he is all about guitar bands.


Posted by Another Dave on March 19, 2002

The MD409 is my favorite too, but quite expensive, even on the used market. I have not had a chance to try the newer e609.

Reports on the e609 range from "it's a damn good guitar mic" to "it ain’t no MD409".

Use an SM57 untill you can find a used SM59. They show up on the Digibid and/or eBay auctions from time to time.

According to the Shure website, the SM59 was introduced in '77 and discontinued in '93. I have seen old pics of Rod Stewart & David Bowie using them on stage for vocals.

The SM59 can be described as an SM57 without the "presence peak". It's ruler flat out to 10Khz, and has a shock mounted capsule. I guess it never became popular because it's reproduction is too true to it's source. Garbage in / Garbage Out and all that. I picked up 3 on eBay for $75.00

www.shure.com/pdf/discontinued/sm59.pdf

Dave "microphone cheapskate" Dermont


Posted by AlanH on March 19, 2002

- “Anybody have some secret low cost gems you have discovered?” -

Superlux CM-H8A Platinum Series large diaphragm condensor mic. It sells for about what an SM57 does but I like it WORLDS better for amp cab micing. I've liked it better every time I've compared between it and the standard SM57. They are scary cheap for what they do. Great bang for the buck IMO. Besides amp micing, I've used them for choirs, overheads, studio vocals, etc. and all with great success.

AlanH


Posted by Jim Gould on March 19, 2002

In the past I have used an old EV model PL5. I am not sure if this is made anymore but it worked good for me and it will double as a hammer if needed.

This is if I recall an omni mic with no proximity effect to it.
I can not argue that a 57 makes a good electric guitar mic but I was able to get good results with the PL5 too.

In some ways the whole idea of close micing a guitar cabinet with a mic with a pronounced proximity effect never made a whole lot of sense to me but as many others I have used a 57 for the task. I allways had to roll of the low end a bit where with the PL5 with a good guitar tone I could defeat the eq. My idea was allways to have the system tuned well in general and if possible reinforce what is there in many areas with minimal eq.


Posted by Milt Hathaway on March 19, 2002

Darn, I was going to mention the Sennheiser 409 until I read the "low cost" part. Hard to beat a 57 in that category.

Milt


Posted by scott on March 19, 2002

talk to: THEGCGUY@hotmail.com he has hooked me up with a lot of good mics at some steals of prices...... 57 and 58s


Posted by Geoff on July 02, 2002

AKG C3000 condenser.